GED 240 Art History Final Exam Solution

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GED 240 Art History Final Exam Solution

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

1. Which of the following best describes the meaning of Upper Paleolithic?

a. the earliest part
b. the latest part
c. from Northern Europe
d. the highest in elevation

2. Which of the following best corresponds to the Upper Paleolithic era?

a. 200,000 to 42,000 BCE
b. 42,000 to 8,000 BCE
c. 8,000 to 3,000 BCE
d. 2,300 to 1,000 BCE

3. The Woman from Willendorf was formerly known as the:

a. Mother of Willendorf
b. Hunter of Willendorf
c. Venus of Willendorf
d. Aphrodite of Willendorf

4. Paleolithic cave paintings are primarily located in:

a. Germany
b. Austria
c. Belgium
d. France

5. Which description fits the cave at Lascaux, France best?

a. not a cave, but an overhanging shelter
b. has a rare depiction of a human
c. has the most pronounced sculptural effects
d. named for its discoverer

6. The term Mesopotamia means land:

a. outside the rivers
b. between the rivers
c. north of the rivers
d. south of the rivers

7. Simple pictures, called pictographs, evolved into representations of syllable

sounds known as:
a. hieroglyphs
b. cuneiforms
c. phonograms

d. icons

8. Which of the following is a writing instrument shaped like a triangular wedge?

a. cuneiform
b. stele
c. cartouche
d. stylus

9. The Sumerians worshiped many gods, among them Inanna, the Goddess of:
a. love and beauty
b. love and happiness
c. love and death
d. love and war

10. Which adjective would best describe Sumerian votive figures?

a. cylindrical
b. spherical
c. rectangular
d. triangular

11. The worlds oldest epic tale, told in poetry, is called the Epic of:
a. Naram-Sin
b. Gilgamesh
c. Gudea
d. Hammurabi

12. In Egypt, the rule by one family is known as a(n):

a. kingdom
b. empire
c. dynasty
d. tribe

13. Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one empire?
a. Khafre
b. Hatshepsut
c. Akhenaten
d. Narmer

14. The Egyptian convention of depicting shoulders and torso in a frontal manner
and hips, legs,
and feet in profile was used when depicting:
a. slaves
b. priests
c. royalty
d. commoners

15. Which of the following is a flat-topped, one story structure with slanted walls
above a buria
chamber?
a. pyramid
b. mastaba
c. ziggurat

d. necropolis

16. Who designed the funerary complex and stepped pyramid of Djoser?
a. Djoser
b. Imhotep
c. Menkaure
d. Menes

17. Which of the following is a thin layer or facing of a building or other object?
a. veneer
b. module
c. stylus
d. course

18. The Indus Valley Civilization is also called:

a. Aryan
b. Akkadian
c. Mauryan
d. Harappan

19. What are the religiously sanctioned hereditary social classes in India called?
a. Samsara
b. Mudras
c. Castes
d. Vedas

20. Which of the following is the goal of religious life, i.e., to end reincarnation by
uniting with
eternal Brahman?
a. Samsara
b. Nirvana
c. Chakra
d. Torana

21. The term Buddha means the:

a. Spiritual One
b. Religious One
c. Enlightened One
d. God

22. Which of the following is a dome-shaped monument or mound in Buddhist

architecture that
contains sacred relics?
a. Mandala
b. Torana
c. Yakshi
d. Stupa

23. A stupa has a mast that connects the cosmic waters below the Earth with the
celestial realm
above known as the:
a. Axis mundi
b. Torana
c. Yakshi
d. Pagoda

24. Which of the following is the oldest Aegean Civilization?

a. Minoan
b. Mycenaean
c. Cycladic
d. Greek

25. Which of the following best describes Cycladic sculpture?

a. It has been reduced to geometric essentials.
b. It is rounded and fleshy.
c. They are in the shape of houses, boats, birds, and animals.
d. Their glazes are splashed freely over them and allowed to run.

