Question 1

Tomatsu Shomei\'s Woman with Keloidal Scars is an example of documentary photography.

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True

Question 2

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti uses ____ as a protest strategy.

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narrative

Question 3

Robert Motherwell\'s Elegy to the Spanish Republic was made in response to the influenza epidemic of 1918

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false

Question 4

The Surrealists believed in automatism, which includes the idea of

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intuition

Question 5

Robert Motherwell believed that abstraction communicated best

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the struggle between life and death

Question 6

The ____ Codex Barbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest.

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Aztec

Question 7

Tomatsu Shomei\'s photographs are of victims of ____

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The atomic bomb

Question 8

David Alfaro Siqueiros protested against the ____.

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Spanish Civil War

Question 9

Much of John Heartfield\'s art protested against ____.

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Nazi Germany

Question 10

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by

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Shahn

Question 11

Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of

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African American

Question 12

Yinka Shonibare\'s Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Without Their Heads is a parody of a work by

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Gainsborough

Question 13

Edward Kienholz\'s work is based on his experiences as ____.

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a mental hospital worker

Question 14

Francisco Goya\'s The Executions of May 3rd, 1808, sympathize with

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Spaniards

Question 15

Ester Hernandez uses ____ to make her artistic protests.

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humor

Question 16

Jacob Lawrence\'s artistic style was

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flat and simple

Question 17

Edward Kienholz\'s The State Hospital uses ugliness to criticize the way society deals with people it deems incompetent.

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True

Question 18

Frida Kahlo\'s many self-portraits show her face as

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unemotional

Question 19

Chuck Close uses ____ to convey importance in his portraits.

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scale

Question 20

Polykleitos invented and applied a system of mathematical proportions called the Canon for the depiction of Greek figures.

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True

Question 21

Ritual tattooing was often used on the eastern islands of the South Pacific as part of initiation rites that prepared an individual for adulthood.

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True

Question 22

The Doryphoros is idealized in several ways, including

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its restrained emotions

Question 23

A(n) ____ pose depicts a figure standing naturally, with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figure\'s weight.

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contrapposto

Question 24

The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of

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flat shapes and contour lines

Question 25

Doryphoros translates to

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spear-bearer

Question 26

Chuck Close is a painter known for making highly idealized figurative paintings based on classical notions of ideal beauty.

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False

Question 27

Eadweard Muybridge\'s photos of human bodies revealed his ____ attitude towards the human body.

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detached

Question 28

Laocoon and His Sons revealed ____ Greek attitudes about the body during the Hellenistic period.

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changing

Question 29

Many African sculptures considered the head and ____ as most important.

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neck

Question 30

Van Gogh\'s Portrait of Dr. Gachet featured ____ to show the artist\'s state of mind.

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thick paint

Question 31

Nancy Burson\'s Faces are portraits of children with

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unusual faces

Question 32

A full-body portrait is always a life-size depiction of an individual.

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False

Question 33

In Pollock\'s Lucifer, the style of painting called ____ involved the motion of the artist\'s entire body.

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action painting

Question 34

Yoko Ono was part of the ____ movement in New York, which sought to create art as an artist-initiated experience rather than an art object like a painting or a sculpture.

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Fluxus

Question 35

The Egyptian ____ canon, begun by Amenhotep III, was a new aesthetic which rejected the rigid, abstract style of the past for a more flowing, elegant, naturalistic approach.

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Armana

Question 36

In Medieval Europe, human nature was held in high esteem and images of the body symbolized the purity of God\'s divine realm.

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False

Question 37

Vincent van Gogh\'s Portrait of Dr. Gachet was a vehicle for commentary about ____.

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the suffering inherent in modern, urban life

Question 38

Jacques-Louis David\'s The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.

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a mark of masculinity

Question 39

The Guerrilla Girls are a group of artists that ____.

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protest racial and gender discrimination

Question 40

Painting from a Cult House done by the Tambaran cult of New Guinea ____ the cult teachings through a narrative.

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does not illustrate

Question 41

The artist Tseng Kwong Chi made a series of photographic self-portraits where he posed in front of various American tourist sites to illustrate Asians looking at the West.

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True

Question 42

In ancient Egypt, the human body was sculpted in different ways depending on the class of the person.

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True

Question 43

In the 1960\'s and 1970\'s, high profile art exhibitions in prestigious American museums frequently included work by women artists.

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False

Question 44

James VanDerZee was a commercial studio photographer whose work was strongly influenced by depictions of female stereotypes in films from the 1950\'s and 1960\'s.

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False

Question 45

Hung Liu examined the Chinese practice of ____.

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foot-binding

Question 46

Aunt Jemima is considered a ____.

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caricature

Question 47

Kabuki theater was enjoyed by the ____ in Japanese society.

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middle class

Question 48

In Papua New Guinea, Sepik men saw their rituals as creating men from infants, usurping women\'s procreative power.

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True

Question 49

Ancient Romans believed that their ancestry ____.

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was extremely important

Question 50

A ____ is a group of people joined by blood or marriage ties.

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clan

Question 51

The ancient Greeks viewed Doric architecture as

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masculine

Question 52

Marc Chagall painted in bright colors, like the ____.

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Fauves

Question 53

The Northwest Coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.

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chief

Question 54

In Las Meninas, Velazquez places Infanta Margarita at the center of the painting and surrounds her with ____ to reveal her exalted rank.

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all of these choices

Question 55

Ceremonies for a clan\'s living members took place in Zapotec ____.

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tombs

Question 56

Peter Paul Rubens\' Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus revealed that the women of that time were expected to be ____.

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helpless

Question 57

In Western culture, architecture is gendered - different styles are associated with certain qualities that are perceived to be masculine or feminine.

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True

Question 58

Apricot Blossoms is a lyric painting by MaYuan with ____ by Empress Yang.

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lines of poetry

Question 59

John Constable\'s works, while Romantic in essence, were the foundation for the ____.

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Impressionists

Question 60

Ansel Adams photographs helped raise public support for national parks and for the environmental movement in general.

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True

Question 61

In Assyrian culture, the king would kill lions in a public spectacle, called the royal lion hunt, to show his courage and illustrate his power.

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True

Question 62

Many Islamic gardens stood for ____.

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paradise

Question 63

The ancient Greeks created woman-headed birds called ____.

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harpies

Question 64

Ansel Adams\' photographs emphasized the beauty of nature as ____.

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untouched by humans

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