Introduction to Art Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Introduction to Art offers students a foundational understanding of visual arts by exploring diverse artistic media, techniques, and historical movements. Through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and other art forms, students learn to analyze and appreciate artworks from various cultures and time periods. This course emphasizes developing visual literacy, critical thinking, and creative expression, empowering students to understand art's role in shaping and reflecting social, cultural, and personal identities.
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Chapter 1: The Art of Prehistory
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Q1) Who built Stonehenge?
A) Druids
B) Merlin
C) King Arthur
D) Men of Wessex
E) Men of Camelot
Answer: D
Q2) A kiln is
A) for cooking dinner
B) for heating pigments
C) for baking clay
D) for cooking herbs
E) for drying wet paint
Answer: C
Q3) Paleolithic paintings of animals usually have been found
A) in the uninhabited depths of caves
B) at the mouths of caves
C) in Neolithic shelters
D) on rock faces open to the light of day
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East
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Q1) Which of the following does a Lamassu not have?
A) five legs
B) wings
C) horned cap
D) a sword
E) a beard
Answer: D
Q2) Shamash is the Akkadian
A) moon god
B) lightning god
C) sun god
D) supreme god
Answer: C
Q3) A documented,excavated object is said to have a
A) provenance
B) value
C) provenience
D) valuation
E) meaning
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt
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Q1) The ankh is a symbol of
A) god
B) life
C) happiness
D) immortality
E) death
Answer: B
Q2) Egyptian history is divided into
A) chronological dates
B) king lists
C) dynasties
D) months and years
Answer: C
Q3) Canopic jars contain
A) preserved foods
B) preserved works of art
C) preserved items of clothing
D) preserved organs
E) preserved texts
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Aegean
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Q1) The Minoan column has
A) a lotus capital, a straight shaft, a square base
B) a floral capital, a tapering shaft, a pillow base
C) a pillow capital, a round base, a tapering shaft
D) a papyrus capital, a round base, a tapering shaft
E) a bull capital, a round base, a tapering shaft
Q2) Cyclopaean refers to
A) a group of islands
B) a kind of wall
C) a citadel
D) a style of painting
E) a grave circle
Q3) A pinched waist,profile pose,and "floating" forms are typical of the frescoes of _________.
A) Assyria
B) Crete
C) Egypt
D) Rome
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Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece
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Q1) Which did Alexander the Great not conquer?
A) Egypt
B) Rome
C) Persia
D) Palestine
E) Phoenicia
Q2) The general who commissioned the Parthenon was
A) Alkiabiades
B) Sophokles
C) Herodotos
D) Xenophon
E) Perikles
Q3) Plato's spokesman in the Dialogues was
A) Perikles
B) Herodotos
C) Sophokles
D) Demosthenes
E) Socrates
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Chapter 6: The Art of the Etruscans
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Q1) The Apollo of Veii is made of __________.
A) bronze
B) wood
C) marble
D) terracotta
Q2) Etruscan art is __________.
A) lively
B) functional
C) rigid frontality and symmetry
D) geometric
Q3) Important Etruscan tombs were discovered at __________.
A) Cerveteri
B) Paestum
C) Rome
D) Athens
Q4) The Etruscan temple differed from the Greek temple because it had __________.
A) exterior decoration
B) a columned porch
C) a pitched roof
D) a podium reached by climbing many steps
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Chapter 7: Ancient Rome
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Q1) Faiyum painting was produced in
A) Greece
B) Egypt
C) Rome
D) Nubia
E) Carthage
Q2) Roman's may well have developed it early,but they probably did not use
A) formal linear perspective
B) aerial perspective
C) architectural frames
D) painterly technique
Q3) Coffering
A) helped expand interior space
B) lighten the weight of a dome or arch
C) enhances the illusion of recession in the ceiling
D) lighten the weight of a dome or arch and enhances the illusion of recession in the ceiling
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Chapter 8: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Christianity was legalized
A) by the emperor Caracalla
B) by the Edict of Milan
C) in the first century A.D.
