Name____________________ Date_____________ HIS 201 - Art History Midterm PART A – Prehistory – The Classical Period Short answers/Multiple choice 1) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey? 2) Who was history’s first Western philosopher? 3) Which 2 Greeks are considered the greatest Western philosophers? 4) What is the Pax Romana? 5) Who is the founder of Islam? 6) What is the Fertile Crescent? 7-8) List two characteristics of Islamic Art. 9-10) List two characteristics of Christian Art. 11-35) List the differences between Greek and Roman Theaters and Greek and Roman Temples 36) What is the masterpiece of Islamic art? 37) What is a minaret?
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Name____________________
Date_____________
HIS 201 - Art History Midterm
PART A – Prehistory – The Classical Period
Short answers/Multiple choice
1) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
2) Who was history’s first Western philosopher?
3) Which 2 Greeks are considered the greatest Western philosophers?
4) What is the Pax Romana?
5) Who is the founder of Islam?
6) What is the Fertile Crescent?
7-8) List two characteristics of Islamic Art.
9-10) List two characteristics of Christian Art.
11-35) List the differences between Greek and Roman Theaters and Greek and Roman Temples
36) What is the masterpiece of Islamic art?
37) What is a minaret?
38-42) Name 5 parts of a Christian basilica.
43) Which of these was NOT a major Aegean Greek civilization?
a) Mycenaeans b) Trojans c) Minoans d) Cycladic
44) Which of these was NOT a group of archaic Greeks?
a) Ionians b) Spartans c) Dorians d) Aeolians
45) Which building had the world’s first plumbing system?
a) Palace of Knossos b) Colosseum c) Baths of Caracalla d) Livia’s Palazzo
46) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
a) Pindar b) Plato c) Thucydides d) Homer
47) What was the main Greek fighting formation?
a) The Legion b) The Phalanx c) The Turtle d) The Pilon
48) Who did the Greeks adopt the alphabet from?
a) The Phoenicians b) The Egyptians c) The Romans d) The Etruscans
49) Who was Minoan civilization named for?
a) King Minoa b) King Noan c) King Minos d) King Mionataur
50) What is considered the most perfect ancient Greek building according to modern architects?
a) Erechtheion b) Propylaia c) Temple of Athena Nike d) The Parthenon
51) Which building has the best natural acoustics in the world?
a) Colosseum b) Pompey’s Theater c) Theater of Epidauros d) Pantheon
52) Which of these was NOT considered a masterpiece of Hellenistic Art?
a) Venus di Milo b) Laocoon c) Winged Victory d) Farnese Bull
53) Which 2 languages of the ancient world have still not been fully deciphered?
a) Minoan and Etruscan b) Minoan and Linear B c) Etruscan and Byzantine
54) Which artwork is now the symbol of the city of Rome?
a) Augustus Prima Porta b) She-Wolf c) Colosseum d) Pantheon
55) When was the founding of Rome?
a) April 21, 753 BCE b) April 29, 1965 c) March 5, 776 BCE
56) Who founded the city of Rome?
a) Mars and Venus b) Aeneas c) Romulus and Remus d) It was never lost
57) What country did Rome fight against in the Punic Wars?
a) Punicia b) Phoenicia c) Carthage d) Greece
58) What is the masterpiece of Roman Imperial Art?
a) Colosseum b) Ara Pacis c) Altar of Peace d) Pantheon
59) What was the real name for the Colosseum?
a) Caesar’s Forum b) Imperial Forum c) Flavian Amphitheater d) Colosseum
60) What year did the fall of the Roman Empire in the West occur?
a) 1453 b) 476 c) 776 d) 1816
61) What happened on August 24, 79 CE?
a) Great Fire of Rome b) Mt Vesuvius erupted c) Pompeii was destroyed d) both b and c
62) Who was the first Roman Emperor?
a) Augustus Caesar b) Julius Caesar c) Diocletian d) Constantine
63) Which of these is NOT a period of Roman history?
a) Imperial b) Monarchial c) Republican d) Democratic
64) What statue was the first monumental nude in history?
a) Kritios Boy b) Female Kore c) Standing Youth (Kouros) d) Aphrodite of Knidos
65) What was the first statue to use contrapposto in its stance?
a) Kritios Boy b) Female Kore c) Standing Youth (Kouros) d) Spear Bearer
66) Which of these was NOT a period of Greek history?
a) Helladic b) Hellenistic c) Classical d) Ionic Age e) Doric Dark Age
67) Which branch of Christianity has been around the longest?
a) Baptist b) non-denominational c) Catholic d) Jehovah Witnesses
68) What is the Tanakh?
