PREHISTORIC ART IN EUROPE

Practice quiz
Art History I
VMA 112

MULTIPLE CHOICE/FILL-IN-THE-BLANK (10 out of 20)

1. Chauvet Cave is located in __________.

A. Newgrange, Ireland.
B. Altamira, Spain.
C. southern France.
D. Dordogne, France.
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2. The word Neolithic means __________.

A. new stone.
B. new age.
C. hard rock.
D. new history.
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3. Archaeologists link the emergence of image making to the arrival of __________.

A. Homo sapiens.
B. Paleo sapiens.
C. Homo sapiens sapiens.
D. Neo sapiens.
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4. Prehistoric man often coated their floors with powdered __________.

A. ash.
B. bones.
C. clay.
D. ocher.
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5. The Lion-Human sculpture from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany is made of __________.

A. cast clay.
B. molded bronze.
C. mammoth ivory.
D. porcelain clay.
Page reference: 4

6. The earliest known Prehistoric cave painting site was discovered in 1994 and is called
__________.
A. Altamira.
B. Chauvet.
C. Pech-Merle.
D. Lascaux.
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7. The __________ pose indicates speed in running in Prehistoric art.
A. running leap
B. bounding prance
C. flying gallop
D. large jumping
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8. One of the best preserved Neolithic settlements is located at __________ in the Orkney
Islands off of the Scottish coast.
A. Skara Brae
B. Stöen Huf
C. Rein Château
D. Clair Reefe
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9. The simplest form of construction used to span space is __________-and-__________.

A. post; lintel.
B. post; beam.
C. brace; cannon.
D. lintel; strut.
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10. The word megalithic means __________ .

A. middle stone.
B. new rock.
C. old stone.
D. large stone.
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11. About 3260 years ago, if a person stood in the center of Stonehenge, on the morning of
the summer solstice, they would see the sun rise over the __________.
A. main altar
B. heel stone
C. Aubrey hole
D. trilithon lintel
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12. Stonehenge was built in __________-and-__________ construction.

A. post; lintel
B. corbel; cantilever
C. lintel; beam
D. post; corbel
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13. The lintels of Stonehenge are secured by __________-and-__________ joints.

A. post; lintel
B. anchor; beam
C. mortise; tenon
D. link; stem
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14. Bronze is an alloy of __________ and __________.
A. pewter; tin
B. gold; silver
C. tin; copper
D. silver; copper
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15. The term __________ generally means that the people in question left no written
records, but other people wrote about them.
A. proto-historic
B. paleo-scripto
C. non-scribe
D. proto-Celtic
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16. Work of the proto-historic __________ culture is exemplified in pieces where pattern is
an integral part of the object and not an applied decoration.
A. Creations
B. Minoans
C. Beaker
D. Celtic
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17. The village at Skara Brae uses __________ in its construction where rows of stones are
laid with the end of each row projecting past the one before.
A. projection
B. cantilevering
C. corbeling
D. hiking
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18. The word Paleolithic means __________.

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19. Art Historians use the term BCE to mean __________.

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20. The Sculpted Bison at Le Tuc ďAudoubert, France are created in __________ relief.
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Short Answer (You will be asked to answer one of these questions)

Questions to prepare for the Prehistory quiz :

1. Paleolithic humans were nomadic, and Neolithic humans began to live in villages.
How did this affect their art work respectively?

2. How did cave paintings differ from each other throughout the Paleolithic period?

3. Why might Prehistoric humans have painted on cave walls?

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 4. How did Paleolithic culture differ from Neolithic culture?

5. What were the hypothesized uses for some of the megalithic monuments in Europe?

6. What did the appearance of metals mean to early humans?

7. What types of art did early humans create out of clay?

Slide list for quiz (10 slide identifications)

Provide:
1. Title
2. Period
3. Material
4. Medium
5. Significance or importance

Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-
Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche Gorge, France, c. 30,000-28,000 BCE, Paint on limestone (fig. 1-1)

Lion-Human, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, c. 30,000-26,000 BCE, Mammoth ivory;

height 11 ⅝” (29.6 cm), Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany (fig. 1-3)

Woman from Willendorf, Austria, c. 24,000 BCE, Limestone; height 4 ⅜” (11 cm),
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (fig. 1-4)

Woman from Ostrava Petrkovice, Czech Republic, c. 23,000 BCE, Hematite; height 1
¾” (4.6 cm), Archaeological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic (fig. 1-5)

Woman from Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes, France, Probably

c. 30,000 BCE, Ivory; height 1 ¼” (3.6 cm), Musée de Antiquités Nationales, St-
Germain-en-Laye, France (fig. 1-6)

Spotted Horses and Human Hands, Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France, Horses
25,000-24,000 BCE; Hands c. 15,000 BCE, Paint on limestone; individual horses are
over 5’ (1.5 cm) in length (fig. 1-7)

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France, c. 15,000 BCE, Paint on limestone;
length of the largest auroch 18’ (5.50 m) (fig. 1-8)

Bison, Altamira, Spain, c. 12,500 BCE, Paint on limestone; length approx. 8’ 3” (2.5 m)
(fig. 1-10)

House Interior, Skara Brae (fig. 1-15)

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, c. 2750-1500 BCE (fig. 1-17)

Figures of a Woman and a Man, Cernavoda, Romania, c. 3500 BCE, Ceramic; height
4 ½” (11.5 cm), National Historical Museum, Bucharest (fig. 1-18)

Horse and Sun Chariot, Trundholm, Denmark, c. 1800-1600 BCE, Bronze; length 23
¼” (59.2 cm), National Museum, Copenhagen (fig. 1-20)