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