Test Bank for A World of Art, 9th Edition by Henry M. Sayre
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Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
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1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture."
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Suchbuildings are praised for their
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A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows. bb bb
C) use of high-tech materials.
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D) lack of renewable resources.
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-01 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
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2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
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A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
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C) a universal concept of freedom.
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D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-02 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
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A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
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C) McCarthy era in the 1950s. bb bb bb bb
D) Desert Storm conflict. bb bb
Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-03 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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,4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
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A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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B) It is purely aesthetic.
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C) It is a fertility idol.
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D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-04 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
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A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
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possible.
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B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
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C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
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D) creating a large stone monument. bb bb bb bb
Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-05 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as
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closely aspossible.
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6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
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A) reception, extraction, inference bb bb
B) detection, processing, reference bb bb
C) looking, seeing, believing bb bb
D) reception, interpreting, understanding bb bb
Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-06 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
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7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les
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Demoisellesd'Avignon?
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B) Native American sites he visited bb bb bb bb
C) his collection of Asian ceramics
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D) the imagery on Korean tapestries
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-07 bb
Topic: The Creative Process—From Sketch to Final Vision—Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
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8. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be
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not merelyfunctional but
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A) aesthetic.
B) utilitarian.
C) objective.
D) iconographic.
Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-08 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) aesthetic.bb bb
9. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent
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hidden oruniversal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings, in
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A) religious art. bb
B) art based on close observation of one's immediate surroundings.
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C) contemporary art that deals with "identity politics." bb bb bb bb bb bb
D) political art. bb
Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-09 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) religious art.
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, 10. What was the reaction to Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase when
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it wasexhibited at the Armory Show in 1913?
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A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
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B) The public adored and praised the painting.
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C) It was voted "best in show" by the critics.
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D) It was so scandalous that it was never shown.
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Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-10 bb
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
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Answer: A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
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11. How did Michelangelo's David become political?
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A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the
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Medicifamily.
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B) It was placed in the gardens of the Medici palace as a symbol of the family's power.
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C) It was placed in a chapel in the Florence Cathedral.
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D) Its nudity was covered by a skirt of copper leaves.
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Difficulty: Difficult bb
QuestionID: 01-11 bb
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
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Skill: Apply What You Know
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Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
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Answer: A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom
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from theMedici family.
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12. The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by
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Congressin 1967, was
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A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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B) to censor art. bb bb
C) to give tax deductions to art gallery dealers and auction houses.
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D) to impose a state-sponsored artistic style.
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Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-12 bb
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
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Answer: A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
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1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture."
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Suchbuildings are praised for their
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A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows. bb bb
C) use of high-tech materials.
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D) lack of renewable resources.
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-01 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
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2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
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A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
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C) a universal concept of freedom.
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D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-02 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
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A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
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C) McCarthy era in the 1950s. bb bb bb bb
D) Desert Storm conflict. bb bb
Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-03 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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,4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
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A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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B) It is purely aesthetic.
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C) It is a fertility idol.
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D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-04 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
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A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
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possible.
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B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
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C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
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D) creating a large stone monument. bb bb bb bb
Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-05 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as
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closely aspossible.
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6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
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A) reception, extraction, inference bb bb
B) detection, processing, reference bb bb
C) looking, seeing, believing bb bb
D) reception, interpreting, understanding bb bb
Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-06 bb
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
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7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les
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Demoisellesd'Avignon?
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2
, A) African masks he saw at a Paris museumbb bb bb bb bb bb bb
B) Native American sites he visited bb bb bb bb
C) his collection of Asian ceramics
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D) the imagery on Korean tapestries
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Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-07 bb
Topic: The Creative Process—From Sketch to Final Vision—Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
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8. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be
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not merelyfunctional but
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A) aesthetic.
B) utilitarian.
C) objective.
D) iconographic.
Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-08 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) aesthetic.bb bb
9. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent
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hidden oruniversal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings, in
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A) religious art. bb
B) art based on close observation of one's immediate surroundings.
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C) contemporary art that deals with "identity politics." bb bb bb bb bb bb
D) political art. bb
Difficulty: Moderate bb
QuestionID: 01-09 bb
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume
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when theyengage in that process.
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Answer: A) religious art.
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, 10. What was the reaction to Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase when
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it wasexhibited at the Armory Show in 1913?
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A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
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B) The public adored and praised the painting.
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C) It was voted "best in show" by the critics.
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D) It was so scandalous that it was never shown.
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Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-10 bb
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
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Answer: A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
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11. How did Michelangelo's David become political?
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A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the
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Medicifamily.
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B) It was placed in the gardens of the Medici palace as a symbol of the family's power.
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C) It was placed in a chapel in the Florence Cathedral.
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D) Its nudity was covered by a skirt of copper leaves.
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Difficulty: Difficult bb
QuestionID: 01-11 bb
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
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Skill: Apply What You Know
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Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
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Answer: A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom
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from theMedici family.
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12. The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by
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Congressin 1967, was
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A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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B) to censor art. bb bb
C) to give tax deductions to art gallery dealers and auction houses.
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D) to impose a state-sponsored artistic style.
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Difficulty: Easy bb
QuestionID: 01-12 bb
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
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Answer: A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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