World Art History Practice Exam
Course Introduction
World Art History offers a comprehensive exploration of artistic traditions, movements, and masterpieces from diverse cultures across the globe. Spanning prehistoric times to the present day, the course examines how art reflects, shapes, and challenges social, political, and religious contexts. Students will analyze a wide variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, architecture, and digital arts while discussing the cross-cultural interactions that have influenced artistic expression throughout history. By studying influential artists, key works, and evolving aesthetics, students will develop a deeper appreciation for the global narratives that inform the visual languages of different societies.
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Art Across Time Combined 3rd Edition by Adams
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Chapter 1: The Art of Prehistory
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Q1) Pigment is
A) a racial characteristic
B) color
C) paint
D) painted relief
E) watercolor
Answer: B
Q2) The most important Paleolithic cave paintings are located in
A) Spain
B) France
C) England
D) Spain and France
Answer: D
Q3) The term "prehistory" means
A) before people wrote history books
B) before people had written language
C) before people had libraries
D) before people could count
E) before people could talk
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East
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Q1) The hieros gamos refers to
A) a festival of the new year
B) a fertility ceremony
C) a sacred marriage
D) a holy game
Answer: C
Q2) The largest Neolithic site so far discovered in the ancient Near East is located in modern
A) Iraq
B) Iran
C) Turkey
D) Jordan
Answer: C
Q3) Gudea ruled
A)c.2100 B.C.
B)c.1800 B.C.
C)c.3000 B.C.
D)c.1500 B.C.
E)c.2600 B.C.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt
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Q1) The obelisks were derived from
A) the pylons
B) the pyramids
C) the benbens
D) the sphinxes
E) the hypostyle
Answer: C
Q2) The forerunner of the Pyramid appears to be the A) Ziggurat
B) obelisk
C) mastaba
D) stone-cut temple
Answer: C
Q3) Most pyramids were built by pharaohs in A) Nubia
B) the Middle Kingdom
C) the Old Kingdom
D) the New Kingdom
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Aegean
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Q1) The statue of the so-called Snake Goddess is made of
A) terracotta
B) fresco
C) marble
D) faïence
E) Kamares
Q2) The column flanked by lions at the entrance to Mycenae symbolized
A) a phallus
B) a tree
C) a goddess
D) a building
E) an altar
Q3) The modern name for Thera is
A) Knossos
B) Cairo
C) Anatolia
D) Santorini
E) Atlantis
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Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece
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Q1) Who wrote the Oresteia?
A) Aeschylus
B) Sophokles
C) Euripides
D) Herodotos
E) Plato
Q2) Which is not an aspect of Athena?
A) virginity
B) victory
C) fertility
D) war
E) wisdom
Q3) Apollo's sacred island was
A) Thera
B) Crete
C) Delphi
D) Delos
E) Atlantis
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Chapter 6: The Art of the Etruscans
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Q1) The Wounded Chimera is closest in style to
A) Greek Classical sculpture
B) Greek Hellenistic sculpture
C) Mycenaean goldwork
D) Greek Orientalized sculpture
E) Greek Black-Figure
Q2) Architectural sculpture decorated the _______ of the Etruscan temple?
A) interior
B) roof
C) pediment
D) sides
Q3) The Capitoline Wolf and the Wounded Chimera were made by
A) the lost-wax method
B) baking terracotta in a kiln
C) carving stone
D) modeling clay
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Chapter 7: Ancient Rome
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Q1) Which of the following was not built under Trajan?
A) Timgad
B) Dacia
C) markets
D) a forum
E) basilica
Q2) Which is true of Roman temples?
A) they were peripteral
B) they have a front and a back porch
C) they have a double cella
D) they are pseudo-peripteral
Q3) Pompeiian wall paintings of the Second Style are characterized by
A) scenes like theater sets
B) painted inlaid stone
C) pictures showing paintings on the wall
D) illusionistic landscapes
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Chapter 8: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Christ took on attributes of the emperor after the early 4<sup>th</sup> century.This meant Christ had (a)
A) halo
B) royal purple
C) throne
D) all of the choices are correct.
