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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Slight Breeze", painted in 1968, featured an item that was reminiscent of ____________________.
(a) A woman dancing.
(b) A woman on crutches.
(c) A woman praying.
(d) A woman bathing.

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

3. What childhood item hangs from the tree along with the chains used in pig slaughtering in "Rope and Chains" in 1956?
(a) Doll.
(b) Ribbons.
(c) Jump rope.
(d) Bells.

4. Whom did Wyeth have in mind when he painted "Slight Breeze"?
(a) Phyllis.
(b) Christina.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Betsy.

5. What inspired Wyeth to paint "Snow Flurries" in 1953?
(a) Depression.
(b) Christmas holidays.
(c) A flock of crows.
(d) Birth of his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used the Peavey tool shown in the 1965 painting, "The Peavey"?

2. What did Siri Erikson represent for Wyeth?

3. What did Wyeth do with the 1967 painting, "Room After Room", featuring Christina Olson.

4. What structure was shown in "Storm at Sea"?

5. "The Swinger" from 1969 showed Jimmy Lynch on the porch of a house with what debonair article of clothing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the punt in "Teel's Island" represent for Wyeth?

2. What tone did Wyeth paint into "The Swinger" depicting Jimmy Lynch?

3. What was Wyeth's challenge in creating "Snow Flurries" in 1953?

4. Why was "Geraniums" one of the most important of the Christina Olson series of paintings?

5. Why did Wyeth and Betsy keep the painting, "Room After Room" for themselves?

6. How did "The Trophy" show some of Karl Kuerner's hidden nature?

7. What was Wyeth's father's concerns about Wyeth's "Edge of the Field" and what did a critic tell Wyeth's father about his son's work?

8. Why did Wyeth stop painting pumpkins after he created "Pumpkins" in 1968?

9. What is so essentially representative of Maine about the painting, "Incoming Sea"?

10. Why did U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower have Wyeth's painting, "Roasted Chestnuts" hanging in the White House for awhile?

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