A seven-branched Jewish candleholder is called
a. a menorah.
b. a mandorla.
c. a codex.
d. an exedra.
What are the magical or medicinal objects and ingredients called that are added to a
Power Figure in the Kongo culture?
a. kente
b. bilongo
c. ere ibeji
d. torons
Which of the following best describes the shape of a volute?
a. a spiral scroll
b. concentric circles
c. a golden rectangle
d. a floral pattern
Which art movement combined Fauvist color with Analytic Cubist form in works
dedicated to the modern city and modern technology?
a. Futurism
b. Orphism
c. Suprematism
d. Dada
Which of the following is the term for a semidome?
a. naos
b. conch
c. exedra
d. pendentive
Why was the figure of the Virgin Mary often shown standing on a crescent moon?
a. It signified the New World.
b. It symbolized her ability to cure the plague.
c. It represented the woman of the Apocalypse.
d. It showed her piety.
What purpose does the apse serve in a basilica?
a. rounded extensions at each end used for judges or statuary
b. the central aisle for civic procedures
c. the front entrance
d. an upper level of windows, providing natural light
Which of the following is the pose that was a stylistic signature of the Gothic period?
a. contrapposto
b. figura serpentinata
c. column-like
d. graceful S-curve
Which of the following media did Hendrick Goltzius base his engravings on?
a. architecture
b. drawing
c. sculpture
d. painting
“Submission” is the literal meaning of the word
a. Islam.
b. Muslim.
c. Koran.
d. Mosque.
What is the slender stone bar that divides a window into smaller parts called?
a. cames
b. armature
c. oculi
d. mullion
Which of the following was in the Ark of the Covenant?
a. tablets with the Ten Commandments
b. the bones of Abraham
c. Moses’ staff and robe
d. a weapon of unimaginable destructive power
What was the subject of Charles Le Brun’s painted ceiling in the Hall of Mirrors?
a. hunting scenes
b. military triumphs of Louis XIV
c. imaginary landscapes
d. luxurious ftes galantes
Which group of artists advocated a naturalistic approach to painting and moralizing
subject matter?
a. the Impressionists
b. the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
c. the Post-Impressionists
d. the Symbolists
What was the function of Machu Picchu?
a. It was a major trading post.
b. It was the seat of the Inca government.
c. It was a temple complex.
d. It was the ruler’s summer home.
Who modeled for Grant Wood’s famous painting of an Iowa farmer and his daughter?
a. an Iowa farmer and his daughter
b. Wood’s dentist and sister
c. Academy models while Wood was studying in Paris
d. a New York City man and his daughter
During which period of Greek history were sculptures made that depicted people from
all levels of society and all physical types?
a. Archaic
b. Classical
c. fourth century
d. Hellenistic
Which artist studied Alberti’s theoretical treatises and wrote his own on perspective,
geometry, and volumetric construction?
a. Sandro Botticelli
b. Andrea Mantegna
c. Giovanni Bellini
d. Piero della Francesca
In the eleventh century, pilgrims traveled to what they considered to be the three holiest
places in Christendom: Christ’s tomb in Jerusalem, St. Peter’s tomb in Rome, and the
shrine of St. James in
a. Alexandria, Egypt.
b. Bethlehem, Palestine.
c. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
d. Patmos, Greece.
What event officially ended the Ancient Egyptian dynastic culture?
a. the death of Cleopatra VII
b. the death of Marc Antony
c. the death of Alexander the Great
d. the death of Tutankhamun
Upon which moment in the story of Jesus’ Last Supper did Leonardo focus in his
portrayal?
a. the passing of the bread
b. Jesus’ statement that one of the disciples would betray him
c. the symbolism and distribution of the wine
d. the reception of the Holy Spirit
Which precedent was set by the Church of Saint Cyriakus and followed by Romanesque
churches?
a. an open beam ceiling
b. the use of flying buttresses
c. alternating heavy, rectangular supports with lighter round supports in the nave arcade
d. rib vaults
Which of the following processes typically makes the fewest prints?
a. etching
b. drypoint
c. engraving
d. mezzotint
How does African art differ in function from European art?
a. Africans did not use a wide variety of materials.
b. Africans did not create monumental architecture.
c. Africans did not produce ritual or political objects as works of art.
d. Africans did not use nature as a source of inspiration.
