Understanding the Arts Exam Review
Course Introduction
Understanding the Arts offers students an exploration of various artistic forms, movements, and media across history and cultures. The course examines visual arts, music, theater, dance, and literature, highlighting how artistic expression reflects societal values, historical events, and individual creativity. Students will learn to analyze and interpret works of art, understand the elements and principles of artistic creation, and appreciate the impact of the arts on personal and global perspectives. Through discussions, readings, and direct engagement with artworks, the course fosters a deeper awareness and appreciation of the diverse ways in which the arts shape 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) Biographies of saints and other religious figures are called __________.
Answer: hagiographies
Q2) Musical __________ are shorter melodic or rhythmic ideas.
Answer: motifs
Q3) __________ refers to the illusion that shapes and forms diminish in size as they recede into deep space.
A) Vanishing
B) Deep space
C) Linear perspective
D) Foreshortening
E) One-point
Answer: D
Q4) When metal forms the frame of a building (as in a skyscraper),it is called __________ construction.
A) balloon
B) bearing
C) rib-cage
D) steel-cage
E) structural
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Neanderthal people seem to have had a religion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A(n)__________ is a frame for a hieroglyphic inscription formed by a rope design surrounding an oval space.
Answer: cartouche
Q3) Sumerian artists depicted actual individuals,usually __________.
Answer: kings
Q4) Egyptian musicians played the lyre.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) The cave paintings at Lascaux date from around __________ B.C.E.
A) 2500-1900
B) 4000-3400
C) 11,000-9000
D) 16,000-14,000
E) 25,000-21,000
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) The Greek legend of the Minotaur probably stemmed from a Minoan cult of the sacred bull.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) By the end of the Archaic period,Greek city-states no longer included slaves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The stones used to construct Mycenaean fortresses were so large that the later Greeks called them __________.
A) Minotauran
B) Cyclopean
C) Zeusian
D) Athenian
E) Mycenaean
Answer: B
Q4) The Greek gods were called __________ because they dwelled on Mount Olympus.
Answer: Olympian
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) The __________ order is characterized by columns with scroll-like capitals and circular bases.
A) Ionic
B) Corinthian
C) Hellenistic
D) Doric
E) Platonic
Q2) In what context would one have seen Greek theatre?
Q3) Greek classical sculpture begins with the sculptors Myron and __________ in the middle of the fifth century B.C.E.
Q4) Why do we study Greek vase painting instead of wall painting?
Q5) Who was the first (and perhaps greatest)Greek tragedian?
Q6) At the end of the Peloponnesian Wars,__________ had gained political dominance.
Q7) The __________ order is characterized by columns employing an elaborate leaf motif in the capital.
A) Ionic
B) Corinthian
C) Hellenistic
D) Doric
E) Platonic.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) The earliest divinities of Rome comprised __________ who dwelled in trees,in springs,and on hilltops.
Q2) __________ sought the reestablishment of the Roman Republic after the assassination of Julius Caesar.
A) Marius
B) Philippi
C) Cicero
D) Octavian
E) Augustus
Q3) The Romans invented the __________ trumpet.
Q4) Octavian became,effectively,the first "emperor" of Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) The "Ten Commandments" are also called the __________.
A) Deuteronomy
B) Prologue
C) Decalogue
D) Leviticus
E) Canon
Q2) Select an example of an Early Christian basilica.How does it differ from Roman basilicas? Why did the Christians make these changes? Also,why do you think the basilica,rather than another architectural form,became the basis for Christian churches?
Q3) The __________ served as underground cemeteries for the Roman Christians.
A) mausoleums
B) basilicas
C) tombs
D) catacombs
E) aqueducts
Q4) Jews do not believe Jesus fulfilled the prophecy of Messiah.
A)True
B)False
Q5) For the most part,Christian churches took the form of the Roman __________.
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) The fall of the Roman Empire occurred in the year __________.
A) 411
B) 330
C) 395
D) 476
E) 732
Q2) "Orthodoxy" means __________ and rests on the concept of unerring authority of the dogma established by the seven General Ecumenical Councils of the early Christian Church.
Q3) Byzantine emperors were seen as divinely sanctioned by God.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the role of literature in Islamic culture.What are its connections to the pre-Islamic past and what does it tell us about the society of its time? (You may pick one or two examples to make your argument more clear.)
Q5) The ascetic poems of Abu al-'Atahiyah,collected in the __________,are the basis of his reputation as a poet.
Q6) The "holy struggle" encouraged by Caliph Abu Bakr is referred to as __________.
Q7) The city of Byzantium,later Constantinople,is today called __________.
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) The __________ is a liturgical dramatic form that began as an elaboration of Mass.
A) trope
B) mime
C) tragedy
D) comedy
E) improvisation
Q2) __________ is a style that flourished throughout Western Europe from about 1050 to about 1200.
A) Early Gothic
B) High Gothic
C) Gothic classicism
D) Medieval
E) Romanesque
Q3) St Thomas Aquinas used the "Grand Commentary" of the Muslim philosopher __________ as his model.
Q4) A "lay" is a short medieval romance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Gregorian chant may have had origins in the __________.
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) __________ is music employing definite time values and precise meters.
