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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is meant to benefit from the focus of a nude painting?
(a) The male figures in the image.
(b) The painter.
(c) The spectator.
(d) The nude woman.

2. Why can every viewer see a painting in a different way?
(a) Each viewer sees a painting based on their prior experiences and expectations.
(b) Viewers have a variety of education levels in art history.
(c) All viewers have different eyesight abilities.
(d) Every viewer has a different color preference.

3. Who is meant to be the ideal viewer of pages 42 and 43?
(a) Art historians.
(b) Female consumers.
(c) Contemporary artists.
(d) Businessmen.

4. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Dead animals.
(c) Food and drink.
(d) Political icons.

5. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Formal.
(b) Weary.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Melancholy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?

2. In Chapter 2, what do facing pages 40 and 41 contain?

3. How can a work of art lose its mystification?

4. Which statement is NOT true about viewing an image made in the past?

5. What is similar about all of the women in the images on pages 36 and 37?

(see the answer key)

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