All weeks quiz

week 2 quiz

Question 1

 

 

Neolithic Nok heads have an artistry based upon

 

Question 2

 

 

Why did the Neolithic era witness increased pottery creation?

 

Question 3

 

 

The Anasazi built their kivas with a small, round hole in the floor to

 

Question 4

 

 

Why might the Olmec have carved their leaders’ heads in colossal size?

 

Question 5

 

 

The Ise shrine is razed and then rebuilt every 20 years to

 

Question 6

 

 

Why is the Epic of Gilgamesh a first in known literary works?

 

Question 7

 

 

Why is the legend of Sargon I considered a "rags to riches" story?

 

Question 8

 

 

As noted in the chapter's "Continuity and Change' section, what most distinguishes Mesopotamia from Egypt?

 

Question 9

 

 

What were ziggurats most likely designed to resemble?

 

Question 10

 

 

How did the Mesopotamians view human society?

 

week 3 quiz

Question 1

 

 

Why did the Egyptians go to such lengths to preserve the dead?

 

Question 2

 

 

Why can the reliefs on Ramses II's pylon gate at Luxor be viewed as propaganda rather than historical?

 

Question 3

 

 

What is one of the greatest changes that took place during the Middle Kingdom?

 

Question 4

 

 

Which god did the Egyptians believe the king personified?

 

Question 5

 

 

Why is Nebamun Hunting Birds a sort of visual pun?

 

Question 6

 

 

Why is the palace at Knossos known as the House of the Double Axes?

 

Question 7

 

 

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change," which of the following cultures seems to have had the greatest influence on Archaic Greek sculpture?

 

Question 8

 

 

Why are the more than 100 Aegean islands between mainland Greece and Crete known as the Cyclades?

 

Question 9

 

 

The term ceramics comes from which of the following?

 

Question 10

 

 

What does the Greek word archaiologia mean?

 

week 4 quiz

 

Question 1

 

 

Why was entasis, each column swelling about a third of the way up, employed in the Parthenon?

 

Question 2

 

 

What qualities define Hellenistic art?

 

Question 3

 

 

Why did fifth-century Greeks not see themselves as at the mercy of the gods?

 

Question 4

 

 

Why can Hellenistic sculpture be equated with Aristotle's idea of catharsis?

 

Question 5

 

 

How did Socrates' view of the good, the true, and the just disagree with that of the Sophists?

 

Question 6

 

 

Why is Pompeii such an important archaeological site?

 

Question 7

 

 

Why was the Pantheon constructed with a 30-foot-diameter oculus (hole) in its roof?

 

Question 8

 

 

Why is Cupid riding a dolphin shown at Augustus's feet on the sculpture Augustus of Primaporta?

 

Question 9

 

 

Why did Rome have multiple forums?

 

Question 10

 

Why was the Arch of Titus constructed?

 

week 5 quiz

Question 1

 

 

In which river's valley did the Chinese people first settle around 7000 BCE?

 

Question 2

 

 

Why around 1500 BCE did the longest-lasting class system begin in India?

 

Question 3

 

 

Why did Ashoka decry violence in 261 BCE and turn to Buddhism?

 

Question 4

 

 

Why did Confucianism become extremely popular among Chinese leaders and the artists they patronized?

 

Question 5

 

 

Why have archaeologists been unable to find many ancient Chinese edifices?

 

Question 6

 

 

As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why is Venice home to a vast amount of Byzantine art?

 

Question 7

 

 

Why did the San Vitale artists depict their subjects in reverse perspective and in shallow space?

 

Question 8

 

 

According to the evangelist Paul, what did sinners have to do to earn redemption?

 

Question 9

 

 

Why had Judaism split into three distinct sects by the early first century CE?

 

Question 10

 

 

Why, by the fifth and sixth centuries, was Ravenna the most prosperous city in the West?

 

week 6 quiz

 

Question 1

 

 

What does the word Islam mean?

 

Question 2

 

 

Why did the Spanish Jews welcome the Muslim invasion?

 

Question 3

 

 

Why in the Qur'an are Muslim women advised to dress modestly?

 

Question 4

 

 

Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)?

 

Question 5

 

 

Why does an author use a framing tale?

 

Question 6

 

 

According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, if Romanesque style represented rural monastic life, what did the Gothic style reflect?

 

Question 7

 

 

What leads to Roland's death in the Song of Roland?

 

Question 8

 

 

What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church?

 

Question 9

 

 

Why were Romanesque churches' portals of special importance?

 

Question 10

 

 

What in the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy made it a popular pilgrimage destination?

 

week 7 quiz

 

Question 1

 

 

Why is a dancing Shiva commonly portrayed within a circle of fire?

