Chapter 3: ANCIENT ART
1. The taotie was:
a. thought to be the symbol of many Chinese societies
b. the particular emblem of the Shang
c. a special type of ancient Chinese vessel
d. an ancient bronze Chinese vessel for food and drink
2. The Pharaoh Khafre Ancient Egyptian sculpture is:
a. solid and rigid in appearance
b. the first place the ka inhabits
c. naturalistic in treatment of the body
d. intended to personify Khafre’s frail humanity
3. The Ancient Egyptian pyramids of Menkure, Khafre, and Khufu are:
a. almost identical in construction to mastabas
b. riddled with underground chambers
c. part of a necropolis
d. intended to keep the pharaohs’ kas earthbound
4. The Ancient Egyptian temples at Karnak and Luxora were:
a. intentionally designed to be modest in size and scale
b. asymmetric
c. entered through the hypostyle hall
d. axial in orientation
5. Ancient Egyptian painting and painted reliefs were:
a. meant to be enjoyed by the ka
b. to give pleasure to the pharaohs in their palaces
c. intended to be naturalistic
d. executed in abstract iconography through a series of symbols
6. The Anavysos Kouros:
a. utilized contrapposto
b. exhibits softness
c. has a natural relaxed stance
d. is tense and prepared to take action
7. The Greek Parthenon at Athens is:
a. Ionic architecture
b. Corinthian architecture
c. Doric architecture
d. Tuscan architecture
8. In comparing the fifth-century BCE Greek sculptor Polykleitos’s Doryphoros with the fourth-
century BCE Greek sculptor Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos:
a. the Aphrodite muscles are clearly marked
b. the Doryphoros figure follows a shallow s-curve
c. the Aphrodite muscles are softer
d. the stance of the Doryphoros is more relaxed
9. In the afterlife, much of Ancient Egyptian funerary art was meant to serve the:
a. Sphinx
b. scribe
c. ka of the deceased
d. pharaoh
10. The religious center of a Sumerian city-state was the:
a. pyramid
b. Acropolis
c. tholos
d. ziggurat
11. The Minoan structure of complex design that gave rise to the Greek legend of the labyrinth
of the Minotaur is the:
a. Palace at Knossos
b. Treasury of Arteus
c. Temple of Aphaia
d. Citadel of Sargon II
12. The work of art from the beginning of Ancient Egyptian dynastic history that sets the formal
conventions of Ancient Egyptian figurative art is the:
a. Mastaba of Zoser
b. Great Sphinx
c. Palette of Narmer
d. Statue of the Pharaoh Khafre
13. The Ancient Egyptian ruler who unsettled many of his country’s social, religious, and
artistic practices, was:
a. Akhenaten
b. Tutankhamen
c. Khafre
d. Zoser
14. The Lion Gate is an impressive remain from which civilization?
a. Minoan
b. Mycenaean
c. Archaic Greek
d. Ancient Egyptian
15. The pre-Roman people whose culture possessed a lively, individual art style, and who
passed on significant contributions to the Romans, were the:
a. Archaic Greeks
b. Assyrians
c. Etruscans
d. Minoans
16. The Parthenon is a monument from:
a. Archaic Greece
b. Classical Greece
c. the Hellenistic world
d. Rome
17. The nucleus of a Greek or Roman temple, where the cult image of the deity was placed, is
termed the:
a. peristyle
b. stylobate
c. cella or naos
d. architrave
18. The new articulation of the body that appeared in Greek Art c. 480 BCE that demonstrates
the naturalistic weight distribution for a body at rest is termed:
a. amphora
b. composition
c. free-standing
d. contrapposto
19. Sculpture that is tied to the background, from which it only partially emerges, is termed:
a. free-standing sculpture
b. relief sculpture
c. cast bronze sculpture
d. woodcut
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