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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In general, what does seeing do?
(a) Gives you the ability to touch the environment.
(b) Enables you to read.
(c) Enables you to respond to the environment.
(d) Gives you the ability to avoid danger.

2. Who is Frans Hals?
(a) An emerging artist in New York City in 1990.
(b) An eighty-year-old destitute Dutch painter in 1664.
(c) A famous, modern, art historian.
(d) A young impressionist in 1890.

3. What do images of the past promote?
(a) Authority.
(b) Reinterpretation.
(c) Technology.
(d) Illusion.

4. What does the author assert about vision?
(a) Vision is a reciprocal function.
(b) Vision is a mechanical function.
(c) Vision is a chemical reaction.
(d) Vision is common to all living things.

5. What is visual art originally made for?
(a) A specific politician.
(b) A specific theme.
(c) A specific religion.
(d) A specific location.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the spectator located when a work of art uses the single eye perspective?

2. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?

3. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?

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

5. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?

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