Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History Volume 1, 16e Fred S. Kleiner Test

Name: Class: Date: Chapter 1 Powered by Cognero Page 1 Multiple Choice 1.Which drawing convention for the representation of animals was used almost exclusively in Paleolithic art?

• Composite creature
• Foreshortening
• Linear perspective
• The profile view

2.This human with feline (lion?) head sculpture was found in which country?

• France
• Germany
• Belgium
• Spain

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The use of which material suggests that this object was important to its creator?

• Wood
• Stone
• Mammoth ivory
• Pebbles

• What central concern of early humans does the emphasis on the anatomy of the Venus of Willendorf imply?
• Gold and jewels
• Health and fertility
• Athletic competitions
• The domestication of animals

• Which of the following information about Paleolithic art is NOT provided by the extraordinary paintings from the caves

at Lascaux?

• Paleolithic artists represented animals in twisted perspective.
• Paleolithic artists used both silhouettes and outlines in their drawings.
• Paleolithic artists created complex narrative compositions.
• Paleolithic artists preferred metal tools over wood tools in their painting.

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• What two basic drawing techniques are evident in the paintings of Lascaux?
• Black-and-white and negative
• Relief and incised
• Colored silhouette and outline
• Wet and dry pigments

• Where was the Hall of the Bulls discovered?
• The Altamira caves
• The Lascaux caves
• The Chauvet cave
• Çatal Höyük

• What is a ground line?
• It is an engraved line on the wall surface.
• It is a measured line on the wall surface.
• It is the baseline on which figures appear to stand.
• It is the point where the wall surface meets the floor.

• What standard accounts for representing animals' horns in twisted perspective in cave paintings or allowing the viewer

to see the head in profile and the horns from the front?

• Optical convention
• Descriptive convention
• Fanciful convention
• True convention

• What is the most likely purpose of Paleolithic cave paintings?
• Decoration for the cave
• Telling the creation myth
• Recording the previous season's kills
• Insurance for the survival of the herd

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This painting at Lascaux is exceptional as the earliest depiction of what figure?

• A bird
• A woolly rhinoceros
• A bucranium
• A male human

• Which is considered one of the primary advances of Neolithic society?
• Using bronze tools
• Domestication of animals and plants
• Building houses from megaliths
• Living in subterranean caves

• What motivated the inhabitants of Neolithic Jericho to construct fortification walls?
• The need for an offensive base
• Protection against natural disasters
• Promotion of a powerful merchant class
• Protection from marauding nomads

• At which site have the remains of what appear to be the oldest stone temples been discovered?
• Jericho
• Hagar Qim
• Göbekli Tepe
• Newgrange

• What is the almost-exclusive subject of Paleolithic paintings?
• Hunters
• Sea creatures
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