Survey of the Arts
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Survey of the Arts offers an engaging exploration of the various forms of artistic expression throughout history and across cultures. In this course, students will examine major movements and works in visual arts, music, theater, dance, and architecture, gaining an understanding of how art both shapes and reflects social values, beliefs, and historical contexts. Through lectures, visual analysis, and discussions, students will develop critical thinking skills and an appreciation for the diverse ways in which the arts inform and enrich human experience.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) A __________ is a form,image,or subject standing for something else.
A) crisis
B) myth
C) perspective
D) symbol
E) story
Answer: D
Q2) In visual arts and architecture,__________ refers to the arrangement of line,form,mass,and color.
A) palette
B) composition
C) plot
D) form
E) perspective
Answer: B
Q3) A(n)__________ is a large musical composition for orchestra,usually divided into four movements.
Answer: symphony
Q4) The dominant idea of a story is called a(n)__________.
Answer: theme
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Egyptian musicians played the lyre.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The largest pyramid at the Giza complex is that of Khufu.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Animals were important symbols in Sumeria.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) In Sumer,the festival of the goddess of fertility,__________,involved drunken,orgiastic dancing involving self-mutilation with knives. Answer: Ashtoreth
Q5) Egyptian sculpture is entirely idealized,never naturalistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) What is the name for the style of Greek temples during the Archaic period?
Answer: Doric
Q2) The heroes of Homer's poems are __________,not individual,real people.
Answer: types
Q3) __________ refers to a sculpture of a fully clothed female.
A) Kouroi
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Contrapposto
E) Polis
Answer: C
Q4) Which Greek philosopher argued that mathematics discovers universal constants?
Answer: Pythagoras
Q5) The Greek equivalent to our musical scale is called a __________.
A) mood
B) tone
C) harmony
D) mode
E) plan
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) The Sophists preached faith to reason.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hubris refers to excessive pride or ambition.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ is a style of art relying on the fundamentals of simplicity,clarity of structure,and appeal to the intellect.
A) Hellenism
B) Expressionism
C) Classicism
D) Realism
E) Anti-classicism
Q4) Ptolemy I sought to unite Egyptians and Greeks by founding a new god.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Who was the first (and perhaps greatest)Greek tragedian?
Q6) Socrates believed that knowledge created virtuous behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) The phrase __________ refers to the Roman attempt to control the dissatisfied urban masses.
Q2) The Roman belief in "honor above life," or __________,helps explain their taste for blood sport.
A) pompa
B) plebs
C) paters
D) virtus
E) hydraulos
Q3) __________ created the first full-time police force and firefighters as part of his emphasis on order and peace.
A) Julius Caesar
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Caligula
D) Nero
E) Augustus
Q4) The death of Marcus Aurelius was the "beginning of the end" for the Roman Empire.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) In the time following the Resurrection,Romans made no distinction between Christians and __________.
A) themselves
B) criminals
C) Jews
D) philosophers
E) slaves
Q2) Messiah means "__________."
A) chosen people
B) anointed one
C) teacher
D) God
E) Diaspora
Q3) The central focus of Jesus' ethic is __________.
A) repentance
B) sin
C) purification
D) asceticism
E) love
Q4) The Christian __________ was not widely available until 313 C.E.
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) The fifth century barbarians quickly invaded the Eastern Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What were the two highest forms of study in Byzantine intellectual life?
Q3) The city of Byzantium,later Constantinople,is today called __________.
Q4) The genre of __________ literature grew out of monasticism.
A) devotional
B) mystical
C) funerary
D) meditation
E) monkish
Q5) Although no music manuscripts exist from the Byzantine era,we are still familiar with the type of hymn called __________,based on the sixth-century hymns.
A) kanones
B) echoi
C) eight-form
D) plainsong
E) pantomime
Q6) The two sacred cities of Islam are Mecca and __________.
Q7) The bulk of Byzantine literature is in the category of __________.
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) The __________ period saw the first centralized political organization since the fall of Rome.
A) Romanesque
B) Early Gothic
C) Early Christian
D) Carolingian
E) High Gothic
Q2) __________ refers to the time in Western European history that occurred between Antiquity and the Renaissance.
A) Gothic Ages
B) Romanesque Ages
C) Middle Ages
D) Gregorian Ages
E) Pre-Renaissance
Q3) The feudal lord is also referred as a __________.
A) master
B) captor
C) king
D) seigneur
E) serf
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) The __________ ravaged Europe between 1348 and 1350.
A) Ottomans
B) Wars of Religion
C) Crusades
D) Serfs' Rebellion
E) Black Death
Q2) One practical effect of the Crusades was to end strife among warring European
A) popes
B) nobles
C) serfs
D) armies
E) churches
Q3) Chivalry preached religious tolerance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Gothic style of painting is largely indistinguishable from earlier medieval styles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) Is the term "Renaissance" more accurately applied to artists or societies at large?
Q2) Individualism was part of the central core of the Protestant Reformation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What does the Florence Cathedral's dome resemble more than a classical dome?
Q4) The Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence contains highly influential __________ by Masaccio.
A) relief sculptures
B) altarpieces
C) stained glass windows
D) frescoes
E) mosaics
Q5) Compare and contrast Sandro Boticelli's The Birth of Venus with Masaccio's The Tribute Money.Which aspects of the works seem to best exemplify the Renaissance? Which aspects seem more medieval?
Q6) Leonardo's well-known drawing __________,influenced by the anatomical writing of Vitruvius,shows the Renaissance fascination with the human body.
Q7) __________ has been called the "Father of Humanism."
