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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Appendix 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are religious beings often portrayed doing nothing?
(a) Because their role is not an active one.
(b) Because human beings are not predisposed to look for action in art.
(c) Because it would be sacreligious to presume to know what divine beings do with their time.
(d) Because it is too difficult for most painters to make something beautiful and to also convey a message with it.

2. What is the difference, according to the author, between the Japanese butcher bird painting and Hardy's thrush?
(a) There is no difference; they are very similar paintings in terms of their visionary qualities.
(b) The Western bird is surrounded by foliage, while the Eastern bird is not.
(c) Each bird is painted in a very different style due to the difference in culture.
(d) The Western bird wants to teach the viewer something, whereas the Eastern bird is content to simply be.

3. According to the author, what would Baudelaire have called the young boy in Gericault's portrait?
(a) "A budding Satan."
(b) "An absurd halfling."
(c) "An apathetic cherub."
(d) "A mockery of youth."

4. What researcher performed experiments with touching parts of the brain with a fine electrode?
(a) Maradon.
(b) Penfield.
(c) Jaung.
(d) Kreitz.

5. What two techniques, according to the author, can produce effects similar to those of mescalin?
(a) Fasting and meditation.
(b) Fasting and sensory deprivation.
(c) Hypnosis and fasting.
(d) Meditation and sensory deprivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to La Tour's reputation as a result of the rise of the new Art of Versailles?

2. How are many visionaries received by others, according to the author?

3. What is the author's complaint about the colors used in "Raft of the Medusa"?

4. What is the biggest difference between dreams and visions, according to the author?

5. What is the Dharma-body?

(see the answer key)

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