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Basic Ansel Adams
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1
Ansel Adams died in 1984 from
heart attack
automobile accident
fell off a cliff
lymphoma
2
As a boy, Ansel Adams found school to be:
difficult since he was likely dyslexic
B & C
easy since he had kindergarten
he was very energic
3
In 1930, Virginia and Ansel Adams move to San Francisco where he becomes a
crime scene photographer
piano teacher
commercial photographer
florist
4
Ansel Adams (at the age of about 12) practices so much he decides to pursue the career of
concert pianist
orchestra conductor
chess master
1st chair celloist
5
In 1927, Ansel Adams decides what because of the politics in the San Francisco music community?
make pianos
run for political office
become a communist
quit his music career
6
Ansel Adams would add additional light to a print from the enlarger which is called...
twerking
crocheting
burning
twirling
7
In 1933, Adams showed his portfolio to who owned a N. Y. gallery.
O. K . Harris
Phyllis Kind
Alfred Stieglitz
Mary Boone
8
Ansel Adams dropped out of school, so his father
sent him to a boarding school.
sent to work in factory.
had him work on a farm.
hired a tutor who taught him Greek.
9
What issue causes Ansel Adam to break up with Virginia Best in 1925?
another man
her parents
his potential music career
another woman
10
Ansel Adams also did a series of photographs in the 1940's about....
bombing of London by the Germans.
documenting the Holocaust in Poland.
the interment of the Japanese in camps in the USA.
Kamikazi crashes into American carriers.
11
In 1981, Adams sold his mural size photograph of "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" sold for...
$7,100
$55,000
$5,500
$71,000
12
Ansel Adams did not have time to use a when he captured "Moonrise, Hernandez, N.M."
light meter
Kodak brownie box camera
flash bulb
tripod
13
In 1927, Albert Bender, the insurance executive underwrote fifty .
50 photographic portfolios by Adams at $50 each.
life insurance polices
trips to New York City for Adams.
charity seats at a benefit.
14
A photograph by Ansel Adam was first published in what publication?
Sierra Club Bulletin
San Francisco Dispatch
Outdoor Photographers Newsletter
Times of Utah
15
Ansel and Virginia had how many children?
two boys
a son and a daughter
two girls
adopted the three children
16
In 2010, the photograph "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" sold for
$725
$72,500
$722,500
$7,250
17
In 1928, Ansel Adams marries
Virginia Best
Victoria Smith
Virginia Estes
Victoria Best
18
On June 8, 1917, Ansel Adams eventually earned a diploma for which grade?
12th
10th
8th
9th
19
Which word does not fit a description of Ansel Adams?
self-taught
urban
environmentalist
prolific
20
Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange were serious rivals who had no tolerance for one another.
True
False....she baby sat his children.
only at photographers parties
False...Adams printed her photographs sometimes.
21
About 1916, Ansel Adams convinces his parents to take him here for vacation.
Seattle
Yosemite
Great Lakes
Austin
22
In the 30's, Adams lobbied Congress for the establishment of which National Park?
Ansel Adams Wilderness
Hetch Hetchy
Yosemite
Kings Canyon
23
His father bought for Ansel Adams as a boy.
piano and a Kodak brownie box camera
Kodak brownie camera and a cello.
piano and an encyclopedia
Kodak brown box camera and a harpsicord
24
Ansel Adams visits Yosemite regularly. He joins what club?
Americans for Parks
Sierra Club
PETA
Soil Conservation Committee
25
Adams had his professional break through with the publication of this photo in a portfolio.
"Man Holding Cabbages"
"Monolith, the Face of Half Dome"
"Pueblo Church as Dusk"
"Rose on a Desk"
26
Over four decades how many unique prints of "Moonrise, Hernandez, N. M. were created?
100
10
1000
1
27
Ansel Adams grew up in a home near the
Los Angeles Opera House
San Francisco trolley
Gold Gate Bridge
Seattle Fish Market
28
In 1919, Ansel Adams survives this disease that killed about 30 million Americans.
Spanish influenza
tuberculosis
polio
small pox
29
Ansel Adams was the director of for two years starting in 1969.
Wildflowers Consortium
PETA
Sierra Club
EPA
30
At a young age, Ansel Adams taught himself to
play tennis
play chess
play the piano and later he had lessons.
play badmitten
31
Ansel Adams had a named after him after he died at 82 years old.
a four lane highway through Yosemite
a mountain in Yosemite National Park
a century old tree
a rare orchid
32
Ansel Adams was born in
1905 in San Francisco
1902 in San Francisco
1902 in Arizona
1903 in Utah
33
The San Francisco earthquake in 1906 injured his
hand which was cut by debris.
nose when Ansel when he hit a wall.
eye when a window broke
foot when a beam fell on it
34
Ansel Adams wants to continue practicing the piano in Yosemite, so he
travels to the next town for piano practice.
meets Virginia Best at her father's studio.
takes up the harmonica.
hauls a small piano.
35
In 1983, Ansel Adams was the first American exhibition at the........
Vatican
Louvre
Pompideu
National Museum of Beijing
36
In 1946, Adams was awarded a
California lottery.
a new rollodex watch
National Endowment for the Arts
Guggenheim Fellowship
37
Ansel Adams could spend all day.....
giving tours of the Golden Gate Bridge
writing books on husbandry
driving the elderly to appointments
printing a photograph to perfection
38
The landscape photographs by Ansel Adams helped secure and protect.......
national ranches
national parks
national ski resorts
national museums
39
In 1981, President Carter awarded Ansel Adams the....
Art in America Award
Fabulous Photographer of the Republic
Presidential Award of Freedom
American Artist Award
40
His father made his fortune is this business:
wheat
hogs
timber
oil
