World Art History
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World Art History offers a comprehensive exploration of artistic expression across diverse cultures and time periods, tracing the development, meaning, and significance of visual art from prehistoric times to the contemporary era. Students will examine key works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media from regions including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania, situating them within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Through critical analysis and thematic comparisons, the course fosters an understanding of how art reflects and shapes global societies, encouraging appreciation for both universal principles and unique traditions in world art.
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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) Taboo means that something or someone is
A) a saint and a sinner
B) good and evil
C) sacred and profane
D) magic and sacred
E) untouchable
Answer: C
Q2) The term Homo sapiens literally means
A) simple man
B) stupid man
C) stoic man
D) wise man
E) genius
Answer: D
Q3) Stonehenge dates from the __________ period.
A) Paleolithic
B) Late Jurassic
C) Mesolithic
D) Neolithic
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East
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Q1) The figure of Naram-Sin is shown
A) with frontal shoulders and profile legs
B) with a frontal head and shoulders
C) with frontal legs and a profile head
D) with frontal shoulders and legs
E) holding a rod and scepter
Answer: A
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following is not a Mesopotamian god?
A) Anu
B) Isis
C) Ishtar
D) Inanna
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt
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Q1) The Temple of Amon-Mut-Khonsu is in
A) Karnak
B) Thebes
C) Cairo
D) Amarna
E) Luxor
Answer: E
Q2) The seated statue of Khafre dates to around
A)3000 B.C.
B)2500 B.C.
C)2000 B.C.
D)3500 B.C.
Answer: B
Q3) The Old Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh who built his tomb at Gizeh was
A) Seti
B) Akhenaten
C) Khafre
D) Tutankhamun
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Aegean
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Q1) The Palace at Knossos was not fortified because
A) the inhabitants of Crete were peace-loving
B) the Minoans thought of themselves as invincible
C) Crete is an island
D) Crete ruled the Aegean
Q2) A corbeled vault is
A) concentric stone rings piled to make an arch or domed room
B) a means of transporting water
C) a kind of tomb
D) the level of windows above the central passageway to let light in from outside
Q3) Which is true of Minoan scripts?
A) Linear A was used for lists and Linear B was the written script
B) Linear A and Linear B were written scripts
C) Linear B and Linear A were Egyptian scripts
D) Linear B was used for records and Linear A was the written language
E) Linear A was used on papyrus and Linear B was inscribed on tablets
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Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece
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Q1) A Dipylon vase was
A) an Egyptian treaty marker
B) an Athenian funerary vessel
C) the repository of the law in Chaldea
D) a place of safekeeping during the Olympiads
Q2) Greek theater began
A) inside of temples
B) outside of temples
C) in the hills
D) by the sea
E) around trees
Q3) Which of the following do not belong together?
A) hydria - water jar
B) amphora - storage jar
C) krater - flask for pouring oil
D) kylix - drinking cup
E) oenochoe - jug for pouring wine
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Chapter 6: The Art of the Etruscans
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Q1) The arch was invented in
A) Etruria
B) Mesopotamia
C) Greece
D) Rome
E) Egypt
Q2) The Etruscans used a ________-style column.
A) Doric
B) Ionic
C) Corinthian
D) Bull-capital
Q3) The Etruscans used _______ for sculpture?
A) bronze
B) gold
C) terracotta
D) bronze and terracotta
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Chapter 7: Ancient Rome
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Q1) The Ides of March are
A) when Roman emperors are killed
B) the middle of the month
C) the birthday of the Roman emperor
D) the end of the month
E) the beginning of the month
Q2) Which was least likely to be in a forum?
A) temples
B) libraries
C) markets
D) baths
E) basilicas
Q3) The figures from the frieze of the Villa of the Mysteries are thought to depict an initiation into __________.
A) the cult of Artemis
B) Christianity
C) the cult of Bacchus
D) the cult of Isis and Osiris
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Chapter 8: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
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Q1) The catacombs in Rome were primarily
A) underground cemeteries
B) underground shrines
C) underground meeting places
D) underground sewers
Q2) The Roman Basilica was entered from a door in its side but Old St.Peter's in Rome was entered
A) through the atrium
B) through its narthex
C) in the side of the nave
D) behind the apse
Q3) The vaulted choir of San Vitale contains a representation of
A) angels with Mary
B) a bust of San Vitale
C) Bishop Ecclesius
D) angels with a lamb
E) Christ as a shepherd
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Chapter 9: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Which is not an architectural feature of the mosque?
A) a sahn
B) a qibla
C) an immam
D) a mihrab
E) a minbar
Q2) Muslims must pray
A) in a mosque
B) facing west
C) facing Mecca
D) facing a qibla
Q3) The largest 9<sup>th</sup>-century mosque was located in
A) Samarra
B) Córdoba
C) Granada
D) Jerusalem
E) Iran
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Chapter 10: Romanesque Art
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Q1) The cleric who criticized the extravagant decoration of places like the cloister of St-Pierre,Moissac,was
A) St. James of Compostela
B) St. Bernard
C) St. Francis
D) St. Benedict
Q2) The Bayeux Tapestry is
A) a tapestry
B) an embroidery
C) a Viking work
D) a parchment
Q3) Which is not part of the plan of Sainte-Foy at Conques?
