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Definition
The Greek alphabet came from
A) Egypt
B) Mycenae
C) Crete
D) Phoenicia
E) Syria |
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Which of the following was not a famous woman in ancient Greece?
A) Sappho of Lesbos
B) Iaia of Kyzikos
C) Aspasia
D) Artemisia
E) none of the above |
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| E) naturalistic but idealized |
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Definition
The Classical Greek style can best be described as
A)stylized and organic
B)stylized and idealized
C)figurative and nonrepresentational
D)idealized but nonfigurative
E)naturalistic but idealized |
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Definition
Which best describes Greek government during the Classical period?
A) democracy
B) autocracy
C) tyranny
D) monarchy
E) aristocracy |
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Definition
The main media used by Greek sculptors were
A) bronze and iron
B) marble and terracotta
C) terracotta and bronze
D) bronze and marble
E) gold and marble |
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Definition
Which of the following do not belong together?
A) Zeus -- thunderbolt
B) Juno -- peacock
C) Hephaestos -- hearth
D) Neptune -- trident
E) Hermes -- caduceus |
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| C) krater -- flask for pouring oil |
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Definition
Which of the following do not belong together?
A) hydria -- water jar
B) amphora -- storage jar
C) krater -- flask for pouring oil
D) kylix -- drinking cup
E) oenochoe -- jug for pouring wine |
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| B) traditional and of high quality |
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Definition
"Classical" means
A) old-fashioned and valuable
B) traditional and of high quality
C) out of date and trite
D) traditional and stylized
E) idealized and valuable |
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Definition
The Riace bronzes were found in
A) Riace
B) a cave
C) the sea
D) a grave
E) a temple |
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| D) abacus, volute, echinus, metope |
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Definition
Which do not belong together?
A) volute, shaft, base, flutes
B) abacus, volute, base, frieze
C) metope, triglyph, abacus, echinus
D) abacus, volute, echinus, metope
E) stylobate, drums, echinus, metope |
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The general who commissioned the Parthenon was
A) Alkiabiades
B) Sophokles
C) Herodotos
D) Xenophon
E) Perikles |
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Definition
Which is not part of the Parthenon plan?
A) naos
B) treasury
C) pronaos
D) archway
E) peristyle |
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Definition
Which is not a pair?
A) pediment -- triangle
B) metope -- trapezoid
C) triglyph -- vertical
D) shaft -- cylinder
E) architrave -- rectangle |
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Definition
The statue of Athena in the Parthenon naos was covered with
A) marble and bronze
B) ivory and bronze
C) ivory and marble
D) gold and marble
E) gold and ivory |
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Definition
Which is not part of Greek theater architecture?
A) orchestra
B) pronaos
C) proscenium
D) skene
E) parodos |
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Definition
The first known Greek artist to celebrate the female nude was
A) Praxiteles
B) Phidias
C) Perikles
D) Lysippos
E) Exekias |
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Definition
Alexander the Great was
A) an Athenian
B) a Persian
C) a Pergamene
D) a Macedonian
E) a Mycenaean |
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Definition
Greek Hellenistic art is
A) realistic
B) typically in a "corkscrew" arrangement
C) more passionate than Hellenic art
D) conveys inner character
E) all of the above |
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Definition
Plato's spokesman in the Dialogues was
A) Perikles
B) Herodotos
C) Sophokles
D) Demosthenes
E) Socrates |
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Term
| D) Demosthenes wrote speeches |
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Definition
Which of the following is true?
A) Homer wrote the Laws
B) Plato wrote the Iliad
C) Socrates wrote Dialogues
D) Demosthenes wrote speeches
E) Euripides wrote comedies |
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Definition
The inclusive dates of Etruscan civilization are about
A) 1200-300 B.C.
B) 1400- 600 B.C.
C) 800-100 B.C.
D) 1000-300 B.C.
E) 1000-100 B.C. |
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The term "Etruscan" is
A) Lydian
B) Roman
C) Greek
D) Tyrrhenian
E) English |
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Definition
The Etruscan script was derived from
A) Anatolian
B) Latin
C) Phoenician
D) Egyptian
E) Linear B |
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Definition
‘The Capitoline Wolf and the Wounded Chimera were made by
A) the lost-wax method
B) baking terracotta in a kiln
C) carving stone
D) modeling clay
E) none of the above |
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| D) Greek Archaic sculpture |
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Definition
The Wounded Chimera is closest in style to
A) Greek Classical sculpture
B) Greek Hellenistic sculpture
C) Mycenaean gold work
D) Greek Archaic sculpture
E) Greek Black-Figure |
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Definition
Which of the following make the best pair?
