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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Chapter 6 comprised of?
(a) Publicity images.
(b) Abstract mixed media.
(c) Black and white photography.
(d) Oil paintings and some photographs.

2. Who is meant to benefit from the focus of a nude painting?
(a) The painter.
(b) The spectator.
(c) The nude woman.
(d) The male figures in the image.

3. What invention eventually disproves the idea of center, and single eye?
(a) The clock.
(b) The microscope.
(c) The computer.
(d) The camera.

4. Why do Berger et al. claim the goals of a consumer in a democratic industrial society are unachievable?
(a) Because they are based on daydreams stimulated by an artistic way of seeing the world.
(b) Because it is impossible to have everything perfect.
(c) Because they are based on limited consumerism.
(d) Because they are based on illusions created by publicity images.

5. According to the authors, what are women culturally and socially conditioned to do?
(a) Be politically educated.
(b) Be aware of their own image as others see it.
(c) Critize the condition of other women.
(d) Project the wants of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which words best describe the mood of the paintings on pages 66 and 67?

2. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?

3. What is the visual irony between the images on pages 68 and 69, and the images on pages 70 and 71?

4. What character often appears in the images on pages 72 and 73?

5. What does the author assert about vision?

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