A) a narthex
B) a nave
C) a transept
D) a crossing
E) an apse
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) At Chartres,the trumeau represents
A) St. Stephen
B) an Old Testament prophet
C) an apostle
D) Christ
E) the Virgin
Q2) A cathedral is
A) the seat of a bishop
B) a large church
C) a Gothic church
D) the center of an ecclesiastical hierarchy
Q3) A winch is a
A) seductive female
B) small crane
C) pulley system
D) template
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Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance
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Q1) The painter Cimabue was deeply influenced by _________.
A) The court of Charlemagne
B) Byzantine icons
C) Giotto
D) Claus Sluter
Q2) Which is not true of Giotto's Crucifixion?
A) it refers to typology
B) it takes place in Jerusalem
C) it depicts the effects of gravity
D) Christ's form is elongated
E) it emphasizes the distinction between the Romans and Christ's followers
Q3) The length of Mary Magdalen's hair is an example of
A) a Renaissance coiffure
B) her seductive nature
C) an iconographic convention
D) a typological symbol
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Chapter 13: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) Grisaille means
A) imitation sculpture
B) gesso
C) foreshortening
D) contrapposto
E) imitation architecture
Q2) Which text goes with which author?
A) Dante -- the Decameron
B) Brunelleschi -- the Commentarii
C) Alberti -- Oration on the Dignity of Man
D) Masaccio -- On Painting
E) Bruni -- Praise of the City of Florence
Q3) Which best defines "foreshortening?"
A) reduction in scale
B) placing a smaller object in front of a larger object
C) a twist at the waist
D) depicting a form in perspective
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in Italy
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Q1) Terribilità refers to
A) Leonardo's painting style
B) traits of stubbornness and firmness Michelangelo shared with Pope Julius
C) Fra Angelico's subtle messages
D) Raphael's violent imagery in his Stanza della Segnatura
Q2) Giorgione demonstrated the superiority of painting over sculpture by
A) a description in his autobiography
B) painting a nude man with reflections from two sides
C) making a sculpture and a painting of a man
D) dictating a comparison to Vasari
Q3) The High Renaissance is usually dated
A) 1495 - 1527
B) 1460 - 1564
C) 1500 - 1535
D) 1500 - 1600
Q4) Col Tempo refers to
A) an Italian proverb
B) a book by Aretino
C) a painting by Giorgione
D) a painting by Titian
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Chapter 15: Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
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Q1) Palladio used the ancient texts of
A) Vitruvius
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Suetonius
Q2) Martin Luther was
A) an American civil rights leader
B) a 16<sup>th</sup>-century monk
C) an artist
D) a member of the Council of Trent
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) Autobiographies were written in 16<sup>th</sup>-century Italy by
A) Tintoretto and Cellini
B) Vasari and Ridolfi
C) Aretino and Giorgione
D) Vasari and Cellini
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Chapter 16: Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
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Q1) "P.M." in Erasmus's satire on Julius II refers to
A) Prime Minister
B) Pontifex Maximus
C) Saint Peter
D) Prime Mover
Q2) In which work is there a Pool of Lust?
A) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
B) The Alchemist
C) The Judgment of Paris
D) the Garden of Earthly Delights
E) Netherlandish Proverbs
Q3) The textual source of Dürer's Four Horsemen is
A) the Metamorphoses
B) the Moriae encomium
C) the Book of Revelations
D) the Ship of Fools
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Chapter 17: The Baroque Style in Western Europe
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Q1) Which is least likely to appear as vanitas iconography?
A) a skull
B) a windmill
C) a watch
D) a candle
E) a shell
Q2) Which is not true of Bernini's Saint Teresa?
A) she has erotic quality
B) she is on a horizontal plane
C) she is in the process of levitating
D) she is both relaxed and aroused
E) she synthesizes emotion with mysticism
Q3) Which gained new status in the 17<sup>th</sup> century?
A) landscape, mythology, genre
B) portraiture, mythology, still life
C) landscape, portraiture, mythology
D) landscape, genre, still life
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Chapter 18: Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The Zwinger is
A) a German rock group
B) a palace of the Polish king
C) a courtyard
D) an elaborate wall
Q2) The Seven Years' War was fought between
A) England and France
B) Prussia, France and Austria
C) England and Prussia
D) France, Prussia, and England
Q3) Which does not match?
A) Vivaldi -- music
B) Priestly -- oxygen
C) Halley -- biology
D) Swift -- satire
E) Watt -- steam engine
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Chapter 19: Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Q1) Plato's defense of Socrates is
A) the Death of Socrates
B) the Apology
C) not recorded
D) a treatise on political philosophy used by Napoleon
Q2) Jefferson based his design for Monticello on the architecture of
A) Christopher Wren
B) Michelangelo
C) Palladio
D) Borromini
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) François Rude's sculpture La Marseillaise represents
A) a parade in Paris
B) Liberty leading France to protect the motherland
C) the French Revolution led by Louis XVI
D) the battle of the Centaurs
Q2) Which best describes the work of William Blake?
