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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paintings 71-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose gristmill is the subject of the 1978 painting, "Mill in Winter"?
(a) Olson's.
(b) Kuerner's.
(c) Wyeth's.
(d) Lynch's.

2. What is the person doing in the painting, "Distant Thunder"?
(a) Opening an umbrella.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Dancing in the rain.
(d) Canning peaches.

3. What was significant about the 1969 painting, "End of Olsons"?
(a) It was the last painting Wyeth did of the Olson house.
(b) It was the end of Wyeth's blue period.
(c) It was the last painting before Wyeth ended his friendship with the Olsons.
(d) It was the end of Wyeth's contemporary series.

4. "Road Cut" shows a road running through a valley in ___________________________.
(a) Kennebunkport, Maine.
(b) Lake City, Tennessee.
(c) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
(d) Milledgeville, Georgia.

5. What did Wyeth say was the difference between Pennsylvania and New England in the winter?
(a) Pennsylvania was not pretty in the winter.
(b) He felt closer to the Revolutionary War heroes in New England.
(c) New England had better skiing.
(d) New England people were sturdier stock.

Short Answer Questions

1. The danger in Wyeth's style of painting was that _____________________.

2. What was Johnny Lynch doing in the 1971 painting, "Ice Storm"?

3. Who was Wyeth's subject in the 1967 painting, "Post and Rail"?

4. In many ways, Wyeth's paintings were like _________________.

5. What did Wyeth do while painting "Blackberry Branch" in 1943?

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