A) tombs and temples
B) mirrors and media
C) urns and sarcophagi
D) frescoes and finials
E) tombs and sarcophagi |
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| D) tombs made like houses in "cities of the dead" |
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Definition
The Etruscan buried their dead in
A) citadels
B) pyramids
C) above-ground graves
D) tombs made like houses in "cities of the dead"
E) their households |
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Definition
The arch was invented in
A) Etruria
B) Mesopotamia
C) Greece
D) Rome
E) Egypt |
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Definition
Which is least likely to be found in large-scale Etruscan tombs?
A) mirrors
B) chairs
C) frescoes
D) ashes
E) gold |
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Definition
Etruscans thought of their large-scale tombs as
A) pyramids
B) houses
C) urns
D) underground temples
E) beds |
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| E) it shows a sleeping couple on the lid |
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Definition
Which is not true of the sarcophagus from Cerveteri?
A) it is made of terracotta
B) it dates to around 520 B.C.
C) it is close to Greek Archaic in style
D) it is now in Rome
E) it shows a sleeping couple on the lid |
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Definition
Etruria was located in what today is
A) west-central Italy
B) southern Italy
C) northern Italy
D) southwestern Italy
E) Sicily |
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Definition
A popular Etruscan building material was
A) concrete
B) tufa
C) travertine
D) terracotta
E) concrete |
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Definition
A necropolis is a
A) someone who likes dead people
B) an underground city
C) a city beneath the sea
D) a city of the dead
E) a sarcophagus |
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| D) a podium reached by climbing many steps |
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Definition
The Etruscan temple differed from the Greek temple because it had _______.
A) exterior decoration
B) a columned porch
C) a pitched roof
D) a podium reached by climbing many steps
E) an entrance archway |
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Definition
Which was not part of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.?
A) Gaul
B) Britain
C) Egypt
D) Nubia
E) Judaea |
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Definition
Virgil wrote the Aeneid for
A) Julius Caesar
B) Augustus
C) Trajan
D) Constantine
E) Caracalla |
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Term
| B) water, mortar, gravel, and rubble |
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Definition
Roman concrete was a mixture of
A) water, tufa, travertine, and rubble
B) water, mortar, gravel, and rubble
C) stucco, plaster, water, mortar, and rubble
D) tufa, rubble, gravel, and mortar
E) water, gravel, travertine, and mortar |
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Definition
Which of the following was not built under Trajan?
A) Timgad
B) Dacia
C) markets
D) a forum
E) basilica |
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Definition
Nero, as described by Suetonius, exemplifies
A) political know-how
B) generosity
C) grandiosity
D) military strategy
E) intelligence |
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Term
| B) Ovid and the Metamorphoses |
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Definition
Which of the following is the best pair?
A) Virgil and Odysseus
B) Ovid and the Metamorphoses
C) Trajan and the Meditations
D) Marcus Aurelius and the Commentarii
E) Nero and Darcia |
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| B) the 15th day of the month |
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Definition
The Ides of March are
A) when Roman emperors are killed
B) the 15th day of the month
C) the birthday of the Roman emperor
D) the end of the month
E) the beginning of the month |
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Definition
Which of the following was not a use of the Roman basilica?
A) commerce
B) worship
C) law courts
D) administration |
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Definition
Which is least likely to have been a feature of the Roman bath?
A) sculpture
B) a tepidarium
C) a swimming pool
D) a ball court
E) a market |
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Term
| C) Doric, Ionic, Corinthian |
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Definition
The columns of the Colosseum were arranged in the following order from the first to the third level:
A) Doric, Corinthian, Ionic
B) Ionic, Doric, Corinthian
C) Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
D) Corinthian, Ionic, Doric
E) Corinthian, Doric, Ionic |
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Definition
The Roman circus was used primarily for
A) animal performances
B) libraries
C) gladiatorial contests
D) horse races
E) chariot races |
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| D) they are pseudo-peripteral |
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Definition
Which is true of Roman temples?
A) they were peripteral
B) they have a front and a back porch
C) they have a double cella
D) they are pseudo-peripteral
E) they have a portico |
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Definition
The Column of Trajan is uniquely Roman because of
A) its enormous height
B) its narrative frieze
C) its setting
D) its material |
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Definition
The Jewish Wars were chronicled by
A) Josephus
B) Virgil
C) Suetonius
D) Julius Caesar
E) Ovid |
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Definition
Trajan's purpose in declaring war on the Dacians was to obtain their
A) territory
B) women
C) gold
D) works of sculpture
E) weapons |
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Definition
Which was NOT a Roman funerary practice?
A) the use of cinerary urns
B) the necropolis
C) the sarcophagus
D) burial in graves
E) only c & d |
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| E) they include details of landscape |
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Definition
Which is NOT true of the Villa of the Mysteries frescoes?
