Test Bank for A World of Art, 9th Edition by Henry M. Sayre
Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such
buildings are praised for their
A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows.
C) use of high-tech materials.
D) lack of renewable resources.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-01
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
C) a universal concept of freedom.
D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-02
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
C) McCarthy era in the 1950s.
D) Desert Storm conflict.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-03
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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,4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
B) It is purely aesthetic.
C) It is a fertility idol.
D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-04
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as possible.
B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
D) creating a large stone monument.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-05
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
possible.
6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
A) reception, extraction, inference
B) detection, processing, reference
C) looking, seeing, believing
D) reception, interpreting, understanding
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-06
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon?
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, A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
B) Native American sites he visited
C) his collection of Asian ceramics
D) the imagery on Korean tapestries
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-07
Topic: The Creative Process—From Sketch to Final Vision—Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
8. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely
functional but
A) aesthetic.
B) utilitarian.
C) objective.
D) iconographic.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-08
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) aesthetic.
9. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or
universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings, in
A) religious art.
B) art based on close observation of one's immediate surroundings.
C) contemporary art that deals with "identity politics."
D) political art.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-09
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) religious art.
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, 10. What was the reaction to Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase when it was
exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913?
A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
B) The public adored and praised the painting.
C) It was voted "best in show" by the critics.
D) It was so scandalous that it was never shown.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-10
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
Answer: A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
11. How did Michelangelo's David become political?
A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici
family.
B) It was placed in the gardens of the Medici palace as a symbol of the family's power.
C) It was placed in a chapel in the Florence Cathedral.
D) Its nudity was covered by a skirt of copper leaves.
Difficulty: Difficult
QuestionID: 01-11
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
Skill: Apply What You Know
Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
Answer: A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the
Medici family.
12. The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress
in 1967, was
A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
B) to censor art.
C) to give tax deductions to art gallery dealers and auction houses.
D) to impose a state-sponsored artistic style.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-12
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
Answer: A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such
buildings are praised for their
A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows.
C) use of high-tech materials.
D) lack of renewable resources.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-01
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
C) a universal concept of freedom.
D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-02
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
C) McCarthy era in the 1950s.
D) Desert Storm conflict.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-03
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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,4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
B) It is purely aesthetic.
C) It is a fertility idol.
D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-04
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as possible.
B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
D) creating a large stone monument.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-05
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
possible.
6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
A) reception, extraction, inference
B) detection, processing, reference
C) looking, seeing, believing
D) reception, interpreting, understanding
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-06
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon?
2
, A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
B) Native American sites he visited
C) his collection of Asian ceramics
D) the imagery on Korean tapestries
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-07
Topic: The Creative Process—From Sketch to Final Vision—Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
8. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not merely
functional but
A) aesthetic.
B) utilitarian.
C) objective.
D) iconographic.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-08
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) aesthetic.
9. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or
universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings, in
A) religious art.
B) art based on close observation of one's immediate surroundings.
C) contemporary art that deals with "identity politics."
D) political art.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-09
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) religious art.
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, 10. What was the reaction to Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase when it was
exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913?
A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
B) The public adored and praised the painting.
C) It was voted "best in show" by the critics.
D) It was so scandalous that it was never shown.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-10
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
Answer: A) It was parodied and ridiculed in the newspapers.
11. How did Michelangelo's David become political?
A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the Medici
family.
B) It was placed in the gardens of the Medici palace as a symbol of the family's power.
C) It was placed in a chapel in the Florence Cathedral.
D) Its nudity was covered by a skirt of copper leaves.
Difficulty: Difficult
QuestionID: 01-11
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
Skill: Apply What You Know
Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
Answer: A) It was placed in Florence's government square as a symbol of the Republic's freedom from the
Medici family.
12. The mission of the National Endowment of the Arts, as defined when it was first funded by Congress
in 1967, was
A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
B) to censor art.
C) to give tax deductions to art gallery dealers and auction houses.
D) to impose a state-sponsored artistic style.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-12
Topic: Seeing the Value in Art
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.3 Discuss the different ways in which people value, or do not value, works of art.
Answer: A) to teach the public how to see and appreciate "advanced art."
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