Buddhist monastic communities made two types of rock-cut halls; one was called the
__________, used for the monks’ living quarters, and the other was the __________,
which meant ‘sanctuary.”
A. shikhara; amalaka
B. mandapas; plinth
C. vihara; chaitya
D. torana; garbhagriha
The northern city of __________ developed as a walled, rectangular city with streets
laid out in a grid.
A. Shanghai
B. Taipei
C. Beijing
D. Guangzhou
While most of the Impressionists were born in France, Mary Cassatt was born in
__________.
A. America
B. Japan
C. Portugal
D. Ireland
In the 1950s and 1960s several artists argued that ______________was just as
important as a finished art object.
A. the readymade
B. the artist’s idea
C. the creative process
D. reproductions of art
Clothed women in the form of columns are called __________ and are found on the
Treasury of the Siphnians(Fig. 5-7).
A. volutes
B. caryatids
C. entasis
D. kouroi
Known for his persecution of Jews, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Daniel,
Nebuchadnezzar II was responsible for transforming ______________into one of the
most splendid cities of its day.
A. Ur
B. Persepolis
C. Babylon
D. Nineveh
_______ paintings are meant to be destroyed by nightfall on the day in which they are
made.
A. Water
B. Sand
C. Granite
D. Grass
____________ was an enclosed sacred area that contained an altar.
A. pronaos
B. abacus
C. cella
D. temenos
In the city of Mycenae, there was a large audience hall called a __________, or great
room.
A. store room
B. ritual room
C. Hall of the Double Axes
D. megaron
In comparison to the Harvester Rhyton, the figures on the Warrior Krater do not have
the _________.
A. majestic scale
B. vibrant energy
C. static march
D. calm expression
The ______________ issued guidelines that limited what could be represented in art.
A. Pope
B. Holy Roman Emperor
C. Council of Trent
D. Inquisition
The Joseon court dispatched artists from the royal painting academy to the kilns 30
miles southeast of Seoul to train __________.
A. landscape painters
B. porcelain painters
C. portrait painters
D. wildlife painters
The Statuette of a Male Figure has been interpreted as a ____________.
A. Mycenaean soldier
B. prisoner
C. cult statue of a young god
D. bull-leaping athlete
Raharuhi Rukupo was a nineteenth-century master __________ of the Maori.
A. chef
B. tattoo artist
C. chief
D. carver
Neo-Expressionist artists returned to large-scale figural paintings that recovered
________________.
A. intimacy with the viewer
B. visual effects of photography
C. collage techniques
D. the painted surface
The Mexican __________ was intended to address Mexico’s need for a national and
revolutionary art.
A. Suprematism
B. Constructivism
C. Futurism
D. mural movement
The French church of __________ is an outstanding example of the Flamboyant style.
A. Saint-Maclou
B. St. Wolfgang
C. Cathedral of Ghent
D. St. Stephen’s
Which metalworking technique was used to decorate bronze Etruscan cistae?
A. painting
B. engraving
C. repousse
D. niello
The garbhagriha, or “womb chamber,” in Hindu temples is a darkened space where the
____________is housed.
A. plinth
B. vimana
C. sacred image
D. shikhara
Intaglio is a technique associated with __________.
A. oil painting
B. Books of Hours
C. engraving
D. Chartreuse de Champmol
__________ means “wild beast” and was the name of an art movement that included
Henri Matisse.
A. Die Brcke
B. Fauvism
C. Dada
D. Orphism
Communities during the Romanesque sought to own ________________ because it
enhanced their wealth and prestige.
A. relics
B. monasteries
C. parish churches
D. farms
Napoleon III developed the Salon des Refuss for artists rejected from the official
__________.
A. government
B. opra
C. Salon
D. church
The dry rock garden in the Zen temple of __________ is one of Japan’s most renowned
Zen sites.
A. Ryoanji
B. Nara
C. Heian
D. Asuka
Based on the text’s discussion, what art form did women of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries produce?
A. engraving
B. manuscript illumination
C. sculpture
D. all of the above
The first true Gothic hall church was the Church of __________ of Hungary in
Marburg.
A. Saint Foy
B. Saint Dame
C. Saint Clare
D. Saint Elizabeth
Christians in the Muslim territories were called __________.
A. Mozarabs.
B. Mesopotamians
C. Israelites
D. Iranians
Traditionally, the __________ Shubun is regarded as Japan’s first great master of the
ink landscape.
A. samurai
B. courtier
C. monk
D. chef
The __________of Hammurabiis made of basalt and stands almost seven feet tall.
A. Apadana
B. Stele
C. Ziggurat
D. Lamassu
The Womb World Mandala (Fig. 12-10) is an example of paintings that helped teach
practitioners the different gods and hierarchical interrelationships existing in ________.
A. Esoteric Buddhism
B. Pure Land Buddhism
C. Zen Buddhism
D. Mahayana Buddhism
The variation of the Doric order with an unfluted shaft and simplified base, capital, and
entablature is called the __________ order.
A. Dado
B. Corinthian
C. Composite
D. Tuscan