A) Commedia dell'arte
B) Sottie
C) Measured rhythm
D) Blank verse
E) Autos sacramentales
Q2) Joan of Arc sought to end the violence of the __________.
A) Crusades
B) Black Death
C) Serfs' Rebellion
D) Hundred Years' War
E) Great Schism
Q3) The medieval "middle class" largely supported __________ over the feudal system.
A) military states
B) aristocracies
C) monarchies
D) theocracies
E) oligarchies
Q4) Abbot Suger's goals for the Abbey Church of St Denis emphasized "__________ Divine."
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) The Italians refer to the fifteenth century as the __________.
Q2) Capitalism supported the guild system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first of the Medici family to assume power was __________ de' Medici.
Q4) A term for lifelikeness or nearness to truth is __________.
A) farce
B) proscenium
C) sottie
D) verisimilitude
E) obsequious
Q5) Lorenzo de' Medici established a senate in Florence called the __________.
A) Senatoria de' Medici
B) Council of Citizens
C) Council of Seventy
D) Council of the People
E) Group of Ten
Q6) With 50,000 citizens __________ was the largest city in Europe during the 1400s.
Q7) The 1486 exploration of Bartolomeu __________ connected the coast of Africa with the Mediterranean.
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) Juan del __________ is credited with being the first Spanish secular dramatist.
A) Diego
B) Vega
C) Carpio
D) Encina
E) Rueda
Q2) __________ was the center of patronage during the High Renaissance.
A) Padua
B) Genoa
C) Venice
D) Florence
E) Rome
Q3) Leonardo's wall painting __________ began to flake almost immediately after he finished it.
Q4) The time from around 1495 until around 1520 is called the __________.
A) Italian Renaissance
B) Northern Renaissance
C) High Renaissance
D) Late Gothic
E) Low Renaissance
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) Who was author of the groundbreaking On the Fabric of the Human Body?
Q2) Hieronymus __________ did not follow the developments of Italy.
Q3) Flemish painters were interested in __________.
A) naturalism
B) Gothic style
C) light-heartedness
D) romance
E) Christian reform
Q4) The ballett was a type of Renaissance __________ music.
A) program
B) folk
C) secular
D) church
E) court
Q5) Disagreement over transubstantiation was one of the causes of the Reformation.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) What is an example of a utopian community that developed in America in the 1600s?
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) John Locke believed that the each person is born __________.
A) corrupt
B) sinful
C) blank
D) rational
E) artistic
Q2) Was St.Theresa associated with the Reformation or the Counter-Reformation?
Q3) __________ asserts that reason is a better path to knowledge than experience or observation.
A) Empiricism
B) Scholasticism
C) Protestantism
D) Idealism
E) Rationalism
Q4) The work of Peter Paul Rubens is an example of the __________ baroque.
A) mystical
B) aristocratic
C) bourgeois
D) anti-classical
E) classical
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) Choose a rococo work in any medium.Analyze its relationship to the political situation of European society.Why do you think certain people desired such works? Do you think it would have appealed to all members of the society? Be sure to discuss both the work's form and content.
Q2) Both Mozart and Haydn are known for their symphonies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Works of art dealing with everyday life and common subject matter are called
A) rococo
B) genre
C) classical
D) academic
E) folk
Q4) What is the style of Frederick's Sans Souci Palace?
Q5) Who wrote the well-known poem called An Essay on Criticism?
Q6) Pamphlets and essays were particularly important ways to express democratic ideas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) Romantic aesthetics are often described as __________.
A) classical
B) modernist
C) medieval
D) anti-classical
E) traditional
Q2) Fragmentation is characteristic of Romanticism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The inventor of the historical novel is __________.
A) Kate Chopin
B) Sir Walter Scott
C) Edith Wharton
D) Lord Byron
E) Jane Austen
Q4) Hegel believed that __________ art "reaches the highest level that sensuous,imaginative material can correctly express."
Q5) The cycle of love poems called "Black Venus" was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) 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
Q2) The __________ movement celebrated speed and technology,and sought to destroy the past.
A) expressionism
B) impressionism
C) post-impressionism
D) futurism
E) cubism
Q3) The "father" of the modern skyscraper is __________.
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Louis Sullivan
C) Hector Guimard
D) Victor Horta
E) Antoni Gaudi
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) The music of Paul Hindemath is almost __________.
A) tonal
B) achromatic
C) romantic
D) anti-systematic
E) atonal
Q2) The plays of Luigi Pirandello are associated with __________.
A) expressionism
B) modern traditionalism
C) Marxism
D) International Style
E) absurdism
Q3) Le Corbusier believed that architectural design should focus on function over decorations or stylistic exploration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________ erased the line between literature and journalism,producing works that tersely represent simple acts,employ sparse dialogue,and understate emotion.
Q5) The author of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is __________.
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) Some examples of Native American ritual performance and theatre last for a hundred hours.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Arab nationalism intensified after the loss of the 1967 __________ War.
Q3) The common ground of twentieth century architecture could be described as __________.
A) revisionism
B) symbolism
C) rectangularization
D) human-scale
E) practicality
Q4) The American composer Ned Rorem is associated with __________.
A) traditionalism
B) sound liberation
C) pluralism
D) serialism
E) minimalism.
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Q5) What is the name of Keith O'Derek's independent documentary on West Coast rap music?