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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 the metaphor that Berger et al. use to describe the European oil painting tradition?
(a) The metamorphasis of a butterfly.
(b) The crutch of society.
(c) A window unto the world.
(d) A wall safe unto which the ways of seeing are deposited.

2. What is the subject of Rembrandt's first self-portrait?
(a) Himself and a black bird.
(b) Himself and his first wife, Saskia.
(c) Himself and his faithful dog.
(d) Himself as a court jester.

3. What could be the theme for all of the images included on pages 68 to 71?
(a) Death is a necessary part of life.
(b) Power is forever corrupt.
(c) Nudity does not always equal pleasure for the viewer,
(d) Love will always lead to sorrow.

4. What words best describe the gaze of the subjects on their own material goods in a traditional oil painting?
(a) Generous, faithful, pleasant.
(b) Confident, formal, arrogant.
(c) Satisfied, generous, serious.
(d) Formal, wary, content.

5. According to Berger et al., why does ordinary life have more meaning when recorded on a canvas?
(a) Because artists appreciate these works more than works with other subjects.
(b) Because the elite upper classes are willing to pay large sums of money for a painting.
(c) Because it portrays everyday life as an interesting event.
(d) Because it took weeks or months to recreate the image from the artist's point of view,

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes the series of portraits displayed in the Knoll Ball Room?

2. What is different about an art collector compared to a collector of other objects?

3. What types of images are paired together on pages 126 and 127?

4. How is a two-dimensional oil painting different from other forms of art?

5. Which of the following is the title of a painting on pages 72 and 73?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are pages 72 and 73, which contain images of mythological characters and fanciful human figures, different than the previous images that are displayed in Chapter 4?

3. Explain how an oil painting depicts subjects differently than other art forms, as discussed by the authors.

4. 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.

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

6. What is demonstrated about the visual arts in comparing the photograph of "Sarah Burge, 1883. Dr Barnardo's Homes", and the oil painting "Peasant Boy Leaning on Sill"?

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

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

9. 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.

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

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