The chapters in this document are displayed in reversed order, with the last chapter appearing first.
This change ensures all chapters are included in the test bank.
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR Complete Vol 2 9e test bank included
1. Which French writer and thinker (1905–1980) is most directly associated with Existentialism? Chap 13 to 23 ✅
a. Baudelaire
b. Descartes
c. Sartre
d. Braque
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:06 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
2. According to Sartre, what was the purpose of existentialism?
a. to preserve past traditions
b. to help people live in an absurd world
c. to create a standard system of ethics
d. to strengthen people’s religious faith
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:07 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
3. In the 1940s and 1950s, what city replaced Paris as the center of modern art?
a. New York
b. London
c. Milan
d. Prague
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:08 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
4. What artistic form is Robert Rauschenberg most known for?
a. self-portraiture
b. found art
c. kinetic sculpture
d. combine painting
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
Page 1
,Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:08 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
5. What Swedish artist is known for his oversized sculptures of everyday objects?
a. Le Corbusier
b. Oldenburg
c. Warhol
d. Kierkegaard
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:09 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
6. Which American abstract expressionist is famous for his action paintings?
a. Frankenthaler
b. Pollock
c. Rothko
d. Rauschenburg
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:10 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
7. Which of the following was among the most prominent subjects of Andy Warhol’s art?
a. celebrities
b. women
c. cities
d. landscapes
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:10 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
8. What is distinctive about Mark Rothko’s paintings?
a. They borrow heavily from Greek art.
Page 2
,Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR
b. They arrange figures in pyramidal form.
c. They focus on natural settings.
d. They use large fields of solid color.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:11 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
9. What type of art is exemplified by Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty?
a. found art
b. ready-made
c. land art
d. combine
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:12 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
10. What is the name given to the kind of art exemplified by Alexander Calder’s The Star?
a. ready-made
b. mobile
c. combine
d. collage
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:13 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
11. In Bill Viola’s The Crossing, what happens to the human figure?
a. It is transformed into light.
b. It is covered in red paint.
c. It is attacked by fire and water
d. It is pixelated into tiny spots of color.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
Page 3
, Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:13 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
12. What major public outdoor memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin?
a. Holocaust Memorial
b. Oklahoma City National Memorial
c. Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial
d. Slavery Memorial
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:14 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
13. What did the artists Christo and Jean-Claude do for one of their most famous works?
a. They painted murals on public buildings.
b. They erected large cloth panels in public spaces.
c. They built sculpture from garbage.
d. They used their bodies in a staged setting.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:15 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
14. What is the main characteristic of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
a. creative use of reinforced concrete
b. vertical lines with no ornamentation
c. classical columns and pediments
d. free-flowing geometric shapes
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:16 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
15. Which disciple of Louis Sullivan was one of the most influential American architects of the 20th century?
a. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Philip Johnson
c. Robert Venturi
Page 4
This change ensures all chapters are included in the test bank.
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR Complete Vol 2 9e test bank included
1. Which French writer and thinker (1905–1980) is most directly associated with Existentialism? Chap 13 to 23 ✅
a. Baudelaire
b. Descartes
c. Sartre
d. Braque
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:06 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
2. According to Sartre, what was the purpose of existentialism?
a. to preserve past traditions
b. to help people live in an absurd world
c. to create a standard system of ethics
d. to strengthen people’s religious faith
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:07 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
3. In the 1940s and 1950s, what city replaced Paris as the center of modern art?
a. New York
b. London
c. Milan
d. Prague
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:08 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
4. What artistic form is Robert Rauschenberg most known for?
a. self-portraiture
b. found art
c. kinetic sculpture
d. combine painting
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
Page 1
,Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:08 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
5. What Swedish artist is known for his oversized sculptures of everyday objects?
a. Le Corbusier
b. Oldenburg
c. Warhol
d. Kierkegaard
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:09 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
6. Which American abstract expressionist is famous for his action paintings?
a. Frankenthaler
b. Pollock
c. Rothko
d. Rauschenburg
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:10 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
7. Which of the following was among the most prominent subjects of Andy Warhol’s art?
a. celebrities
b. women
c. cities
d. landscapes
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:10 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
8. What is distinctive about Mark Rothko’s paintings?
a. They borrow heavily from Greek art.
Page 2
,Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR
b. They arrange figures in pyramidal form.
c. They focus on natural settings.
d. They use large fields of solid color.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:11 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
9. What type of art is exemplified by Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty?
a. found art
b. ready-made
c. land art
d. combine
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:12 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
10. What is the name given to the kind of art exemplified by Alexander Calder’s The Star?
a. ready-made
b. mobile
c. combine
d. collage
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:13 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
11. In Bill Viola’s The Crossing, what happens to the human figure?
a. It is transformed into light.
b. It is covered in red paint.
c. It is attacked by fire and water
d. It is pixelated into tiny spots of color.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
Page 3
, Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 23 – THE CONTEMPORARY CONTOUR
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:13 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
12. What major public outdoor memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin?
a. Holocaust Memorial
b. Oklahoma City National Memorial
c. Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial
d. Slavery Memorial
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:14 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
13. What did the artists Christo and Jean-Claude do for one of their most famous works?
a. They painted murals on public buildings.
b. They erected large cloth panels in public spaces.
c. They built sculpture from garbage.
d. They used their bodies in a staged setting.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:15 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
14. What is the main characteristic of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
a. creative use of reinforced concrete
b. vertical lines with no ornamentation
c. classical columns and pediments
d. free-flowing geometric shapes
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
DATE CREATED: 11/10/2016 2:16 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 12/31/2017 9:46 AM
15. Which disciple of Louis Sullivan was one of the most influential American architects of the 20th century?
a. Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Philip Johnson
c. Robert Venturi
Page 4
