Arts 1303 Final Exam Updated Questions And Correct Answers

ARTS 1303 FINAL EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Which artwork is exceptional among surviving Egyptian artworks because it is commemorative
rather than funer-ary in nature?
Answer:
Narmer's Palette

Question:
2. A number of prehis-toric sculptures de-pict 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 pre-dict 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 ar-chitecture is domi-nated by grandiose temples, often built to honor pharaohs and
queens, as well as gods. The most majes-tic of these roy-al mortuary tem-ples was construct-ed for
which female pharaoh?
Answer:
Hatshepsut

Question:
7. The most conspic-uous, preserved sculptural monu-ments 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 lime-stone what?
Answer:
monsters

Question:
10. During the brief heretical episode of this ruler, profound changes occurred in Egyptian art. This
change includ-ed: curving con-tours, long face, full lips, and heavy-lid-ded 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 slop-ing sides, was a standard type of tomb in early Egypt.
Answer:
true

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

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

Question:
15. The most impor-tant source of knowledge about Persian art and ar-chitecture is the ceremonial
and ad-ministrative com-plex on the citadel at Persepolis.
Answer:
true

Question:
16. Sculptures created images of the de-ceased to serve as abodes for the Ka, should the mum-mies be
destroyed.
Answer:
true

,Question:
17. A life-like head of a woman (possibly Inanna) carved from im-ported white mar-ble, originally
had inlaid eyes and eye-brows, and other attachments such as a wig and a beard.
Answer:
false

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

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

Question:
20. In Egyptian tombs, the deceased were always exclusive-ly represented in freestanding statu-ary.
Answer:
false

Question:
21. Please arrange the following Egyptian time periods/civi-lizations in Chrono-logical order
(earli-est to latest).
Answer:
1. Predynastic & Early Dynastic
2. Old Kingdom
3. Middle Kingdom
4. New Kingdom
5. First Millennium

Question:
22. Following the de-struction 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 master-piece of Etr-uscan bronze-cast-ing, found in 1553, that was greatly ad-mired during the
Renaissance is ti-tled what?
Answer:
Chimera of Arezzo

Question:
24. Large under-ground Etruscan burial chambers, carved out of nat-ural rock, were the norm at
which loca-tion?

, Answer:
Tarquinia

Question:
25. Which period of Greek sculpture ex-hibits a "baroque" exaggeration of form and emotion-al
intensity?
Answer:
Hellenistic period

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

Question:
27. Assess the unique-ness of the Har-vester 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 en-riched by trade, were regarded as highly
skilled what?
Answer:
sea farers

Question:
29. A new ceramic technique invented by the Corinthians, which adorned vas-es with orientaliz-ing
animal friezes, is labeled by art his-torians as what?
Answer:
Black Figure Painting

Question:
30. For the more af-fluent members of Minoan civilization, the walls of palaces and houses were
painted with fres-coes showing vari-ous aspects of Mi-noan life, as well as images taken from where?
Answer:
nature

Question:
31. Which "epic hero" was born in Pella, the capital of Mace-donia, and is repre-sented in a tesser-ae
mosaic?
Answer:
Alexander the Great