Chapter 9 (Islamic Art)
1. The qibla is the ________ in a mosque.
a. courtyard
b. column
c. entrance
d. prayer wall
2. The Taj Mahal (9.36) was commissioned as a _______.
a. museum
b. tomb
c. palace
d. temple
3. The Umayyads built large bathhouses with halls that were often furnished with
mosaic floors, such as the Floor fresco depicting two court musicians and a
mounted hunter (9.6) from Qasr al-Hayr depicting ____________.
a. the interior of the mosque
b. script
c. religious scenes
d. images of luxury
4. The Great Mosque at Córdoba (9.8) is an example of a _______prayer hall.
a. hypostyle
b. mihrab
c. masjid
d. mosque
5. Many luxury objects, including the Ivory casket of al-Mughira (9.10) from
Córdoba, had a __________iconography and great symbolic importance.
a. Classical
b. renowned
d. complex
c. simple
6. The interior of the dome of the Dome of the Rock (9.2) suggests the _______.
a. origination of the architects
b. importance of the building
c . height of the rock
d. vault of heaven
7. The design of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (9.7) is the ________ the Early
Christian basilica-plan church.
a. refinement of
b. opposite of
c. predecessor of
d. same as
8. The four water channels in the central fountain of the Court of the Lions (9.27) at
Alhambra represent _________.
a. the four rivers of Paradise
b. the four pavilions
c. the four rulers
d. the four-iwan plan
9. The Ottoman style of ornament called saz takes its name from _________.
a. the artist
b. a caliph
c. a legendary enchanted forest
d. China
10. Islam originated in the ______century.
a. fourth
b. fifth
c. sixth
d. seventh
11. The distinctly shaped________ seen at the Great Mosque at Córdoba (9.8) are |
composed of arches with alternating red and white voussoirs.
a. minbars
b. horseshoe arches
c. minarets
d. qibla walls
12. The Cast bronze alloy bucket (9.14) was created by inlaying ___________into the
bronze.
a. precious metals
b. wood
c. ceramic
d. brass
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13. The Tomb of the Samanids (9.12) was derived in part from the form of a
________used for Zoroastrian worship.
a. four-iwan mosque
b. Greek temple
c. Roman temple
d. fire temple
14. The main portal of the al-Aqmar Mosque (9.15) in Cairo is decorated with a
developed form of __________ that would eventually become an iconic form of
Islamic decoration.
a. iwan
b. muqarnas
c. qibla
d. minaret
15. The Maqamat manuscript (9.18), illustrated by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti,
contains a collection of short stories known for their ___________.
a. humor
b. serious tone
c. Classicism
d. complexity