What term did Miriam Schapiro use to describe her work that combined acrylic paint
with colorful pieces of fabric?
A. Pattern and Decoration
B. femmage
C. bricolage
D. herstory paintings
Sumerian votive figures were dedicated to the __________.
A. people
B. king
C. gods
D. priests
The people of __________ were the most extensively tattooed of all Polynesians.
A. New Zealand
B. the Marquesas Islands
C. New Ireland
D. Samoa
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of English picturesque gardens, such as
the Park at Stourhead (Fig. 30-16)?
A. architectural “follies”
B. an artificial unkempt appearance
C. parterres
D. a mix of different styles and cultures
The archeologist __________, who excavated the site of Mycenae, is also credited with
the discovery of Troy.
A. Ulu Burun
B. Howard Carter
C. Heinreich Schliemann
D. Leonard Woolley
Chris Ofili’s painting The Holy Virgin Mary (Fig. 33-47) was at the center of a
controversy about public __________ in the arts.
A. history
B. funding
C. access
D. communication
In the year __________, the Romans overtook the Etruscans, forming a republic
centered in Rome.
A. 27 BCE
B. 509 BCE
C. 146 BCE
D. 275 BCE
The _________________ encountered at Newgrange may have induced hallucinations.
A. representations of bucrania
B. entoptic motifs
C. deer hunts
D. female figures
Which feature is characteristic of French painting in the fifteenth century?
A. elaborate details and complex iconography
B. a reserved detachment among the figures
C. an emphasis on symmetry and geometric patterns
D. the use of Gothic architectural settings
Why does the text call the Nanchan Temple, Wutaishan (Fig. 11-15) the most important
example of early Chinese architecture?
A. It is the only surviving Buddhist structure from the Tang dynasty.
B. It is the first known use of the bracketing system that became a standard element in
Asian architecture.
C. It exemplifies the synthesis of Indian Buddhist structures with Chinese architectural
form.
D. It shows characteristics of both temples and palaces of the Tang dynasty.
Resembling calendar pages of Books of Hours, Bruegel’sReturn of the Hunters (Fig.
22-25) is filled with _____________.
A. religious episodes
B. Christian symbolism
C. behaviors typical of that season
D. immoral behavior
The rock-cut relief Descent of the Ganges (Fig. 10-24) is probably meant to
________________.
A. serve as an allegory of the king’s benevolence
B. teach Hindu beliefs through dramatic narratives representing the gods
C. provide a focus for meditation and ritual devotion
D. record a historical event
Much of the art of indigenous Australian peoples developed ________________.
A. as commemoration of historical events
B. to celebrate the culture’s heroes and leaders
C. to relive and transmit stories about ancestors
D. as part of burial and death rituals
How did landscape painters of the Sung dynasty attempt to convey the Neo-Confucian
concept of li in their art?
A. They carefully observed nature and rendered detailed images of specific
environments.
B. They looked for the spiritual essence of objects and expressed it through their
painting.
C. They painted the same scene repeatedly in order to capture subtle changes and
variations of nature.
D. They created scenes that encouraged viewers to imagine themselves in the
landscape.
Canopic jars were special containers in tombs that were used to hold __________.
A. food
B. bodily organs
C. jewels and gold coins
D. all of the above
At Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, ____________ was a long reflecting pool framed by a
colonnade.
A. The Pantheon
B. The Triclinium
C. The Canal
D. The Main Hall
Seafaring bands of Norse seamen were called __________ or “people from the coves.”
A. Scandinavians
B. Danes
C. Vikings
D. Soviets
___________ ware is the technique of multicolor ceramic overglaze painting developed
by the Persians.
A. Miradors
B. Muqarnas
C. Mina” i
D. Luster
The invasion of the ____________ caused a dramatic rift in the Central and Eastern
Islamic world.
A. Mongols
B. Visigoths
C. Crusaders
D. Umayyads
Numerous tradition-based societies persist in __________.
A. Europe
B. Africa
C. Asia
D. Pacific Islands
The Scivias records ___________________of Hildegard of Bingen.
A. the day-to-day events in the life
B. the musical and theatrical compositions
C. the mystical visions
D. treatises on medicine and natural science
The extraordinary artisans of the Yoruba peoples modeled flesh with what thin, parallel
patterns?
A. acidification
B. scarification
C. rectification
D. justification
The term “Renaissance” refers to a revived interest in _________________culture that
emerged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
A. Etruscan
B. Classical
C. Byzantine
D. Gothic
Mayan inscriptions on architecture and stelae commonly_______________.
A. offer prayers to the gods
B. record specific historical events
C. serve an ornamental function
D. provide instruction for ritual practice
The bodhisattva in the wall painting of Cave 1 in Ajanta (Fig. 10-17) is identified as
Avalokiteshvara through the __________________.
A. lotus flower in his hand
B. princely garments
C. distinctive headdress
D. use of color
Many megalithic structures are associated with _________________.
A. reproduction
B. the coming of the Ice Age
C. death
D. painted decoration
As long ago as __________ BCE, figurines of people and animals appeared.
A. 50,000
B. 30,000
C. 25,000
D. 10,000
Like most New Kingdom temples, the Temple of Hatshepsut is built along a(n)
________.
A. axial plan
B. earlier pharaoh’s tomb
C. river valley
D. pyramid
Before the nineteenth century, the most important external influence on African cultures
was __________.
A. Islam
B. wealth
C. Christianity
D. rum
Prior to the twentieth century, African art collections in the West were typically housed
in ___________.
A. art museums
B. museums of natural history and ethnography
C. private universities
D. all of the above
The Aphrodite of Melos (Fig. 5-67) demonstrates the influence of earlier__________
styles in Hellenistic sculpture.
A. Archaic
B. Minoan
C. Classical
D. Geometric
__________ was the foremost artist of the German Renaissance.
A. Charles V
B. Tintoretto
C. Drer
D. Fontana
Jataka tales of the Buddha’s past lives are organized according to ____________on the
toranas of the Great Stupa at Sanchi (Fig. 10-8).
A. where they occurred
B. importance of lesson
C. chronological order
D. alphabetical order