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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. According to the author, what theme is illustrated by the close-up landscapes of Chinese and Japanese art?
(a) The idea that divinity is manifest in everything.
(b) The symbiotic relationship between Man and Nature.
(c) The idea that Nature is something to be respected, even feared.
(d) The idea that humans don't know as much as we think we do about Nature.

2. Which is NOT an object or work of art that the author references in comparison to the subjects of La Tour's paintings?
(a) Da Vinci's apostles.
(b) Piero's angels.
(c) Pharaoh.
(d) A Bodhisattva from Khmer.

3. The "new Art of Versailles" was deliberately cultivated, according to the author, during the reign of which king?
(a) Henry VIII.
(b) Edward VI.
(c) Louis XIV.
(d) Phillip II.

4. According to the author, how did Gericault see the world?
(a) As a setpiece for dramatic art.
(b) As a series of visionary apocalypses.
(c) As a disturbing panorama of ideas and wishes.
(d) As a giant arena battle.

5. What phrase does the author use at the beginning of Appendix 7 to describe Gericault?
(a) "Negative visionary."
(b) "Monochromatic Van Gogh."
(c) "Technical artist."
(d) "Transportative creator."

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Carlyle feel when he walked down a crowded street?

2. What is the first Gericault painting mentioned by the author in Appendix 7?

3. According to the author, in what year did the rediscovery of La Tour begin?

4. What do schizophrenics share with other psychotics, according to the author?

5. What does Carlyle write of the men and women around him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference, according to the author, between the two paintings he compares at the end of Appendix 5?

2. According to the author, what is unique about "Raft of the Medusa," artistically speaking?

3. What does the author say in Appendix 5 about "Nature at the middle distance"?

4. Of what was Carlyle constantly apprehensive or afraid?

5. What is "Sartor Resartus"?

6. What is unique and praiseworthy about Japanese and Chinese art, according to the author?

7. According to the author, how did Gericault see the world?

8. According to the author in Appendix 6, how are the doors of Heaven and Hell opened for the living?

9. What is unique about La Tour's style of painting?

10. Who is James Halliday?

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