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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which U.S. President had "Roasted Chestnuts" hanging in the White House for awhile?
(a) Truman.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Eisenhower.

3. Who did Wyeth know who was buried in the cemetery where the grave digger was doing his work?
(a) His son.
(b) His mother-in-law.
(c) His wife.
(d) His father.

4. "Trodden Weed" in 1951 is a portrait of whose shoes?
(a) Wyeth's.
(b) Wade's.
(c) Abe's.
(d) Betsy's.

5. What did Wyeth think that light in a painting could do?
(a) Ruin it.
(b) Change the face of a portrait.
(c) Make a picture more saleable.
(d) Shape the meaning of a picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the author to get to know Andrew Wyeth as an artist?

2. What was particularly hard for Wyeth to capture in "Snow Flurries"?

3. How old was Wyeth when he completed the painting in 1933?

4. In "Wood Stove" painted in 1962, Wyeth depicted a house fragile on the outside but _______________________.

5. What structure was featured in the 1965 painting, "Weatherside"?

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