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