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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. What was the purpose of depicting scenes of Ti’s accomplishments, honors, professional responsibilities, and goals on the walls of his mastaba tomb? | b. To nourish his ka and assist him in performing the activities he had engaged in during his life. |
| 2. Why did the Egyptians depict papyrus plants in spaces like the House of the North in Djoser’s funerary complex? | b. They believed that these plants occupied the marsh on the journey to the afterlife |
| 3. How does the Law Stele of Hammurabi portray the dispensing of royal power on the ruler? | c. The king is receiving the insignia of royal power, the rod and ring. |
| 4. Although painted stones and petroglyphs were made as early as 25,000 years ago in southern Africa, how far back does the earliest painted rock shelter in that part of the African continent date? | c. About 4,000 years ago. |
| 5. Mesopotamian temples were orthogonally planned, meaning what? | d. They were built on a grid pattern of right angles. |
| 6. The sites of Göbekli Tepe and Mnajdra have several similarities, except for which of the following? | d. The structures were built for calendrical purposes |
| 7. Which of the following is the best illustration of the importance of justice to Mesopotamian kingship? | a. the Law Stele of Hammurabi |
| 8. Which of the following paintings best demonstrates the settled life of a Neolithic community? | a. The wall painting depicting large animals and lively human figures from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. |
| 9. One recent excavation site has changed the way scholars understand the early Neolithic era, because it evidences hunter-gatherers working together to build a megalithic mountain sanctuary. Which site is it? | a. Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey. |
| 10.Which of the following BEST supports that fact that the temple was the center of life in ancient Uruk? | c. The temple had great economic power, organizing agriculture and trade. |
| 11.The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating to around 2000 BCE, present evidence of several things except which of the following? | c. People and objects were buried separately. |
| 12.Careful examination of the Woman of Willendorf figure reveals a range of naturalistic details common to these types of figures. Which one of the following features is NOT visible on the Woman of Willendorf? | a. carefully-carved facial features |
| 13.The cylinder seal was an innovation of the Uruk period. What was innovative about it? | c. Its round design, which enabled a continuous image. |
| 14.The Ain Ghazal statues found near Amman, Jordan were found buried together in a group of 30. What do scholars believe this suggests? | b. The figures may have had a funerary function. |
| 15.There are several reasons the Akkadian head is identified as representing a ruler. Which of the following is LEAST likely one of them? | c. The features are detailed. |
| 16.What is meant by the practice of “re-fleshing” ancestor skulls in ancient Jericho? | a. Lime plaster, shells, and other adornments were applied to skulls that were reburied as a means to honor the dead ancestor. |
| 17.Gudea’s clean-shaven face suggests what? | b. His religious dedication. |
| 18.Although possibly created thousands of years apart, painted images of people and animals in the rock shelters of southern Africa were all created by ancestors of: | a. hunting and gathering populations speaking early forms of San languages. |
| 19.Which of the following details visually reinforce the idea that the Stele of Naram-Sin depicts an actual event? | c. The specific and identifiable species of trees included in the carved relief. |
| 20.Which of the following characterizes the way space is represented in the tomb painting at Hierakonpolis? | c. Informally positioned figures who are grouped together based on the activities they perform. |
| 21.Why did Egyptians develop the mummification process? | a. To preserve the body after death so that the person’s ba and ka could return to it. |
| 22.Full depictions of the human form in Paleolithic paintings are most commonly found in which region? | b. Australia |
| 23.Djoser’s funerary complex contains Egypt’s first known example of which architectural structure? | c. The step pyramid. |
| 24.The collapse of the Akkadian empire around 2200 BCE caused a number of things including a shift in artistic output. Which is the best characterization of this change? | a. Art began to reflect the region’s long-term artistic traditions. |
| 25.How does the Stele of Naram-Sin completely break from previous Mesopotamian visual conventions? | a. It eliminates the horizontal registers |
| 26.Çatalhöyük is an early Neolithic settlement that may have housed as many as 8,000 people. Excavations have revealed many things about their dwellings, except for which of the following? | a. Houses were built of megaliths. |
| 27.Which part of the palace does the Investiture of Zimri-Lim fresco at the Palace of Mari appear to replicate? | b. The ceremonial courtyard near the throne room. |
| 28.The textbook defines iconography as “images or symbols used to convey specific meanings in an artwork.” Which of the following is another way of describing iconography? | d. The subject matter depicted. |
| 29.As archaeological surveys in the early twenty-first century have suggested, why do so few complete Nok figures survive? | b. They appear to have been deliberately broken by the original owners. |
