• Question 1 5 out of 5 points According to Buddhism, the release from worldly desires (p. 429) that ends the cycle of death and reincarnation and begins a state of permanent bliss is called: Answer Selected Answer: c. nirvana. • Question 2 5 out of 5 points The "Toreador" fresco (p. 418) was created by the _______ culture. Answer Selected Answer: b. Minoan • Question 3 5 out of 5 points The colossal head found in La Venta, Mexico (p. 417) was created by the ___________. Answer Selected Answer: c. Olmec • Question 4 5 out of 5 points Classical Greek sculpture can best be described as: Answer Selected Answer: c. calm: relaxed poses that sought to depict ideal form. • Question 5 5 out of 5 points What was the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaton famous for? Answer Selected Answer: c. changing the traditional Egyptian religion and art for the only time during a 3000 year time period • Question 6 5 out of 5 points The Great Stupa at Sanchi, India is a typical Buddhist structure. What purpose do they serve? Answer Selected Answer: c. they house some of the ashes of the cremated Buddha and serve as devotional sites • Question 7 5 out of 5 points Egyptian culture was dedicated to providing a home for the _______, which required that Egyptian artisans decorate tombs with paintings to be enjoyed after death (p. 413). Answer Selected Answer: d. ka • Question 8 5 out of 5 points Like much of Egyptian art, the statue of King Khafre (p. 415) shows: Answer Selected Answer: d. rigorous geometry. • Question 9 5 out of 5 points One of the earliest surviving examples of a _______ lies at Sanchi, India. Answer Selected Answer: a. stupa • Question 10 5 out of 5 points The stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi (p. 412) was created by which Mesopotamian culture? Answer Selected Answer: c. Babylon • Question 11 5 out of 5 points Architecture and art of the Roman Republic was heavily influenced by the building styles of_______________. Answer Selected Answer: c. Greek temples • Question 12 0 out of 5 points What major events and developments marked the shift from Paleolithic to Neolithic civilization? Answer Selected Answer: d. The fall of Greece to Rome in 146 B.C.E. and the development of naturalistic sculpture done in marble. • Question 13 5 out of 5 points The figures from the Abu Temple represent worshippers from the complex society of: Answer Selected Answer: c. Sumer. • Question 14 5 out of 5 points The capitol of the Roman Empire moved in the 4th century, splitting the empire in two. What was the name of the new capital (before it was renamed) and who moved it? Answer Selected Answer: b. Byzantium; Constantine • Question 15 0 out of 5 points The earliest known civilization in India, contemporary with the great civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, is often called the __________civilization. Answer Selected Answer: a. Sumerian • Question 16 5 out of 5 points When was Rome founded and by whom? Answer Selected Answer: b. in 753 B.C.E. by Romulus and Remus • Question 17 5 out of 5 points Nike of Samothrace is an outstanding example of: Answer Selected Answer: c. Hellenistic realism. • Question 18 5 out of 5 points The Palette of King Narmer is historically important: Answer Selected Answer: a. it probably represents the first unification of Upper and Lower Egypt and the shift from the prehistoric to historic in Egypt. • Question 19 5 out of 5 points Found in Austria, the Venus of Willendorf (p. 409) is most likely a: Answer Selected Answer: c. fertility figure. • Question 20 5 out of 5 points Neolithic culture developed quickly in the world's fertile valleys (p. 413). By 4000 bce, urban societies had developed in: Answer Selected Answer: d. Egypt and Mesopotamia. • Question 1 5 out of 5 points The tile mosaic, mihrab, is typical for Islamic art. Why? Answer Selected Answer: d. b & c Correct Answer: d. b & c • Question 2 5 out of 5 points The Kandariya Temple, modeled on a mountain landscape and covered in sculpture and mosaics, inside and out, is an example of __________ architecture. Answer Selected Answer: c. Hindu Correct Answer: c. Hindu • Question 3 5 out of 5 points The Hinged clasp from the Sutton Hoo burial ship illustrates a distinguishing characteristic of the art of migrating peoples of the Middle Ages, most notably the: Answer Selected Answer: a. animal style. Correct Answer: a. animal style. • Question 4 0 out of 