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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. In general, what does seeing do?

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

3. How does the painter, Durer, create what he believes is the perfect nude?

4. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of mixing images of foodstuffs with images of females in various stages of undress?

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

4. Describe how men and women are different social presences, according to Berger et al.

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

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

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

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

9. Explain how the commission by Frans Hals could easily be misunderstood by the modern viewer.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write a three-part essay to explain the ideas presented on the differences between men and women.

Part 1 - Describe the authors' opinions on the difference between how a man and woman are positioned in society, and discuss why.

Part 2 - Explain the difference between how a man views himself and how a woman must view herself.

Part 3 - Explain Berger et al.'s idea on how a woman must see herself as a sight.

Essay Topic 3

Write an opinion essay to answer the following question. Do you think that the combination of publicity, glamour, and consumerism is a recipe for unhappiness? Support your opinion by agreeing or disagreeing with the examples from the authors.

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