Test Bank for A World of Art, 9th Edition by Henry M. Sayre

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Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
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1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture."
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Such buildings are praised for their
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A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows. ss ss


C) use of high-tech materials.
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D) lack of renewable resources. ss ss ss




Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-01 ss


Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
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engage in that process.
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Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
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2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
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A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
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C) a universal concept of freedom.
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D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-02 ss


Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
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3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
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A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
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C) McCarthy era in the 1950s. ss ss ss ss


D) Desert Storm conflict. ss ss




Difficulty: Easy ss


QuestionID: 01-03 ss


Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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,Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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,4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
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A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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B) It is purely aesthetic.
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C) It is a fertility idol.
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D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
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Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-04 ss


Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
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engage in that process.
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Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
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5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
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A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as possible.
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B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
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C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
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D) creating a large stone monument. ss ss ss ss




Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-05 ss


Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
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possible.
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6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
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A) reception, extraction, inference ss ss


B) detection, processing, reference ss ss


C) looking, seeing, believing ss ss


D) reception, interpreting, understanding ss ss




Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-06 ss


Topic: The World as We Perceive It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
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Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
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7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les
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Demoiselles d'Avignon?
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, A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum ss ss ss ss ss ss ss


B) Native American sites he visited ss ss ss ss


C) his collection of Asian ceramics
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D) the imagery on Korean tapestries
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Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-07 ss


Topic: The Creative Process—From Sketch to Final Vision—Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
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engage in that process.
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Answer: A) African masks he saw at a Paris museum
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8. Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be not
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merely functional but
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A) aesthetic.
B) utilitarian.
C) objective.
D) iconographic.

Difficulty: Easy ss


QuestionID: 01-08 ss


Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Remember the Facts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
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engage in that process.
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Answer: A) aesthetic. ss ss




9. We can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden
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or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings, in
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A) religious art. ss


B) art based on close observation of one's immediate surroundings.
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C) contemporary art that deals with "identity politics." ss ss ss ss ss ss


D) political art. ss




Difficulty: Moderate ss


QuestionID: 01-09 ss


Topic: The World as Artists See It
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Skill: Understand the Concepts
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Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
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engage in that process.
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Answer: A) religious art. ss ss ss




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