| 30.What is a mastaba? | d. A massive, flat-topped rectangular tomb building with slanted side walls; built of either mud brick or cut stone. |
| 31.Low-relief carving is best described by which of the following? | b. the depth of carving is low |
| 32.Which of the following is an accurate description of figurative artwork? | d. Art that portrays human or animal forms. |
| 33.What was the purpose of the ka statue? | b. To house a person’s ka (life force) and receive devotional offerings from visitors and priests. |
| 34.Which of the following works of art is the earliest example of pictorial narrative? | a. Uruk Vase |
| 35.What feature of the Seated Scribe statue indicates that the deceased was a wealthy man? | c. Folds of stomach fat, which were culturally viewed as highly desirable. |
| 36.How are the cultural values of Pastoralist Style artists revealed in their choice of materials? | c. Their paints were made of pigments bound with cow’s milk. |
| 37.What was the Heb-Sed? | b. A celebration that rejuvenated the king’s life after many years of rule and demonstrated dominion over a unified Egypt. |
| 38.From the Predynastic period to the collapse of the Old Kingdom, Egyptian rulership was concerned with the unification of which of the following regions? | a. Memphis and Giza. |
| 39.Why do most scholars now think Paleolithic people went through the trouble of painting wild animals deep in caves, such as at the 1300-foot-long Chauvet Cave? | a. Paintings may have transformed caves into potent and potentially divine spaces. |
| 40.How does Ti compare to the other figures represented in his tomb? | a. He is portrayed in hierarchical scale, with each bodily element shown from the most identifiable angle, while other figures are smaller and in more animated poses. |
| 41.Which of the following is NOT an example of material culture shared by urban Egyptian communities? | d. Kemet. |
| 42.Why are Pastoralist Style paintings described as naturalistic? | a. They represent men, women, children, and animals in clearly recognizable, lifelike ways. |
| 43.In Ancient Mesopotamia, where did the invention of writing first appear? | a. In the temple. |
| 44.Of the following features on the Narmer palette, which may have been a symbolic representation of the unification of Egypt? | d. Represent it in a harmonious, identifiable way. |
| 45.The Narmer palette is thought to have been a temple offering. Of the following qualities, which indicates that it was a symbolic object, rather than a functional one? | b. Its large size and weight |
| 46.Why did Assyrian palaces include numerous low-relief pictorial programs carved in gypsum, depicting both military successes and ceremonial rituals? | b. They served as metaphors for royal courage and the strength of the kingship. |
| 47.Study of the trove of statues found at the Temple of Abu from the Early Dynastic Period (2950-2350 BCE) suggests their function. Which of the following is NOT a possible function of the statues? | b. They were laid to rest as part of a funerary rite. |
| 48.Which of the following details from the Standard of Ur is a good example of hierarchical scale? | d. The top register with seated and standing figures. |
| 49.The ziggurat of Ur, built around 2100, was built of baked bricks paid for by a pious patron whose name we still know today. How do we know it? | a. The patron’s name was inscribed in each brick. |
| 50.Radiocarbon technology is a useful tool in examining Paleolithic caves. Using this technology at the 1300-foot-long Chauvet Cave, scholars realized which of the following facts? | b. Overlapping images could be up to 5,000 years apart. |
| 51.Which of the following is the oldest known sculpture in human history, dated to around 40,000-35,000 BCE? | d. Lion-human statuette from cave in southwest Germany. |
| 52.As is true for its African neighbor, ancient Egypt, what is the source of most archaeological finds in Nubia? | d. Tombs. |
| 53.When this Pastoralist Style scene of a family gathering was painted, about 6,000 to 4,000 years ago, what was true of images of children? | d. They were quite rare in art made around the world. |
| 54.What was the purpose of the stone shrines found in Djoser’s Heb-Sed Court? | b. To house the statues of various deities that Djoser invited to witness his ritual of eternal renewal. |
| 55.Mesopotamian cylinder seals have been found in Egypt demonstrating the existence of direct or indirect trade between these two ancient cultures. Which of the following provides additional evidence of potential contact? | a. A similar figure to the priest-king is found on a knife carved in Egypt. |
| 56.What is corbeling? | c. Overlapping wood, stone, or brick wall projections arranged so that each course extends farther from the wall than the course below. |
| 57.The Temple of Anu at Uruk was built of mudbrick atop which of the following structures? | d. A tall earthen platform that raised the temple above the city’s urban center. |
| 58.For what reason did the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom (and later periods) include false doors in the interiors of tombs? | c. As thresholds between the worlds of the living and the dead. |
| 59.The site of Stonehenge is architecturally complex for several reasons, except for which of the following? | c. Construction necessitated cooperation due to the stone roof that topped the henge. |
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