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, CHAPTER ONE
ART of the PREHISTORIC WORLD
1
Multiple Choice
1. Archaeologists link the emergence of image making to the arrival of
A. Homo sapiens.
B. Neanderthals.
C. Homo sapiens sapiens.
D. Homo erectus.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: The Stone Age
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
2. Researchers divide the Paleolithic period into three ages and can divide art into those periods
based on
A. proof of what was used in spiritual ceremonies.
B. written documentation.
C. the use of color.
D. their location found in excavation.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: Chapter Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
3. How long ago did figurines of people and animals appear?
A. 50,000 years
B. 30,000 years
C. 25,000 years
D. 10,000 years
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
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,Skill Level: Remember the Facts
4. The Woman from Brassempouy (Fig. 1-8) captures the essence of a head, also called the
A. memory image.
B. abstracted mind.
C. soul image.
D. mind image.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
5. What were small-scale female sculptures from the Upper Paleolithic period once called?
A. Idols
B. Venus
C. Eve
D. Shamans
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
6. Most Neolithic architecture in Germany and central Europe consisted of wood posts
supporting a central beam or
A. ridgepole.
B. thatch.
C. megalith.
D. capstone.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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2
,7. Archeological evidence suggests that which of the following places was the last to be
inhabited by humans?
A. Africa
B. Europe
C. The Americas
D. Asia
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: The Stone Age
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
8. Continually rebuilt and replastered, early houses at Çatalhöyük may have
A. served as grain storerooms.
B. been used as temples.
C. been observatories for a brief period.
D. lasted over centuries.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
9. Scholars see the transport of bluestones to Stonehenge from more than 150 miles away as a
sign of
A. associations with Celtic druids.
B. evidence of engineering technology.
C. connections to ancestral homelands.
D. ritual significance of materials.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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3
,10. How were the beams of Stonehenge secured?
A. Mortise-and-tenon joints
B. Corbeled vault and capstone
C. Post-and-lintel construction
D. Mammoth tusks and hides
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
11. Perhaps the most critical cognitive ability that separates Homo sapiens sapiens from
Neanderthals is the ability to
A. think symbolically.
B. develop hunting tools.
C. create alliances.
D. form social relationships.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
12. The potter’s wheel developed in approximately 4000 BCE in
A. China.
B. Egypt.
C. Japan.
D. Near East.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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,13. Prehistory includes all human existence before the development of
A. written records.
B. architecture.
C. metal tools.
D. carved images.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: Chapter Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
14. Which of the following was created in the most realistic style?
A. Bison, Le Tuc d’Audoubert (Fig. 1-13)
B. Woman from Willendorf, Austria (Fig. 1-6)
C. Lion-Human, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany (Fig. 1-5)
D. Figures of a Female and a Male, Cernavoda, Romania (Fig. 1-23)
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
15. Handprints at the cave at Pech-Merle were probably created using what technique?
A. Incising lines with a sharp stick
B. Spraying paint onto the cave wall
C. Painting the image with a brush
D. Drawing with an ocher crayon
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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5
,16. What was encountered at Newgrange that may have induced hallucinations?
A. Celestial maps
B. Entoptic motifs
C. Deer hunts
D. Female figures
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
17. What conclusion can archeologists make about the ancient site of Çatalhöyük?
A. It was temporarily used as a burial ground.
B. It had religious and domestic functions.
C. The people focused on military defenses.
D. The settlement was built over an older Paleolithic site.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
18. Rather than being a product of invaders, the destruction of houses at some sites in the
Neolithic period was part of
A. the selection of a new leader.
B. a rival family’s attempt to gain property.
C. a ritual killing of the house.
D. ritual celebrating a birth.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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6
,19. What technique was used to create Gold-Adorned Face Mask (Fig. 1-25)?
A. Corbeling
B. Sculpture in the round
C. Metalworking
D. Composite pose
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
20. What method of dating cave paintings and excavated objects uses organic material?
A. Radiometric dating
B. Electron spin resonance
C. Potassium-argon dating
D. Uranium-thorium dating
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
21. The painting of Men Taunting a Deer(?) (Fig. 1-15) at Çatalhöyük may represent
A. a belief in sympathetic magic.
B. an earlier cave painting.
C. the hope for more animals.
D. a highly dangerous interaction.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
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7
, 22. An anthropologist who studied the Altamira Cave does not believe that the animals that are
depicted are dead but rather are
A. gods.
B. dust-wallowing.
C. surrogates for man.
D. disabled.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
23. Scholars dismissed the sympathetic magic interpretation of cave paintings because
A. animal and human representations are abstract.
B. animals were frequently shown alongside human figures.
C. animals used for food were not portrayed.
D. animals are painted on cave ceilings.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
24. What conclusion can be made about both the Lion-Human (Fig. 1-5) and Woman from
Willendorf (Fig. 1-6)?
A. Artists expressed imaginative themes.
B. Celestial observations influence art.
C. Killing a lion would incur a curse.
D. Humans and animals were part of separate groups.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
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Stokstad
Notes
1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you few pages sample.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel sheet
if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make update
at every time. There are many new editions
waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file You
can contact us at every time, we can replace it
with true one.