26. Minoan culture gets its name from:

a. the island Minos
b. King Minos

c. the mountain Minos

d. Queen Minos

27. Which did the Minoans practice?

a. bull fighting
b. leaping over a bull
c. running of the bulls
d. bull wrestling

28. What is the Greek name for Greece?

a. Grecque
b. Hellas
c. Aegea
d. Mycenaea

29. The Greek war against Troy, as told by Homer in the Iliad, most likely involved
the:
a. Cycladic people
b. Minoans
c. Mycenaeans
d. Persians

30. In masonry construction, what are the rows or layers of stone, brick, or block
called?
a. courses
b. granulation
c. cornices

d. pediments

31. Which of the following is the final, topmost stone in a corbeled vault?
a. dressed stone
b. relieving arch
c. cornice
d. capstone

32. Which of the following is a great room or large audience hall in a Mycenaean
rulers residence?
a. Tholos
b. Peristyle
c. Megaron
d. Pronaos

33. Which is the Jewish book that contains the first five books of the Hebrew Bible?
a. Talmud
b. Torah
c. Koran
d. Bible

34. A high-ranking angel closely associated with God is a(n):

a. madrasa
b. transept
c. icon
d. cherubim

35. A seven-branched Jewish candleholder is called a(n):

a. Menorah
b. Mandorla
c. Codex
d. Exedra

36. Which was painted on the walls of the synagogue at Dura-Europos?

a. geometric patterns
b. scenes from Jewish history
c. animal and plant forms
d. a garden scene

37. St. Peters in Rome was given its location because it was believed to be where
Peter was:
a. killed
b. buried
c. ordained Pope
d. born

38. The wings that intersect with the nave and aisles at a right angle are known as:
a. colonnade
b. apse
c. transept
d. arcade

39. Which is the highest art form in the Islamic world?

a. Sculpture
b. Weaving
c. Calligraphy
d. Painting

40. Which of the following is a linear design based on geometric patterns and
scrolling vines?
a. Kufic script
b. Tugras
c. Arabesque
d. Mandorla

41. What is a place of worship where Muslims gather on Fridays?

a. Adrasa
b. Qibla
c. Iwan
d. Mosque

42. What is the recess, or niche, called in the wall closest to Mecca of a mosque?
a. mihrab
b. iwan
c. qibla
d. madrasa

43. The pulpit from which the Imam speaks is a(n):

a. Minaret

b. Madrasa
c. Minbar
d. Mihrab

44. Which is a container for holy objects?

a. bailey
b. reliquary
c. colophon
d. scriptorium

45. Which is the room in a monastery that is used for writing or copying
manuscripts?
a. scriptorium
b. refectory
c. sanctuary
d. library

46. What is the page at the end called where scribes and illustrators sometimes
signed their
names and provided background information?
a. colophon
b. index
c. scriptorium
d. gallery

47. Which is a wood-frame church that has four huge timbers that form the
structural core of the

building?
a. stave church
b. basilica
c. hall church
d. cottage church

48. In church architecture, which is the monumental entrance found on Carolingian,

Ottonian
and later churches?
a. transept
b. tribune
c. westwork
d. gallery

49. Which of the following describes the depiction of Jesus on the Lindau Gospels
outer cover?
a. calm and classical
b. turbulent and agitated
c. emotional
d. abstract and ornamental

50. Where did Gothic Architecture begin?

a. le-de-France
b. Burgundy
c. Tuscany
d. Southern England

51. Gothic originally meant:

a. dark and evil
b. full of light
c. frightening and macabre
d. Germanic invaders

52. What types of buildings were built in the Gothic style?

a. Christian churches
b. Jewish synagogues
c. town halls
d. All of the above.

