Introduction to the Arts Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Introduction to the Arts offers students an engaging overview of the visual and performing arts, exploring their historical development, cultural significance, and various forms of expression. Through an examination of painting, sculpture, music, dance, theater, and other artistic mediums, students will gain an appreciation for creativity and the ways in which art reflects and shapes society. The course encourages critical thinking, personal reflection, and lively discussion, fostering an understanding of the role of the arts in both individual lives and broader communities.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) Musical __________ are melodies that convey "musical ideas" to the listener.
Answer: themes
Q2) __________ refers to the illusion that shapes and forms diminish in size as they recede into deep space.
A) Vanishing
B) Deep space
C) Linear perspective
D) Foreshortening
E) One-point
Answer: D
Q3) In sculpture,__________ refers to the size,shape,and volume of forms.
A) symmetry
B) weight
C) harmony
D) mass
E) spectrum
Answer: D
Q4) Musical __________ are shorter melodic or rhythmic ideas.
Answer: motifs
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Egyptian sculpture typically represents __________.
A) types
B) idealizations
C) individuals
D) gods
E) animals
Answer: C
Q2) __________ was the first civilization to emerge in the Fertile Crescent.
A) Babylonia
B) Thessaly
C) Judea
D) Mesopotamia
E) Sumer
Answer: E
Q3) Neanderthal people seem to have had a religion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Who is the main character of the Gilgamesh epic?
Answer: a Sumerian hero,likely based on a ruler of Uruk
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) Minoan art tells us that they likely had a cult of a sacred wolf.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) __________ often had signatures and typically served as funerary and temple art.
Answer: Kouroi
Q3) An example of Mycenaean architecture is the __________ Gate at the Palace of Mycenae.
A) Gods
B) Greek
C) Wolf
D) Lion
E) Giant
Answer: D
Q4) Scholars call Epic poems that draw their material from legends and oral traditions
__________.
Answer: primary
Q5) Were the Greek gods always virtuous?
Answer: no,sometimes they are worse than humans
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) Greek temples had little open __________ space.
Q2) The histories of Thucydides are polemical and biased.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty and art and their relation to human beings.
A) Ethics
B) Epistemology
C) Metaphysics
D) Physics
E) Aesthetics
Q4) The sculptures once on the east pediment of the Parthenon are now sometimes called the "__________."
Q5) The best soldiers in Greece came from __________.
A) Athens
B) Thessaly
C) Sparta
D) Solon
E) Thebes
Q6) "Man is the measure of all things," according to __________.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) The death of Marcus Aurelius was the "beginning of the end" for the Roman Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ is considered the greatest Roman poet.
Q3) The __________ was a 200-year span of stability during the Roman Empire,beginning with Emperor Augustus.
A) Great Peace
B) Pax Romana
C) Cella
D) Empire
E) Augustean
Q4) In Rome,the average citizen lived a relatively prosperous economic life.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which language did the early Romans consider a peasant language?
Q6) __________ believed that one should neither fear nor desire death,but merely accept it.
Q7) __________ On the Nature of Things rejects religion and speaks compassionately about an ignorant and unhappy humanity.
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) Judaism has no official hierarchy or clergy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rabbinical interpretations and commentaries on the Mishnah are called
A) Talmud
B) Oral Law
C) Gemara
D) Torah
E) Petateuch
Q3) The first Christian theologian was the Apostle __________.
Q4) Under Constantine,the Romans granted the Christian Church the right of
A) self-defense
B) sanctuary
C) exception
D) sovereignty
E) imperialism
Q5) Christian church leaders rejected the use of __________ choruses,in part so the congregation would sing more.
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) The content of Byzantine art focuses on human figures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Byzantine art was a short-lived phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Roman emperor __________ made Byzantium his new capital.
A) Augustus
B) Caesar
C) Constantine
D) Theodosius
E) Justinian
Q4) Small-scale relief sculpture in ivory and metal are the primary Byzantine sculpture types.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Iconoclasm is found in both Christianity and Islam.Discuss its historical role in each religion,and suggest some reasons why people might fear or repress images.
Q6) "The Qu'ran" means "__________" in Arabic.
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) __________ refers to the time in Western European history that occurred between Antiquity and the Renaissance.
A) Gothic Ages
B) Romanesque Ages
C) Middle Ages
D) Gregorian Ages
E) Pre-Renaissance
Q2) Painting became a largely __________ art after the fall of Rome.
Q3) Christian __________ was championed by St Bernard.
A) asceticism
B) hermeticism
C) monasticism
D) mysticism
E) theocracy
Q4) What was the primary difference between Romanesque sculpture and earlier Christian sculpture?
Q5) Which art discussed in this chapter was an official court art?
Q6) St Bernard's preaching contributed to the spread of __________,which led to the softer,more ethereal Christianity of the High Gothic period.
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) What subjects inspired the musical compositions of Francesco Landini?
Q2) One practical effect of the Crusades was to end strife among warring European
A) popes
B) nobles
C) serfs
D) armies
E) churches
Q3) Merchant and craft __________ dominated trading cities.
A) associations
B) corporations
C) guilds
D) castles
E) shops
Q4) Ars Nova was facilitated by a new system of musical __________ that allowed nearly any rhythmic pattern to be written down.
