Ways of Seeing Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is the purpose of the paired images on pages 126 and 127? (from Chapter 6)

Each pair demonstrates a different period in art history.

Each pair demonstrates ways to pose the human body as a subject.

Each pair shows a different side of popular culture.

Each pair plays off each other to enhance their subject matter and style.

2.

Why do Berger et al. claim the goals of a consumer in a democratic industrial society are unachievable? (from Chapter 7)

Because they are based on illusions created by publicity images.

Because it is impossible to have everything perfect.

Because they are based on limited consumerism.

Because they are based on daydreams stimulated by an artistic way of seeing the world.

3.

What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work? (from Chapter 3)

Their omission of male nudes in their paintings.

Their expression of women as either objects or abstractions.

Their inability to use humanistic expression in landscapes.

Their use of non-human colors to paint their nudes.

4.

What does the traditional depiction of Adam and Eve project as the perception of being naked? (from Chapter 3)

That being naked is natural.

That being naked is only acceptable for females.

That being naked is shameful.

That being naked is only acceptable for males.

5.

Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71? (from Chapter 4)

A corpse with a glass of wine.

Two doves with an olive branch.

A nude woman with a rose.

A president with a burning flag.

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