art history test ch. 2-5

1.

The Mesopotamian's desire to represent ______________forced sculptors to use symbols and condense stories to their most essential elements.

Student Response

Value Correct Answer Feedback

A. images for religious ritual

0%

B. accurate visual records

C. complex visual narrative

D. political propaganda

Score: 0/2

2.

The notched walls built as part of military defenses are called __________.

Student Response


A. grids

B. registers

C. ziggurats

D. crenellations 100%

Score: 2/2

3.

The lion hunting scene of Assurnasirpal II marks a shift in Mesopotamian art from a sense of timelessness toward greater _________.

Student Response


A. interest in individuals

B. historical accuracy

C. political content

D. emotional drama

100%

Score: 2/2

4.

Guardian figures, called lamassus, combined features from all of the following EXCEPT ____________.

Student Response


A. a horse 100%

B. a god

C. a man

D. an eagle

Score: 2/2

5.

Known for his persecution of Jews, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar II was responsible for transforming ______________into one of the most splendid cities of its day.

Student Response


A. Ur

B. Babylon 100%

C. Persepolis

D. Nineveh

Score: 2/2

6.

Stepped structures known as ziggurats may have developed from the practice of ___________________.

Student Response


A. repeated rebuilding at sacred sites

100%

B. using prisoners as a work force

C. establishing settlements on high

land for safety

D. burying the dead in pyramids

Score: 2/2

7.

The Sumerians invented the first system of writing called ______________.

Student Response


A. pictographs

B. inlay

C. cuneiform 100%

D. hieroglyphics

Score: 2/2

8.

From the ninth to seventh century BCE, the __________ culture controlled most of Mesopotamia.

Student Response


A. Assyrian 100%

B. Babylonian

C. Hittite

D. Persian

Score: 2/2

9.

The incised design on a cylinder seal found in the tomb of Queen Paubi (Fig. 2-5) demonstrates the Sumerian's use of ___________.

Student Response


A. cuneiform

B. elaborate personal monograms

0%

C. geometric patterns

D. narrative images

Score: 0/2

10.

The Stele of Hammurabi is significant as both a work of ancient Mesopotamian art and as __________.

Student Response


A. an historical document recording a

100%

written code of law

B. a religious artifact recording Hebrew tradition

C. an example of Babylonian literature

D. Danube a key to deciphering cuneiform texts

Score: 2/2

11.

This alabaster narrative of Assurnasirpall II has a common theme with others made during the Assyrian period. It reveals a new philosophy in art which is:

Student Response


A. Animals rule over man

B. Kings rule over men

C. Man has assumed dominion over nature

100%

D. Man has weapons

Score: 2/2

12.

The figure on the left represents which of the following?

Student Response


A. Shamash

B. Gilgamesh

C. Gudea

D. Hammurabi 100%

Score: 2/2

13.

Mummies found in the Fayum region of Lower Egypt include highly detailed portraits in encaustic, a painting technique using hot colored _______.

Student Value Correct Answer Feedback

Response

A. oil

B. wax 100%

C. glass

D. water

Score: 2/2

14.

In contrast to other periods of Egyptian history, some royal portraits from the Middle Kingdom appear _____________.

Student Response


A. idealized and youthful

B. confident and serene

C. preoccupied and emotionally drained

100%

D. distorted and out of proportion

Score: 2/2

15.

__________ is the first architect known in history by name.

Student Response


A. Menes

B. Narmer

C. Imhotep 100%

D. Hasan

Score: 2/2

16.

In Egyptian tombs, the ka statue was placed in a chamber called the ____________.

Student Response


A. pectoral serdab

100%

B. sarcophagus

C. mastaba

D. blossom clerestory

Score: 2/2

17.

Egyptians who could not afford elaborate tombs commissioned funerary _________ as personal monuments meant to memorialize them and to inspire the living to make them offerings.

Student Response


A. chapels

B. ka statues 0%

C. stelae

D. mummy portraits

Score: 0/2

18.

The first ruler to call himself pharaoh was __________.

Student Response


A. Thutmose III 100%

B. Meketre II

C. Tutankhamun I

D. Khafe IV

Score: 2/2

19.

The great pyramids at Giza were originally faced with a veneer of polished___________.

Student Response


A. limestone 100%

B. granite

C. marble

D. gold

Score: 2/2

20.

Embalmers sometimes placed____________ in the wrappings of mummified bodies to help the dead survive the tests of Osiris.

Student Response


A. gold coins

B. Books of the Dead

100%

C. encaustic portraits of the deceased

D. sculptures of the gods

Score: 2/2

21.

Egyptian history is divided into __________.

Student Response


A. cantos

B. eras

C. periods

D. dynasties 100%

Score: 2/2

22.

Scholars determined the name of the figures depicted on the Palette of Narmer from ___________.

Student Response


A. hieroglyphics 100%

B. the writings of Herodotus

C. the Rosetta Stone

D. iconography

Score: 2/2

23.

This plant, the papyrus, was plentiful enough to make fabric and paper during the Egyptian era. Which kind of habitat does it need to grow?

Student Response


A. desert

B. mountainous

C. riverbasin 100%

D. plains

Score: 2/2

24.

The mastaba is a monument for which type of Egyptian architecture?

Student Response


A. plaza

B. palace

C. house

D. funerary 100%

Score: 2/2

25.

Cycladic marble figures were originally ___________.

Student Response


A. clothed

B. painted

C. adorned with jewelry

D. all of the above

0%

Score: 0/2

26.