Q2) The ivory throne of Maximian was probably used for
A) receiving dignitaries
B) royal celebrations
C) a reliquary casket
D) a ritual chair
Q3) The most important late Byzantine Russian icon painter was
A) Ivan
B) Barma
C) Postnik
D) Basil
E) Rublev
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Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Which is not true of Harald Bluetooth's rune stone?
A) it is in Jelling
B) it was raised in the 10<sup>th</sup> century
C) it has interlace designs
D) it celebrates Harald's conversion
E) it is Norwegian
Q2) Islamic artists use
A) calligraphy
B) mosaics
C) weaving
D) all the choices are correct.
Q3) Charlemagne's Chapel at Aachen is based on the church of ___________.
A) Old St. Peter's
B) San Vitale
C) Hagia Sophia
D) Santa Costanza
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Chapter 10: Romanesque Art
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Q1) The Bayeux Tapestry is
A) a tapestry
B) an embroidery
C) a Viking work
D) a parchment
Q2) 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
Q3) A reliquary is a
A) cinerary urn
B) medieval sarcophagus
C) a container for relics
D) a jeweled container
Q4) The Liber Sancti Jacobi was a
A) 12<sup>th</sup>-century biography of St. Jacob
B) 12<sup>th</sup>-century biography of St. James
C) 12<sup>th</sup>-century guide for pilgrims
D) 12<sup>th</sup>-century guide to the pilgrimage roads
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) In the tympanum of the center west door at Chartres
A) The eagle is John, the bull is Luke, the lion is Mark.
B) The eagle is Matthew, the bull is Luke, the lion is John.
C) The eagle is Luke, the bull is Matthew, the lion is Mark.
D) The lion is John, the bull is Luke, the angel is Matthew.
Q2) Saint-Denis was dedicated in
A) 1140
B) 1200
C) 1100
D) 1210
E) 1194
Q3) The Beau Dieu refers to
A) a book by Augustine
B) a statue at Amiens
C) a statue at Reims
D) a book by Hildegarde of Bingen
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Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance
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Q1) Claus Sluter's work was like
A) Simone for its lightness
B) Giotto's for its massiveness
C) Cimbue's for its Byzantine finish
D) Michelangelo's for its Greek classicism
Q2) The monastic order that put an emphasis on nature and the individual was
A) Cistercian
B) Benedictine
C) Dominican
D) Franciscan
Q3) Which of the following had the least influence on Giotto?
A) International style
B) Cimabue
C) Gothic French sculpture
D) art of ancient Rome
Q4) Which of the following was not a 14<sup>th</sup>-century humanist?
A) Boccaccio
B) Petrarch
C) Giotto
D) Dante
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Chapter 13: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) The subject of Man in the Red Turban is believed to be:
A) Cosimo de Medici
B) Jan van Eyck
C) Philip the Bold
D) Rogier van der Weyden
Q2) The re-discovery of linear perspective was made by
A) Ghiberti
B) Brunelleschi
C) Uccello
D) Leonardo
Q3) Who of the following was not a condottiere?
A) Federico da Montefeltro
B) Sir John Hawkwood
C) Erasmo da Narni
D) Niccolo da Tolentino
E) Leon Battista Alberti
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in Italy
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Q1) The Campidoglio
A) was a piazza based on an ancient Roman space
B) illustrated Michelangelo's interest in urban planning
C) demonstrated the Popes' ambitious plans for making Rome beautiful
D) all of the choices are correct.
Q2) The Venetian artist who most influenced Giorgione and Titian was
A) Jacopo Bellini
B) Andrea Mantegna
C) Gentile Bellini
D) Giovanni Bellini
Q3) The vernacular refers to
A) Italian
B) Latin
C) Greek
D) the Dialogues of Plato
Q4) The High Renaissance is usually dated
A) 1495 - 1527
B) 1460 - 1564
C) 1500 - 1535
D) 1500 - 1600
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Chapter 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
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Q1) Tintoretto painted
A) dynamic compositions
B) strong diagonals
C) serpentine curves
D) all of the choices are correct.