A) Classical
B) Gothic
C) down-to-earth
D) military
E) visionary
Q3) 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) 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
Q2) Millet's The Gleaners combines
A) social observation with Neoclassicism
B) Renaissance monumentality with Romanticism
C) Medieval feudalism with Romanticism
D) social observation with Romanticism
Q3) Courbet's patron,who financed the Realist Exhibition was
A) Baudelaire
B) Zola
C) Flaubert
D) Bruyas
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Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which is the least typical subject in Impressionism?
A) café scenes
B) military scenes
C) circus scenes
D) landscapes
E) theaters and concerts
Q3) The philosophy of "Art for Art's Sake" is basically
A) formalist
B) iconographic
C) feminist
D) Marxist
E) semiotic
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Chapter 23: Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Which is true of Symbolism?
A) it was concerned with realistic social issues
B) it was heroic in character
C) it was preoccupied with the irrational
D) its colors tend to be the primary hues
Q2) Generally the French posters of the 19<sup>th</sup> century were
A) woodblock prints
B) engravings
C) etchings
D) lithographs
E) photographs
Q3) The English word "symbol" is from the Greek,meaning
A) token
B) sign
C) allegory
D) metaphor
E) simile
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and Matisse
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Q1) Which is not true of Kollwitz?
A) she came from a financially comfortable family
B) she thought of herself as an Expressionist
C) she depicted the problems of the working classes
D) she sympathized with German peasants
E) her textures tend to be harsh
Q2) _______ exhibited with the Fauves but went his own way with his own religious art.
A) Henry Matisse
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Georges Rouault
D) Ernst Barlach
Q3) Matisse worked toward ________ in his art.
A) balance
B) purity
C) serenity
D) all of the choices are correct.
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Chapter 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related
Twentieth-Century Styles
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Q1) Which is not a feature of Fallingwater?
A) cantilever construction
B) reinforced concrete
C) glass walls
D) skeletal construction
E) local rock
Q2) In Girl Before a Mirror,Picasso aims at achieving
A) formal reality
B) figurative reality
C) spiritual reality
D) psychological reality
E) historical reality
Q3) Match the artist with his work
A) Davis -- Broadway Boogie Woogie
B) Duchamp -- Mlle. Pogany
C) Malevich -- Black Square
D) Leonardo -- Composition with the Mona Lisa
E) Brancusi -- Villa Savoye
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Chapter 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and The United
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Q1) FSA stands for
A) Foreign Socialist Association
B) Farmers' Socialist Administration
C) Farm Security Administration
D) Freed Slaves of America
Q2) "The Wars" in the title of this chapter refer to
A) World War II and the Vietnam War
B) the Spanish Civil War and World War II
C) World War I and World War II
D) The Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War
Q3) Which is least characteristic of Dada?
A) nonsense
B) nihilism
C) punning
D) Classicism
E) iconoclasm
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Chapter 27: Abstract Expressionism
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Q1) Which artist is correctly matched with his or her work?
A) Diebenkorn -- The Artist and his Mother
B) Kelly -- Ocean Park No.129
C) Noguchi -- Kouros
D) Nevelson -- the Cubi Series
E) Gorky -- Homage to the Square
Q2) Which is least true of Dubuffet?
A) he collected non-Western art
B) he was a monochromatic painter
C) he liked textured surfaces
D) he was a figurative abstractionist
E) he was French
Q3) Hitler's exhibition of "degenerate art" consisted mainly of
A) Classical statues
B) avant-garde art
C) photography
D) lithography
E) Surrealism
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Chapter 28: Pop Art, OP Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism
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Q1) Art as Idea is an example of
A) Minimalism
B) Pop Art
C) Op Art
D) Conceptual Art
E) Surrealism
Q2) The title and of the first significant Pop Art show in New York was
A) the "New Realists," 1962
B) "Pop -- 1960"
C) "Pop and Op at the Top," 1965
D) "Art at the Top," 1956
E) "Top Art -- 1969"
Q3) Which Pop Artist was most likely to have painted repetitious advertising images?
A) Johns
B) Warhol
C) Lichtenstein
D) Hamilton
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Chapter 29: Innovation, Continuity, and Globalization
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Q1) The artist who developed a philosophy of cybernetics is
A) Christo
B) Nauman
C) Lin
D) Paik
E) Kiefer
Q2) Who was a graduate of the Bauhaus?
A) Fuller
B) Breuer
C) Pei
D) Rothenberg
E) Nauman
Q3) Match the author with the correct work.
A) Norman Mailer -- The Right Stuff
B) Tom Wolfe -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
C) Toni Morrison -- Beloved
D) Alice Walker -- Glengarry Glen Ross
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