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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what area is the single eye of perspective unique?
(a) South America.
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) Middle East.

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

4. When do artists begin to use the concept of singular perspective?
(a) In the early Surrealist movement.
(b) In the early Renaissance.
(c) In early Abstractionism.
(d) In the early Impressionist movement.

5. What are images a record of?
(a) The history of the subject.
(b) The way a sight was once seen.
(c) The memories of the image-creator.
(d) The object in present-day.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?

3. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?

4. What do images of the past promote?

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

(see the answer key)

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