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1
Why was the Kritios Boy sculpture so important?
Earliest Greek Sculpture
Showed Hercules
Marks transition to realism in Greek sculpture
Belonged to Alexander the Great
2
The earliest / oldest style of Greek pottery was...
Geometric
Black Figure
Red Figure
Hellenistic
3
Polychromy is the art historical word for...
The relaxed standing pose used in late Greek sculptures
Painting sculptures in multiple bright colors
Showing more than one body in a work of art
Focusing on the nude figure in art
4
Most Greek sculptures were not white - they were painted bright colors.
True
False
5
The Elgin Marbles were originally a part of the...
Epidaurus Theater
Lincoln Memorial
Parthenon
Great Ziggurat of Ur
6
Inside the Parthenon, there was originally a...
Relief sculpture of 92 figures representing the gods
Giant sculpture of Athena, goddess of wisdom, crafts, and battle strategy
Giant sculpture of Nike, the goddess of victory
Starbucks and McDonalds
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Which of these is NOT a type of ancient Greek column?
Corinthian
Ionic
Hellenistic
Doric
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Which of these is not a style of Greek vase painting?
Red Figure
Contrapposto
Geometric
Black Figure
9
The most realistic type of Greek sculptures were made around...
450 BCE
300 CE
150 BCE
600 BCE
10
Black Figure style Greek pottery mostly shows this as subject matter:
All of these
History & politics
Mythology
Sports
11
Greek painting is mostly found on...
Canvases
Pottery
Walls
Wood
12
In ancient Greek, "koros" means...
Young woman
Child
Young man
Old man
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A pediment is...
The triangular piece at the top of a Greek building
Latin for "cooked earth"
A tool for scraping glaze off of pottery
The simplest type of Greek column
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The Greeks loved to make sculptures of people in the nude because...
Lived in the cold and longed for sunbathing
Imitating sculptures of neighbors, the Egyptians
For Greeks, the human body was ultimate expression of beauty
Greeks were culturally nudists
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Greek Sculpture was always very realistic.
False
True
