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Which of the following is not thought to be the function of the megalithic monument at Stonehenge?

A historical memorial

Which of the following items was made by an additive technique?

A welded bronze warrior

Which pharaoh abandoned the worship of the multitude of Egyptian gods in favor of Aton?

Akhenaton

At Persepolis, the style of the processional reliefs depicting representatives of many nations is highly reminiscent of which contemporaneous culture?

Archaic Greece

The development of what building material enabled the Romans to revolutionize architecture?

Concrete

What is the central feature of the plan of the palace of Knossos, shown here?

Courtyard

What pictorial narrative convention is not present on the Warka Vase?

Descriptive inscriptions

What vase painter is the acknowledged master of the black-figure technique?

Exekias

he Eshnunna votive statuettes and the statue of Napir-Asu share what formal characteristics?

Frontality and cylindrical volume

Which of the following is NOT a likely source of information regarding now-lost Greek panel paintings?

Inscriptions

The reliefs from the palace at Ninevah show Ashurbanipal hunting which creature?

Lion

What transitional period occurred just before Europe became climatically, geographically, and biologically much as it is today?

Mesolithic era

Which of the following is an important convention for the organization of forms in a pictorial space?

Perspective

An art historian writing a comparative analysis would most likely focus on the differences in which aspect of the two artists' paintings?

Perspective Material Color

What architectural technique is used at the far-flung Neolithic sites of Hagar Qim and Stonehenge?

Post and lintel

What was the purpose of the Assyrian lamassu?

Protection

What is the name of the sculptural element in the form of a bull shown here?

Protome

Which of the following is NOT a component of a Greek theater such as the one at Epidauros?

Pylon

Etruscan art and iconography had a great influence on which culture?

Roman

Which culture was both heir and imitator of the art and architecture of Greece?

Romans

Which millennium witnessed the high points of the ancient Aegean civilizations?

Second millennium BCE

What is the name of the chancellor/architect-engineer who served during the reign of Hatshepsut?

Senenmut

What is the date of the phase of the city of Troy that scholars now believe was the Troy of Homeric epic?

The 13th century BCE

What is considered the first great work of Greek literature?

The Iliad

What symbol is found on architectural elements throughout the palatial center at Knossos?

The double ax

In certain eras, such as pharaonic Egypt or imperial Rome, which class of individual had the most influence on the final appearance of a work of art?

The patron

What Middle Kingdom form took on the function of the Old Kingdom mastabas?

The rock-cut tomb

How do the materials of the paintings from Çatal Höyük differ from Paleolithic paintings?

They are made using brushes on a prepared surface

Although cylinder seals originally had an administrative use—for specific individuals to verify and secure inventory—what is their value to contemporary art historians?

They provide details of everyday life.


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