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1) The primary reason an art historian would consider Marcel Duchamp’s fountain art and not the Makapansgat pebble is that the Makapansgat pebble is:
A) a forgery.
B) ugly.
C) not made by man.
D) All of the choices are correct.
2) Which of the following statements would you expect to see in a contextual analysis?
A) The lines curve and create movement.
B) The dark shadows create a tense mood.
C) The pyramidal composition provides stability.
D) The colors of the government, especially red, white, and blue, are
splashed throughout the painting.
3) The way the elements of art are put together is its:
composition.
line.
shape.
texture.
4) Egyptian art is:
non-representational.
photo-realistic.
stylized.
a photograph.
5) At which of the following locations did archeologists find an urban prehistoric settlement?
Çatalhöyük
Stonehenge
Lascaux
Willendorf
6) The fact that the eyes are not visible on the Venus of Willendorf most likely means that the figurine is:
not a portrait of an individual.
ritually destroyed.
a ruler.
a child’s toy.
7) Stone Age cave paintings usually showed figures in:
complete profile.
a frontal view.
twisted perspective.
a bird’s eye view.
8) For Neolithic people, birth may have been symbolic of:
hunting animals.
the yearly return of the crops.
the power of the king.
fire.
9) Stonehenge is a:
megalith.
paleolith.
cave painting.
fertility figurine.
10) The development of writing:
happened about 5,000 years ago.
came from the need to record economic exchanges.
was used to record laws and contracts.
All of the choices are correct.
11) The violent and unpredictable flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is reflected in:
votive figurines engaged in constant prayer.
hand-held fertility figurines.
paintings deep within caves.
giant pyramid tombs.
12) Mesopotamian pyramids differed most from Egyptian pyramids in their:
triangular solid shape.
function as a temple.
symbolic connection to the gods.
use of stone as a material.
13) Lamassu served as:
spirit guides to the afterlife.
protectors.
sacrifices.
All of the choices are correct.
14) The horizontal registers on the Warka Vase:
show the progression of rituals for the goddess Eanna.
create an upward motion.
resemble a pyramid.
All of the choices are correct.
15) Assyrian kings ritually hunted:
leopards.
bears.
boars.
lions.
16) Egyptians wrote on a woven paper called:
hieroglyphics.
papyrus.
cuneiform.
lamassu.
17) Treasures were found in the tomb of:
Narmer.
Ramses I.
Akhenaton.
Tutankhamen.
18) The pharaoh's journey across the Nile followed the path of the:
sun.
North Star.
great crocodile.
wind.
19) All of the following adjectives describe depictions of Akhenaton and his family except:
feminine.
rigid.
stylized.
sagging.
20) Women in Egyptian statuary:
took smaller steps than men.
did not appear at all.
were depicted with very modest clothing.
had fluid lines, full of motion.
