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This activity contains 9 questions.

What are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

	reception, extraction, inference
	looking, seeing, believing
	detection, processing, reference
	reception, interpreting, understanding
	hoping, praying, wishing

Jasper Johns’ work Three Flags, from 1958, could be considered demeaning of our national symbol to some viewers. Why is this?

	It has an incorrect number of stars.
	The image diminishes as it comes toward you.
	It was shown on a floor.
	It was a dreadful painting.
	It was illegal to replicate the flag as a "fine arts" image.

In Chapter 1, Nelson Goodman is quoted as saying that something "selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyzes and constructs." What is he referring to?

	any artist
	a gallery director
	the Quantel Program
	the eye
	the Hubble Telescope

How is Erna Motna’s Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming similar to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty?

	They address the same subject matter.
	They both use abstract symbols.
	They’re both paintings.
	They are the same size and scale.
	They are both set in Australia.

The Spiral Jetty is a very unusual type of artwork and fits into a unique category of sculpture. What is that category?

	earthwork
	soft sculpture
	super realism
	activist art
	fresco secco

Wu Chen’s painting, The Central Mountain, is based in part on a traditional system of beliefs that references the "relationship of opposites." What two terms are attached to this belief system?

	time and motion
	yin and yang
	body and soul
	death and resurrection
	ebb and flow

What does Henry Sayre say is "the ability to bring to fruition, or produce, whatever is imagined or envisioned?"

	spiritual faith
	any belief system
	creativity
	determination
	3-D computer programs

Faith Ringgold’s God Bless America features references to an American Flag. How has Ringgold used the stripes of the flag?

	to disorganize the work
	as a powerful horizontal motion
	to represent prison bars
	to suggest the blood of martyrs
	All of the above.

Many artists have traditionally created objects or images to satisfy a purely aesthetic function, but many of today’s artists make artwork for a different reason. What is it?

	They hope to generate personal wealth.
	They hope only to become famous.
	They wish to address moral, social or political dilemmas.
	They feel a need to produce earthworks.
	To furnish their homes.

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