D) in Jerusalem
Q2) The Iconoclastic Controversy took place in the
A) 6<sup>th</sup> century
B) 7<sup>th</sup> century
C) 8<sup>th</sup> century
D) 9<sup>th</sup> century
Q3) One result of the Iconoclastic Controversy was
A) a decline in painted images
B) a decline in mosaics
C) a decline in architectural innovation
D) a decline in sculpture
Q4) Christianity was recognized by Constantine in
A) the 2<sup>nd</sup> century
B) early 4<sup>th</sup> century
C) 1<sup>st</sup> century B.C.
D) the 5<sup>th</sup> century
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Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Which is not true of the Luftullah Mosque?
A) it is in Iran
B) it is covered with floral and calligraphic tiles
C) it was built in the 16<sup>th</sup> century
D) there are no human figures on its exterior surface
E) its predominate color on the exterior is blue
Q2) The hadj refers to
A) the Islamic calendar
B) a pilgrimage
C) a leader
D) a mosque
Q3) Charlemagne's court scribe was
A) Odo of Metz
B) Godescalc
C) Hildegarde
D) Charles Martel
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Chapter 10: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Which best describes the tympanum of Saint-Pierre at Moissac?
A) the figures are elongated and stylized
B) the figures are frontal and elongated
C) the figures are naturalistic and patterned
D) the figures are elongated and are made of marble
Q2) The Bayeux Tapestry is
A) a tapestry
B) an embroidery
C) a Viking work
D) a parchment
Q3) The tympanum at Moissac shows
A) the Last Judgment
B) Christ in Glory with the Elders of the Apocalypse
C) Crucifixion
D) the Virgin and Child
Q4) The three most popular pilgrimage sites were
A) Rome, Paris, and Jerusalem
B) Compostela, Paris, and Rome
C) Rome, Compostela, and Jerusalem
D) Paris, Jerusalem, and Compostela
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) Compared to the west facade of Reims,the west facade at Amiens
A) is symmetrical
B) has glass tympanums
C) is proportionally taller and thinner
D) has a smaller rose window
Q2) Which is not a pair?
A) rose window -- circle
B) towers -- vertical
C) gable -- rectangle
D) apse -- semicircle
Q3) In the Middle Ages,the function of the guilds was
A) to protect workers and establish standards of work
B) to permit strikes if workers were dissatisfied
C) to exclude craftsmen from professional organizations
D) to influence patrons
Q4) The Gothic style originated
A) on the Ile Saint Louis
B) on the Ile-de-France
C) at Chartres
D) at Amiens
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Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance
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Q1) In the Arena Chapel,the Virtues and Vices
A) are in the top row of scenes
B) are in between the narrative scenes
C) are between panels of imitation marble
D) are on the ceiling
Q2) Giotto's Virtue of Justice
A) reflects emerging ideas about good and bad government
B) is represented as blind
C) is seated in a Renaissance building
D) has no relationship to Classical antiquity
Q3) The Roman soldiers in the foreground of Giotto's Crucifixion
A) are torturing Christ
B) are arguing over possession of his cloak
C) are repenting their sins
D) are leaving the scene
Q4) Philip the Bold of Burgundy built the
A) Chartreuse de Champmol
B) Hospital des Invalides
C) Palazzo Pubblico of Siena
D) Town Hall of Ghent
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Chapter 13: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) ____________ was not included in Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece?
A) Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
B) God the Father
C) Christ crucified
D) Adam and Eve
Q2) The Ghent Altarpiece is a __________.
A) diptych
B) panel
C) polyptych
D) triptych
Q3) Who of the following did not have a studiolo?
A) Federigo Gonzaga
B) Isabella d'Este
C) Federico da Montefeltro
D) Leonello d'Este
Q4) Burgundy
A) was a tributary of the French crown
B) was ruled by relatives of French kings
C) was independent of the French throne
D) all of the choices are correct.
