CHAPTER 6
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED
A+<RECENT VERSION>
1. What do the many symbols in Jan van Eyck's Wedding Portrait include? -
answer A dog and a mirror
2. What is the English translation for Japanese shunga prints? - answer
Spring pictures
3. What was an odalisque a member of? - answer A harem
4. What do Georgia O'Keeffe's works often feature? - answer Flowers
5. What was the prevailing attitude toward fertility in prehistoric times? -
answer It was an important concern.
6. What did the Moche, the Maya, and Alice Neel create versions of? -
answer Pregnant women
7. Which element did ancient cities require in order to function? -
answer Major rivers
,8. In Mesopotamia, what kind of symbols developed into the first writing? -
answer Cuneiform
9. Which of the following did early cities in the New Stone Age foster? -
answer Division of labour
10.Mesopotamia, the site of the early city-states, takes its name from its
location between two rivers the Tigris and which other river? - answer
Euphrates
11.Which feature characterizes Moche pottery? - answer Naturalistic
imagery of everyday life
12.Thinking about the historical context of India, which of the following
statements characterizes images of ideal erotic sexuality? - answer
Common in temples and miniature paintings
13.What term is used for when an artist paints thickly and directly onto the
canvas? - answer Alla prima
14.With what have many critics associated Georgia O'Keeffe's imagery? -
answer Female sexual organs
15.What do we call the stiff, angular marble figures from the Cycladic
Islands, often found in burial sites? - answer Plank idols
16.Oceanic sculptures such as God Th Rongo and His Three Sons were
created for religious rituals What is another term for the specialists, called
Ta'unga, who carved them? - answer Priest
, 17.What was the intended purpose of Potawatomi figures? - answer
Control human behaviours and health
18.Which of the following is associated with creation myths and was
considered the mother and father of all humankind? - answer
Primordial couple
19.Near the confluence of major rivers, which Native American society built
large, truncated pyramid mounds topped with temples? - answer
Mississippians
20.Which category of art depicts erotic imagery? - answer Shunga
21.How was sexuality incorporated into ancient Roman visual culture? -
answer Scenes of lovemaking were found in homes on ordinary
objects such as lamps.
22.What's an example of how the gaze is used within art history? -
answer It's a privileged, one-directional mode of looking, such as
when a European male looks upon a nude painting of a harem member.
23.Which statement characterizes the tradition of nineteenth-century French
paintings of nude women? - answer Manet's Olhympia disrupted prior
norms by showing the woman with a commanding presence.
24.Which artwork incorporates a politicized depiction of sexuality? -
answer Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Tour body is a battleground)
25.What is the Venus of Willendorfa statue of? - answer An anonymous
fertile woman
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED
A+<RECENT VERSION>
1. What do the many symbols in Jan van Eyck's Wedding Portrait include? -
answer A dog and a mirror
2. What is the English translation for Japanese shunga prints? - answer
Spring pictures
3. What was an odalisque a member of? - answer A harem
4. What do Georgia O'Keeffe's works often feature? - answer Flowers
5. What was the prevailing attitude toward fertility in prehistoric times? -
answer It was an important concern.
6. What did the Moche, the Maya, and Alice Neel create versions of? -
answer Pregnant women
7. Which element did ancient cities require in order to function? -
answer Major rivers
,8. In Mesopotamia, what kind of symbols developed into the first writing? -
answer Cuneiform
9. Which of the following did early cities in the New Stone Age foster? -
answer Division of labour
10.Mesopotamia, the site of the early city-states, takes its name from its
location between two rivers the Tigris and which other river? - answer
Euphrates
11.Which feature characterizes Moche pottery? - answer Naturalistic
imagery of everyday life
12.Thinking about the historical context of India, which of the following
statements characterizes images of ideal erotic sexuality? - answer
Common in temples and miniature paintings
13.What term is used for when an artist paints thickly and directly onto the
canvas? - answer Alla prima
14.With what have many critics associated Georgia O'Keeffe's imagery? -
answer Female sexual organs
15.What do we call the stiff, angular marble figures from the Cycladic
Islands, often found in burial sites? - answer Plank idols
16.Oceanic sculptures such as God Th Rongo and His Three Sons were
created for religious rituals What is another term for the specialists, called
Ta'unga, who carved them? - answer Priest
, 17.What was the intended purpose of Potawatomi figures? - answer
Control human behaviours and health
18.Which of the following is associated with creation myths and was
considered the mother and father of all humankind? - answer
Primordial couple
19.Near the confluence of major rivers, which Native American society built
large, truncated pyramid mounds topped with temples? - answer
Mississippians
20.Which category of art depicts erotic imagery? - answer Shunga
21.How was sexuality incorporated into ancient Roman visual culture? -
answer Scenes of lovemaking were found in homes on ordinary
objects such as lamps.
22.What's an example of how the gaze is used within art history? -
answer It's a privileged, one-directional mode of looking, such as
when a European male looks upon a nude painting of a harem member.
23.Which statement characterizes the tradition of nineteenth-century French
paintings of nude women? - answer Manet's Olhympia disrupted prior
norms by showing the woman with a commanding presence.
24.Which artwork incorporates a politicized depiction of sexuality? -
answer Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Tour body is a battleground)
25.What is the Venus of Willendorfa statue of? - answer An anonymous
fertile woman
