World Art History Practice Exam
Course Introduction
World Art History explores the development and evolution of artistic traditions across global cultures from ancient times to the present. The course examines significant works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other visual arts, analyzing how they reflect and shape the social, religious, and political contexts of their times. Students will learn to recognize diverse artistic styles and techniques, understand cross-cultural influences, and appreciate the contributions of different civilizations to the worlds artistic heritage. Emphasizing visual analysis and critical thinking, the course encourages a broad, inclusive perspective on the role of art in human history.
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Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) Marsilio Ficino translated both Plato and Plotinus into Latin and wrote the Theologia Platonica.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) __________ wrote the Book of the Courtier.
A) Petrarch
B) Benvenuto Cellini
C) Niccolò Macchiavelli
D) Baldassare Castiglione
E) Vittoria da Colonna
Answer: D
Q3) The city of __________ is celebrated in Vittore Carpaccio's Lion of St.Mark .
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) London
E) Venice
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) Madrigals are often about __________.
A) heaven and hell
B) love and frivolity
C) redemption and salvation
D) etiquette and social mores
E) pestilence and flood
Answer: B
Q2) In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet often speaks _________, or private reflections spoken aloud toward the audience but not toward the other characters.
A) arias
B) cantatas
C) soliloquies
D) dialogues
E) monologues
Answer: C
Q3) Blank verse refers to rhyming couple, each line of which has fourteen syllables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________ is the most celebrated painting of Diego Velázquez in part because of the intriguing fact that it crosses the genres of portrait and genre painting.
A) Boy Playing a Flute
B) John Wilkins DD
C) Jolly Toper
D) Portrait of Charles I at the Hunt
E) Las Meninas
Answer: E
Q2) Born in Germany, __________ was a Flemish Baroque painter who became extremely successful in Antwerp, possessing a studio containing over two hundred painters and students by 1611.
A) Pieter de Hooch
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Judith Leyster
D) Rembrandt van Rijn
E) Rachel Ruysch
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock set the standard for serious poetry.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jacques-Louis David's theme in The Oath of the Horatii is __________.
A) Roman heroic stoicism and high principles
B) the pledging of eternal love
C) the swearing in of Napoleon
D) none of the above
E) both A and C
Q3) Using a single building, painting, or musical composition explain why Rococo style appealed to the upper classes.
Q4) __________ composed the famous opera Don Giovanni.
A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) Antonio Vivaldi
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Ludgwig von Beethoven
E) Johannes Brahms
Q5) Outline the key events that characterize the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and examine how Adam Smith justified the practices of the factory owners.
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) Kant called the two basic substances, "those that we receive through impressions, and those that our faculty of knowledge supplies from itself" __________ respectively.
A) senses and matters
B) sensations and perceptions
C) phenomena and noumena
D) feeling and knowing
E) conscious and unconscious
Q2) Compare at least three works to explore how did political unrest during the nineteenth-century affect the art of Europe and the United States.
Q3) __________wrote Walden in 1854 because he believed that living close to nature was humankind's strength.
A) Thoreau
B) Emerson
C) Wollstonecraft
D) Rousseau
E) Wordsworth
Q4) Summarize the primary ideas expressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions.
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Chapter 6: Impressionism
and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) Monet's Haystacks at Giverny was one of a series of paintings of haystacks that Monet painted to study __________.
A) how colors appear when juxtaposed
B) horizontal and vertical definition
C) the way in which changes in light and weather alter what we see
D) the architectural structures of Europe
E) asymmetrical composition
Q2) __________ sculpted The Thinker .
A) Auguste Rodin
B) Lorenzo Ghiberti
C) Donatello
D) Berthe Morisot
E) Camille Claudel
Q3) The Boer War was fought between the British empire and two independent Boer Republics of __________.
A) Germany
B) France
C) South Africa
D) Holland
E) Mali
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) The __________ dynasty was a short, but nevertheless a culturally significant, reign.
A) Yuan
B) Ming
C) Qing
D) People's Republic of China
E) Tang
Q2) Discuss the impact of the arrival of Jesuit Catholic missionaries, such as Matteo Ricci, into China during the Qing dynasty.
Q3) Matteo Ricci was one of the most notable Jesuit priests to travel to China and was a frequent presence at the Ming courts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the two styles of hsi-wen and what region of China is each associated with?
Q5) Music was important during the Cultural Revolution in "extolling the glories of China and providing ceremonial background to public events."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Kabuki theater emerged in the __________ century.
A) fourteenth
B) fifteenth
C) sixteenth
D) seventeenth
E) nineteenth
Q2) Basho Matsuo is known for his __________.
A) woodblock prints
B) Noh theater
C) musical compositions
D) landscape painting
E) haiku poetry
Q3) The Japanese anime film is taken as seriously as other films and is found in a variety of genres, including science fiction, adventure, and romances.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Trace the influence of Zen Buddhism on the arts and literature of Japan after the fifteenth century.
Q5) What happened after 1600 in terms of literature?
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits reconstructs in fictional form the history of her country: Chile.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the relationship between the music of Johannes Sebastian Bach and that of Heitor
Villa-Lobos?
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Q3) With what are the most prevalent forms of popular music in Latin America associated?
Q4) Frida Kahlo's self-portrait, The Two Fridas , shows the influence of the __________ artistic style.
A) Cubism
B) Fauvism
C) Realism
D) Surrealism
E) Regionalism
Q5) What is the role of religion in the production of art, music, and literature of the African and Latin American worlds?
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Filippo Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism which outlines an eleven-point pledge in the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Still Life with Chair Caning is an excellent example of the __________ style developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque that was to have such influence on early twentieth-century avant garde art movements.
A) Fauvist
B) Surrealist
C) Cubist
D) Regionalist
E) Futurist
Q3) __________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.
A) William Faulkner
B) James Joyce
C) Langston Hughes
D) Virginia Woolf
E) Ernest Hemingway
Q4) How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Who were the Gutai artists and what influenced their art production?
Q2) Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.
Q3) What are the major principles of the Bauhaus?
Q4) __________ designed "Prairie Houses" early in his career, but his Guggenheim Museum is a model of clean, International style lines and materials.
A) I.M. Pei
B) Mark Rothko
C) Frank Lloyd Wright
D) Henry Moore
E) Sanford White
Q5) Robert Rauschenberg's Odalisk is a painting that depicts a woman in a Turkish harem.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The basis of Lichtenstein's style is __________.
A) pointillism
B) the ben-day dot
C) color field painting
D) abstract expressionist gesture
E) collage
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) What did the Magicians of the Earth exhibition of 1989 underscore about globalization and world art?
Q2) Define "Deconstruction" and give an example of its use.
Q3) M.Scott Momaday received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, American society underwent a shift in attitude and structure largely as a result of three major catalysts for change; __________ is not one of them.
A) the Vietnam War
B) the Women's Movement
C) the Korean War
D) the Civil Rights Movement
E) none of the above
Q5) What is meant by the term "Cyborg Surrealism," what artist do Benton and DiYanni associate the term with, and why?
Q6) The Guerrilla Girls was a groundbreaking play of the 1970s.
A)True
B)False
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