CONTEMPORARY ARTS

MIDTERM EXAM
2018-2019

NAME: _______________________________________________

SECTION: _____________________________________________

I. Multiple Choices.
Direction: Select and ENCIRCLE the letter of your choice.

1. It is a common tendency to describe the present as “Modern”, means being up to date and advanced. While
contemporary as artists living today. Which of the following are the differences stated below between
contemporary and modern art?
a. Historical and biographical b. Chronology and history c. biology and history

2. In art historical term, what do we call the art before the coming of the first colonizers?
a. Pre-marital b. Pre-coloration c. Pre-colonization

3. During pre-colonial period, our ancestors, before hunting they prepare themselves and pray for strength. What do
you call the activity they performed?
a. Dancing b. Rituals c. Performance
4. Marked the beginnings of LITERATURE?
a. Oral Story telling b. hunting c. Dancing
5. Which of the following tribes are the oldest, quite alike to the Negritos in physical profile and they are the
existing tribe in the Philippines?
a. Badjao b. Mamang C. Mamanwas
6. It is a design that affect content and message of the art.?
a. Design b. Principles c. Contemporary
7. Strokes that show motion and connect two points
a. Line b. Form c. Texture
8. It is principle of design that can create a difference when elements are places next to each other in a work of art?
a. Texture b. Unity c. Contrast
9. In what colonial period that the natives were forcibly resettled in towns structured according to the PLAZA
COMPLEX?
a. Spanish b. American c. Japanese
10. A shape taken from nature that usually have curvy lines?
a. Stylistic term b. Biomorphic c. Shape
11. It is considered as the spirit of national helpfulness
a. Bayanihan b. harana c. mano po
12. Element of the art that interpret various human activities and emphasize spontaneous element of chance?
a. Appropriation b. hybridity c. performance
13. It is an art and produced by artists living today?
a. Contemporary Art b. Modernization c. Popular Art
14. Usage of conventional material, mixing of unlikely material to produce another art.?
a. Hybridity b. appropriation c. flashmob
15. What principle used to use FB, Livestreaming, MTV?
a. Performance b. technology c. hybridity
16. This traditional practice is a way of asking permission to the spirits and mythical creatures that you’re passing by
and so they can avoid it.?
a. Mano po b. tabi-tabi po c. harana
17. It a form of courtship where man sing and woo woman outside her window?
a. Paninilbihan b. harana c. helpfulness
18. It is a belief that states that it us unlucky to be married within the same year?
a. Sukob b. harana c. manopo
19. Festival of thanksgiving for surigaonon that shows gratitude for a bountiful harvest and good health?
a. Kadayawan b. Sirong-sirong c. bonok-bonok
20. Traditional means of serenade during Spanish time?
a. Spoken poetry b. kundiman c. harana
21. Which among the ff. choices below best contributed the influence of American?
a. Santos b. English lingua franca c. kundiman
22. Symbolizes purity, chastity and innocence of native Filipino woman during Spanish regime?
a. Empowered Filipina b. maria clara c. modern Filipina
23. What is the lingua franca of amerian?
a. Tagalog b. English c. Spanish
24. The rite of passage for male Filipinos, it is to use piece of wood for circumcision?
a. Pokpok b. harana c. mano po
25. Tagline for “Apple company’?
a. Thinks of me b. think different c. think unity
 III. Matching type; Match column A to Column B. Write the letter before the number. 2pts

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. SANTOS A. AMERICAL PERIOD
2. BODY ORNAMENT B. SPANISH PERIOD
3. COSMETICS C. PRE-COLONIAL
4. HUNTING D. TAGLINE
5. HYBIRDITY E. CONTEMPORARY ART
6. HUNTER GATHERERS F. MODERN ART
7. “ LANGHAP SARAP”
8. HEALTH EDUCATION
9. APPROPRIATION
10. FREEDOM OF SPEECH

III. Explain and differentiate art of modern era vs. contemporary art. 5 pts

Prepared by: Roylene Mae E. Samontina

“ AN HONEST ZERO IS BETTER THAN A CHEATED 90”