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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. What is most interesting about the two works from Courbet on pages 124 and 125?
(a) The works demonstrate a clarity in the artist's way of seeing.
(b) The works create a new meaning when presented together.
(c) The works show the difference between nude and naked.
(d) The works illustrate two distinct styles from the artist.

2. From what time period are the images on pages 120 and 121?
(a) Early twenty-first century.
(b) The nineteenth century.
(c) The sixteenth century.
(d) Late twentieth century.

3. What do navigational instruments generally symbolize in a traditional oil painting?
(a) The position of the patrons' social and political status.
(b) Scientific endeavors.
(c) Trade routes to acquire the riches of other nations.
(d) Merchandise lost at sea.

4. All of the following are included in the images featured on pages 70 to 71, except for which ones?
(a) Dead animals.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Political icons.
(d) Food and drink.

5. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?
(a) Formal.
(b) Weary.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Sensual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of all the paintings on pages 70 and 71?

2. What do paintings of children demonstrate about the patron who commissioned the work?

3. Who is considered a master of traditional European oil painting?

4. Which word best describes the images on pages 72 and 73?

5. What covers the Knoll Ball Room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Courbet's two paintings, reproduced in Chapter 6 on facing pages 124 and 125, titled "Girl in White Stockings" and "Demoiselles au bord de la Seine" illustrate two distinct styles of his work?

2. What is the significance of the images on pages 120 and 121 that depict family and other social groupings of common, ordinary daily life?

3. Chapter 5 begins with an oil painting showing several items contemporaneous with the Dutch school in 1665. Describe the painting and the objects it depicts.

4. Explain how the pairs of paintings and photographs in Chapter 6 on pages 126 and 127 complement each other.

5. What is in the Knoll Ball Room? Describe what it looks like.

6. Describe the difference in the artist portrayal of a portrait versus a self-portrait.

7. Describe the images of death in Chapter 4 on pages 68 and 69, and name some of the specific paintings.

8. Explain how Rembrandt's two self-portraits, the first at age twenty-eight and the second at age fifty-eight, evolve to include content that is not conventionally found in traditional oil paintings of his time.

9. According to the authors, how is a collector of art different than a collector of other things?

10. How is Ford Madox Brown's nineteenth century painting titled "The Pretty Baa Lambs" slightly humorous against the other images on pages 66 and 67?

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