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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. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?

2. Which painting is used an example of who benefits from a nude painting?

3. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?

4. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?

5. What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is a work of art from the past mystifying to the modern viewer?

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

3. Describe the combination of images present in Chapter 2 on pages 40 and 41.

4. How does the value of the original painting change after it has been reproduced many times?

5. Describe the differences between the collection of images on pages 36 and 37, and the collection of images on pages 38 and 39.

6. According to Berger et al., how can the story of Adam and Eve explain the shamefulness associated with being naked?

7. Describe the metaphor of the lighthouse and the single eye of perspective.

8. Explain how, according to the authors, a woman continually sees and is seen by herself as two parts of one female identity.

9. Describe how Bronzino's painting of Cupid kissing the lips of Venus shows that nudity is created with a spectator in mind.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how there is a gap between words and sight as described by Berger et al. Use Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" as an example in your writing.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay to describe the word "glamour" according to Berger et al. What is glamour? How does glamour fuel the consumer society? What is considered glamorous and how does this shape culture? How is glamour the modern day substitute for the qualities presented in European oil paintings?

Essay Topic 3

Berger et al. propose the metaphor that traditional European oil painting is a wall safe into which the ways of seeing are deposited. Write an essay with the following parts.

Part 1 - Explain this metaphor made by Berger et al.

Part 2 - Compare the metaphor of Berger et al. to the classic metaphor that oil painting is a window unto the world.

Part 3 - Explain your opinion: Do you agree with the metaphor of Berger et al.? Why or why not?

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