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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could be stated as the theme of pages 40 and 41?

2. Where is the spectator located when a work of art uses the single eye perspective?

3. What diversifies the meaning of a painting?

4. In Chapter 2, what image is prominent on the first set of facing pages 36 and 37?

5. What affect does a title have on a painting's meaning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the single eye of perspective changes with the invention of the camera.

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

3. What do you think is the overall mood of the collection of images in Chapter 2 on pages 38 and 39?

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

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

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

7. Describe how Berger et al. interpret the image of a nude women gazing in a mirror.

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

9. Explain how Cubism contradicts the single eye of perspective.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay to explain and compare how both traditional oil painting and modern publicity images stimulate consumerism and shape cultural ideals. Complete the following parts to the essay.

Part 1 - Describe how traditional oil painting is the basis for modern consumer culture.

Part 2 - Explain how publicity images carry the same ingredients for consumerism as European oil paintings.

Part 3 - Compare how color photographs are more effective publicity images than black and white photographs, and how this is similar to the techniques of European oil painting.

Essay Topic 2

Berger et al. propose the metaphor that traditional European oil painting is a wall safe into which the ways of seeing are deposited. Write an essay with the following parts.

Part 1 - Explain this metaphor made by Berger et al.

Part 2 - Compare the metaphor of Berger et al. to the classic metaphor that oil painting is a window unto the world.

Part 3 - Explain your opinion: Do you agree with the metaphor of Berger et al.? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Write an opinion essay to answer the following question. Do you think that the combination of publicity, glamour, and consumerism is a recipe for unhappiness? Support your opinion by agreeing or disagreeing with the examples from the authors.

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