allied art100 Module 3 check your understanding

Question # 00078765 Posted By: vikas Updated on: 06/30/2015 01:11 AM Due on: 07/30/2015
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1. Which Islamic art form was most well known and accepted best in Europe?

a. Tugras

b. Carpets

c. Ceramics

d. Silks

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2. What is the striking difference between depictions of the Greek procession on the Parthenon and the Roman procession on the Ara Pacis?

a. The Greek figures are nude.

b. The Roman one is longer.

c. The Greek cutting is much deeper.

d. The Roman one shows actual people.

3. What is the angular Islamic script that developed first called?

a. Interlace

b. Iwan

c. Muqarnas

d. Kufic

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4. What is parchment made of?

a. Animal skin

b. Papyrus

c. Tree bark

d. Cloth

5. Which of the following is an oven designed to fire clay at high temperature?

a. Basilica

b. Aqueduct

c. Atrium

d. Kiln

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6. In Byzantine architecture, which is the preferred way to support a dome?

a. With squinches

b. With pendentives

c. With a colonnade

d. With a drum

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7. In Islamic architecture, which is a large vaulted chamber with one side being an open arch?

a. Iwan

b. Madrasa

c. Muqarna

d. Mihrab

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8. The difficulty of making large clay sculpture is that when it is wet it tends to:

a. collapse.

b. expand.

c. puddle.

d. mould.

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9. What does the Arch of Titus commemorate?

a. Titus's coronation as Emperor

b. Titus's birth

c. Titus's death

d. Titus's capture of Jerusalem

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10. Which is an image of a holy person?

a. Mandorla

b. Icon

c. Cheribum

d. Cloison

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11. The Romans could build faster and cheaper because they developed the use of:

a. mass production.

b. concrete.

c. slave labor.

d. modular construction.

12. A semi-precious stone or gemstone carved in low relief is known as a:

a. cameo.

b. dado.

c. pilaster.

d. spandrel.

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13. The House of the Silver Wedding is so named because:

a. a silver plate depicting a marriage was found there.

b. the patrons who paid for the modern excavation were having their 50th wedding anniversary.

c. Roman documents unearthed there gave it that name.

d. a male and female body found in an embrace, both about age 75, was excavated there.

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14. What was the very important contributing tradition that resulted in Roman veristic portraiture?

a. Celebrity status of the gladiators

b. Fame of the Roman prostitutes

c. Death masks of deceased relatives

d. Honor given to the Roman senators

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15. Augustus's triumphal return to Rome after establishing Roman rule in Gaul is commemorated in the:

a. Augustus of Primaporta.

b. Temple of Portunus.

c. Gemma Augustea.

d. Ara Pacis.

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16. Which was the specialized art form developed by the Ottomans to symbolize the authority of the sultan on official seals, coins, buildings, and documents?

a. Arabesques

b. Tugras

c. Muqarnas

d. Madrasas

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17. Even after Constantinople fell to Islam, Byzantine art continued in _______.

a. Russian and Neo-Persian art

b. Islam and Eastern Orthodox Christian art

c. Roman Catholic and Protestant art

d. Russian and Protestant art

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18. The theme of wall paintings in the Villa of Mysteries is probably:

a. a Roman orgy.

b. divine justice.

c. initiation into the cult of Bacchus.

d. the Greek play Oedipus Rex.

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19. Which is NOT a type of decoration used at the Great Mosque in Cordoba?

a. Geometric motifs

b. Stylized vegetation

c. Arabic inscriptions

d. Human figures

20. Certain sculptural effects such as the circular patterns in the hair of the Young Flavian Woman are called:

a. drillwork.

b. openwork.

c. cloisonné.

d. undercutting.

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21. The history of Jewish art is fragmented because ________.

a. they forbade the use of images

b. the Jews were exiled from Israel by Hadrian

c. so much was destroyed through persecutions

d. so little was made of durable materials

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22. ______ was influence on the bowl with a Kufic border from Samarkand.

a. Chinese porcelain

b. Korean celadon

c. Greek pottery

d. Byzantine mosaic

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23. Later Byzantine architecture became more:

a. organic.

b. simple.

c. unadorned.

d. complex.

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24. Which is the highest art form in the Islamic world?

a. Sculpture

b. Weaving

c. Calligraphy

d. Painting

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25. The basic unit of Roman architecture is the:

a. round arch.

b. pier.

c. post and lintel.

d. truss.

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