53. Which ancient scholars work became available to Thomas Aquinas and
consequentlychanged the church all because the Crusades brought Europe into
contact with Byzantiumand Islam?
a. Sophocles
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. Virgil

54. Politically, the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis was important because:

a. French kings were crowned there

b. French royalty were buried there

c. important treaties were signed there
d. royal weddings were held there

55. Which concept was most important in the direction that Gothic architecture
took?
a. the association of light with divinity
b. the church as a city of God
c. the church as a fortress
d. a mountain of the Lord

56. What was the area of western Belgium, southwestern Netherlands, and a small
part ofnorthern France called in the fifteenth-century?
a. Aquitaine
b. Holy Roman Empire
c. Flanders
d. Aragon

57. Where does Campin place his Annunciation?

a. in a first-century home in Palestine
b. in a fifteenth-century Flemish home
c. in a Gothic church
d. in a landscape in Judea

58. What makes van der Weydens Deposition of special importance?

a. It is his only known work.
b. It is the first oil painting.

c. It establishes the characteristics of his work.

d. It was sent to Italy and spread the Flemish style there.

59. What is a print on which the high relief areas are printed called?
a. intaglio
b. lithograph
c. engraving
d. woodcut

60. Which is a metal instrument used to cut lines into a plate for printing?
a. burin
b. chisel
c. aedicula
d. needle

61. What does Pollaiuolos only known print reveal to be a special interest of his?
a. architecture
b. lives of the saints
c. everyday life
d. Classical sculpture

62. Which of Raphaels works include a self-portrait?

a. The Small Cowper Madonna
b. Poetry and the Arts
c. The School of Athens
d. Miraculous Draft of Fishes

63. When was the High Renaissance?

a. the sixteenth-century
b. 1495 to 1520
c. 1520 to 1600
d. 1401 to 1495

64. Upon which moment in the story of Jesuss last supper did Leonardo focus in his
portrayal?
a. the passing of the bread
b. Jesuss statement that one of the disciples would betray him
c. the symbolism and distribution of the wine
d. the reception of the Holy Spirit

65. In which of his works did Leonardo explore the relationship of the circle and the
square to
the ideal human body?
a. Vitruvian Man
b. Mona Lisa
c. Last Supper
d. School of Athens

66. Which theme gave Raphael early fame?

a. Virgin and Child
b. The life of Jesus
c. Old Testament themes
d. Greek mythology

67. Which was Raphaels first commission in Rome?

a. tapestry cartoons
b. a virgin and child for the Pope
c. frescoes in the papal apartments
d. A Sistine Chapel fresco

68. Which event marks the end of the classical phase of the High Renaissance?
a. the death of Michelangelo
b. the death of Bramante
c. the death of Julius II
d. the death of Raphael

69. Which work has Michelangelos signature?

a. David
b. Piet
c. Sistine Ceiling
d. Last Judgment

70. How does Michelangelo organize and give structure to the Sistine Ceiling?
a. with an illusionistic structure

b. by one unifying scene

c. with a pyramidal composition
d. with a circular composition

71. All the civilizations of which area had a ritual ball game with religious and
politicalsignificance?
a. Mesoamerica
b. Central America
c. South America
d. North America

72. Which of the following produced the first major Mesoamerican art?
a. Aztec
b. Maya
c. Olmec
d. Teotihuacan

73. Which ancient Americans developed the most advanced writing system?
a. Olmec
b. Aztec
c. Nazca
d. Maya

74. What are the Mayan half-reclining stone figures called?

a. chacmool
b. coyolxauhqui

c. talud-tablero
d. coatlicue

75. What was the trade item that made Teotihuacan wealthy?
a. Quetzal feathers
b. Obsidian
c. Ceramic vessels
d. Jaguar pelts

76. What is the Aztec name of the figure that is represented on the Temple of the
FeatheredSerpent as a fanged serpent head with feathers around its neck?
a. Tlaloc
b. Coyolxauhqui
c. Quetzalcoatl
d. Coatlicue

77. Which people made the oldest known sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa?
a. Nok
b. Yoruba
c. Shona
d. Kongo

78. What do the parallel lines on the Ife portrait heads represent?
a. tattoos
b. ceremonial paint
c. a beaded veil
d. scarification patterns

