Question 1

The invention of writing promoted stabilization in society, with, for example, the guarantees that came with the standardization of measurements and weights.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

So named because they were written between two guidelines that were one inch apart, ______ were rounded, freely drawn letters suited to rapid writing.

Accepted Answer

Uncials

Question 3

The Celtic manuscript was revolutionary in terms of design innovation because writers _____.

Accepted Answer

left spaces between words

Question 4

The Chinese calligraphic system consists of about forty characters.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 5

Like the Sumerians, who used mud to create clay tablets, the Egyptians made good use of their natural resources. They created paper-like substrate for manuscripts out of _______.

Accepted Answer

papyrus

Question 6

Charlemagne\'s scribes at Aachen developed a legible writing style using minuscule letters that became the forerunner to our own system of upper and lowercase letters.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Islamic illuminated manuscripts are characterized by three of the elements below. Which does NOT belong?

Accepted Answer

religious icons

Question 8

The development of writing had its earliest origins in simple pictures, for a close connection exists between the drawing of pictures and the markings of writing.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 9

A Book of the Dead is a narrative of _______.

Accepted Answer

the passage of the deceased into the afterlife

Question 10

Printing with movable type never came into extensive use in the Far East because

Accepted Answer

the sheer number of characters made the process too tedious

Question 11

The ancient Chinese invented three of the four innovations listed below. Which is not an ancient Chinese innovation?

Accepted Answer

oil paint

Question 12

In the early fifteenth century, the Limbourg brothers created their masterpiece, __________, which included an illustrated calendar depicting seasonal activities of each month crowned with graphic astronomical charts.

Accepted Answer

les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Question 13

From the Latin for \"wedge-shaped,\" this method of early writing used a triangular-tipped stylus, which was pushed into clay to form a series of wedge-shaped strokes.

Accepted Answer

cuneiform

Question 14

As early as the second century CE, the Greeks developed a more rounded writing style called _______, which could be written more quickly.

Accepted Answer

uncials

Question 15

The Chinese calligraphic writing system consists of logograms, or graphic characters that represent ______.

Accepted Answer

entire words

Question 16

Hangul alphabet consists of fourteen consonants represented by

Accepted Answer

abstract depictions of the mouth and tongue

Question 17

An alphabet is a series of simple visual symbols that represent ________.

Accepted Answer

speech sounds

Question 18

The invention of the alphabet and the subsequent spread of literacy had a leveling effect on society: it eventually diminished the power of priests/scribes found in earlier societies.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 19

Relief printing is the process of removing the negative spaces surrounding an image and inking the raised surface, which is then rubbed onto paper.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 20

The serif, or ending line extending from the main stroke of a letter, originated from rustic capitals inscribed in wax tablets.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 21

_______, the first punch cutter who worked independently of printers, established a type foundry to sell cast type that was ready to use by printers.

Accepted Answer

Claude Garamond

Question 22

The Italic type style was modeled on the Roman monumental style of lettering.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 23

Published in German and Latin versions in 1493, this six-hundred-page book was an ambitious history of the world from the biblical dawn of creation until 1493. It contained 1809 woodcut illustrations in its complex, carefully designed 18 x 12 inch page.

Accepted Answer

The Nuremburg Chronicle

Question 24

The original format of the Gutenberg\'s Forty-two-line Bible included three characteristics below. Which does not belong?

Accepted Answer

418 full page illustrations

Question 25

The term xylography refers to printing from a flat surface, such as a polished stone.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 26

William Blake was a Romanticist whose colorful \"illuminated printing\" style integrated text and image.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 27

The Latin word(s) _______mean(s) \"cradle.\" Its connotations of birth caused seventeenth century writers to adopt it as a name for books printed from the invention of typography until 1501.

Accepted Answer

incunabula

Question 28

A broadside or broadsheet is a single sheet of paper that may be printed on one or both sides.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 29

The Declaration of Independence was printed in type originally designed by William Caslon of England, and imported to the colonies by Benjamin Franklin.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 30

The Didot family of printers initiated the pie chart for use in information graphics in the 18th century.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 31

French King Louis 14th commissioned an imperial typeface, Romain de Roi, for use by all printers in France during the Rococo period.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 32

Some of the woodcut illustrations were used repeatedly in the Nuremberg Chronicles.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 33

Copperplate printing, like typographic printing, is a relief process.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 34

Giambatista Bondoni redefined ream letterforms, giving them a more mathematical geometric , mechanical look, His typeface design exemplifies the _______ style.

Accepted Answer

modern

Question 35

Rubrication and decorative initials were almost always done by hand in the early days of the incunabula period due to the difficulties of color printing.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 36

Style of manuscript lettering Johann Gutenberg adopted for type was _____.

Accepted Answer

textura

Question 37

American architect __________ became known for his repetition of rectangular zones and use of asymmetrical spatial organization in his design of furniture, wallpaper, and stained-glass windows.

Accepted Answer

Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 38

Louis Daguerre\'s early daguerreotype print, \"Paris Boulevard,\" shows an almost empty Paris street. The reason the street is empty is that Daguerre made the image ________.

Accepted Answer

with a long exposure time, and moving subjects were not recorded

Question 39

____________ is the process of printing color pictures and lettering from a series of stone or zinc printing plates. Each color requires a separate stone or plate and a separate run through the press.

Accepted Answer

Chromolithography

Question 40

Lithography allows for more gestural lines in a print than intaglio or relief printing because lines are drawn directly on the stone plate.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

William Henry Fox Talbot\'s calotypes were sharp and clear, in contrast to daguerreotypes.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

Arthur Mackmurdo sought inspiration from Renaissance and ______ art for his designs. Some swirling organic forms, in fact, seem to be pure art nouveau because of these influences.

Accepted Answer

Japanese

Question 43

In 1862, Louis Daguerre announced the first complete practical photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

In Japan, ukiyo-e practitioners were considered artisans, but it was European artists who found great inspiration in them.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

The Glasgow School refers to ________ in Scotland.

Accepted Answer

four artists working in a similar style

Question 46

Although art nouveau artists did not use a historicist approach to their designs, they were influenced by past as well as contemporary art. All but one of the influences listed below impacted art nouveau artists. Which does NOT belong?

Accepted Answer

Assyrian motifs

Question 47

Gustav Klimt\'s controversial poster for the first exhibition of the Vienna Secession featured Greek mythological figures that represented the struggle between the Secession and the established art world.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

A member of the Flemish Group of Twenty, Henri van de Velde had enormous influence on design and architecture. His only poster design was for ________.

Accepted Answer

Tropon, a food supplement

Question 49

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec developed a journalistic, illustrative style that depicted the nightlife of Paris.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

Robert Thorne of England created a major category of type designs around 1803 called ________ , Roman faces whose contrast and weight were greatly increased by expanding the thickness of their heavy strokes.

Accepted Answer

fat faces

Question 51

The private press movement, which included Kelmscott, Doves, and Essex House Presses, was most concerned with _______________.

Accepted Answer

regaining high standards of design materials and workmanship

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