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Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. Art can forge racial identity and preserve the history and values of a(n) ____ group.
a.
moral
b.
ethnic
c.
anonymous
d.
student
____ 2. In Las Meninas, Velazquez places Infanta Margarita at the center of the painting and surrounds
her with dwarfs, chaperones, and ladies in waiting to reveal her ____.
a.
indulgent behavior
b.
frivolity
c.
childishness
d.
exalted rank
____ 3. Marc Chagall’s works reflected his heritage, which was ____.
a.
Jewish
b.
Dutch
c.
French
d.
American
____ 4. Marc Chagall painted in bright colors, like the ____.
a.
Futurists
b.
Expressionists
c.
Cubists
d.
Fauves
____ 5. The photographs of James VanDerZee reflect the ____.
a.
Black Renaissance
b.
Italian Renaissance
c.
Cuban Revolution
d.
Haitian Revolt
____ 6. Aunt Jemima is considered a ____.
a.
shining image
b.
caricature
c.
prototype
d.
role model
____ 7. Betye Saar’s The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is a ____ piece.
a.
painting
b.
sculpture
c.
poem
d.
mixed media
____ 8. In The Artifact Piece, Native American artist James Luna challenged the way contemporary
American culture and museums have presented his race as essentially____.
a.
primitive
b.
ignorant
c.
extinct and vanished
d.
prosperous and thriving
____ 9. Shaughnessy’s Interior House Post both physically supports the Raven House and symbolically
represents the ____ of the John Scow clan.
a.
ritual celebrations
b.
spiritual and mythical foundation
c.
social and political foundation
d.
wedding ceremonies
____ 10. Painting from a Cult House done by the Tambaran cult of New Guinea ____ the cult
teachings through a narrative.
a.
illustrates
b.
explains
c.
does not illustrate
d.
opposes
____ 11. Peter Paul Rubens’ Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus revealed that the women of that
time were expected to be ____.
a.
helpless
b.
delicate
c.
clothed
d.
thin
____ 12. Jacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.
a.
expected of all patriots
b.
difficult and profound
c.
a mark of masculinity
d.
found in both sexes
____ 13. Artists such as Jacques-Lois David not only reflected the “reality” of gender roles, they ____ such “reality.”
a.
protested against
b.
enforced
c.
mocked
d.
created
____ 14. French people saw Rococo architecture as ____.
a.
Neoclassical
b.
masculine
c.
neutral
d.
feminine
____ 15. The ancient Greeks viewed Doric architecture as ____.
a.
Egyptian
b.
foreign
c.
masculine
d.
feminine
____ 16. Hung Liu examined the Chinese practice of ____.
a.
silk-weaving
b.
bamboo-lacquering
c.
hairdressing
d.
foot-binding
____ 17. The Guerrilla Girls are a group of artists that ____.
a.
stage raids on art shows
b.
protest racial and gender discrimination
c.
enjoy wearing gorilla masks
d.
seek to return to the jungle
____ 18. Ancient Romans believed that their ancestry ____.
a.
was extremely important
b.
was not as important as their progeny
c.
was to be documented in writing
d.
was not important at all
____ 19. Ceremonies for a clan’s living members took place in Zapotec ____.
a.
temples
b.
tombs
c.
courtyards
d.
homes
____ 20. The Northwest Coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.
a.
priest
b.
shaman
c.
chief
d.
spirit
____ 21. The painting Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens is an example of
____ as subject matter.
a.
political intrigue
b.
sexual exotica
c.
guerilla warfare
d.
genocide
____ 22. A ____ is a group of people joined by blood or marriage ties.
a.
clan
b.
shaman
c.
coven
d.
retablo
____ 23. Artists often illustrate social rank through dress, leisure activities, and ____.
a.
religion
b.
personality
c.
family
d.
scale
____ 24. Kabuki theater was enjoyed by the ____ in Japanese society.
a.
nobility
b.
peasants
c.
middle class
d.
samurai
____ 25. The ____ art movement originated in Paris in the early twentieth century
and emphasized exaggerated color in paintings for greater expression.
a.
Cubist
b.
Surrealist
c.
Fauvist
d.
Structuralist
____ 26. In his paintings, Marc Chagall sometimes used the ____ device of fracturing
space to represent instability.
a.
Cubist
b.
Renaissance
c.
Baroque
d.
Neoclassical
____ 27. The title “____” was a commonly used term of subordination for African
American female domestic servants, nannies, and maids.
a.
Ma’am
b.
Mama
c.
Missy
d.
Aunt
____ 28. Sepik men performed ____, called “Tambaran,” which took place in large,
decorated cult houses.
a.
rituals
b.
dances
c.
games
d.
plays
____ 29. Unlike the Western belief that an individual exists at birth, many South Pacific peoples
believe that a person’s being is built through a lifetime of ____.
a.
good deeds
b.
ritual experiences
c.
education
d.
prayer
____ 30. The voluptuous, fleshy women of Peter Paul Ruben’s Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus
represent ____ body types for their time.
a.
undesirable
b.
ideal
c.
stylized
d.
unrealistic
____ 31. Eighteenth-century Rococo architecture was seen as ____, with its emphasis
on delicacy, curves, and color.
a.
imposing
b.
masculine
c.
feminine
d.
unsophisticated
____ 32. A revival of Greek and Roman aesthetics inspired a style called ____, which
emphasized the use of classical elements in art and architecture.
a.
Fauvism
b.
Surrealism
c.
Impressionism
d.
Neoclassicism
____ 33. The subject matter of ukiyo-e prints were usually famous kabuki actors, beautiful young women,
and ____.
a.
warriors
b.
landscapes
c.
mythological creatures
d.
saints
____ 34. The ____is a collective of anonymous women artists and
arts professionals protesting racial and gender discrimination in the arts.
a.
Feminist Girls
b.
Guerilla Girls
c.
Women’s Society
d.
Unicorn Girls
____ 35. ____ paintings are paintings of ordinary scenes from everyday life.
a.
Avant-Garde
b.
Plein-aire
c.
Academic
d.
Genre
Essay
36. Describe how an artist can illustrate the nuclear family.
37. How can art illustrate class structure?
38. Compare and contrast two working-class works of art.
39. Describe how James VanDerZee’s photographs contrast with the two kinds of African American images
prevalent during his career.
40. Describe the burial practices of the Zapotec people of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
____ 41. Because of restrictive laws emphasizing cultural separation, nineteenth-century Russian Jews were unable to
pursue careers in the arts and found work primarily in the areas of business and manual labor.
____ 42. James VanDerZee was a commercial studio photographer whose work was strongly influenced by depictions
of female stereotypes in films from the 1950s and 1960s.
____ 43. In The Kitchen Maid, Van Eyck portrays a humble working-class woman with great dignity.
____ 44. In Papua New Guinea, Sepik men saw their rituals as creating men from infants, usurping women’s
procreative power.
____ 45. In Western culture, architecture is gendered — different styles are associated with certain qualities that are
perceived to be masculine or feminine.
____ 46. When the Chinese Communist government came to power, women with bound feet were given government
posts, reflecting their elevated social status.
____ 47. In the 1960s and 1970s, high-profile art exhibitions in prestigious American museums frequently included
work by women artists.
____ 48. In ancient Egypt, the human body was sculpted in different ways depending on the class of the person.
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Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
ESSAY
TRUE/FALSE