79. How was the pendant representing an iyoba displayed?

a. on the kings crown
b. in the doorway of a shrine
c. as the kings belt or hip ornament
d. on the neck of the kings panther

80. In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuries, which tradition came to an end in Old
Jennbecause of rival warfare that caused the city to decline?
a. weaving
b. stone architecture
c. bronze casting
d. ceramic sculpture

81. What is the symbol of purity on the top of the Great Friday Mosque in Jenn?
a. an ivory tusk
b. a gold leaf covered crescent moon
c. an ostrich egg
d. an abstract mask

82. Which style developed is seen as a reaction to the formality and rigidity of
seventeenth-century court life?
a. Neoclassicism
b. Mannerism
c. Rococo
d. Realism

83. Relief sculpture can be created through modeling.

a. True
b. False

84. For whom was the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculptures category,
fte galante,created?
a. Watteau
b. Fragonard
c. Bernini
d. Poussin

85. Who was the favorite painter of French Queen, Marie Antoinette?
a. Marie-Louise-lisabethVige-Lebrun
b. Thomas Gainsborough
c. Angelica Kauffmann
d. AdladeLabille-Guiard

86. Which art movement was particularly influenced by literary fantasies infused
with a spirit ofsensationalism and melancholy?
a. Romanticism
b. Rococo
c. Realism
d. Neoclassicism
87. Which art movement was particularly interested in moral incorruptibility,
patriotism, andcourage?
a. Romanticism
b. Rococo

c. Realism
d. Neoclassicism

88. Interestingly, who hung a copy of Fuselis The Nightmare in his office?
a. Napoleon Bonaparte
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Winston Churchill

89. In architecture, which style rejected the values of modern industry and
recaptured apre-industrial sense of beauty?
a. Art Nouveau
b. Historicism
c. Impressionism
d. Realism

90. According to Charles Garnier, to hear, to see, and to be seen was the purpose of
what?
a. the Louvre
b. art museums
c. the Paris Opera house
d. the Eiffel Tower

91. What was the Eiffel Tower meant to symbolize?

a. universal love
b. a bridge to the future
c. French industrial progress

d. French ties to four continents

92. In the Wainwright Building, what did Louis Sullivan adapt from the Beaux-Arts
tradition?
a. steel construction
b. a vertical emphasis
c. opulent ornamentation
d. base, body, and crowning cornice elements

93. Which group of artists advocated a naturalistic approach to painting and

moralizing subjectmatter?
a. Impressionists
b. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
c. Post-Impressionists
d. Symbolists

94. Which artist carried the organic principle the farthest, incorporating it even
into thestructure of his architecture?
a. Antoni Gaudi
b. William Morris
c. Louis Sullivan
d. Gustave Eiffel

95. According to Maya Ying Lin, what was an important point of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial?
a. to see yourself reflected in the names
b. a monument to suffering humanity
c. the names would lose individuality and become a texture
d. the futility of war

96. Which movement was deeply affected by the ideas of Surrealism and the
teaching of Hans
Hofmann?
a. Art informel
b. Pop art
c. Abstract Expressionism
d. Minimalism

97. Which of the following describes the work of Mark Rothko?

a. large rectangles that hint at a momentary resolution of our duality
b. thinned oil paints that resemble watercolor
c. chaotic mixture of painted and found elements
d. imagery from cartoons and advertisements

98. According to Clement Greenberg, a work of art should be judged on which one
criteria?
a. convincing narrative
b. formal analysis
c. accurate representation

d. spatial depth

99. Which of the following describes the work of Louise Nevelson?

a. polished steel inspired by the formalism of Analytic Cubism
b. a construction of discarded packing boxes, spindles, and other wooden refuse
c. kinetic sculpture that destroys itself
d. monumentally scaled objects from popular culture

100. Largely because of Jasper Johns, which artist came to be thought of as

important asPicasso?

a. Salvadore Dali
b. Marcel Duchamp
c. Henri Matisse
d. Paul Czanne