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1. Rectangular glass-covered, boxlike buildings are examples of the International style in architecture.
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

2. The elephant in the Mastercard ad is used to communicate
-To children who might be future customers
-Cuteness that distracts from any possible problems with credit card debt
-How easy the product is to use
-All of the above (Choose the right answer)

3. Nancy Burson achieved a grainy, fuzzy look in her photographic series Faces by using a cheap plastic camera.
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

4. This work is by the important Dada and conceptual artist
-Marcel Duchamp
-Leonardo da Winci
-Rembrandt Wan Rijn (Choose the right answer)

5. In Hinduism a mudra is a symbolic hand gesture signifying imbalance.
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

6. Gothic cathedrals were all funded by and built in cities.
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

7. Balance can appear in which of the following ways.
-Movement, rhythm, or symmetry
-Movement, pattern, or asymmetry
-Symmetry, asymmetry, or radial symmetry (Choose the right answer)

8. The oldest method of printing is probably
A. Intaglio
B. Relief
C. Lithography (Choose the right answer)

9. In ___ printing, areas that are not to be printed are cut away from the printing surface, so the areas to be printed are left higher.
A. Screen
B. Monotype
C. Relief (Choose the right answer)

10. Chiaroscuro was first used by fifteenth century ___ painters to give the illusion of rounded forms on a flat surface.
A. French
B. Germans
C. Italians (Choose the right answer)

11. Most contemporary buildings used for the arts are built in architectural styles that reflect modern values of innovation, bold movement or future potential
True/False (Choose the right answer)

12. In many religions, simple geometric shapes can symbolize (a) God.
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

13. In Western culture, architecture is gendered - different styles are associated with certain qualities that are perceived to be masculine or feminine.
True/False (Choose the right answer)

14. The North American Sioux Hoop Dance celebrated ____.
-Springtime
-The reign of a chief
-The harvest (Choose the right answer)

15. ___ is a type of printmaking process which uses a slab of limestone of metal and oily crayons, pencils or liquid.
A. Lithography
B. Serigraphy
C. Aquatint (Choose the right answer)

16. Leni Riefenstahl died shortly after World War II ended.
True/False (Choose the right answer)

17. Geodesic domes are a type of small some used in early Roman residential architecture.
A. False
B. True (Choose the right answer)

18. The role of the art critic is ___.
A. To write material for museum exhibitions
B. To research art of the past and art of other cultures
C. To describe works of art and evaluate their significance (Choose the right answer)

19. Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.
-Found in both sexes
-A mark of masculinity
-Difficult and profound (Choose the right answer)

20. In some religions, flowers believe that deities can be present in a work of art.
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

21. Jean Tinguely's useless machines point out that technologies

-often have unforeseen consequences
-are everywhere in our lives
-can make our lives chaotic
-all of the above (Choose the right answer)

22. Vermeer mixed his own paint because he couldn't afford paint in tubes
A. True
B. False (Choose the right answer)

23. Sergei Eisenstein in The Battleship of Potemkin used film to
-glorify the martyrdom of the Russian people
-show the barbarism of the Czarist soldiers
-glorify the heroes of the Russian revolution
-all of these choices (Choose the right answer)

24. The Maori Meeting House represented the ____ of a great ancestor.
-Soul
-Wings
-Family
-Body (Choose the right answer)

25. Stylistically this painting would be categorized as ___ art.
A. Classical
B. Expressionist
C. Representational
D. Naturalistic (Choose the right answer)

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