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Chapter 8 (Early Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art)
1. The Iconoclastic Controversy involved a dispute over ________.
a. the role of the monasteries in Christian education
b. the use of images
c. the selling of indulgences
d. the Catholic Reformation
2. Hagia Sophia (8.27) is an example of _________art.
a. Jewish
b. Early Christian
c. Greek
d. Byzantine
3. Old Saint Pete -plan church created during the reign of
___________.
a. Constantine
b. Theodosius
c. Claudius
d. Justinian
4. Some scholars view the incorporation of Greek motifs into the floor mosaic at
Hammath Tiberias (8.3) as cultural borrowing without concern for meaning, while
others suggest _________.
a. that the incorporation of the images was coincidental
b. that it reflected a rejection of pagan images
c. that it reflected a desire to emulate Greek religion
d. an intention to transfer the authority of pagan images to a new context
5. A scene of ______is shown on the Sarcophagus (8.5) from Santa Maria Antiqua
in Rome.
a. Saint Stephen
b. Jonah
c. Saint Catherine
d. Saint Sebastian
6. The font in the Model of the Baptistery (8.6) was used for __________.
a. baptism
b. bathing
c. weddings
d. funerals
7. Compared to Roman mosaics, Early Christian mosaics were more __________.
a. colorful
b. round
c. flat
d. luminous
8. Early Christians worshipped in __________.
a. open areas
b. central-plan churches
c. private homes
d. basilica-plan churches
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such functioned as a ________.
a. martyrium
b. nave
c. narthex
d. ambulatory
10. Santa Mara Maggiore (8.16) is a ________church.
a. house-synagogue
b. Byzantine
c. central-plan
d. basilica-plan
11. The Parting of Lot and Abraham and Shepherds in a Landscape (8.17) might have
been inspired by ________.
a. Egyptian tomb paintings
b. Roman sculpture
c. illustrated manuscripts
d. Greek mosaics
12. The Annunciation refers to the _________.
a. the presentation of Jesus in the Temple in Jerusalem
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c. ordering of the massacre of all male children under the age of two by King
Herod
d. birth of Jesus
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13. The main focus of the Christian liturgy is ___________.
a. communion
b. burial
c. baptism
d. marriage
14. In The Book of the Popes, the basilica described as having been built by the
emperor Constantine was ___________.
a. Santa Costanza
b. the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
d. Santa Sabina
15. The Agony in the Garden is part of the ________ Cycle.
a. The Childhood of Jesus
b. Incarnation
c. Public Ministry
d. Passion