Q2) 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
Q3) Veronese satisfied the Inquisition by
A) repainting his picture
B) renaming his picture
C) putting his picture in storage
D) destroying his picture
E) sending his picture out of the country
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Chapter 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
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Q1) __________ was one of the first painters to show people working out in the countryside.
A) Bellini
B) Grünewald
C) Pieter Bruegel
D) Holbein
Q2) The Peasant Dance must have been done in Northern Europe because of A) the happiness
B) the hidden symbolism
C) the fact that there are peasants
D) the energy
Q3) Holbein obtained a letter of introduction to Sir Thomas More from __________.
A) Martin Luther
B) Antwerp
C) Henry VIII
D) Albrecht Dürer
E) Erasmus
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Chapter 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe
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Q1) Velázquez's main patron was
A) Philip II
B) Louis XIV
C) Philip IV
D) Charles V
Q2) The Baroque artist known to have used the camera obscura was
A) Vermeer
B) Rubens
C) Leyster
D) Rembrandt
E) Hals
Q3) The Taj Mahal was a memorial to
A) Akbar
B) Mumtaz
C) Shah Jehan
D) Jahangir
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Chapter 18: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Who is not an 18<sup>th</sup>-century portraitist?
A) Gainsborough
B) Rigaud
C) Vigée-Lebrun
D) Carriera
E) Boyle
Q2) L'Etat c'est moi is
A) the title of a painting
B) an autobiography
C) an expression of absolutism
D) the title of a philosophical treatise
E) a work by Descartes
Q3) Time Smoking a Picture satirizes
A) artists
B) art dealers
C) art collectors
D) art museums
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Chapter 19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) 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
Q2) The Oath of the Horatii was commissioned by
A) Louis XIV
B) Napoleon
C) Louis XVI
D) Marie Antoinette
Q3) The architectural style of Ancient Greece was resurrected in the late 18<sup>th</sup> century because
A) it was believed to inspire citizenship
B) it seemed to encourage heroic sacrifice
C) its crystalline lines seemed to reject the decadence of the Rococo
D) all of the choices are correct.
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Chapter 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) Géricault's Raft of the Medusa was based on
A) a Romantic concoction under the influence of opium
B) an event taken from the newspapers of the day
C) a scene from the French Revolution
D) a mythological scene
Q2) Towards the end of his career,Turner painted
A) carefully delineated scenes of upper class virtue
B) realistic landscapes
C) broadly imagined, expressionistically colored landscapes
D) photographic-quality portraits
Q3) Kronos was
A) a bad Spanish father
B) the father of the Olympians
C) the father of Goya
D) the father of Hermes
Q4) The Brighton Pavilion is an example of
A) Gothic revival
B) Islamic Gothic
C) Classical revival
D) Indian Gothic
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Chapter 21: Nineteenth-Century Realism
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Q1) The central group of Courbet's My Studio includes
A) a boy, a cat, a painter, a woman, and a landscape
B) a juggler, a crucifix, a cat, and a painter
C) a painter, a woman, a boy, and a journalist
D) a painter, a woman, a boy, and a peddler
Q2) Rosa Bonheur was particularly drawn to images of
A) lions
B) athletes
C) horses
D) city life
Q3) Which is not true of the Brooklyn Bridge?
A) it was designed by the Roeblings
B) it has Gothic arches
C) it has four huge parallel cables
D) it was the first use of steel wire in a bridge
E) it connects Brooklyn with the Bronx
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Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
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Q1) For Whistler
A) color was probity and drawing was vice
B) etching was superior to painting
C) drawing was masculine and color was feminine
D) color was vice and drawing was musical
Q2) A particular aspect of Haussmann's renovations of Paris that appealed to Impressionist painters was
A) the slums
B) the department stores
C) the boulevards
D) the restaurants
E) the Opéra
Q3) The trial between Whistler and Ruskin exemplified
A) the rise of the art critic as a force in the art world
B) the insanity of misjudging art
C) the conflict between the Rubenists and the Poussinists
D) the new role of the art galleries and dealers
E) the mishandling of a jury
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Chapter 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
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Q1) The Post-Impressionist known for his paintings of Tahiti was
A) Cézanne
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Munch
D) Gauguin
E) Van Gogh
Q2) Polyphemos was
A) a musician
B) a satyr
C) an Olympian
D) a Cyclops
E) a dwarf
Q3) Redon created
A) with pastels
B) his own landscapes of gentle wildness
C) closely observed interiors of Victorian houses
D) with pastels and his own landscapes of gentle wildness but not closely observed interiors of Victorian houses
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Expressionism, and Matisse
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Q1) Which artist is correctly matched with his work?
