Question 1

The Tell Asmar figures may have large eyes because:

Accepted Answer

A)  Seeing was a major channel of communication with the gods 
B)  Their eyes were wide open in terror before the gods 
C)  They were cult figures of blinded gods 
D)  Gods were believed never to sleep 
A)  Seeing was a major channel of communication with the gods 
B)  Their eyes were wide open in terror before the gods 
C)  They were cult figures of blinded gods 
D)  Gods were believed never to sleep

Question 2

What is the main room of a Sumerian temple called?

Accepted Answer

A)  atrium 
B)  hypostyle hall 
C)  audience hall 
D)  cella 
A)  atrium 
B)  hypostyle hall 
C)  audience hall 
D)  cella

Question 3

Who defeats the Persians in 331 BCE?

Accepted Answer

A)  Xerxes 
B)  Darius I 
C)  Alexander 
D)  Ramses II 
A)  Xerxes 
B)  Darius I 
C)  Alexander 
D)  Ramses II

Question 4

Cuneiform characters:

Accepted Answer

A)  were made by pressing a stylus into damp clay 
B)  remain untranslated to this day 
C)  were not used for writing fiction 
D)  were visible on the Rosetta Stone 
A)  were made by pressing a stylus into damp clay 
B)  remain untranslated to this day 
C)  were not used for writing fiction 
D)  were visible on the Rosetta Stone

Question 5

Art in Mesopotamian visual culture enabled and reflected political power.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Sumerian palaces were called ziggurats.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The Sumerians built primarily of wood and what other material?

Accepted Answer

A)  diorite stone 
B)  marble 
C)  mud brick 
D)  granite 
A)  diorite stone 
B)  marble 
C)  mud brick 
D)  granite

The Tell Asmar figures may have large eyes because:

What is the main room of a Sumerian temple called?

Who defeats the Persians in 331 BCE?

Cuneiform characters:

Art in Mesopotamian visual culture enabled and reflected political power.

Sumerian palaces were called ziggurats.

The Sumerians built primarily of wood and what other material?

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Exam 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art

The Tell Asmar figures may have large eyes because:

What is the main room of a Sumerian temple called?

Who defeats the Persians in 331 BCE?

Cuneiform characters:

Art in Mesopotamian visual culture enabled and reflected political power.

Sumerian palaces were called ziggurats.

The Sumerians built primarily of wood and what other material?

Prehistoric Art

Egyptian Art

Aegean Art

Greek Art

Etruscan Art

Roman Art

Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art

Islamic Art

Early Medieval Art

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy

Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe

The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy

The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520

The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Renaissance and Reformation Throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe

The Baroque in Italy and Spain

The Baroque in the Netherlands

The Baroque in France and England

The Rococo

Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789

Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848

The Age of Positivism

Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905

Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914

Art Between the Wars

Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980

The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980

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