13268-F23 Humanities Final Practice

Question 1

Literature is a serial art because it is not perceived all at once like a painting.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Appropriation or interpretation?

Accepted Answer

Appropriation

Question 3

Flying buttresses were used to

Accepted Answer

hold walls in place

Question 4

In art, a personification is a/an _________.

Accepted Answer

representation of an abstract quality in human form

Question 5

Heather Dewey-Hagborg's work is an example of the interrelationship in humanities ___________.

Accepted Answer

all of these answers are correct

Question 6

The Chartes Cathedral is a Romanesque structure

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Sky-oriented architecture may do all of the following, except

Accepted Answer

emphasize or accent the earth around it

Question 8

Which of the following is not an element of a Gothic Cathedral?

Accepted Answer

Cella

Question 9

Eadweard J. Muybridge contributed to the development of animation by:

Accepted Answer

taking stop action photographs

Question 10

What is Linear Perspective?

Accepted Answer

The use of lines to give the illusion of depth and distance.

Question 11

What distinguishes the artist from other humanists (e.g., philosopher, historian, theologian)?

Accepted Answer

Artists clarify values by artistic revelation

Question 12

Which of the following is not one of the four necessities of architecture?

Accepted Answer

sculptural program

Question 13

The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is an example of ______________.

Accepted Answer

land art

Question 14

Dissonance

Accepted Answer

Tones that sound unstable and unpleasant.

Question 15

The origins of 'modern dance' are usually traced to __________.

Accepted Answer

Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis

Question 16

What is 'Persistence of Vision'? Check all that apply.

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 17

What is abstract art?

Accepted Answer

Art that takes inspiration from the visual world and changes it.

Question 18

What are complementary colors?

Accepted Answer

colors directly across from each other on the color wheel

Question 19

The circular opening at the top of a dome is called the

Accepted Answer

Oculus

Question 20

An analogous color scheme uses____

Accepted Answer

Colors next to each other on the color wheel

Question 21

What is a BAS RELIEF?

Accepted Answer

is a projecting image with a shallow depth

Question 22

Dorothea Lange-

Accepted Answer

was a famous Documentarist photographer during the Great Depression

Question 23

What is the meaning of provenance?

Accepted Answer

A chronology of ownership or location of a historical object

Question 24

What is an example of 3 dimensional artwork?

Accepted Answer

sculpture

Question 25

The incorporation of photography and film in contemporary opera is an example of ___.

Accepted Answer

appropriation

Question 26

Chiaroscuro means____________.

Accepted Answer

a technique using light and shadow to add dimensionality

Question 27

What type of Relief is this?

Accepted Answer

Sunken

Question 28

The dome on the Dome of the Rock is supported by pendentives.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

The elements of art are like _______

Accepted Answer

vocabulary

Question 30

Which explanation is the best regarding Ernest Trova's Falling Man?

Accepted Answer

In the machine age people are becoming less and less human.

Question 31

What is the definition of Humanities?

Accepted Answer

Broad areas of human creativity and analysis essentially involved in values

Question 32

What are the 3 orders of Classic Greek

Accepted Answer

Dorian, Ionian, Corinthian

Question 33

What is a soliloquy?

Accepted Answer

A verbal expression of a character's thoughts

Question 34

Cantilever in architecture means a structure supported only at one end.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

A Trip to the Moon

Accepted Answer

Georges Méliès

Question 36

Which one of the following is not a method used in artistic criticism?

Accepted Answer

Investigative

Question 37

In appropriation, what is the artistic process?

Accepted Answer

to mix the media of other art forms with the artist's own

Question 38

Earth-rooted architecture draws our attention to ________ (check all that apply)

Accepted Answer

the site of the building, the building's centrality to outer and inner space, the building's raw materials, the building's submission to gravity

Question 39

Cindy Sherman:

Accepted Answer

took photos of herself as a movie protagonist.

Question 40

In traditional drawing style animation, how many pictures per second are displayed?

Accepted Answer

24

Question 41

Which term is not a part of iconography?

Accepted Answer

trompe l'oiel

Question 42

The principles of art are like the _______

Accepted Answer

grammar

Question 43

Without the key elements of civilization art could not exist.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

What is the camera obscura?

Accepted Answer

A device artists used to trace an image

Question 45

Name this Roman vaulting system.

Accepted Answer

Barrel Vault

Question 46

Daguerre and Niépce worked together. Later on, Daguerre created an update of Niépce's invention, the Daguerreotype.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

A communicative line is identified as _______.

Accepted Answer

diagonal, horizontal and vertical

13268-F23 Humanities Final Practice

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