ARTS 1303 FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

ARTS 1303 FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Which artwork is exceptional among surviving Egyptian artworks because it is commemorative rather
than funerary in nature?
Answer:
Narmer's Palette

Question:
2. A number of prehistoric sculptures depict nude women, called what?
Answer:
Venuses

Question:
3. Ancient Sumer was not a unified nation but was made up of a dozen or so of these.
Answer:
city-states

Question:
4. Which place may have served to predict both lunar and solar eclipses, and was aligned with the rising
sun at the midsummer solstice?
Answer:
Stonehenge

Question:
5. The Neolithic first emerges in which ancient location?
Answer:
Near East

Question:
6. New Kingdom architecture is dominated by grandiose temples, often built to honor pharaohs and
queens, as well as gods. The most majestic of these royal mortuary temples was constructed for which
female pharaoh?
Answer:
Hatshepsut

Question:
7. The most conspicuous, preserved sculptural monuments of the Neo-Sumerian age portray the ensi of
Lagash, Gudea, in which material?
Answer:
diorite

Question:
8. The Sumerians built towering stepped platforms of mud bricks called what?

,Answer:
ziggurats

Question:
9. Guarding the gate to Sargon's Palace were colossal limestone what?
Answer:
monsters

Question:
10. During the brief heretical episode of this ruler, profound changes occurred in Egyptian art. This change
included: curving contours, long face, full lips, and heavy-lidded eyes. Which ruler was it?
Answer:
Akhenaton

Question:
11. A bearded bull's head decorates the sound box of a Sumerian lyre (harp).
Answer:
true

Question:
12. The brick or stone mastaba, with sloping sides, was a standard type of tomb in early Egypt.
Answer:
true

Question:
13. At Gizeh, the three Great Pyramids were built in the course of 75 years, and they are symbols of the
moon.
Answer:
false

Question:
14. The oldest paintings in Africa were thought to be portable objects (painted stone plaques) but were
really fragments that fell from the cave's ceiling.
Answer:
true

Question:
15. The most important source of knowledge about Persian art and architecture is the ceremonial and
administrative complex on the citadel at Persepolis.
Answer:
true

Question:
16. Sculptures created images of the deceased to serve as abodes for the Ka, should the mummies be
destroyed.
Answer:
true

,Question:
17. A life-like head of a woman (possibly Inanna) carved from imported white marble, originally had
inlaid eyes and eyebrows, and other attachments such as a wig and a beard.
Answer:
false

Question:
18. Paintings of bears dominate the first chamber in the extensively decorated caves at Lascaux.
Answer:
false

Question:
19. The site of Jericho, a plateau in the Jordan River valley, built the first known permanent stone
fortifications.
Answer:
true

Question:
20. In Egyptian tombs, the deceased were always exclusively represented in freestanding statuary.
Answer:
false

Question:
21. Please arrange the following Egyptian time periods/civilizations in Chronological order (earliest to
latest).
Answer:
1. Predynastic & Early Dynastic
2. Old Kingdom
3. Middle Kingdom
4. New Kingdom
5. First Millennium

Question:
22. Following the destruction of the original temples by the Persians, what was rebuilt during the Age of
Pericles to celebrate the accomplishment of Athens?
Answer:
the Acropolis of Athens

Question:
23. A masterpiece of Etruscan bronze-casting, found in 1553, that was greatly admired during the
Renaissance is titled what?
Answer:
Chimera of Arezzo

Question:
24. Large underground Etruscan burial chambers, carved out of natural rock, were the norm at which
location?

, Answer:
Tarquinia

Question:
25. Which period of Greek sculpture exhibits a "baroque" exaggeration of form and emotional intensity?
Answer:
Hellenistic period

Question:
26. A Mycenaean life-size beaten gold mask and bronze dagger blades are both examples of what?
Answer:
metal work

Question:
27. Assess the uniqueness of the Harvester Vase:
Answer:
The Minoan artist created a vibrant, moving group by using curving line and gesture to illustrate the
'riotous crowd singing and shouting.' The sculptor has also paid careful attention to the musculature and
skeletal structure of the human body- one of the first instances of a sculptor showing a keen interest in this.

Question:
28. During the 7th and 8th centuries B.C.E., the Etruscans enriched by trade, were regarded as highly
skilled what?
Answer:
sea farers

Question:
29. A new ceramic technique invented by the Corinthians, which adorned vases with orientalizing animal
friezes, is labeled by art historians as what?
Answer:
Black Figure Painting

Question:
30. For the more affluent members of Minoan civilization, the walls of palaces and houses were painted
with frescoes showing various aspects of Minoan life, as well as images taken from where?
Answer:
nature

Question:
31. Which "epic hero" was born in Pella, the capital of Macedonia, and is represented in a tesserae mosaic?
Answer:
Alexander the Great

Question:
32. The kingdom of Pergamon was embellished with two important monuments commemorating the defeat
of the invading Gauls: a statuary group set up on the city's acropolis, and a massive Ionic altar with a frieze
showing the battle of the gods and giants.