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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?
(a) The computer.
(b) The camera.
(c) The microscope.
(d) The clock.

3. What is similar about the images on pages 42 and 43?
(a) They are mostly paintings without titles.
(b) They are entirely black and white.
(c) They are mostly publicity images aimed at a female viewer.
(d) They mostly involve still lifes, not human subjects.

4. What could easily be stated as the theme of the paintings on pages 68 and 69?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) War.

5. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?
(a) That both naked and nude can be forms or art.
(b) That nude is a form of art and naked is simply being without clothes.
(c) That naked is any undressed object.
(d) That nude is a term used only for naked women.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, what is a woman's internal presence comprised of?

2. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?

3. What image is the exception to the images featured on pages 36 and 37?

4. What affect does a title have on a painting's meaning?

5. What does the author assert about vision?

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