Exam 19: Africa Before 1800

Recently,many Nok style works have left Nigeria through which of the following?

The inland floodplain of the Niger River has been likened to which of the following?

How does this present a striking contrast to figures from Ife and Tada?

The presence of Portuguese heads on the Benin waist pendent of the queen mother indicates which of the following?

Which of the following European peoples established contact with the kingdom of Benin in the 1470s?

How does this image represent their contact with peoples outside Africa?

The Ife figures from the Yoruba kingdom in the Lower Niger River region served mainly in rituals focused on which of the following?

What interpretation has been made for the buildings of Great Zimbabwe?

African art serves to elevate and bring distinction to the leader.Which of the following art forms would perform that function?

The figural art of which culture is finely modeled with focused attention on naturalistic detail? Signs of age or blemishes are also absent,and the sculpture is lifelike but at the same time idealized.

In African art,scarification symbolizes which of the following?

Which of the following items is a prestigious object that was excavated from a tomb in the Igbo-Ukwu area?

Tassili is in which of the following countries?

In which group are women the principal creators of ceramics and clay sculpture?

The fly-whisk hilt from Igbu-Ukwu is cast by which of the following means?

The earliest African sculpture in the round is from which of the following groups?

Which of the following is a characteristic of the Nok style in ceramic sculpture?

The artist,Master of the Symbolic Execution,has been identified as a master workshop artist from which of the following?

Considerable literature exists today that describes,analyzes,and interprets the meaning of rock art.Although precise meaning is still problematic,which of the following could be used to describe the role of the running woman from Tassili?

The stone monolith found at Great Zimbabwe has two sculpted animals that are associated with the ancestry of the rulers: the bird with the first wife's ancestors and the crocodile with the wife's elder male ancestors.Based on this description,where would the most likely location be for the placement of this monolith?