69) What is the Mishnah?
70) What was unique about the discovery of Tutankhamen’s (King Tut’s) tomb?
71-73) Name 3 Egyptian gods.
74-75) Which of these was NOT a Persian god?
a) Ahura-mazda b) Anu c) Ahriman
76) What was the Egyptian scientific innovation that we still use today?
a) Solar calendar b) Boats c) the Wheel d) Astronomy
77) Name the world’s first nation state.
a) Sumer b) Assyria c) Egypt d) Babylonia
78) Which of these was not one of the 4 ancient river valley civilizations?
a) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers b) Songhai River c) Nile River d) Yang Tze River e) Indus River
79) Which civilization created the world’s first empire?
a) Assyrian b) Neo-Sumerian c) Akkadian d) Babylonian
80) What is the name of the event in which Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and placed the Jews in slavery?
a) Babylonian Captivity b) Exodus c) Armageddon d) Captivity of the Jews
81) Which culture was the first to use iron weapons?
a) Kassites b) Elamites c) Hittites d) Babylonian
82) When were the earliest known cave paintings created? a) 15,000 BCE b) 10,000 BCE c) 40,000 BCE d) 28,000 BCE
83)Which of these is NOT a location where cave painting can be found?a) Ariege b) Lascaux c) Chauvet d) Altamira
84-86) What are the names for the 3 eras of prehistory?
87-88) What were 2 Sumerian innovations/inventions?
89) Why is Hatshepsut important historically?
a) Builder of many temples b) first peace treaty c) first woman pharaoh
90) Which of these was NOT a Sumerian god?
a) Anu b) Ahriman c) Enki d) Ishtar e) Ea
91) Which artwork is considered the masterpiece of the Ancient Near East?
a) Bust of Nefertiti b) Standard of Ur c) Hunting Reliefs d) Mona Lisa
92) Which artwork is considered the masterpieces of the Sumerians?
a) Bust of Nefertiti b) Standard of Ur c) Hunting Reliefs d) Mona Lisa
93) Who wrote the first complete set of laws?
a) Ur-Nammu b) Napoleon c) Justinian d) Hammurabi
94) Who was the first known artist?
a) Michelangelo b) Imhotep c) Djoser d) Ramesses II
95-97) List the 3 major periods of Egyptian history
98) What is the oldest stone structure in history?
a) Ziggurat of Ur b) Great Pyramid c) Step Pyramid d) Mastaba
99) What is the largest stone structure in history?
a) Ziggurat of Ur b) Great Pyramid c) Step Pyramid d) Mastaba
100)What were pyramids mainly used for?
a) Observing the heavens b) Alien landing platforms c) Tombs for pharaohs
101) Who wrote the first code of laws (incomplete)?
a) Hammurabi b) Moses, c) Ur-Nammu d) Justinian
102) What was the greatest/most important Sumerian invention?
a) boats b) schools c) religion d) writing
103) What is the oldest work of written literature?
a) Epic of Gilgamesh b) The Iliad c) The Bible d) Book of the Dead
104) Which Roman Dynasty was the first?
a) Flavian b) Severan c) Julio-Claudian d) Antonine
105) What tragic event occurred on March 15, 44 BCE?
Art Characteristics – Please write 2 art characteristics from each of the periods below:
106-107) Roman
108-109) Hellenistic Greece
110-111) Classical Greece
112-113) Minoan Greece
114-115) Mycenaean Greece
116-117) Egypt
118-119) Amarna Egypt
120-121) Paleolithic
122-123) Neolithic
124-125) Assyrian
125-126) Akkadian
127-128) Sumerian
129-130) Etruscan
Matching 1 – Place the capital letter in the space provided.
