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The Pueblo artist Maria Montoya Martinez is known for the distinctive
_________ceramic style she developed with her husband in the early twentieth century
(Fig. 27-21).
A. stoneware
B. whiteware
C. roundware
D. blackware
The Dogon dama is a collective __________ ritual that is held every 12 to 13 years.
A. courtship
B. wedding
C. initiation
D. funerary
The people of New Guinea are as __________ as its lands.
A. diverse
B. homogenous
C. turbulent
D. quiet
The Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho (Fig. 10-27) is built of stone blocks using
__________ construction.
A. corbelled arch
B. post-and-lintel
C. barrel and groin vault
D. waddle-and-daub
Why are major deities rarely depicted in African art?
A. There is a prohibition against iconic representation of gods.
B. Deities are only used for divination purposes.
C. Deities are too far removed from the everyday problems of people.
D. Deities are considered malevolent forces to be feared.
The Whirling Log Ceremony sand painting (Fig. 27-23), woven into tapestry, depicts
part of the ____________creation myth.
A. Abenaki
B. Pueblo
C. Iroquois
D. Navajo
Which of the following is NOT associated with the preservation of the ka?
A. mummification
B. serdab
C. palette
D. ka statue
What was the function of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great (Fig. 6-68)?
A. It stood outside the Flavian Amphitheater.
B. It served as a permanent stand-in for the emperor.
C. It was an object of worship located in the apse of the Basilica Nova.
D. It helped structurally support the roof of the Basilica Nova.
The small rooms in catacombs, _______________, were frequently plastered and
painted
A. cubicula
B. loculi
C. lunettes
D. ceilings
Hokusai's famous The Great Wave (Fig. 26-15) is from a series of woodblock prints
depicting ___________.
A. the sea
B. Mount Fuji
C. the seasons
D. Japan's southern coast
Bruegel's Return of the Hunters (Fig. 22-25) is one of a cycle that included six large
paintings focused on the theme of ______________.
A. the months
B. the seasons
C. local landscapes
D. peasant life
Although the temple (perhaps dedicated to Portunus) (Fig. 6-18) resembles a Greek
temple, the decorative use of __________is a distinctly Roman feature.
A. the Ionic order
B. engaged columns
C. a podium
D. a continuous freize on the entablature
Historians use the term BCE to mean before __________.
A. Roman art
B. art was made
C. the common era
D. the invention of writing
The __________ is the symbol of everlasting life.
A. scarab
B. ankh
C. faience
D. wedjat
The painter Jeong Seon exemplified the _________ movement by painting well-known
Korean vistas such as the Diamond Mountains.
A. silhak
B. orthodox
C. buncheong
D. antiquated
The artist of the Virgin and Child Enthroned (Fig. 18-5), __________, greatly impacted
Florentine painting.
A. Andrea Pisano
B. Christine de Pizan
C. Petrarch
D. Cimabue
In the seventeenth century after a period of relative autonomy, __________ returned to
direct Spanish rule.
A. Austria
B. Florence
C. Paris
D. Flanders
The image of Gudea, the ruler of Lagash, is well known to students of Near Eastern art
because of the twenty surviving _____________that he commissioned.
A. steles
B. relief panels
C. votive statues
D. palaces
The __________ built an extensive road system in South America to move their armies
and speed transport and communication within the empire.
A. Incas
B. Aztecs
C. Europeans
D. Mexicans
The garbhagriha in Hindu temples is ______________where a statue of the temple's
main god is kept.
A. a windowless space
B. a light-filled chamber
C. a tower
D. a covered porch
What does the term Erie Ibeji mean?
A. image of a chief
B. image of a mother
C. image of a twin
D. image of an animal
What was the function of the exquisitely crafted sculpture with figures of Neptune and
Earth that Cellini made for the King of France?
A. It was an oil lamp.
B. It was a dispenser for salt and pepper.
C. It was a water basin.
D. It was a jewelry box.
Gaulli's The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and the Fall of the Damned (Fig. 23-15) is
on the ceiling of the __________.
A. Church of Il Ges
B. Vatican
C. Palazzo Barberini
D. Palazzo Farnese
The Guerrilla Girls raise awareness of race and gender discrimination by appropriating
strategies of ____________.
A. first-wave feminist artists
B. Modernism
C. guerilla warfare
D. Postcolonial discourse
__________'s famous saying "Form ever follows function" had a significant impact on
architectural design in the twentieth century.
A. Victor Horta
B. Charles Garnier
C. Louis Sullivan
D. Antonio Gaudi
Which object includes a "Desis" as a plea to Christ for the owner's forgiveness and
salvation?
A. Harbaville Triptych (Fig. 8-25)
B. Virgin of Vladmir (Fig. 8-28)
C. David the Psalmist, page from the Paris Psalter (Fig. 8-27)
D. David Battling Goliath (Fig. 8-1)
A woodblock print having multiple colors is called __________.
A. monochrome
B. duochrome
C. polychrome
D. everychrome
Textiles produced by the Paracas culture are characterized by all of the following
EXCEPT:
A. the predominance of male artists
B. the use of many colors in a single textile
C. twining, knotting, and braiding fibers
D. repeated embroidered figures
The __________ period is especially marked by the ascendance of Zen Buddhism.
A. Muromachi
B. Momoyama
C. Edo
D. Modern
In the years after World War II, Francis Bacon's paintings evoked the horrors of war and
human suffering through ______________.
A. expressive images of distorted figures
B. raw, heavily worked abstract forms
C. biomorphic images that held personal symbolism
D. large scale murals inspired by Renaissance frescoes
Upright stone slabs called _________ were used in cemeteries as gravestones.
A. volutes
B. temenos
C. parapet
D. stele
Unique wooden columns, which_________, became a standard feature in Aegean
palace architecture.
A. were decorated with carved reliefs
B. tapered at the bottom
C. were faced with dressed stone
D. served no functional purpose
