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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paintings 21-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Wyeth's subject in the 1967 painting, "Post and Rail"?
(a) Karl Kuerner.
(b) Tom Clark.
(c) Willard Snowden.
(d) Adam Stoughton.

2. What did the author say about getting to know Andrew Wyeth?
(a) He never really got comfortable with him.
(b) They got along famously from the start.
(c) It took him a long time to get to know him as a person.
(d) He never actually met him in person.

3. The door in "Blue Door" in 1952 is at whose home?
(a) Wyeth's.
(b) Waino Mattson's.
(c) Gabe McKinney's.
(d) Christina Olson's.

4. What does "Spring Beauty" signify for Wyeth's work?
(a) He incorporated people into his paintings.
(b) He worked on the same vista in each season.
(c) He moves closer to realism.
(d) He began to use watercolors.

5. Wyeth's reasons for starting a painting could be called _______________.
(a) Indulgent.
(b) Clever.
(c) Manic.
(d) Bizarre.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1967 painting "The Sweep" featured ______________________.

2. Who was Christina Olson?

3. What did Wyeth think was not necessary to add to a scene?

4. What was usually hidden in Wyeth's paintings?

5. "Cider Barrel" from 1969 depicted a big barrel of cider from whose farm?

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