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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is meant to be the ideal viewer of pages 42 and 43?
(a) Art historians.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Contemporary artists.
(d) Female consumers.

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

3. What is unique about the Cubist images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?
(a) The images include an enormous amount of detail.
(b) They consist of a variety of wild animals.
(c) It takes some imagination to see a nude female figure.
(d) It seems that the figures in the images are male.

4. What does the word 'image' mean in this book?
(a) Any work of art.
(b) Any object that can be seen.
(c) Any reproduced art work.
(d) Reproduced sight.

5. Which words best describe Chapter 1 as a whole?
(a) Sight, history, misinterpretation.
(b) Windows, words, sight.
(c) Camera, sight, words.
(d) Sight, words, perspective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement summarizes how images are subjective?

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

3. What word would best describe the images on pages 40 and 41?

4. What are images a record of?

5. How does a woman see herself, according to Berger et al.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the inclusion of text have on the images in pages 40 and 41?

2. In Chapter 2, pages 42 and 43, how do the women in the images appear to men in the images?

3. What is similar in all of the images in Chapter 2 on pages 36 and 37?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain how, according to the authors, a woman continually sees and is seen by herself as two parts of one female identity.

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