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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Berger et al. refer to a woman's dual role?
(a) Image and imaginary.
(b) Seen and sight.
(c) Needs and wants.
(d) Surveyor and surveyed.

2. Which of the following would be a good symbol for the collection of images on pages 68 to 71?
(a) A corpse with a glass of wine.
(b) Two doves with an olive branch.
(c) A president with a burning flag.
(d) A nude woman with a rose.

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

4. What tends to be the central figure(s) in the images presented in Chapter 4 on pages 66 and 67?
(a) Political leaders, scientists, and authors.
(b) Madonna and child.
(c) Nudes in gardens.
(d) Popes and Cardinals.

5. What is extraordinary about painting subjects such as children?
(a) The artist must capture their likeness with little time viewing the subject.
(b) Children are not a symbol of wealth or well-being, and so are rarely commissioned.
(c) Artists must entertain the subject while completing the painting.
(d) Patrons do not typically comission paintings of children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nattier's "Mademoiselle de Clermonte" depict?

2. What does Berger et al. claim that a woman's presence is to a man?

3. What are most traditional oil paintings commissioned to demonstrate to the viewer?

4. How is Maddox Brown's painting different than the other images on pages 66 and 67?

5. What is the theme of pages 42 and 43?

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