Mycenaean tholos tombs are popularly called ______tombs because of their rounded, conical shape.

Student Response


A. shaft

B. mound

C. corbelled

D. beehive 100%

Score: 2/2

27.

The potter's wheel was introduced to the Minoan world somewhere in the early part of the __________ millennium BCE.

Student Response


A. first

B. fourth

C. third

D. second 100%

Score: 2/2

28.

The technique of painting on a wet plaster surface is called __________.

Student Response


A. al prima

B. buon fresco

100%

C. fresco

secco

D. fresco prima

Score: 2/2

29.

What have archaeologists found most helpful in determining dates for their Aegean finds?

Student Response


A. The volcanic eruption on Thera

100%

B. Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean

C. Geographic descriptions in the Illiad

D. Pottery

Score: 2/2

30.

About 3,500 years ago, the city of __________, now called Santorini, was destroyed by a volcanic eruption.


Response

A. Thera 0%

B. Knossos

C. Akrotiri

D. Malia

Score: 0/2

31.

In about 1450 BCE, people called the __________, from mainland Greece, arrived in Crete and overtook the Minoans.

Student Response


A. Athenians

B. Spartans

C. Macedonians

D. Mycenaeans 100%

Score: 2/2

32.

What building method was used to create the conical roof structure that characterizes tholos tombs?

Student Response


A. groin vaulting

B. mortise and tenon

C. post and lintel

D. corbelling 100%

Score: 2/2

33.

The stones used in the citadel of Mycenae are so massive that they are called __________.

Student Response


A. megalithic

B. pylons

C. cyclopean 100%

D. megarons

Score: 2/2

34.

Which of the following is NOT a technique used in Aegean metalworking?

Student Response


A. faience 100%

B. filigree

C. niello

D. repoussé

Score: 2/2

35.

So many ceramic vessels like this vase were painted with the same subject, that art historians have termed it a style of Minoan ceramics. What style is it?

Student Response


A. plant style

B. marine style

100%

C. animal style

D. water style

Score: 2/2

36.

The "Lion Gate" at Mycenae, pictured above, is a composite of which three types of construction?

Student Response


A. Hypostyle Hall, Post and Lintel, Relieving Triangle

B. Post and Lintel, Relieving Triangle, Corbeled Arch

100%

C. Relieving Triangle, Corbeled Arch, Clerestory

D. Corbeled Arch, Clerestory, Hypostyle Hall

Score: 2/2

37.

The Greeks preferred _________as a material for figurative sculpture because it allowed for complex action poses.


Response

A. terra-cotta

B. marble

C. wood

D. bronze 100%

Score: 2/2

38.

Which of the following characteristics marks a stylistic departure from High Classical sculpture that occurred in Greek art of the fourth century BCE?

Student Response


A. more emotional expressivity

B. fully nude female figures

C. taller and leaner proportions

D. all of the above

100%

Score: 2/2

39.

Based on the text's discussion of Greek art, why is the Tomb of the Diver (page 122-123) significant to art history?

Student Response


A. It depicts Greek funerary ritual

B. It is an example of Greek wall painting

100%

C. It includes a landscape

D. It was the tomb of a foreigner

Score: 2/2

40.

Expressionism, or the artist's attempt to evoke a specific emotion from the viewer, is characteristic of which period of Greek Art?

Student Response


A. Classical

B. Hellenistic 100%

C. Geometric

D. Archaic

Score: 2/2

41.

The __________ period is named for the influence of Egypt, the Near East, and Asia Minor on Greek art.

Student Response


A. Orientalizing 100%

B. Suma-Eastern

C. Proto-Egyptian

D. Hellenistic

Score: 2/2

42.

Which of the following features distinguishes the Doric order in Greek architecture?

Student Response


A. fluted columns

0%

B. a peristyle collonnade

C. column that stands directly on the stylobate

D. a continuous frieze on the entablature

Score: 0/2

43.

White-ground technique is most common on vessels used for ___________.

Student Response


A. storage of grain

B. funerary purposes

100%

C. drinking wine

D. domestic tasks

Score: 2/2

44.

What building material became popular for Greek temples in the Archaic period?

Student Response


A. living rock of caves

B. stone and marble

100%

C. wood

D. mud-brick

Score: 2/2

45.

Characteristic of Greek art in the High Classical period is the tendency to __________ irregularities found in nature.

Student Response


A. ignore

B. disguise 100%

C. emphasize

D. reproduce

Score: 2/2

46.

The word __________ means a part of a city on top of a hill.

Student Response


A. Erechtheion

B. acropolis 100%

C. metropolis

D. Parthenon

Score: 2/2

47.

What architectural element(s) posed the greatest compositional challenge for sculptors of temple decoration?

Student Response


A. the frieze 0%

B. the metopes

C. the triangular pediments

D. the columns

Score: 0/2

48.

The ancient Greeks believed that, like humans, their gods had what flaw?

Student Response


A. they were mortal

B. they had human weaknesses and emotions

100%

C. they could bleed

D. none-the gods embodied absolute perfection

Score: 2/2

49.

The sculpture, "Lacoon and His Sons", is easily recognized as Hellenistic because:

Student Response


A. It is abstract

B. It is expressionistic

100%

C. It is marble

D. It is ancient

Score: 2/2

50.

This figure is said to have which of the following facial characteristics common on early Greek kouros statues?

Student Response


A. chilton

B. peplos

C. archaic smile

100%

D. kore

Score: 2/2

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