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Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. Western theater began as a form of worship of the god ____.
a.
Apollo
b.
Bacchus
c.
Mithra
d.
Dionysos
____ 2. The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to the architecture of ____.
a.
Solomon Guggenheim
b.
Frank Lloyd Wright
c.
Joern Utzon
d.
Charles Garnier
____ 3. The structure of the Sydney Opera House is referred to as ____.
a.
symmetrical architecture
b.
Neo-Baroque
c.
platform sculpture
d.
functional sculpture
____ 4. Frank Gehry’s architectural works usually lack ____.
a.
structural systems
b.
symmetry
c.
asymmetry
d.
three-dimensionality
____ 5. Deconstructivist architecture does not have ____.
a.
core structure
b.
abstract form
c.
spatial expansiveness
d.
a unified whole
____ 6. Roman imperial baths, such as the ____, had libraries, art galleries, restaurants, bars,
and gymnasiums and offered theater performances, public lectures, and athletic contests.
a.
Baths of Caracalla
b.
Baths of Coagula
c.
Baths of Calypso
d.
Baths of Camilla
____ 7. Central Park was designed to be a(n) ____ from city life.
a.
diversion
b.
flight
c.
revolution
d.
retreat
____ 8. The Japanese Bunraku translates to ____.
a.
clay pottery
b.
short poetry
c.
flower walk
d.
doll drama
____ 9. The Japanese theater musicians played a stringed instrument called a ____.
a.
samisen
b.
samurai
c.
lyre
d.
lute
____ 10. A modern theatrical puppet performance on Broadway is ____.
a.
The Tale of Genji
b.
Beauty and the Beast
c.
The Lion King
d.
The Nutcracker
____ 11. The posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were influenced by ____.
a.
Picasso
b.
Japanese prints
c.
Japanese puppets
d.
The Moulin Rouge
____ 12. The first examples of performance art were called ____.
a.
happenings
b.
media events
c.
improvisations
d.
collaborations
____ 13. In the ancient city of Ur, bearded bulls symbolized ____.
a.
Gilgamesh
b.
a Lamassu
c.
royalty
d.
the gods
____ 14. The North American Sioux Open Circle Dance celebrated ____.
a.
springtime
b.
the harvest
c.
the first day of summer
d.
the reign of a chief
____ 15. The opening ceremonies for the Olympic games is an example of ____ — a public exhibition on
a grand scale.
a.
the gaze
b.
monumentality
c.
ritual
d.
spectacle
____ 16. Visual culture is an area of academic study that deals with the totality of images and visual
objects produced in ____, and the ways that those images are disseminated, received, and used.
a.
agrarian societies
b.
industrial and postindustrial nations
c.
art schools
d.
Western European nations
____ 17. The Mayan’s ritualistic ball sport has similarities to the contemporary game of ____.
a.
volleyball
b.
football
c.
soccer
d.
cricket
____ 18. Architect Frank Gehry was originally trained as a ____.
a.
sculptor
b.
musician
c.
contractor
d.
puppeteer
____ 19. The cascading vaults of Joern Utzon’s Opera House in Sydney are intended to suggest ____.
a.
bird’s wings
b.
the sun’s rays
c.
mountains
d.
sailboats
____ 20. ____ is a relatively early form of animation which uses clay sculptures that are moved and
photographed in tiny increments.
a.
stop motion animation
b.
claymation
c.
traditional animation
d.
computer animation
____ 21. Animation grew out of ____, in which a series of drawn images seem to move as book pages
are flipped rapidly.
a.
cartoons
b.
stereoscopes
c.
flip books
d.
comic books
____ 22. In 1927, ____ was/were added to motion pictures.
a.
sound
b.
musical scores
c.
color
d.
credits
____ 23. ____ culture refers to the production, use and dissemination of images and
visual objects, particularly in industrial and postindustrial nations.
a.
Urban
b.
Modern
c.
Graffiti
d.
Visual
____ 24. ____ is the academic discipline that investigates visual media and its effect on
entertainment, information, political power, and social structures.
a.
Iconography
b.
Visual culture
c.
Deconstruction
d.
Semiotics
____ 25. As seen in the Theater at Epidauros designed by Polykleitos, the Classical Greek ideal shape
was the ____.
a.
circle
b.
rectangle
c.
triangle
d.
octagon
____ 26. The seating area of ancient Greek theaters was called the ____.
a.
agora
b.
theatron
c.
skene
d.
acropolis
____ 27. In the nineteenth century, houses for the arts were often very ornate or built in the ____
style to resemble a Greek temple.
a.
Classical
b.
Renaissance
c.
Baroque
d.
International
____ 28. ____ architecture, rooted in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, often results in
designs that resemble “functional sculpture.”
a.
Symmetrical
b.
Baroque
c.
Roman
d.
Organic
____ 29. Located in the middle of Manhattan in New York City and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted
and Calvert Vaux, ____ is considered to be an outstanding example of landscape
architecture.
a.
Central Park
b.
Elysium Park
c.
Falling Water
d.
Spiral Jetty
____ 30. The Hakone Open-Air Museum is located in Japan’s Hakone National Park and is surrounded
by the beauty of the ____ Mountains.
a.
Caucasus
b.
Hakone
c.
Rocky
d.
Fuji
____ 31. A favorite subject of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ____ was a
singer and dancer at the famous cabaret Moulin Rouge.
a.
Berthe Morisot
b.
Victorine Meurent
c.
Rachel Ruysch
d.
Jane Avril
____ 32. ____ art is a visual art form that incorporates live action and mixed
media and is presented before a live audience.
a.
Pop Art
b.
Performance
c.
Earth
d.
Environmental
Essay
33. Describe the Egyptian wall painting Musicians and Dancers.
34. What is so special about Judith Leyster’s Boy Playing a Flute?
35. What is the history of animation?
36. Describe the significance of Summerspace, the collaborative work by artist Robert Rauschenberg,
choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer Morton Feldman, and composer/musical director John Cage.
37. Compare and contrast Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Frank Gehry’s Walt
Disney Concert Hall.
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
____ 38. The ultimate purpose of visual culture is to record the language of visual media so that images have a
universal meaning regardless of nationality or culture.
____ 39. Ancient Greek comedies and tragedies were originally part of ritual festivals dedicated to the deity Dionysos.
____ 40. Most contemporary houses for the arts are built in architectural styles that reflect modern values of
innovation, bold movement, or future potential.
____ 41. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is architecturally engineered to display
paintings and sculptures at their best.
____ 42. In ancient Greece, art galleries were frequently near temple complexes.
____ 43. In its original state, the Colosseum in Rome was a spartan amphitheater devoid of any ornamentation except
for its Doric capitals.
____ 44. Rome’s Colosseum was built on the site of an artificial lake where a colossal statue of Emperor Nero once
stood.
____ 45. Bull jumping was a popular sport in the ancient Minoan culture.
____ 46. In the Cycladic Islands off Greece, sculptures of ballplayers, musicians, and acrobats were found buried in
graves.
____ 47. Matthew Barney’s Cremaster I references Busby Berkley musical productions from 1930s’ Hollywood films.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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