Which conveys the idea that the scene of the Annunciation in Jean Pucelle’s Petites
Heures of Jeanne d”Evreux is a vision?
a. You can see through the wall of the house.
b. Queen Jeanne is included, kneeling with her book.
c. The scene depicts clowns and jesters.
d. The musicians are a symbol of sleep.
At the end of a medieval manuscript, the signature and background information
provided by scribes and illustrators is called a
a. colophon.
b. index.
c. scriptorium.
d. gallery.
What formal technique was used to create a very lifelike quality in Bison from Le Tuc
d”Audoubert in southern France?
a. human figures surrounding the herds
b. small footprints in the clay floor
c. engraved short parallel lines below their necks
d. low-relief carvings of thin, active animals
Which of the following is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the objects are black
and the background is red?
a. red-figure
b. geometric
c. black-figure
d. niello
Which of the following is a gold-working technique in which minute granules are fused
in a pattern to a larger surface?
a. niello
b. granulation
c. inlay
d. bracketing
One fundamental change that marked the beginning of the Neolithic period was
a. year-round settlements.
b. use of bow and arrow.
c. weaving.
d. use of stone tools.
The earliest evidence of basketwork in North America was found in
a. Key Marco, Florida.
b. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
c. Danger Cave, Utah.
d. Cahokia, Illinois.
Which of the following describes Richard Hamilton’s work?
a. It satirizes American materialism.
b. It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements.
c. It celebrates middle-class social and material values.
d. It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors.
Who ultimately put an end to the Persian Empire?
a. the Etruscans
b. the Romans
c. the Greeks
d. the Egyptians
According to Maya Ying Lin, what was an important point of the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial?
a. to see yourself reflected in the names
b. a monument to suffering humanity
c. the names would lose individuality and become a texture
d. the futility of war
Which of the following determined that China painting and needlework are traditional
women’s media but should be considered “high” art forms?
a. Judy Chicago
b. Betye Saar
c. Faith Ringgold
d. Cindy Sherman
Which of the following is a massive gateway?
a. clerestory
b. hypostyle
c. pylon
d. dolmen
Which of the following was painted on the walls of the synagogue at Dura-Europos?
a. geometric patterns
b. scenes from Jewish history
c. animal and plant forms
d. a garden scene
Describe the stylistic development that occurred from the time of the Peplos Kore, to
the Parthenon’s pedimental sculpture, to Nike Adjusting Her Sandal.
Discuss the formal characteristics of the lamassu figures?
Who are Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and Ali, and what was their role in the Islamic faith?
Discuss the style of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. How does van Gogh
expand on the ideas of the Impressionists?
Give examples and explain how ordinary objects are used as disguised religious
symbols in the Mrode Altarpiece.
How does Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel reveal the characteristics of Baroque art?
Describe Stonehenge and discuss the theories that have surfaced regarding its meaning.
What characterizes de Stijl and how do Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue and
Schroder House embody the movement?
Discuss the juxtaposition of traditional architecture and modernity as seen in the design
of the Islamic Mosque and Cultural Center in Rome.
How did the Egyptians’ beliefs about the afterlife influence their art and architecture?
Give an example and describe the style of Minoan wall painting. What can we conclude
about the Minoan people?
Describe the typical characteristics of Mannerism. Use Pontormo’s work to explain the
ways these characteristics appear.
Describe the setting of Giorgione’s The Tempest, and explain why it was an important
painting from the Venetian Renaissance.
How do an Etruscan temple and a Greek temple compare in form?
Describe the function and appearance of Sumerian votive figures.
Describe how the role of the artist has changed from ancient times to the present.
How does a hierarchy of materials or subject differ in African cultures compared to
Western cultures? How do African cultures differ from Western cultures in their
assessment of “fine art” as opposed to “craft”?