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Ways of Seeing Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What number is posted symbolically on pages 36 and 37 of Chapter 2?
(a) Forty.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty-one.

2. According to the authors, what is a woman's internal presence comprised of?
(a) An idea of what she looks like to a man.
(b) A perception of how she should act to be treated like she wants.
(c) An illusion of what she should be.
(d) A preception of what men like.

3. In general, what does seeing do?
(a) Gives you the ability to avoid danger.
(b) Enables you to respond to the environment.
(c) Gives you the ability to touch the environment.
(d) Enables you to read.

4. What is the theme of pages 42 and 43?
(a) A demonstration of corruption in a democratic society.
(b) A demonstration of objectifying women for publicity purposes.
(c) A demonstration of the problems in modern art and culture.
(d) A demonstration of the right to free speech in the United States.

5. In general, what are words used to do?
(a) Avoid danger.
(b) Learn new things.
(c) Explain the environment.
(d) See the environment.

6. Which of the following is a detail of Gauguin's painting "Nevermore"?
(a) The viewer can see many sides of the female figure.
(b) The painting includes a man at the woman's side.
(c) The painting includes a crow sitting above the female nude.
(d) The female figure is facing her back to the viewer.

7. What does the traditional depiction of Adam and Eve project as the perception of being naked?
(a) That being naked is only acceptable for females.
(b) That being naked is only acceptable for males.
(c) That being naked is natural.
(d) That being naked is shameful.

8. 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 a physical existence.
(b) A man thinks of a woman's presence as emotional radiance.
(c) A man thinks of a woman's presence only as it benefits himself.
(d) A man thinks of a woman's presence as an awkward postition.

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

10. Why can every viewer see a painting in a different way?
(a) Every viewer has a different color preference.
(b) All viewers have different eyesight abilities.
(c) Each viewer sees a painting based on their prior experiences and expectations.
(d) Viewers have a variety of education levels in art history.

11. Which is an example of a nude painting discussed by Berger et al.?
(a) A self-portrait by Kenneth Clark.
(b) An oil painting by Giacometti.
(c) An oil painting by Tintoretto of a woman taking a bath.
(d) A portrait of a woman in the park by Manet.

12. What do images of the past promote?
(a) Authority.
(b) Reinterpretation.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Technology.

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

14. Which of the following is an example of how creating a reproduction can change the meaning of a painting?
(a) A publisher of an art history book decides to reproduce images to accompany the text.
(b) A photographer takes a picture of Da Vinci's the "Virgin of the Rocks" in the National Gallery.
(c) An art student attempts to make a reproduction of Da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks".
(d) The face of one figure in a group can be isolated in reproduction to become a portrait.

15. Why does the author discuss the work of Frans Hals?
(a) Because his work is a good example of how art from the past is mystifying.
(b) Because he is a leading expert in historical artwork.
(c) Because he is a co-author in the book.
(d) Because his work shows how words can be used to define artwork.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the figure in "Bathsheba" sitting?

2. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?

3. In Chapter 2, what image is prominent on the first set of facing pages 36 and 37?

4. To what area is the single eye of perspective unique?

5. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?

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