Which adjective would best describe Sumerian votive figures?
a. cylindrical
b. spherical
c. rectangular
d. triangular
What made the flower paintings of Rachel Ruysch so highly prized?
a. the personal expression
b. the historical context
c. the color harmonies
d. the linear perspective
In Buddhism, which of the following symbolizes spiritual purity, the wholeness of
creation, and cosmic harmony?
a. a mandala
b. a wheel with spokes
c. a lotus flower
d. elongated earlobes
Which photographic process involved developing a negative from which an unlimited
number of positives could be made?
a. daguerreotype
b. calotype
c. lithograph
d. albumen print
In the Egyptian religion, who was the “Eater of the Dead”?
a. Thoth
b. Ammit
c. Anubis
d. Horus
Who was successful in changing in the French Academy’s rule that only four women
could be admitted at a time?
a. Labille-Guiard
b. Vige-Lebrun
c. Bonheur
d. Kauffmann
A tall stepped structure in Mesopotamia with a shrine on the top is a
a. pyramid.
b. temple.
c. ziggurat.
d. necropolis.
What are the Mayan half-reclining stone figures called?
a. chacmools
b. coyolxauhqui
c. talud-tablero
d. Coatlicue
Which of the following describes the most well-known work of Jenny Holzer?
a. It evoked images and information carried by electronic communication systems.
b. It included continuous looping signboards with disturbing commands and
declarations.
c. It was made of mixed media painting with collage and fake Indian trinkets.
d. It was a combination of Japanese woodblock prints and American Pop art.
Explain the symbolism of the Eternal Shiva from the Cave-Temple at Elephanta.
What did Rubens do for the Duke of Mantua?
a. painted court portraits
b. copied famous paintings
c. painted the story of the duchess’s life
d. acted as a military engineer
A round arch consists of which of the following?
a. voussoirs and buttresses
b. voussoirs and keystones
c. keystones and voussoirs
d. keystones and arcades
Which describes the work of Martin Puryear?
a. torn, gouged, and pierced traditional ceramic forms
b. trompe l”oeil realism done in carved wood
c. wooden objects that may suggest biological forms or a musical instrument
d. closed form, nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes
Which of the following is a writing instrument shaped like a triangular wedge?
a. cuneiform
b. stele
c. cartouche
d. stylus
Who followed Gricault as the inspirational leader of the Romantic movement?
a. Eugne Delacroix
b. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
c. Adlade Labille-Guiard
d. Jacques-Louis David
Which is the name of Brunelleschi’s added element, like a section of entablature, above
the capital and below the springing of the arch?
a. aedicul
b. loggia
c. impost block
d. balustrade
Which of the following aspect of Trs Riches Heures created by the Limbourg brothers is
a Gothic convention?
a. the lack of a middle ground
b. the high placement of the horizon line
c. the depiction of only the peasant class
d. the attention to precisely following one-point perspective
Proponents of which of the following thought that artists should leave the studio and go
into factories?
a. Orphism
b. Dada
c. Constructivism
d. Futurism
Who “discovered” Georgia O”Keeffe?
a. Marsden Hartley
b. Robert Henri
c. Alfred Stieglitz
d. Kenyon Cox
Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos was considered daring because it
a. broke the canon of Polykleitos.
b. showed the goddess as an older woman.
c. was brightly painted.
d. was nude.
Who took portraits of famous British scholars and wanted to make photography an art
form in its own right?
a. Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre
b. William Henry Fox Talbot
c. Julia Margaret Cameron
d. Alexander Gardner
What tells historians that some people that stayed at Durrington Walls had traveled from
regions far away from the site?
a. oral traditions
b. historical documents
c. archeological evidence
d. anthropological evidence
The Alhambra palace complex was the seat of the
a. Persians.
b. Nasrids.
c. Ottomans.
d. Mongols.
What style describes the Torso from Harappa?
a. abstract
b. idealized
c. naturalistic
d. stylized
A guardian figure found on Assyrian gateways is called
a. an anthromorph.
b. a sphinx.
c. a lamassu.
d. a taotie.
Which is the term for a painting or drawing used as a model or pattern for another
work?
a. cartoon
b. hemicycle
c. sketch
d. illumination
Which of the following was typical of English cathedrals?
a. thin walls and piers
b. wide projecting transepts
c. narrow nave arcades
d. large rose windows
When Leonardo da Vinci worked for the court of the Duke of Milan, which of the
following interests occupied much of his time?
a. military and civil engineer
b. painter
c. sculptor
d. musician
In Buddhism, female spirits associated with beauty and fertility are known as
a. mudras.
b. yakshis.
c. bodhisattvas.
d. toranas.
Before the Romans built the Pantheon, the largest unobstructed interior space in Europe
was the
a. Palace at Knossos.
b. Parthenon, Athens.
c. Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens.
d. Treasury of Atreus.
What is a place of worship where Muslims gather on Fridays?
a. madrasa
b. qibla
c. iwan
d. mosque
Which of the following artists’ works on irregularly shaped canvases with swelling
shapes?
a. Elizabeth Murray
b. Anselm Kiefer
c. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
d. Faith Ringgold
What is the significance of the quince in Zhu Da’s Quince (Mugua)?
a. It is a symbol of transience.
b. It is a reference to the artist’s name.
c. It is a symbol of imperial strength.
d. It is a reference to the artist’s friend.
Whose life story did Rubens paint?
a. Phillip IV, King of Spain
b. Pope Innocent X
c. Marie de” Medici, Queen of France
d. Charles I, King of England
How does Michelangelo organize and give structure to the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel?
a. with an illusionistic architectural structure, filled with narrative scenes
b. with one unifying scene
c. with a pyramidal composition
d. with a circular composition