5 points Designed to capture the rhythms of the cosmos, Kandariya Mahadeva remains a: Answer Selected Answer: c. shrine to Shiva. Correct Answer: a. major Hindu temple. • Question 5 5 out of 5 points Through the use of _______, the architecture of the Gothic church (p. 443) was able to reach an extraordinary height. Answer Selected Answer: d. flying buttresses Correct Answer: d. flying buttresses • Question 6 0 out of 5 points How would you characterize Byzantine architectural exteriors? Answer Selected Answer: b. they were incredibly ornate Correct Answer: a. complex in elevation, they were plain and unadorned • Question 7 0 out of 5 points Compared to Romanesque sculpture, Gothic sculpture was ____________. Answer Selected Answer: b. proportionally less accurate Correct Answer: a. much more naturalistic • Question 8 5 out of 5 points The Djingareyber Mosque and the Mosque at Córdoba (figs. 595 and 596), while very different in style and building materials, are both typical of ____________architecture. Answer Selected Answer: c. Islamic Correct Answer: c. Islamic • Question 9 5 out of 5 points Constantine took power in Rome in 312 C.E. and signed the Edict of Milan in 313 C.E. How did this change the trajectory of western culture for the next 1000 years? Answer Selected Answer: a. it legalized Christianity, which became the dominant cultural and political force in Europe Correct Answer: a. it legalized Christianity, which became the dominant cultural and political force in Europe • Question 10 5 out of 5 points The medium for Theodora and her Attendants is: Answer Selected Answer: d. mosaic. Correct Answer: d. mosaic. • Question 11 5 out of 5 points By the year 500 ce, most of the western empire had been overrun by barbarian tribes from the north (p. 432). What emperor attempted to restore the lost empire? Answer Selected Answer: a. Justinian Correct Answer: a. Justinian • Question 12 5 out of 5 points The tremendous dome of Hagia Sophia (p. 434) is supported by: Answer Selected Answer: c. four pendentives. Correct Answer: c. four pendentives. • Question 13 5 out of 5 points When, and by whom, was Islam founded? Answer Selected Answer: c. In 610, by Mohammed Correct Answer: c. In 610, by Mohammed • Question 14 5 out of 5 points What was the preferred two-dimensional medium for didactic, Christian art during the Middle Ages, particularly in the Byzantine Empire? Answer Selected Answer: d. mosaic Correct Answer: d. mosaic • Question 15 0 out of 5 points One feature distinguishing Gothic architecture from Romanesque was the extensive use of (p. 445): Answer Selected Answer: b. curved arches. Correct Answer: a. stained glass. • Question 16 0 out of 5 points The first Christian churches were patterned after basilicas (p. 431) used by the Romans as: Answer Selected Answer: c. palaces. Correct Answer: d. public buildings. • Question 17 0 out of 5 points As Christianity affected culture in the West after antiquity, so too did ____________affect culture in the East, effectively spreading from India, across all of Asia, to Japan. Answer Selected Answer: a. Hinduism Correct Answer: b. Buddhism • Question 18 5 out of 5 points The Emperor Justinian, from 532-37 C.E., used 10,000 workers and spent 132,000,000 lbs. of gold (almost bankrupting the Byzantine Empire) to build this structure that was later converted to a mosque in Constantinople. Answer Selected Answer: a. Hagia Sophia Correct Answer: a. Hagia Sophia • Question 19 5 out of 5 points The art of sculpture popular during ancient Roman times, reemerged during what period? Answer Selected Answer: a. Romanesque Correct Answer: a. Romanesque • Question 20 5 out of 5 points The Head of a King (Oni) comes from: Answer Selected Answer: a. the Ife culture in present-day Nigeria. Correct Answer: a. the Ife culture in present-day Nigeria. Question 10 0 out of 5 points Minamoto no Yoritomo produced during the Kamakura period shows a Japanese ______. Answer Selected Answer: a. kami Correct Answer: b. samurai Question 14 0 out of 5 points In Romanesque architecture (p. 442), flat ceilings were replaced with: Answer Selected Answer: c. pendentive arch ceilings. Correct Answer: a. vaulted ceilings. • Question 1 0 out of 5 points Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno, drawing and delineation of forms, while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized: Answer Selected Answer: d. the same as the