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ART 101 Prehistoric, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aegean
ART 101 Prehistoric, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aegean
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1
This image of birds and animals is an example of true Fresco painting.
False
True
2
This Neo-Babylonian wall was originally one of the Seven Wonders but was removed.
The Hanging Gardens
The Great Pyramids
The Ishtar Gate
The Great Gudea Bridge
3
What might have influenced the design of these columns from Knossos?
Mario plungers
Egyptian Lotus flower columns
Greek Doric columns
Egyptian reed bundles
4
This is one of the largest known caves with prehistoric paintings.
Altamira Cave
Pech-Merle Cave
Lascaux cave
Chauvet Cave
5
What is an early Egyptian tomb with sloping sides erected over and underground burial chamber?
A stepped pyramid
A sphinx
A pyramid
Mastaba
6
This image of Bull Leaping from Knossos is an example of a true fresco.
True
False
7
What is Stonehenge?
An astronomical observatory
A sacred place for ritual sacrifices.
A calendar
A circular ring of post-and-lintle megalithic stones
8
How is this image different than Paleolithic imagery?
The use of bitumen as paint
The use of a ground line
The use of animals as holy creatures
An organized narrative with both man and animals
9
What did Akhenaton change when he became Pharaoh?
The canon of Egyptian art
His pants
The religion
The role of family
10
What is a Lamassu?
The gods of the Assyrians
Creatures to protect the Assyrian kings
A form of an early sphinx
Winged lions with the head of a man
11
What was the first form of writing?
Demotic
Hieroglyphs
Greek
Cuneiform
12
What is the most impressive Neo-Sumerian monument used to worship the gods.
The Ziggurat at Ur
Hagar Qim at Malta
The Tower of Babel
The White Ziggurat
13
Why is the
Palette of King Narmer
unique?
It is a eye make-up pallet
It pictures the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
commemorative rather than funerary
It is made of stone
14
Name the artist.
Tutmoses
Inhometep
Imhotep
Thutmose
15
A megalithic tomb - several chambers that light could not reach except on the winter solstice.
ÇatalHöyük, Turkey
Stonehenge
Corbeled Dome passage grave from Newgrange, Ireland
Hagar Qim from Malta
16
Gudea is found in temples exposing one shoulder, hands clasped in prayer, and wearing a hat.
True
False
17
What Egyptian period is this temple from?
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Old Kingdom
18
What was the canon that was so profoundly important to ancient Egyptian art?
The proper way of preparing the dead for the afterlife
The book of the dead
A set of rules about making images
A really big gun
19
What is the earliest known sculpture?
The Makapansgat pebble
Human with feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel
Venus of Willendorf
Woman holding a bison horn from Laussel
20
What is a Megalith?
A great stone
A post and lintel construction
Megatron's sister
A really big elevator
21
Whose mortuary temple was moved?
Hatshepsut
Akhenaton
Khafre
Ramses II
22
This was the earliest Neolithic settlement.
Jordan
Jericho
ÇatalHöyük
Newgrange
23
Which pharaoh is represented in this statue?
Menkaure
Khameremebty
Khufu
Khafre
24
Which Pharaoh does the Great Sphinx probably represent?
Khafre
Khufu
Hatshepsut
Menkaure
25
What is the name of this fertility object?
The Venus of Willendorf
The Venus of Wensleydale
The Venus of Wilfredorf
The Venus of Waldorf
26
What is the Stele of Hammurabi?
The first example of the god Shamash
A bronze statue made to withstand any damage
The first laws written down
An example of a king becoming a god
27
What was the purpose of the open-eyed stares of the votive statues of ancient Sumer?
Statues of fertility
Eternal wakefulness and duty
Funerary vessels
They were representations of the gods/goddesses
28
Cecilia Gimenez is one of the 21th centuries most popular fresco restorationists.
True
False
29
What caused the most significant human change and marks the start of the Neolithic period?
Walled cities
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Megalith Constructions
Stonehenge
30
What Egyptian period is this temple from?
New Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Old Kingdom
31
Which is not true about Hatshepsut?
She was one of the greatest Pharaohs of all time
Thutmose III tried to erase her from history
Senmut was her Chancellor and possibly her lover
She ruled as regent while her son was too young to be king.
32
What is not written on the Rosetta Stone
Greek
Egyption Hieroglyphs
Cuneiform
Demotic
33
What architectural element at Karnak shows the Egyptians solution to a construction problem?
Windows
A wider center isle allowing light to come through
A raised central roof permitting light into the interior
The use of stone columns that appear like clusters of reeds
34
How do you spell the name used for a king of Egypt?
Pheroh
Pharaoh
Ferou
Ferro
35
What is the Mona Lisa of the Middle East and thought to be the head of Inanna?
The victory stele of Eannatum
Statuettes of worshipers
The Warka Vase
The Warka Mask