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) A setting of lyric poetry for several voices is called a __________.
A) madrigal
B) motet
C) cantata
D) sonata
E) homophony
Q2) Which Renaissance artist was a master of visual arts,architecture,and poetry?
Q3) Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man combines both High Renaissance and __________ elements.
Q4) Part of Titian's unique technique involved thin layers of paint over top of a reddish __________.
Q5) Orlando Furioso,a large-scale narrative poem that included trips to the moon,was the masterpiece of __________.
A) Michelangelo
B) Castiglione
C) Cetina
D) Ariosto
E) Britten
Q6) Leonardo's wall painting __________ began to flake almost immediately after he finished it.
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) Pick an example of literature from this chapter.Discuss the influence of Christian humanism on its themes.Contrast these themes with the ideas of Protestant reformers such as John Calvin.
Q2) __________ is an example of a Christian humanist.
A) Calvin
B) More
C) Luther
D) Zwingli
E) Erasmus
Q3) Poetic lines of five metrical feet in which each foot has two syllables are called __________ pentameter.
A) dual
B) dialogic
C) blank
D) iambic
E) Elizabethan
Q4) Unlike the other Protestant reformers,__________ saw music as an essential part of worship.
Q5) Copernicus argued for a(n)__________ theory of the universe.
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) Compare and contrast a work by an "aristocratic baroque" artist and a work of another artist discussed in this chapter.What do their differences and similarities tell us about the baroque era? Do you think the work of Rubens or another "aristocratic baroque" artist necessarily supports the aristocracy? (Consider the high output of his workshop,for example.)
Q2) The work of the Roman baroque painter __________ turned away from idealized religious scenes in favor of mundane scenes.
A) El Greco
B) Velázquez
C) Caravaggio
D) Rubens
E) Ruysch
Q3) The human figure dominates the landscape in all Baroque painting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In France the absolutist state and the church worked in harmony.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The absolute monarch ruled by __________ right.
Q6) Was St.Theresa associated with the Reformation or the Counter-Reformation?
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) The rise of the __________ was an important component of dance during this period.
A) danseur
B) corps de ballet
C) ballerina
D) danseuse
E) waltz
Q2) "Man was born free,and everywhere he is in chains" is the opening line of a work by Jean-Jacques __________.
Q3) Kant defined the __________ as anything that gives us "disinterested pleasure."
Q4) Although the movement began in the eighteen century,the term __________ was not coined until the nineteenth century suffrage movement.
Q5) Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women were naturally submissive.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Scholars called the "moderns" argued that recent works were superior to __________ ones.
Q7) The attempts of architects to engage with Enlightenment philosophy are classified as __________ architecture.
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique employed an idée fixe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Much Romantic art emphasized the greatness of a hero.How might the artist be seen as a kind of hero during this period? What qualities does the Romantic artist employ in their "heroic" stand against mainstream society,oppression,and tradition? Do you think contemporary artists,including popular musicians,are still influenced by this Romantic idea of the artist?
Q3) In general,Romanticism emphasizes __________.
A) academic training
B) classical models
C) aristocratic self-cultivation
D) individual emotion
E) truth to life
Q4) Romantic ballet emphasized __________.
A) dramatic lighting
B) male dancers
C) ballerinas
D) improvisation
E) elaborate sets
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) What was the name of the Venice chapel Henri Matisse decorated at the end of his life?
Q2) The choreographer whose direction of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring caused a riot was
A) Sergei Diaghilev
B) Claude Debussy
C) Isadora Duncan
D) Vaslav Nijinksy
E) Luigi Capuana
Q3) __________ believed modern European civilization was "sick" and spent much of life living and painting elsewhere.
A) Georges Seurat
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Paul Gauguin
D) Vincent Van Gogh
E) Paul Cezanne
Q4) What is the famous "slogan" of aestheticism?
Q5) The treatment of space by Cubist painters is sometimes understood in relationship to the Theory of __________ in physics.
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) What are some ways the influence of Africa is found in modernist art and literature? Compare and contrast the work of the artist Jacques Lipschitz and the poet Langston Hughes,focusing on the African influence upon their work and the "meaning" of Africa for each artist.Are there,in fact,similar conceptions of what Africa is and what it might provide for artists working outside of Africa? Do you think the artists have a different sense of "tradition"?
Q2) European modernist art was first exhibited in the United States at __________.
A) the Museum of Modern Art
B) Gallery 291
C) the Armory Show
D) the World's Columbian Exposition
E) the Society of Independent Artists' gallery
Q3) The musical composition __________ critically reflected on machines,mechanized production,and dehumanization.
A) New England Triptych
B) Billings Overture
C) Steel Step
D) Iron Lyric Suite
E) The Unanswered Question
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) __________ documented Native American life in his watercolor paintings.
A) Thomas Joshua Cooper
B) Kerry James Marshall
C) Francesco Clemente
D) Harrison Begay
E) Bill Viola
Q2) You may have noticed that Chapter Seventeen includes an unusually diverse array of arts,ranging from pottery to robotic art installations! Are there any similarities across all of these works? Do you think there can be a meaningful definition of "art" that can include them all? Is this confusing for art audiences today,or does the wide-range of arts make it easier to enjoy them because there's "something for everybody"? If this diversity is a good thing,do you think it is possible to assess the "quality" of such a wide range of arts-how can anything be "good" or "bad"?
Q3) Vladimir Nabokov's __________ parodies literary scholarship.
A) Lolita
B) Gravity's Rainbow
C) One Hundred Years of Solitude
D) Lord Weary's Castle
E) Pale Fire
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