Question 1. In semiotics, the four letters p-i-p-e constitute
a sign
etymology
a signifier
a signified
Question 2. Which is not a formal element of art?
shapes
planes
deconstruction
lines
Question 3. Ferdinand de Saussure is most associated with
iconology
deconstruction
psychoanalysis
semiology
Question 4. Complementary colors are
one removed from each other on the color wheel
next to each other on the color wheel
not on the color wheel
opposite each other on the color wheel
Question 5. Morphe is the Greek word for
sleep
shape
movement
line
Question 6. A diptych is a
repeated image
two-part sculpture
double building
two-paneled painting
Question 7. Two types of balance are
plane and composition
low relief and high relief
symmetry and asymmetry
formal and stylistic
Question 8. Intrinsic value means
the assessment of aesthetic character
the religious value of a work
the genetic value of a work
the patriotic assessment of a work
Question 9. The primary colors are
green, red, yellow
red, blue, green
red, yellow, blue
black, gray, white
Question 10. Sigmund Freud is most associated with
feminism
deconstruction
semiology
psychoanalysis and psychobiography
Question 11. All these terms refer to color purity except
chroma
saturation
hue
intensity
Question 12. Who said, "One does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible?"
van Gogh
Oppenheim
Whistler
van Eyck
Question 13. The "art train" refers to
a trail of stolen art
Goering's cache of stolen art
a national museum housed in a railroad station
a training school
Question 14. The Greek word chroma means
value
color
chrome
colorless
Question 15. The Apocrypha refer to
the unaccepted books of the Bible
the end of the world
the last book of the Bible
a commentary on the Bible
Question 16. Wandjina are
shaman
Mimi hunters
cloud spirits
Aboriginal kangaroos
Question 17. The term "Paleolithic" refers to the
Middle Stone Age
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
Bronze Age
Question 18. Which term is not related to making sculpture?
relief
modeling
post and lintel
carving
Question 19. The oldest know Aboriginal rock painting style is
Mimi
x-ray
megalithic
Dreaming
Question 20. A trilithon is a
pair of posts and single lintel
a fossil
three posts and lintels
a triple stone
Question 21. The main shapes in the Venus of Willendorf are
oval
cubic
triangular
rectangular
Question 22. Which of the following is not found at Lascaux?
reindeer
horses
a horned owl
bulls
Question 23. Who of the following was never involved in studying cave paintings?
Henri Breuil
Pech-Merle
Leroi-Gourhan
Reinach
Question 24. As used in this text, a relief refers to
a category of sculpture
a post and lintel
a rest
a painted image
Question 25. Which of the following does not have a representation of a bison?
Tuc d'Audoubert
Stonehenge
La Madelaine
Altamira
Question 26. Old Stone Age people
used stone tools
built stone tombs
worshipped in stone temples
had stone houses
Question 27. Which is not a subject of Aboriginal rock painting?
buffalo
human forms
Wandjina
kangaroos
Question 28. In which of the following modern countries have almost three thousand menhirs been found?
India
United States
Russia
France
Question 29. Who built Stonehenge?
King Arthur
Paleolithic people
Druids
Beaker People
Question 30. Stonehenge is located at
Marlborough Downs
Sussex
Salisbury Plain
Carnac
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Question 31. Which is not connected to Stonehenge?
Heel Stone
Camelot
Sarsen
Aubrey Holes
Question 32. Which is true of the Beaker People?
they were literate
they were nomads
they hunted ducks
they made pottery
Question 33. An important cultural change from Paleolithic to Neolithic is
from nomadic to agricultural
from megalithic to caves
from pottery to sculpture
from warlike to peaceful
Question 34. The caves at Altamira share certain things in common with Lascaux
they are in France
they are in flat, lake country
they contain remarkable Paleolithic depictions of animals
a, b, and c
Question 35. Paleolithic paintings of animals usually have been found
on rock faces open to the light of day
in Neolithic shelters
in the uninhabited depths of caves
at the mouths of caves
Question 36. The most important Paleolithic cave paintings are located in
Spain
France
England
a and b
Question 37. Additive sculpture uses
granite
clay
wood
marble
Question 38. Pigment is
a racial characteristic
painted relief
watercolor
color
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Question 39. The so-called Shaman cave painting is at
Trois-Freres
Lascaux
Pech-Merle
Chauvet
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Question 40. Paleolithic paintings are not
capturing the essence of certain species
created with the illusion of movement
abstract
a symbolic capture of the animal