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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, pages 36 and 37, how are the women in the images viewed by men in the same images?
(a) The women are awkwardly posing for the men.
(b) The women are generally ignored.
(c) The women are the focus of their attention.
(d) The women are serving the men.

2. What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work?
(a) Their omission of male nudes in their paintings.
(b) Their inability to use humanistic expression in landscapes.
(c) Their use of non-human colors to paint their nudes.
(d) Their expression of women as either objects or abstractions.

3. What would be a surprising image to display on pages 42 and 43?
(a) A traditional European oil painting,
(b) A formal portrait.
(c) An abstract nude.
(d) An advertisement for cosmetics.

4. What does Berger et al. claim that a woman's presence is to a man?
(a) A man thinks of a woman's presence only as it benefits himself.
(b) A man thinks of a woman's presence as emotional radiance.
(c) A man thinks of a woman's presence as an awkward postition.
(d) A man thinks of a woman's presence only as a physical existence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What could be stated as the theme of pages 40 and 41?

2. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?

3. What painting by Ruben is included in pages 42 and 43?

4. In Chapter 2, what is the same between pages 40 to 41 and pages 42 to 43?

5. Which unique content is present in Chapter 2, on pages 40 and 41?

(see the answer key)

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