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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?
(a) A telescope.
(b) A lighthouse beacon.
(c) A ceramic relic from ancient Greece.
(d) A cubist painting.

2. What does the author use "The Key of Dreams" as an example of?
(a) The use of bad titles.
(b) The gap between words and image.
(c) The use of poetry in image.
(d) The use of words with image.

3. The author proposes that there is a gap between what two concepts?
(a) Words and poetry.
(b) Words and sight.
(c) Words and thought.
(d) Words and text.

4. How can a work of art lose its mystification?
(a) By making multiple uses of its reproductions.
(b) By taking the work out of the context of the past.
(c) By changing the title for more modern viewers.
(d) By creating too many written commentaries by critics.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author assert about vision?

3. Who is Frans Hals?

4. What do images of the past promote?

5. Which statement best describes what is eliminated when a work of art is reproduced?

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