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in Italy
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Q1) Jacopo Bellini's style is best known today from his
A) drawings
B) paintings
C) autobiography
D) etchings
E) biography
Q2) Gentile Bellini's rich textures and ability to convey character appealed to
A) the ruler of Venice
B) the Sultan in Constantinople
C) the Byzantine Patriarch
D) the Pesaro family
Q3) The High Renaissance was centered in
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) Urbino
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Chapter 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
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Q1) Serpentinata refers to
A) Cellini's lizard
B) the salamander of Francis I
C) a Mannerist pose
D) Bronzino's iconography
Q2) Match the work with its artist
A) Parmigianino -- the Allegory
B) Bronzino -- Saltcellar
C) Cellini -- Narcissus
D) Giambologna -- Palazzo del Tè
Q3) Match the work with the patron
A) the Gesù -- Palladio
B) Bronzino's Eleonora of Toledo -- the king of Spain
C) Palazzo del Tè -- Federigo Gonzaga
D) Villa Rotonda - Pythagoras
Q4) Important Counter-Reformation authors include
A) Ridolfi, Teresa, and Ignatius
B) Luther, Clement VII, and Teresa
C) Teresa, John of the Cross, and Clement VII
D) John of the Cross, Teresa, and Ignatius
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Chapter 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
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Q1) Het Schilderboeck is
A) the title of a painting
B) the title of a book
C) the title of an etching
D) the title of a poem
Q2) What carries the inscription "Melencolia" in Dürer's engraving?
A) a mouse
B) an angel
C) a dog
D) a toad
E) a bat
Q3) __________ was one of the first painters to show people working out in the countryside.
A) Bellini
B) Grünewald
C) Pieter Bruegel
D) Holbein
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Chapter 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe
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Q1) _______ worked for Louis XIV in a style called the Classical Baroque
A) Poussin
B) Cravaggio
C) Bernini
D) Rubens
Q2) Three emperors who patronized Mughal painting in India were
A) Genghis Khan, Akbar, and Shah Jehan
B) Genghis Khan, Akbar, and Jahangir
C) Mumtaz, Jahangir, and Akbar
D) Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jehan
Q3) Velázquez's main patron was
A) Philip II
B) Louis XIV
C) Philip IV
D) Charles V
Q4) Diego de Velázquez was strongly influenced by
A) Annibale Carracci
B) Caravaggio
C) Tintoretto
D) El Greco
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Chapter 18: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The Kaisersaal refers to
A) a palace
B) a ruler
C) a room
D) a stairway
Q2) Chardin
A) painted still-lifes
B) painted the common folk at their humble tasks
C) painted "fêtes galantes"
D) painted still-lifes and painted the common folk at their humble tasks but not painted "fêtes galantes"
Q3) Who is not a Rococo painter?
A) Watteau
B) Boucher
C) Fragonard
D) Chambers
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Chapter 19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) As depicted in The Declaration of Independence,the U.S.Capitol Rotunda has a (an)____________ frieze on the upper part of the walls.
A) Ionic
B) Corinthian
C) Tuscan
D) Federal
E) Doric
Q2) In Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass,Napoleon is compared to
A) Charlemagne and Caesar
B) Hannibal and Scipio
C) Caesar and Scipio
D) Hannibal and Charlemagne
Q3) Who of the following did not work for Napoleon?
A) David
B) Ingres
C) Vigée-Lebrun
D) Benoist
E) Canova
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Chapter 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) Which is not a theme in Goya's painting?
A) social injustice
B) child psychology
C) irrational thinking
D) frivolity
Q2) In the Raft of the Medusa,"Medusa" refers to
A) a jellyfish
B) a life raft
C) a ship
D) a hospital
E) a painting by Caravaggio
Q3) Aquatint combines
A) watercolor and drawing
B) engraving and oil
C) watercolor and silverpoint
D) watercolor and engraving
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Chapter 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism
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Q1) In Modern Painters,Ruskin wrote a defense of
A) Constable
B) Turner
C) Cole
D) Nash
E) Millais
Q2) Which author and work do not match?
A) Baudelaire - Les Fleurs de Mal
B) Zola - Madame Bovary
C) Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
D) Balzac - La Comédie Humaine
E) Marx - Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Q3) Gargantua is a (an)
A) tyrant
B) greedy king
C) good-natured giant
D) gargoyle
E) ogre from French folklore
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Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
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Q1) Which is not a feature of Sargent's Impressionism?
A) the dissolution of form
B) the "slice of life" view
C) the oblique view
D) the use of japonisme
Q2) An example of a silhouette can be found in
A) Manet's chandelier in A Bar at the Folies-Bergères
B) The rower in Cassatt's The Boating Party
C) The flags in Monet's Terrace at Sainte-Adresse
D) The vases in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Q3) Which artist sketched ballerinas from the wings of the stage?