A) they represent an initiation rite
B) they have erotic elements
C) they have a red background
D) the figures are naturalistic
E) they include details of landscape |
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Definition
Which is NOT a characteristic of Roman frescoes?
A) they are fresco secco
B) they are often found in private houses
C) they are naturalistic
D) they contain shading, cast shadows, and oblique viewpoints
E) they contain the illusion of three-dimensional space |
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Definition
Faiyum painting was produced in
A) Greece
B) Egypt
C) Rome
D) Nubia
E) Carthage |
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Definition
The Punic Wars were fought between
A) Rome and Carthage
B) Rome and Greece
C) Rome and Phoenicia
D) Rome and Etruria
E) Greece and Carthage |
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Definition
Christianity was legalized
A) by the emperor Caracalla
B) by the Edict of Milan
C) in the first century A.D.
D) in Jerusalem
E) by Trajan |
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Definition
Christ was crucified around the year
A) A.D. 30
B) A.D. 35
C) A.D. 32
D) A.D. 33
E) 33 B.C. |
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Term
| C) the first 5 books of the Old Testament |
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Definition
The Pentateuch is
A) the first 5 books of the New Testament
B) the Zoroastrian texts
C) the first 5 books of the Old Testament
D) the 5 hymns to Mithras |
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| E) Christ, Mary, and Joseph |
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Definition
The Holy Family is
A) Mary, Christ, and God
B) Christ, God, and the Holy Ghost
C) Joseph, Mary, and the Holy Ghost
D) God, Joseph, Mary, and Christ
E) Christ, Mary, and Joseph |
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| D) The Wedding at Cana -- Mary and Joseph are married |
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Definition
Which does not match?
A) The Baptism -- John baptizes Christ
B) The Nativity -- Christ's birth
C) The Transfiguration -- Christ is flanked by Moses and Elijah
D) The Wedding at Cana -- Mary and Joseph are married
E) The Harrowing of Hell -- Christ descends to Limbo |
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Term
| A) underground cemeteries |
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Definition
The catacombs in Rome were
A) underground cemeteries
B) underground shrines
C) underground meeting places
D) underground sewers
E) underground churches |
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Definition
Which is not a feature of the Early Christian basilica?
A) nave
B) apse
C) aisle
D) clerestory
E) none of the above |
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Definition
The first bishop of Rome was
A) Constantine
B) St. Paul
C) St. Peter
D) Eusebius
E) Justinian |
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Definition
A significant new architectural feature of Old Saint Peter's was
A) the transept
B) the nave
C) the atrium
D) the clerestory
E) the dome |
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Definition
The components of Byzantine mosaics are
A) pigments
B) marble squares
C) semi-precious jewels
D) tesserae
E) polished stones |
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Definition
The vaulted choir of San Vitale contains a representation of
A) angels with Mary
B) a bust of San Vitale
C) Bishop Ecclesius
D) angels with a lamb
E) Christ as a shepherd |
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Definition
The main Byzantine contribution to monumental architecture was
A) the pendentive
B) the Composite Order
C) the dome
D) the narthex
E) the round arch |
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Definition
Compared with Roman frescoes and mosaics, Byzantine mosaics are
A) more naturalistic
B) more narrative
C) more static
D) more three-dimensional
E) less colorful |
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Definition
The ivory throne of Maximian was probably used for
A) receiving dignitaries
B) royal celebrations
C) as a reliquary casket
D) as a ritual chair
E) as a throne |
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Definition
A mandorla is
A) a Far Eastern chant
B) an oval aureole
C) the plan of a Hindu temple
D) a halo around the head of a saint
E) an oval church plan |
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Definition
In Byzantine iconography, Christ is conventionally
A) bearded
B) Apollonian
C) shown in contrapposto
D) shown holding a globe
E) shown in a horizontal plane |
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Definition
The "book with many folded skins" referred to a
A) papyrus scroll
B) tablet
C) codex
D) spiral frieze
E) rotulus |
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Definition
An iconoclast is literally
A) one who breaks images
B) one who collects icons
C) one who worships icons
D) one who worships the real person instead of the icon
E) one who paints icons |
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Definition
Christ as Pantokrator represents Christ as
A) ruler of everything
B) ruler of the world
C) ruler of heaven
D) ruler of the Church
E) ruler of Byzantium |
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| B) Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior |
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Definition
Ichthus is an acronym for
A) Jesus Christ, Savior of the World
B) Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior
C) Jesus Christ, Son of Man
D) Jesus Christ, Son of God and Ruler of the Universe
E) Jesus Christ, Ruler of the World |
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