Why Does Seurat Portray Almost All the People in a Sunday

question 38

Multiple Choice

Why does Seurat portray almost all the people in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte as looking either straight or downward?

• A)To emphasize their rigidity
• B)To impart a cheerful tone
• C)To create a sense of depth
• D)To evoke sadness

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Definitions:

Double-blind Tests

Experimental procedures in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias.

Single-blind Tests

Experimental designs in which the participants do not know which treatment or intervention they are receiving, but the experimenters do.

Hypothesis

A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena; scientific hypotheses specify relationships among events or variables and are empirically tested.

Axiom

A statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.