Review for Non-Western Presentations Test: Chapters 25, 27, 30, 31

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What was a favorite exercise of cultivation and refinement in the Momoyama period?

Tea ceremony

The Church of Santo Domingo, Cuzco was erected over the ________.

Temple of the Sun

The Walking Buddha occurred only in ________

Thailand

The most skilled goldsmiths in Mesoamerica Mexico were the ________

Mixtecs

The moai of Rapa Nui stand up to heights of ________

40 feet

What is the Taj Mahal?

A mausoleum

The Lotus Mahal in Vijayanagara is known to have functioned as ________.

A temple

The subject of Meera Mukherjee's greatest work, according to scholars, is ________

Ashoka

The concept of Dreamings is associated with the natives of ________.

Australia

Tenochtitlán was the ________ capital.

Aztec

Which of the following pre-Columbian cultures is most recent?

Aztec

The painting Akbar and the Elephant Hawai was made by:

Basawan and Chatar Muni

The Qutb Minar, a 238 foot tall sandstone minaret, is located in ________.

Delhi

Edo period rulers banned Christianity and all Westerners except the ________.

Dutch

A majority of the islands of Oceania are inhabited.

False

Few Maya codices remain due to the fragility of the media which they were produced.

False

Mural painting was the most popular form of painting under the Mughal emperors of India.

False

The supreme masters of shaping and fitting stones for architecture were the ________.

Inka

A prime example of dry-joining masonry (masonry without mortar) is found in the ________.

Inka Temple of the Sun at Cuzco

The tomb of the Taj Mahal is octagonal in plan and has typically ________ arcuated niches

Iranian

Which of the following was growing as a political and religious force in 13th century India?

Islam

Who was the son and successor of Akbar?

Jahangir

Who did Bichitr include in a portrait of Jahangir?

James I of England

One of the primary ideals of Japanese residential architecture is to ________.

achieve a harmonious integration of building and garden

The alcove in a tearoom used to hang scrolls of paintings or calligraphy and to display prized objects was the ________.

Tokonoma

Which of the following was a renowned tea master?

Toyo Yesshu

Akbar the Great was a great admirer of Iranian narrative paintings

True

Many Oceanic arts are resurgent today as a result of tourist trade.

True

Many artists produced artworks primarily in India ink during the Muromachi period.

True

The Mixtec became the skilled goldsmiths of Mesoamerica after the introduction of metallurgy.

True

The function of the two story monument known at the Lotus Mahal is unknown.

True

The two major painting schools during the Muromachi period were the Tosa and the Kano.

True

Under Jahangir's reign Mughal painting showed influences of European and Persian styles.

True

The worship of Krishna is most closely linked to ________.

Vishnu

The slaughter of the Lakota participants in the Ghost Dance took place at ________

Wounded Knee Creek

Many of the traditional native arts of Oceania are not now practiced because ________.

all of these choices

Which of the following is the Japanese term for western style painting?

yoga

India gained independence from the British in what year?

1947

The Rimpa School of painting was established during the ________.

Edo period

The Might of Islam Mosque constructed by Qutb al-Din Aybak was all original construction.

False

The Qutb Minar, a 238 foot tall minaret, suits perfectly its intended purpose.

False

Zen temples were used only for religious functions.

False

What is another name commonly used for the former Imperial Palace Compound?

Forbidden City

Utilitarian objects made of leather and decorated with quillwork and/or beads were very popular with Native Americans of the ________

Great Plains

The Emerald Buddha is most probably carved from ________.

Green jade

The pivotal figure in the Kano School of painting was ________

Kano Motonobu

Dynamic forms covered with intricate curvilinear designs are most typical of the ________.

Maori

Only about eighteen pre-Columbian painted books, or codices, survive. They are mostly the works of the ________.

Mixtec and Maya

The group who was LEAST prominent during the Postclassical period was the ________.

Olmecs

The word tattoo commons from a ________ language

Polynesian

China is credited with the invention of ________.

Porcelain

Which of the following are constructed for Navajo ceremonies for curing disease?

Sand Paintings

Shino ware was typically ________

Simple form & rough surface

What devices did the artist of the portrait of Jaswant Singh, the ruler of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, use to display Singh's regal presence and pride?

Singh's curled beard, Singh's unflinching gaze, and Singh's two necklaces

Figure carvings on a Maori meeting house represent real and mythological ________

ancestors

Micronesian artists tend to simplify and to abstract geometrically the natural forms of ________.

animals, humans, and plants

Hawaiian sculpted images share a tendency toward ________.

athleticism and expressive defiance

The counterculture of the Edo Period produced ukiyo-e whose subject matter depicted Yoshiwara ________.

brothels

Throughout Chinese history _________ have been closely connected and equally esteemed

calligraphy and painting

What is Blellek?

ceremonial house

What totemic emblems do Haida poles display?

clan groups

Tsuchiya Kimio produces large-scale sculptures constructed of ________.

driftwood

Carved Kwakiutl masks were often meant to be seen in ________.

flickering firelight

The builders of the huge temple complexes employed gateway towers called ________.

gopuras

The Asmat consider the female praying mantis to be a symbol of ________

head hunting

Indian painters intended their works to be ________.

held in the hands

During the Muromachi period, many artists produced pictures primarily in ________.

india ink

Polynesian nobles and warriors accumulated tattoo patterns to increase their ________.

mana, personal beauty, and status

What became a major genre in Japan in the late 19th century?

oil painting

Plains peoples made shields and shield covers that were both artworks and ________.

power images

The feathered serpent is one guise for the Mesoamerican deity ________.

quetzalcoatl

Decorative motifs of North American pottery of the Southwest dealt largely with forces of nature such as ________.

rain wind but not earth

After confinement to reservations, Plains artists used ledger art to record not only their heroic past and vanished lifestyle but also their ________.

reactions to their new surroundings

Ukiyo-e allowed many print designers to flourish and led to ever greater ________ in printmaking.

refinement and experimentation

Abelam yam masks incorporate ________

sculpted faces

Mengei folk pottery is coarser, darker and heavier than porcelain, with a beauty described as ________.

simpler and earthier

The arts of the northwest coast of North America are expressions not only of spiritual beliefs but also of ________.

social status

The Asmat head-hunt was a way of maintaining a balance of ________.

spiritual power

Though there is no identifiable Zen style of painting, Zen works are visually bold and convey ________.

spontaneity and energy

Though the materials used in Japanese woodblock prints varied, by the mid-18th century they reached a level of ________.

standardization

Dong Qichang's classification of Chinese landscape painters as Northern or Southern was based upon _____________.

style

Sons Su-Nam forsook traditional brush strokes in his ink on paper art to explore ____________.

subtle tonal variations

Painters of the Momoyama Period were asked to create folding screens in ink, color, and gold leaf for ________.

warlords

In Polynesian society, who makes bark cloth?

women


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