NAMS 205 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED
The same assimilationist policies that threatened Native American cultural survival also
led indirectly to the establishment of specialized institutions for the training of Native
artists. (True or False?) - Answer- true
Which of the following are among the three factors that created conditions for the full
scale-scale
emergence of a Native American tradition of 'fine arts'? (Please circle all that apply):
A. scattered but crucial opportunities for training in Western art
B. expansion of the market
C. anti-modernist orientation of non-Native consumers
D. drastic population decline - Answer- A. scattered but crucial opportunities for training
in Western art
B. expansion of the market
C. anti-modernist orientation of non-Native consumers
Edgar Heap of Birds' "Building Minnesota" is an example of art.
(Please circle the
correct answer):
A. traditional Indian
B. neo-Cubist
C. site specific
D. nouveau impressionist - Answer- C. site specific
Which of the following are the two types of object emphasized in lecture that are
decorated with beadwork in the Great Plains region? (Please circle the correct
answers):
A) cradleboards
B) arrows
C) shields
D) moccasins - Answer- A) cradleboards
D) moccasins
Artifacts found in Lovelock Cave (Nevada) suggest that ancestral peoples of the Great
Basin lived (please circle the correct answer):
A. in huge mound complexes
B. exclusively on mountaintops
C. on a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the coast
D. around lakes - Answer- D. around lakes
, The work of the "Kiowa Five" synthesized their historical and artistic traditions with a
modern , style. (Please circle the correct answer):
A. flat, decorative
B. abstract, expressionistic
C. fresh, exciting
D. vivid, colorful - Answer- A. flat, decorative
A series of exhibits in North America and Europe championed the Oklahoma and Santa
Fe Studio art and established it as the normative style for Indian painting between 1930
and 1960. They included (Please circle all that apply):
A. The 1931 Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts.
B. The 1978 Abigail Studio Show.
C. The 1941 New York Museum of Modern Art show devoting all three floors to "Indian
Art of the United States."
D. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. - Answer- A. The 1931 Exposition of
Indian Tribal Arts.
C. The 1941 New York Museum of Modern Art show devoting all three floors to "Indian
Art of the United States."
D. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
In the 1930s, WPA-funded mural projects commissioned Native American artists to
decorate public buildings like schools, libraries, post offices, and other public buildings
in the West and Southwest. (True or False?) - Answer- true
Yankton Lakota artist Oscar Howe was rejected by the Philbrook Annual Exhibition in
1958 because his art did not fit the directors' definition of "Native American art." (True or
False?) - Answer- true
The most important institutional force in the development of modernist Native American
art was an art school founded in 1962 on the site of Dorothy Dunn's Studio School in
Santa Fe. It is called:
A. The Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA)
B. The Institute of Indigenous American Art (IIAA)
C. The American Indian Art Institute (AIAI)
D. The North American Native Art Institute (NANAI) - Answer- A. The Institute of
American Indian Art (IAIA)
The need to counter ethnographic and popular stereotypes of Indians has led some
Native American artists to use ironic and critical strategies deriving from pop art to draw
attention to the gap between stereotypical constructions of Native identity and actual
20th Century Native lives. (True or False?) - Answer- true
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED
The same assimilationist policies that threatened Native American cultural survival also
led indirectly to the establishment of specialized institutions for the training of Native
artists. (True or False?) - Answer- true
Which of the following are among the three factors that created conditions for the full
scale-scale
emergence of a Native American tradition of 'fine arts'? (Please circle all that apply):
A. scattered but crucial opportunities for training in Western art
B. expansion of the market
C. anti-modernist orientation of non-Native consumers
D. drastic population decline - Answer- A. scattered but crucial opportunities for training
in Western art
B. expansion of the market
C. anti-modernist orientation of non-Native consumers
Edgar Heap of Birds' "Building Minnesota" is an example of art.
(Please circle the
correct answer):
A. traditional Indian
B. neo-Cubist
C. site specific
D. nouveau impressionist - Answer- C. site specific
Which of the following are the two types of object emphasized in lecture that are
decorated with beadwork in the Great Plains region? (Please circle the correct
answers):
A) cradleboards
B) arrows
C) shields
D) moccasins - Answer- A) cradleboards
D) moccasins
Artifacts found in Lovelock Cave (Nevada) suggest that ancestral peoples of the Great
Basin lived (please circle the correct answer):
A. in huge mound complexes
B. exclusively on mountaintops
C. on a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the coast
D. around lakes - Answer- D. around lakes
, The work of the "Kiowa Five" synthesized their historical and artistic traditions with a
modern , style. (Please circle the correct answer):
A. flat, decorative
B. abstract, expressionistic
C. fresh, exciting
D. vivid, colorful - Answer- A. flat, decorative
A series of exhibits in North America and Europe championed the Oklahoma and Santa
Fe Studio art and established it as the normative style for Indian painting between 1930
and 1960. They included (Please circle all that apply):
A. The 1931 Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts.
B. The 1978 Abigail Studio Show.
C. The 1941 New York Museum of Modern Art show devoting all three floors to "Indian
Art of the United States."
D. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. - Answer- A. The 1931 Exposition of
Indian Tribal Arts.
C. The 1941 New York Museum of Modern Art show devoting all three floors to "Indian
Art of the United States."
D. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
In the 1930s, WPA-funded mural projects commissioned Native American artists to
decorate public buildings like schools, libraries, post offices, and other public buildings
in the West and Southwest. (True or False?) - Answer- true
Yankton Lakota artist Oscar Howe was rejected by the Philbrook Annual Exhibition in
1958 because his art did not fit the directors' definition of "Native American art." (True or
False?) - Answer- true
The most important institutional force in the development of modernist Native American
art was an art school founded in 1962 on the site of Dorothy Dunn's Studio School in
Santa Fe. It is called:
A. The Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA)
B. The Institute of Indigenous American Art (IIAA)
C. The American Indian Art Institute (AIAI)
D. The North American Native Art Institute (NANAI) - Answer- A. The Institute of
American Indian Art (IAIA)
The need to counter ethnographic and popular stereotypes of Indians has led some
Native American artists to use ironic and critical strategies deriving from pop art to draw
attention to the gap between stereotypical constructions of Native identity and actual
20th Century Native lives. (True or False?) - Answer- true
