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What was the name of the 5,000-mile-long trade route between East Asia and the West?
a. the Gold Road
b. the Silver Road
c. the Wool Road
d. the Silk Road
Which is a city of the dead?
a. mastaba
b. sarcophagus
c. necropolis
d. mausoleum
Which of the following is the term for the traditional ways of representing forms?
a. homages
b. salutations
c. registers
d. conventions
Which of the following was made possible by combining structural devices in Gothic
churches?
a. sculptural decoration
b. taller nave walls
c. a continuous ambulatory
d. huge windows
Which of the following is the name for the movement of African American writers,
artists, and musicians who explored black experience and identity?
a. Precisionists
b. Harlem Renaissance
c. New Realists
d. Regionalists
What is the name for a tower from which the call to prayer is made?
a. mihrab
b. iwan
c. minaret
d. qibla
Discuss how the purpose and design of Horiyu-Ji reveals the influence of China.
From where did the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood borrow their ideas about symbolism?
a. Early Renaissance art
b. Mannerist art
c. Baroque art
d. Rococo art
Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one empire?
a. Khafre
b. Hatshepsut
c. Akhenaten
d. Narmer
What was the function of the Nkisi Nkonde?
a. It protected the home from malicious gods.
b. It accompanied the owner on treacherous journeys.
c. It was carried into the fields for luck.
d. It acted as an impartial arbiter of justice.
Which are the stamped characters called that have been added to many Chinese letters
and paintings?
a. pictographs
b. chakra
c. seals
d. calligraphy
Which of the following describes a variety of artistic intentions and styles coexisting in
the same social structure?
a. collage
b. kitsch
c. assemblage
d. pluralism
Which is the most highly valued form of art in the Islamic world?
a. sculpture
b. weaving
c. calligraphy
d. painting
In which category of painting did Anthony van Dyke specialize?
a. portraiture
b. landscapes
c. history and mythology
d. religious art
Who originally built the small hunting chteau at Versailles?
a. Louis XIII
b. Henry IV
c. Louis XIV
d. Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Who wrote The Maqamat (The Assemblies)?
a. Sa"di
b. Abu Azyd
c. al-Hariri
d. Muawiya
Which of the following peoples made effigy pipes?
a. Moche
b. Inca
c. Pueblos
d. Hopewell
St. Peter's in Rome was given its location because it was believed to be where Peter was
a. killed.
b. buried.
c. ordained as pope.
d. born.
How was the pendant representing an iyoba displayed?
a. on the king's crown
b. in the doorway of a shrine
c. as the king's belt or hip ornament
d. on the neck of the king's panther
El Lissitzsky made what he called a "Project for the Affirmation of the New," otherwise
known as
a. a Proun.
b. a readymade.
c. Suprematism.
d. Surrealism.
A stupa has a mast that connects the cosmic waters below the earth with the celestial
realm above. The mast is known as the:
a. axis mundi.
b. torana.
c. yakshi.
d. pagoda.
The battle-scene hide painting from the North Dakota Mandan Native Americans was
collected by
a. Daniel Boone.
b. George Washington.
c. Alexander Hamilton.
d. Lewis and Clark.
Which is true of the new Bauhaus building in Dessau that Gropius designed?
a. It makes use of beautiful veneers.
b. The surface decorations add variety and interest.
c. Materials appear simply as they areconcrete, glass, and steel.
d. It follows Beaux-Arts traditions.
Which is the most important surviving example of traditional Chinese architecture?
a. the Forbidden City
b. Byodo-in
c. Angkor Wat
d. Kandariya Mahadeva temple
Where is the primary area for Romanesque architectural sculpture?
a. on the bell tower
b. in the apse and around the altar
c. on the faade, entrance, and column capitals
d. in the cloister
Which of the following is a large stylized masklike face on Chinese vessels?
a. fang ding
b. haniwa
c. yaksha
d. taotie
Which of the following are enduring monuments of Korea's distinctive Three Kingdoms
period (57 BCE_668 CE)?
a. large tomb mounds
b. simplistic pagodas
c. decorative jewelry
d. cave sculptures of Buddha
How much did the population of the Americas decrease in the century after contact with
Europe?
a. 30 percent
b. 50 percent
c. 70 percent
d. 90 percent
What did the architects at Durham Cathedral develop that became an important element
of Gothic architecture?
a. a crisscrossing rib vault and bay system
b. the clerestory
c. the bailey
d. the three story nave
In the Egyptian religion, who was the god of the dead and the underworld?
a. Osiris
b. Ammit
c. Isis
d. Horus
Which of the following did the artists of Die Brcke hope to bridge?
a. art and science
b. happiness and sorrow
c. past and future
d. color and line
Which is the term for a little boy often shown naked and with wings?
a. giornata
b. sgraffito
c. aedicul
d. putto
Which is a process in which lines are cut into a plate with a burin and the low areas are
printed?
a. aquatint
b. engraving
c. woodcut
d. lithography
Which feature characterized a "hall church"?
a. It had a dome over the crossing.
b. The vaults of the side aisles and nave were the same height.
c. The arcade, triforium, and clerestory were clearly separated.
d. The nave roof was open-beam, not vaulted.
What are the Pueblo people of the Southwest known for?
a. pottery
b. paintings
c. printmaking
d. sculpture