 

Question 2

 

 

Why did the Incas build the remote Machu Picchu, high in the Andes?

 

Question 3

 

 

After the Han dynasty fell in 220 CE, why did the Chinese reject Confucianism for Buddhism?

 

Question 4

 

 

What immediate act by the first shogun, Yoritomo, defined his rule?

 

Question 5

 

 

Why did the Benin build the massive earthwork walls and moats around their capital city?

 

Question 6

 

 

Why was "Gothic" as applied to France's new architecture originally a derogatory term?

 

Question 7

 

 

Which of the following innovations was key in Gothic architecture?

 

Question 8

 

 

What religious relic does Chartres Cathedral house?

 

Question 9

 

 

Why is the Jesse tree a common stained-glass motif?

 

Question 10

 

 

Why was Bruges, in Flanders, such a desirable place to live in the late Middle Ages?

 

week 8 quiz

 

Question 1

 

 

According to legend, who founded Siena?

 

Question 2

 

 

Which guild in pre-1355 Siena was most powerful?

 

Question 3

 

 

What literary trend does Boccaccio's Decameron introduce into Western literature?

 

Question 4

 

 

Why is the camel in Giotto's Adoration of the Magi not exactly realistic?

 

Question 5

 

 

What was the Florentine bankers' most important invention?

 

Question 6

 

 

Why were the Medici the most powerful family in Florence from 1418-1494?

 

Question 7

 

 

According to Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man, what great gift makes humans "the most fortunate of living things"?

 

Question 8

 

 

Why are Ghiberti's doors known as the Gates of Paradise?

 

Question 9

 

 

Why does Michelangelo's Moses have horns?

 

Question 10

 

 

Why is Leonardo's Last Supper fresco in very bad shape today?

 

week 9 quiz

Question 1

 

 

Why did Pope Julius II wish to identify himself with Julius Caesar?

 

Question 2

 

 

What visual effect does Michelangelo's Laurentian Library steps create?

 

Question 3

 

 

Why were Josquin des Prez's polyphonic compositions so popular that they were widely performed even after his death?

 

Question 4

 

 

In The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, what does Lucretia Marinella claim motivated men who denigrate women?

 

Question 5

 

 

Why did the pope elected in 1503 take the name Julius?

 

Question 6

 

 

Who is reflected in the mirror in Jan van Eyck's double portrait Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami?

 

Question 7

 

 

For what setting does the size of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece suggest that it was designed?

 

Question 8

 

 

What was a major advantage of tapestries as decorations?

 

Question 9

 

 

What did patrons of works such as Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece and Jan and Hubert van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece hope to gain through their financial support?

 

Question 10

 

 

Where is Morris dancing believed to have originated?

 

week 10 quiz

Question 1

 

 

Why did Michel de Montaigne's wealthy father send him away at birth to be raised by peasants?

 

Question 2

 

 

As pointed out in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why did the Roman Catholics increase the elaborateness of their churches in retaliation against Protestant simplicity?

 

Question 3

 

 

Why did the Church excommunicate Luther in 1521?

 

Question 4

 

 

Why did The Nuremberg Chronicle's illustrators not concern themselves with depicting the different cities accurately?

 

Question 5

 

 

In both Melancholia I and Adam and Eve, what does light represent?

 

Question 6

 

 

Why did karesansui (dry) landscape gardens become popular around Kyoto?

 

Question 7

 

 

How did the Spanish plan to raise the native populations from "barbarous" conditions?

 

Question 8

 

 

Why did Chan Buddhism appeal to the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Japanese daimyo?

 

Question 9

 

 

Why did the Spanish melt down the gold and silver artifacts from the conquest?

 

Question 10

 

 

Why is much in the Forbidden City based on the number 9?

 

 

week 11 quiz

Question 1

 

 

Where in an English sonnet is the resolution or explanation?

 

Question 2

 

 

How was London's government unique in Renaissance Europe?

 

Question 3

 

 

What did the sale of church lands enable England's Parliament to do?

 

Question 4

 

 

Which of the following would NOT be part of More's ideal society or utopia?

 

Question 5

 

 

Why is Hamlet the most desired role and the most often performed character in the history of the English stage?

 

Question 6

 

 

What does the Italian mano, the root of maniera, mean?

 

Question 7

 

 

What does the Italian word maniera, from which Mannerist derives, mean?

 

Question 8

 

 

Why is Rape of the Sabine Women considered sculptural genius?

 

Question 9

 

 

How did Palestrina's Missa Papae Macellus conform to the Council of Trent's requirements?

 

Question 10

 

 

Why did the Council of Trent insist on the use of religious imagery?

 

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