A) Monet
B) Manet
C) Renoir
D) Degas
Q4) The tilted viewpoint of Degas' Absinthe suggests
A) a child's perspective
B) an inability to depict three-dimensional space
C) a candid photograph
D) that the figures are drunk
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Chapter 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
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Q1) The purpose of the Vienna Secession was
A) to establish an international style of painting
B) to withdraw from the establishment
C) to establish a forum of diverse styles
D) to support Academic naturalism
Q2) Georges Seurat was not an Impressionist because he
A) used broad brushstrokes that conveyed how the world looked to him
B) used a scientific technique to convey how light was perceived by the eye
C) embraced the spontaneity of nature and the outdoors
D) relied on the teachings of Jung to comment on the human condition
Q3) "Theo" refers to
A) a book by Van Gogh
B) Van Gogh's brother
C) Van Gogh's father
D) Van Gogh's son
E) Van Gogh's art teacher
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Expressionism, and Matisse
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Q1) Matisse's Decorative Figure in an Oriental Setting is set in
A) Morocco
B) the Far East
C) Easter Island
D) Oceania
E) Tahiti
Q2) Matisse's Jazz imagery is an example of
A) Symbolism
B) Fauvism
C) découpage
D) Cubism
E) the Blue Rider
Q3) Die Brücke refers to
A) a German painting of a bridge
B) a German painting of a street
C) a German art movement
D) a German artist
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Chapter 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related
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Q1) Match the artist with his style
A) Brancusi -- Suprematism
B) Mondrian -- De Stijl
C) Wright -- Cubism
D) Gropius -- Prairie Style
Q2) Which work and author do not match?
A) Pearl Buck -- The Good Earth
B) Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
C) Marcel Proust -- Zuleika Dobson
D) Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
E) Margaret Mead -- Coming of Age in Samoa
Q3) Match the structure with its location
A) the Robie House -- Ohio
B) the Gate of the Kiss -- Romania
C) the Schroeder House -- Germany
D) the Bauhaus -- Holland
E) Taliesin West -- Colorado
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Chapter 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and The United
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Q1) Which is true of the Rayograph?
A) it is a black and white photograph made with a camera
B) it is a black and white photograph made without a camera
C) it is a black and white collage
D) it is the name of a painting by Man Ray
Q2) Which work inspired the CBS logo?
A) Le Violon d'Ingres
B) The False Mirror
C) Helmet Head No.1
D) Fog Horns
E) Goin' Fishin'
Q3) "I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality,in appearance so contradictory,in a sort of absolute reality,or surreality." Who said this?
A) André Breton
B) Gustave Caillebotte
C) Gustave Moreau
D) Gustave Courbet
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Chapter 27: Abstract Expressionism
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Q1) The artist in this chapter who made furniture,playgrounds,and public sculpture gardens was
A) Smith
B) Nevelson
C) Kline
D) Noguchi
E) Bacon
Q2) Who of the following is not an action painter?
A) Albers
B) Gorky
C) Pollock
D) de Kooning
Q3) Who of the following is not a Color Field painter?
A) Mondrian
B) Rothko
C) Kelly
D) Reinhardt
E) Stella
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Chapter 28: Pop Art, OP Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism
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Q1) Minimalism was a reaction against which of the following?
A) figuration
B) nature
C) the artist's hand
D) geometry
E) figuration, nature, and the artist's hand
Q2) The term "Op" is short for
A) optimum
B) optical
C) opulent
D) optional
Q3) The Minimalist whose primary medium was fluorescent lights was A) Hesse
B) Flavin
C) Martin
D) Judd
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Chapter 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization
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Q1) Which artist is correctly matched with his or her work?
A) The Christos -- Over the River
B) Gilbert and George -- Williamsburg Bridge
C) Frank Gehry -- the Whitney Museum
D) Buckminster Fuller -- Lloyd's Building
E) I.M. Pei -- Geodesic Domes
Q2) Sherman's self-portrait as the Fornarina differs from the Fornarina in being
A) more accurate because it is a photograph
B) more idealized
C) satirical
D) anti-women
Q3) Who was a graduate of the Bauhaus?
A) Fuller
B) Breuer
C) Pei
D) Rothenberg
E) Nauman
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