art quiz

1. What was the mask of Tutankhamun made of..

A. Gold

B. Pottery

C. Bronze

D. Enamel

2. The Gebel el-Arak Knife was made of ivory and flint dating from Gerzeh culture period of Egyptian prehistory, showing the influence of..

A. Badaria

B. Mesopotamia

C. Greece

D. Rome

3. The Merimde culture was a Neolithic culture in the West Nile Delta in..

A. Lower Egypt

B. Upper Egypt

C. Kush

D.Aswan

4. The name of this building is..

A. Parthenon

B. Pantheon

C. Zeus Temple

D. House of Masks

5. Who is the sculptor of the famous statue Discobolus (掷铁饼者)?

A. Van Gogh

B. Da Vinci

C. Myron

D. Thucydides

6. What was a common feature of sculptures from the Archaic Period?

A. Korai

B. Apollo

C. Doric

D. Olympia

7.What type of art are the Ancient Greeks most known for?

A. Painting

B. Drawings

C. Calligraphy

D. Sculpture

8. What does tabula rasa mean according to Hume’s theory?

A. New knowledge

B. Clean slate

C. Red tablet

D. Rise tomorrow

9. On what type of art did some Greek painting survive?

A. Pottery

B. Sculptures

C. Bronzes

D. Stone Columns

10. The term “philosophia” derives from the Greek culture, meaning..

A. Love of wisdom

B. Love of God

C. Love of prophet

D. Love of nature

II: FILL IN THE BLANKS

1. The ancient Egyptian paintings were often made with the intent of making a pleasant afterlife for the deceased, and most of them have survived both in tombs and , due to Egypt's extremely dry climate.

2. The art history of the Hellenic era is generally subdivided into four periods: the Protogeometric, the Geometric, the and the Classical.

3. The Argead dynasty was an ancient royal house of Dorian Greek provenance. They were the founders and the ruling dynasty of the kingdom of Macedon from about 700 to 310 BCE.

4. The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the century BCE. It was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.

5. period is the period of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization around 1100 BCE.