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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?

2. Which of the following statements is true, according to Berger?

3. Where is the figure in "Bathsheba" sitting?

4. Who is meant to be the ideal viewer of pages 42 and 43?

5. What has happened to the meaning of the images on pages 40 and 41?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how combining a variety of images to present a concept can be more powerful than using a single image.

2. Explain how an image is a record of a sight.

3. Describe how Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" is a commentary on the gap between words and image.

4. Explain how the women in the images are viewed by the men in the images on pages 36 and 37.

5. What is Berger's explanation for the difference between naked and nude?

6. Describe the general mood of the collection of images on pages 42 and 43.

7. Explain how Cubism contradicts the single eye of perspective.

8. Describe how there is a gap between words and sight, as explained in Chapter 1.

9. What is similar in all of the images in Chapter 2 on pages 36 and 37?

10. In Chapter 2, pages 42 and 43, how do the women in the images appear to men in the images?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the psychology of publicity images and modern consumerism according to Berger et al. and compare that to the authors' explanation of the spectator-owner versus the spectator-buyer psychology associated with European oil paintings.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the qualities of European oil paintings with publicity images. Cover the following questions in your writing. What do both European oil paintings and publicity images depict? How are these subjects depicted in a way that is similar? How do both of these types of images make their subjects appear attainable and desirable?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay to compare the techniques of traditional oil painting and early photographic techniques. In your writing, cover the following questions. Which techniques are better at exposing details in the subject? Which technique gives more life to a subject? What affect does early photography have on oil painting? Give an example from the text that compares an oil painting to early photography, and describe the obvious differences that appear to the viewer.

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