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

2. What is the title of all the paintings on pages 70 and 71?
(a) God Bless the Queen.
(b) Pan.
(c) Still life.
(d) Nude woman.

3. Which subject is accorded with the highest prestige?
(a) Landscapes.
(b) Food.
(c) Mythological creatures.
(d) Animals.

4. What makes the self-portraits on pages 80 and 81 interesting to the viewer?
(a) The painter includes more fine details in the self-portraits than a typical commissioned portrait.
(b) The subject is more intriguing in a typical portrait.
(c) The perspective is more intimate and human than a typical portrait.
(d) The artist gives the viewer more than the single eye of perspective.

5. Which word best describes the images on pages 72 and 73?
(a) Reality.
(b) Beastly.
(c) Devout.
(d) Fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are most traditional oil paintings commissioned to demonstrate to the viewer?

2. What does Nattier's "Mademoiselle de Clermonte" depict?

3. What is the approximate historical range of the images on pages 66 and 67?

4. What is significant about the images presented on pages 120 and 121?

5. What could be said about the contents of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the painting "Europe supported by Africa and America" by William Blake, and propose the message the artist is sending through the work.

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

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

4. How is the meaning of the images in Chapter 6 on pages 120 and 121, that depict daily life, of any significance?

5. In Chapter 4, explain what interconnections can be made between the images of death on pages 68 and 69, and the images of food, wine, and the hunt on pages 70 and 71.

6. Describe how the wealthy influence the ways of seeing through oil paintings, as explained by Berger et al.

7. 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?

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

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

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

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