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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?
(a) Its reproduction in many locations.
(b) The type of museum lighting.
(c) Its type of framing.
(d) Its title.

3. What is typically the focus in a work of art displaying a nude?
(a) A female figure undressing for the male viewer.
(b) A dressed male figure viewing the figure of a naked woman.
(c) A male figure and female figure without clothing.
(d) A naked female ignoring the unknown viewer.

4. What word would best describe the images on pages 40 and 41?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Formal.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Provocative.

5. Which statement is NOT true about viewing an image made in the past?
(a) Images from the past are made clear with a modern understaning of events.
(b) A work of art mystifies one about the past.
(c) Images show a sight that is not presently available.
(d) A viewer "sees" himself in the landscape he looks at.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a contradiction to the assumption that early European oil painters portrayed a level of humanism in their work?

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

3. In Chapter 2, what is the most stark contrast between the images on the first set of facing pages (36 and 37) and the images on the second set of facing pages (38 and 39)?

4. According to Berger et al., how must a woman observe herself in order to see herself in the eyes of a man?

5. What is similar about all of the women in the images on pages 36 and 37?

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