Our email:
, CHAPTER ONE
ART of the PREHISTORIC WORLD
1
Multiple Choice
1. Archaeologists link the emergence of image making to the arrival of
A. Homo sapiens.
B. Neanderthals.
C. Homo sapiens sapiens.
D. Homo erectus.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: The Stone Age
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
2. Researchers divide the Paleolithic period into three ages and can divide art into those periods
based on
A. proof of what was used in spiritual ceremonies.
B. written documentation.
C. the use of color.
D. their location found in excavation.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: Chapter Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
3. How long ago did figurines of people and animals appear?
A. 50,000 years
B. 30,000 years
C. 25,000 years
D. 10,000 years
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
1
,Skill Level: Remember the Facts
4. The Woman from Brassempouy (Fig. 1-8) captures the essence of a head, also called the
A. memory image.
B. abstracted mind.
C. soul image.
D. mind image.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
5. What were small-scale female sculptures from the Upper Paleolithic period once called?
A. Idols
B. Venus
C. Eve
D. Shamans
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
6. Most Neolithic architecture in Germany and central Europe consisted of wood posts
supporting a central beam or
A. ridgepole.
B. thatch.
C. megalith.
D. capstone.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
2
,7. Archeological evidence suggests that which of the following places was the last to be
inhabited by humans?
A. Africa
B. Europe
C. The Americas
D. Asia
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: The Stone Age
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
8. Continually rebuilt and replastered, early houses at Çatalhöyük may have
A. served as grain storerooms.
B. been used as temples.
C. been observatories for a brief period.
D. lasted over centuries.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
9. Scholars see the transport of bluestones to Stonehenge from more than 150 miles away as a
sign of
A. associations with Celtic druids.
B. evidence of engineering technology.
C. connections to ancestral homelands.
D. ritual significance of materials.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
3
,10. How were the beams of Stonehenge secured?
A. Mortise-and-tenon joints
B. Corbeled vault and capstone
C. Post-and-lintel construction
D. Mammoth tusks and hides
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
11. Perhaps the most critical cognitive ability that separates Homo sapiens sapiens from
Neanderthals is the ability to
A. think symbolically.
B. develop hunting tools.
C. create alliances.
D. form social relationships.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
12. The potter’s wheel developed in approximately 4000 BCE in
A. China.
B. Egypt.
C. Japan.
D. Near East.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
4
,13. Prehistory includes all human existence before the development of
A. written records.
B. architecture.
C. metal tools.
D. carved images.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 Identify the cultural and historical contexts that led to the first artistic
impulses of the Stone Age.
Topic: Chapter Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
14. Which of the following was created in the most realistic style?
A. Bison, Le Tuc d’Audoubert (Fig. 1-13)
B. Woman from Willendorf, Austria (Fig. 1-6)
C. Lion-Human, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany (Fig. 1-5)
D. Figures of a Female and a Male, Cernavoda, Romania (Fig. 1-23)
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
15. Handprints at the cave at Pech-Merle were probably created using what technique?
A. Incising lines with a sharp stick
B. Spraying paint onto the cave wall
C. Painting the image with a brush
D. Drawing with an ocher crayon
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
5
,16. What was encountered at Newgrange that may have induced hallucinations?
A. Celestial maps
B. Entoptic motifs
C. Deer hunts
D. Female figures
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
17. What conclusion can archeologists make about the ancient site of Çatalhöyük?
A. It was temporarily used as a burial ground.
B. It had religious and domestic functions.
C. The people focused on military defenses.
D. The settlement was built over an older Paleolithic site.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
18. Rather than being a product of invaders, the destruction of houses at some sites in the
Neolithic period was part of
A. the selection of a new leader.
B. a rival family’s attempt to gain property.
C. a ritual killing of the house.
D. ritual celebrating a birth.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
6
,19. What technique was used to create Gold-Adorned Face Mask (Fig. 1-25)?
A. Corbeling
B. Sculpture in the round
C. Metalworking
D. Composite pose
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
20. What method of dating cave paintings and excavated objects uses organic material?
A. Radiometric dating
B. Electron spin resonance
C. Potassium-argon dating
D. Uranium-thorium dating
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
21. The painting of Men Taunting a Deer(?) (Fig. 1-15) at Çatalhöyük may represent
A. a belief in sympathetic magic.
B. an earlier cave painting.
C. the hope for more animals.
D. a highly dangerous interaction.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.3 Relate the development of prehistoric art and architecture to the social
and cultural changes of the Neolithic period.
Topic: The Neolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
7
, 22. An anthropologist who studied the Altamira Cave does not believe that the animals that are
depicted are dead but rather are
A. gods.
B. dust-wallowing.
C. surrogates for man.
D. disabled.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
23. Scholars dismissed the sympathetic magic interpretation of cave paintings because
A. animal and human representations are abstract.
B. animals were frequently shown alongside human figures.
C. animals used for food were not portrayed.
D. animals are painted on cave ceilings.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
24. What conclusion can be made about both the Lion-Human (Fig. 1-5) and Woman from
Willendorf (Fig. 1-6)?
A. Artists expressed imaginative themes.
B. Celestial observations influence art.
C. Killing a lion would incur a curse.
D. Humans and animals were part of separate groups.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 Explore the significance of the shelters and representational images from
the Paleolithic period.
Topic: The Paleolithic Period
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
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