131) 1st triumvirate _____ A) citadel on a hill in Greek city-states
132) 2nd triumvirate _____ B) female statue that serves as a column
133) 1st Roman Civil War _____ C) Greek public square
134) 2nd Roman Civil War _____ D) “general” in Greek, one of 10 leaders in Athens
135) 3rd Roman Civil War _____ E) Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Venus, Mercury
136) Greek Gods _____ F) Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
137) Roman Gods _____ G) first Christian emperor, legalized Christianity
138) pax romana _____ H) emperor during Great Fire of Rome, persecuted
Christians, killed his own mother and his wife
139) veristic _____ I) the sickest, most twisted emperor, made his horse
161) ____monarchy g) handy man, first tool maker, opposable thumb
162) ____Monotheism h) Sumerian writing script
163) ____Hieroglyphics i) large stone monument
164)____Hierarchic Scale j) belief in many gods
165)____Pharaoh k) single upright standing megalith
166)____Thutmoses III l) two upright stones with one on top of them
167)____Imhotep m) belief in one god
168)____homo habilis n) a government ruled by one person, usually a king
169)____homo erectus o) the more important a person/object the larger it is
Mixed questions.
170) Which discovery separates Paleolithic from the Neolithic period?
a) writing b) domestication of animals c) agriculture d) both b and c
171) What is the oldest city in the world?
a) Catal Huyok b) Jericho c) Jerusalem d) Rome
172) What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
a) Catal Huyok b) Jericho c) Jerusalem
173-175) List 3 names Roman innovation in art/architecture.
Name the following works of art and list the style and importance of it.
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Bonus Short Essay:
1) Which common threads can be found in all the ancient religions of Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Etruscans?
PART B – Medieval to Early Renaissance
1) Who becomes king of Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476 CE? A) Alaric b) Odovacer c) Romulus Augustulus
2) Who was the first Catholic king of France? A) Charlemagne b) Chlodimir c) Clovis d) Pepin the Short
3) What type of church music did Pope Gregory standardize? A) plainchant b) organ music c) choirsong d) Gregorian chant
4) Why is Beowulf significant?
5) Who became the first Holy Roman Emperor?
6) What is the national epic poem of France?
7-8) Name 2 Middle Ages Art characteristics.
9) Why did monks create illuminated manuscripts originally?
10) What basilica is Charlemagne’s Palace Chapel based on?
11) What is considered the masterpiece of goldwork in the Middle Ages?
12) What is a troubadour?
13) What is scholasticism?
14) Who called the First Crusade?
15) What is the Magna Carta?
16-17) Name 2 characteristics of Romanesque Art.
18) Which artwork gives a detailed account of medieval warfare?
19) Which artwork is the masterpiece of Romanesque Art?
20) What is a reliquary?
21) What is considered the masterpiece of Romanesque sculpture?
22 -33) Short essay. Why was Italy the focal point for the beginning of the Renaissance
34) What was the reconquista?
35-36) List 2 characteristics of Gothic Art.
37) Which of these is NOT typical of a Gothic Cathedral? A) rose window b) two towers c) three entrances d) dome e) row of statues across front
38) Why does Chartres Cathedral have 2 completely different towers?
39) Why did Louis IX of France build Ste Chapelle?
40) What is considered the masterpiece of Gothic Cathedrals?
41) What is considered the masterpiece of Gothic sculpture?
42) Which of these was not a major faith that developed in the Middle East during and after the collapse of the Roman Empire? A) Judaism b) Christianity c) Gnosticism d) Mithraism e) Zoroastrianism f) Islam
43) Which of these new faiths did not practice conversion? A) Christianity b) Islam c) Judaism d) Mithraism
44) Who was the first Hebrew king? A) David b) Saul c) Solomon d) Hezekiah
45) What are the Hebrew holy writings called?
46) What is the Islamic holy book called?
47) What is the Christian holy book called?
48) What is the Babylonian Captivity?
49) Who was Pontius Pilate?
50) What city became the center for the Christian faith?
51) From the year 60 until the 1500s what was the only type of Christianity that existed?
52) What did the Edict of Milan do?
53) What did the Edict of Theodosius do?
54) What was the Exodus?
55-56) List 2 characteristics of Byzantine Art.
57) Who were the Knight’s Templar?
58) Why was the Albigensian Crusade so unique?
59) What was the original purpose of halos?
60-61) Name 2 art characteristics of 13th century Italy.
Identify the art work and the style only.
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91-100) During the Middle Ages, symbol became increasingly important while style and skill suffered. This is particularly true with painting, sculpture, mosaics and illuminated manuscripts. Why do you think that architecture did NOT suffer from lack of skill as much as the other styles of art did?
101-105. Name the least favorite work of art and discuss why that you have seen so far this semester.
106-110. Name your favorite work of art that you have seen this semester and discuss why.
