Deck 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World

Question 1

When Rome fell to the Goths in 476 C.E.the arts and learning of the classical world were preserved and nurtured in this Middle East city.

A) Constantinople
B) Baghdad
C) Mecca
D) Jerusalem

Answer 1

A

Question 2

An artistic style dating to the fifth-century B.C.E.Greece and exhibiting simplicity,clarity of structure,and appeal to the intellect.

A) Romanticism
B) Hellenism
C) Classicism
D) Humanism

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What artistic style and cultural perspective represents idealized perfection rather than real life?

A) Baroque
B) Classical
C) Romantic
D) Buddhist

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What epic poem tells the story of the founding of Rome?

A) Isthmian Odes
B) Agamemnon
C) Aeneid
D) Iliad

Question 5

Medieval vaulted architecture that preceded the Gothic pointed arch.

A) Romanesque
B) Hellenistic
C) Imperial
D) Classical

Question 6

Where did Roman culture turn to for inspiration in art?

A) Greek Classicism
B) Greek Hellenism
C) Greek Stoicism
D) Greek Sophistry

Question 7

From the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century a class of lyric-poet-musicians chiefly in southern France,northern Italy,and northern Spain.

A) monks
B) troubadours
C) knights
D) romantics

Question 8

The greatest temple built by the Greeks and the prototype for all Classical buildings.

A) Parthenon
B) Acropolis
C) Pantheon
D) Olympian

Question 9

During the period of the Middle Ages,who assumed the responsibility for transmitting much of the classical knowledge of the ancient world?

A) Christians
B) Muslims
C) Buddhists
D) Romans

Question 10

In this characteristic style of Greek Classical sculpture,the body's weight rests on one leg thereby shifting the hip/shoulder axis and resulting in a subtle play of curves.

A) hieratic
B) canon
C) golden proportion
D) contrapposto

Question 11

Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and an additional melodic line.

A) organum
B) polyphony
C) mass ordinary
D) plainchant

Question 12

The most significant characteristic of typical Roman architectural style.

A) dome
B) arch
C) post and lintel
D) columns

Question 13

What Greek style is typified by characteristics that are less formal,more realistic and more emotional than the Classical style?

A) Hellenistic
B) Archaic
C) Olympian
D) Idealism

Question 14

The first and greatest professional teacher and philosopher in China living almost 1,000 years before Muhammad 500 years before Christ.

A) Buddha
B) Brahman
C) Confucius
D) Allah

Question 15

Greek lyric poet,Pindar,is known for writing what form of poetry?

A) drama
B) tragedy
C) choral ode
D) comedy

Question 16

A distinctive feature of Greek dramas,portraying the dual function in the same play as narrator and character,responding to the actors.

A) orchestra
B) protagonist
C) antagonist
D) chorus

Question 17

The fall of Rome moved Europe into what period in history?

A) Romanesque
B) Medieval
C) Gothic
D) Carolingian

Question 18

In this literary form the correspondent raises a series of questions and then answers them.

A) diatribe
B) satire
C) ode
D) poem

Question 19

Roman sculpture is largely influenced by what culture?

A) Sumerian
B) Mesopotamian
C) Egyptian
D) Greek

Question 20

The use of this material by Roman architects made possible aesthetical and practical applications impossible for the Greeks.

A) bronze
B) concrete
C) iron
D) tile

Question 21

Explain why the sculpture Nike of Samothrace is considered Hellenistic style.

Question 22

Gothic poet whose poems of courtly love and female heroism championed women.

A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Hildegard of Bingen
C) Bernat de Ventadorn
D) Christine de Pisan

Question 23

The highest form of all art in Islamic society.

A) calligraphy
B) architecture
C) mosaics
D) sacred scripture

Question 24

During the first millennium B.C.E.the Nok style in Nigeria first appeared in what form?

A) clay pottery
B) iron weapons
C) carved tools
D) terracotta sculpture

Question 25

How do the sculptures of Imperial Roman Classicism differ from Greek Classicism?

Question 26

This architectural style was a physical extension of a philosophy of Light Divine by Abbot Suger.

A) Romanesque
B) Gothic
C) Renaissance
D) High Gothic

Question 27

How do the plays of Euripides differ from those of Sophocles or Aeschylus?

Question 28

What is a stupa and how does it compare to Western architecture?

Question 29

The Song of Roland from France is a major literary accomplishment from what era?

A) Middle Ages
B) Renaissance
C) Hellenism
D) Romantic

Question 30

The earliest extant poem in a modern European language.

A) The Song of Roland
B) The Divine Comedy
C) Beowulf
D) The Mirror of Simple Souls

Question 31

Explain contrapposto.

Question 32

The Gothic style of two-dimensional art found magnificent expression in what form?

A) fresco paintings
B) altar panels
C) manuscript illuminations
D) stained glass

Question 33

Chinese secular painting emphasized what specific themes?

A) human events
B) historic events
C) landscapes
D) gods and goddesses

Question 34

Explain the meaning of the Surah 4 ("The Women")from the Qur'an.

Question 35

The intent of this artistic style is to create social and spiritual distinction and some distance between the viewer and the image,dealing with proportions.

A) hieratic
B) hierarchical
C) totemic
D) stoic

Question 36

Compare Polyclitus,Doryphorus (Lance Bearer)to Praxiteles,Cnidian Aphrodite.What are the most significance differences?

Question 37

Unlike Western buildings the stupa does not include this element.

A) interior
B) gateway
C) dome
D) carved figures