Q5) The Crusades had a direct influence on painting style.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What was the purpose of Jean Froissart's Chronicles of England,France,and Spain?
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) The Florentine Foundling Hospital is by __________.
A) Alberti
B) Brunelleschi
C) Pazzi
D) Ghiberti
E) Vitruvius
Q2) Compare and contrast Sandro Boticelli's The Birth of Venus with Masaccio's The Tribute Money.Which aspects of the works seem to best exemplify the Renaissance? Which aspects seem more medieval?
Q3) The term "individualism" was invented in the __________ century.
A) twentieth
B) fourteenth
C) fifteenth
D) eighteenth
E) nineteenth
Q4) Renaissance science was in harmony with traditional values.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The 1486 exploration of Bartolomeu __________ connected the coast of Africa with the Mediterranean.
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) The basis of the composition of Leonardo's Virgin and Child with St Anne is a
Q2) The __________ is a polyphonic choral work.
A) cantus
B) motet
C) homophony
D) madrigal
E) sonata
Q3) Leonardo invented practical devices,including a device to cut nuts and
Q4) Under the aegis of Lope de Vega,a __________ theatre emerged in Spain.
A) religious
B) popular
C) courtly
D) national
E) international
Q5) The Ottoman sultan Suleiman was known for his love of the arts.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Which institution's patronage attracted artists to Rome?
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) What is an example of a utopian community that developed in America in the 1600s?
Q2) Comedies are the exemplary Elizabethan theatre genre.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Calvinists saw themselves as building the "New Jerusalem" on earth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Utopianism influenced and inspired the colonization of North America.
A)True
B)False
Q5) "Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise," are the well-known words of Martin __________ before his inquisition.
A) Zwingli
B) Calvin
C) Copernicus
D) Luther
E) Huss
Q7) The Globe __________ of London appealed to both lords and commoners. Page 14
Q6) The medium of __________ paint helped Flemish painters achieve a new naturalism.
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) The plots for French ballets came from __________.
A) contemporary literature
B) the Old Testament
C) classical mythology
D) earlier dance forms
E) individual playwrights
Q2) The "court masque" was developed in __________.
A) France
B) Italy
C) England
D) Greece
E) Netherlands
Q3) The work of John Milton was uncompromisingly Catholic.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The novel __________,by Miguel Cervantes,is a parody of chivalric romances.
Q5) Jan Vermeer is known for his flower paintings.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Which important instrument replaced the viol during the baroque era?
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) Works of art dealing with everyday life and common subject matter are called
A) rococo
B) genre
C) classical
D) academic
E) folk
Q2) __________ are particularly important in Kabuki plays.
A) Set designers
B) Musicians
C) Narrators
D) Critics
E) Actors
Q3) Classical music typically has a memorable,tuneful __________.
A) rhythm
B) variation
C) development
D) melody
E) coda
Q4) A Vindication of the Rights of Women was written by __________.
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) Which well-known poem brought Edgar Allan Poe into the spotlight?
Q2) A musical theme tied to a single idea,person,or object is called a __________.
A) Lieder
B) opera buffa
C) Gesamtkunstwerk
D) collage
E) Leitmotif
Q3) Romantic aesthetics are often described as __________.
A) classical
B) modernist
C) medieval
D) anti-classical
E) traditional
Q4) Chopin's compositions embrace __________.
A) standard form
B) heroic drama
C) grand theatricality
D) unconventional form
E) flashy presentation
Q5) What did middle class morality emphasize?
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) The "Decadents" celebrated __________.
A) industrial life
B) medieval life.
C) art for art's sake
D) technological progress
E) the German Reich
Q2) Berthe Morisot was an original member of the __________.
Q3) __________ was the standard type of harmony in musical compositions prior to the late nineteenth century.
Q4) Skyscrapers could not be built until __________ could be designed.
A) parking garages
B) mass transportation
C) security systems
D) elevators
E) fire alarms
Q5) From where did Anton Chekhov obtain his subject matter and themes?
Q6) Fillipo __________ coined the term "futurism" in his manifesto expressing the goals of the movement.
Q7) The work of Arthur Schoenberg grew out of German __________.
Q8) Jean-Francois Millet was a member of the __________ School.
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) Le Corbusier stated that a house is "a machine to be lived in."
A)True
B)False
Q2) The author of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is __________.
Q3) The novels of __________,set in the rural South,typically revolve around human alienation and an individual's relationship with God.
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) William Faulkner
C) James Baldwin
D) John Steinbeck
E) Ernest Hemingway
Q4) The reduction of natural images into shapes is a type of __________.
A) idealism
B) naturalism
C) classicism.
D) abstraction
E) impressionism
Q5) In his "Rayographs," Man Ray explored his emotions and states of mind.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) The novels of __________ reflect black vernacular culture and deal with sexual violence.
Q2) Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was most concerned with the __________.
A) permant
B) personal
C) ephemeral
D) literary
E) pleasurable
Q3) New York's It's Alright to be a Woman Theatre is an example of __________ theatre.
A) alternative lifestyle
B) alternative social
C) modernist
D) absurdist
E) aleatory
Q4) A close associate of John Cage,the dancer __________ incorporated chance,or aleatory,elements into his work.
Q5) What is the name of the program created at the California Institute of Arts in response to the difficulties of women within the art world,including art schools?
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