•  Question 1
3 out of 3 points


Which of these best describes Frank Gehry's design process?
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	Selected Answer:
it is fluid and experimental

•  Question 2
3 out of 3 points


Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession, illustrates a _______, or sculptural band, often used by the Greeks to embellish their architecture.
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	Selected Answer:
frieze

•  Question 3
3 out of 3 points


Created entirely from _______, Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process.
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	Selected Answer:
clay

•  Question 4
3 out of 3 points


Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, is an example of _______ architecture.
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	Selected Answer:
Gothic

•  Question 5
3 out of 3 points


Allan Kaprow created "assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place." (p. 313) He called these:
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	Selected Answer:
happenings.

•  Question 6
3 out of 3 points


The Greek Kouros (p. 292) illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called:
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	Selected Answer:
contrapposto.

•  Question 7
3 out of 3 points


Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais (p. 300) is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture?
Answer
	Selected Answer:
in-the-round

•  Question 8
3 out of 3 points


In the Gothic period, when Notre Dame de Paris was built (p. 358), architects preferred to use:
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	Selected Answer:
pointed arches.

•  Question 9
3 out of 3 points


The material most often associated with the process of "casting" is:
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	Selected Answer:
bronze.

•  Question 10
3 out of 3 points


Louis Sullivan utilized this type of construction in the late 19th century in Chicago to build increasingly tall buildings.
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	Selected Answer:
steel and reinforced concrete

•  Question 11
3 out of 3 points


What do Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Great Serpent Mound have in common?
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	Selected Answer:
they are both earthworks, purposeful modifications of landscape

•  Question 12
3 out of 3 points


In Sky Cathedral (p. 303) the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called?
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	Selected Answer:
assemblage

•  Question 13
3 out of 3 points


The Seagram Building, designed by Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe is a perfect example of ___________ in architecture.
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	Selected Answer:
the International Style

•  Question 14
3 out of 3 points


The Yoruba Display Piece (p. 303) produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the king's power and _______.
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	Selected Answer:
the power of the community's women and the king's incompleteness without them

•  Question 15
3 out of 3 points


The Anasazi cliffside caves at Mesa Verde (p. 350) show the roofs of two _______, which are the underground space for ceremonial life.
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	Selected Answer:
kivas

•  Question 16
3 out of 3 points


Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently (p. 296) through the process of:
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	Selected Answer:
firing it.

•  Question 17
3 out of 3 points


What building method was used for the construction of the Egyptian pyramids (p. 348)?
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	Selected Answer:
load bearing

•  Question 18
3 out of 3 points


Wood and stone carvings (p. 287) are examples of:
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	Selected Answer:
subtractive sculpture.

•  Question 19
3 out of 3 points


The Seagram Building, designed Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, is an example of the International Style, a type of architecture marked by:
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	Selected Answer:
austere geometric simplicity.

•  Question 20
3 out of 3 points


When and where was the use of the arch in Western architecture perfected?
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	Selected Answer:
in Rome around the 1st century B.C.E.

•  Question 21
3 out of 3 points


By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement (p. 298) in the art of:
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	Selected Answer:
brass casting.

•  Question 22
3 out of 3 points


How is performance art different from traditional sculpture?
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	Selected Answer:
All of the above.

•  Question 23
3 out of 3 points


When and why were the Pyramids at Giza built?
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	Selected Answer:
roughly 4500 years ago to be used as tombs and monuments for deceased pharaohs

•  Question 24
3 out of 3 points


Johnson and Burgee's University of Houston, College of Architecture is said to be a postmodern building because it:
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	Selected Answer:
borrows from many different styles and time periods to create a kind of "history of Western architecture."

•  Question 25
3 out of 3 points


The "look" of our buildings and communities (p. 348) depends on two different factors and their interrelation. What are those factors?
Answer
	Selected Answer:
topography and technology

•  Question 26
3 out of 3 points


Which of these is not a basic principle of "green architecture"?
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	Selected Answer:
buildings that make maximum use of energy supplies like coal and nuclear power

•  Question 27
3 out of 3 points


Frank Lloyd Wright designed several houses (p. 366) that were based on the "vastness of the western landscape" and were "of the land, not just on the land." What did he call this style of house?
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	Selected Answer:
the Prairie House

•  Question 28
3 out of 3 points


A sculptural space that you can actually enter (p. 290) is referred to as:
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	Selected Answer:
an environment.

•  Question 29
3 out of 3 points


Frederick Olmsted conceived of a residential community outside the city, but within commuting distance (p. 378), that became an integral part of American life. What was it?
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	Selected Answer:
the suburb

•  Question 30
3 out of 3 points


How did Gothic architects compensate for the lateral thrust (p. 358) of the cathedrals?
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	Selected Answer:
with flying buttresses

•  Question 31
3 out of 3 points


Richard Serra's The Matter of Time is:
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	Selected Answer:
b & c.

•  Question 32
3 out of 3 points


The Romans created larger interior spaces in architecture than the Greeks (p. 354) because:
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	Selected Answer:
they combined the use of the arch with the use of concrete.

•  Question 33
3 out of 3 points


The sculptural material most commonly associated with "modeling" or additive processes is:
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	Selected Answer:
clay.

•  Question 34
3 out of 3 points


The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re (p. 287), is an example of ________________sculpture.
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	Selected Answer:
low relief