A) Kirchner -- The Large Blue Horses
B) Matisse -- Jeannette V
C) Kandinsky -- Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon
D) Picasso -- Still Life with Masks
E) Gauguin -- Drawing of an Oceanic Canoe Prow
Q2) The term "avant-garde" refers to
A) newness
B) advancing troops in World War I
C) the technological changes that led to urbanization
D) the turn-of-the-century art dealers
Q3) The NKV refers to
A) the Bridge
B) the New Artists' Association
C) the Blue Rider
D) the Bolshevik party
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Chapter 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related
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Q1) The Non-objective World was written by
A) Malevich
B) Kandinsky
C) Mondrian
D) Duchamp
E) Le Corbusier
Q2) Nonobjective art is
A) abstract, as drawn from nature but changed
B) unrelated to the outward, physical world
C) highly controversial
D) unrelated to the outward, physical world and highly controversial but not abstract, as drawn from nature but changed
Q3) Which best fulfills the description "a machine for living?"
A) Villa Savoye
B) the Bauhaus
C) Taliesin West
D) Lake Shore Drive Apartments
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Chapter 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and The United
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Q1) Chagall did not make images
A) full of symbolism
B) filled with fantasy
C) of the cruel hardship of Russian peasant life before the Great Revolution
D) for stained glass images for the cathedral at Reims
Q2) Which most accurately describes a mobile?
A) it moves when its motor is activated
B) it hangs on a wall
C) it hangs from the ceiling
D) it moves when there is an air current
E) it hangs from the ceiling and it moves when there is an air current
Q3) Simultaneous viewpoint is an element of
A) Cubism and Surrealism
B) Surrealism and Futurism
C) Cubism and Pointillism
D) Dada and Futurism
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Chapter 27: Abstract Expressionism
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Q1) Match the artist with the correct country of birth.
A) de Kooning -- Germany
B) Stella -- Italy
C) Gorky -- Armenia
D) Rothko -- the United States
E) Noguchi -- China
Q2) Which artist most often depicted biomorphic shapes?
A) de Kooning
B) Noguchi
C) Gorky
D) Smith
E) Noguchi and Gorky
Q3) Which is not true of acrylic?
A) it is water-based
B) it can be used on paper but not canvas
C) it comes in bright colors
D) it dries quickly and does not fade
E) it can be poured, dripped, or splattered
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Chapter 28: Pop Art, OP Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism
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Q1) Which is the best definition of an artistic Happening?
A) an unplanned event
B) improvisation
C) unrestrained self-expression
D) a café performance
Q2) Kitaj's Juan de la Cruz combines which two political situations?
A) the Vietnam War and the Spanish-American War
B) the Spanish-American War and the First World War
C) the Vietnam War and the Inquisition
D) the Inquisition and the American Civil War
Q3) Match the work with the correct author.
A) Mary McCarthy -- The Group
B) Betty Friedan -- Annie Hall
C) Saul Bellow -- Silent Spring
D) Woody Allen -- Feminine Mystique
E) Rachel Carson -- Humboldt's Gift
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Chapter 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization
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Q1) Nauman prefers Man Ray to Duchamp because
A) Man Ray is a greater artist
B) Man Ray is more unreasonable
C) Man Ray is more original
D) Man Ray is more Classical
E) Man Ray is a photographer
Q2) Which is not a reference in the iconography of The Dinner Party?
A) Hatshepsut
B) Virginia Woolf
C) The Last Supper
D) Stieglitz
E) O'Keeffe
Q3) The artist whose imagery suggests graffiti is
A) Sherman
B) Basquiat
C) Kiefer
D) Rothenberg
E) Jaudon
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