Florentines, disegno. Correct Answer: c. the sensuousness of light and color. • Question 2 5 out of 5 points Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style? Answer Selected Answer: b. his turbulent compositions and contorted, highly musculatured figures Correct Answer: b. his turbulent compositions and contorted, highly musculatured figures • Question 3 5 out of 5 points Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to: Answer Selected Answer: c. the Medici family. Correct Answer: c. the Medici family. • Question 4 0 out of 5 points The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (p. 451) signified the return of something lost in art since antiquity. What was it? Answer Selected Answer: b. human figures Correct Answer: a. "cast shadows" • Question 5 5 out of 5 points Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for: Answer Selected Answer: d. developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral. Correct Answer: d. developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral. • Question 6 5 out of 5 points Which of these is an example of Baroque painting? Answer Selected Answer: a. Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew Correct Answer: a. Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew • Question 7 5 out of 5 points The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their: Answer Selected Answer: c. monumental architecture and stone sculpture. Correct Answer: c. monumental architecture and stone sculpture. • Question 8 5 out of 5 points Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468), for the Sistine Chapel, typifies a style that came to be known as: Answer Selected Answer: d. Mannerism. Correct Answer: d. Mannerism. • Question 9 5 out of 5 points Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ ,as much for his work as an artist. Answer Selected Answer: e. military engineer and weapons-designer Correct Answer: e. military engineer and weapons-designer • Question 10 0 out of 5 points In the 1330s, Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages, literature, history, and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the: Answer Selected Answer: a. fine arts. Correct Answer: d. humanities. • Question 11 5 out of 5 points The "Big 3" of the Italian High Renaissance, based in Florence, and later in Rome, and then Milan were: Answer Selected Answer: d. Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Correct Answer: d. Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. • Question 12 5 out of 5 points Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around: Answer Selected Answer: c. 250. Correct Answer: c. 250. • Question 13 5 out of 5 points What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity? Answer Selected Answer: d. he sculpted nude figures Correct Answer: d. he sculpted nude figures • Question 14 5 out of 5 points Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals: Answer Selected Answer: a. the personality of the sitter. Correct Answer: a. the personality of the sitter. • Question 15 5 out of 5 points The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is: Answer Selected Answer: d. El Greco. Correct Answer: d. El Greco. • Question 16 5 out of 5 points Sandro Botticelli's paintings, such as The Birth of Venus, reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______. Answer Selected Answer: a. Neoplatonism Correct Answer: a. Neoplatonism • Question 17 5 out of 5 points Teotihuacan was an __________important cultural center in Mesoamerica. Answer Selected Answer: b. it is not known which culture used it Correct Answer: b. it is not known which culture used it • Question 18 5 out of 5 points What sets northern European artists (p. 454 apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in: Answer Selected Answer: c. rendering believable space in realistic detail. Correct Answer: c. rendering believable space in realistic detail. • Question 19 5 out of 5 points In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong, from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century, the peacock symbolizes: Answer Selected Answer: a. the Chinese emperor. Correct Answer: a. the Chinese emperor. • Question 20 5 out of 5 points In School of Athens, Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy, signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition. Answer Selected Answer: d. Plato; Aristotle Correct Answer: d. Plato; Aristotle