View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor do Berger et al. use to explain the single eye of perspective?
(a) A ceramic relic from ancient Greece.
(b) A lighthouse beacon.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A cubist painting.

2. Most of the images on pages 40 and 41 are of what content?
(a) Still lifes.
(b) Genre paintings.
(c) Females in various stages of undress.
(d) Political figures.

3. Who is Frans Hals?
(a) An emerging artist in New York City in 1990.
(b) A young impressionist in 1890.
(c) A famous, modern, art historian.
(d) An eighty-year-old destitute Dutch painter in 1664.

4. What image is obviously coupled with Ruben's painting on pages 42 and 43?
(a) A self-portrait by Rembrandt.
(b) A publicity image of a famous movie star.
(c) A photo shoot of a woman provocatively posed.
(d) A still life by Van Gogh.

5. What is similar about the images on pages 42 and 43?
(a) They are mostly publicity images aimed at a female viewer.
(b) They mostly involve still lifes, not human subjects.
(c) They are mostly paintings without titles.
(d) They are entirely black and white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is an example of a nude painting discussed by Berger et al.?

2. Which statement summarizes how images are subjective?

3. What does Kenneth Clark (not the authors) say about the concepts of naked and nude?

4. Which item would NOT fit the theme on pages 40 and 41?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the meaning of a painting when many reproductions are made?

2. What is the purpose of mixing images of foodstuffs with images of females in various stages of undress?

3. Describe the general mood of the collection of images on pages 42 and 43.

4. Explain how the portrayal of women by European oil painters is a contradiction to their own work theory, as explained by the authors.

5. Explain how the commission by Frans Hals could easily be misunderstood by the modern viewer.

6. What is Berger's explanation for the difference between naked and nude?

7. Describe how Magritte's painting "The Key of Dreams" is a commentary on the gap between words and image.

8. Explain how the women in the images are viewed by the men in the images on pages 36 and 37.

9. How is a work of art from the past mystifying to the modern viewer?

10. How does the value of the original painting change after it has been reproduced many times?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,090 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample