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Cultural Reflections in Art and Artifacts Exam Questions and Answers Which sentence best helps readers visualize the Benin plaque? "In these chapters we are looking at objects that chart how Europe first encountered and then traded with the wider world in the sixteenth century." "There are sev...

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Cultural Reflections in Art and Artifacts

Exam Questions and Answers


Which sentence best helps readers visualize the Benin plaque?




"In these chapters we are looking at objects that chart how Europe first encountered and then traded

with the wider world in the sixteenth century."




"There are several hundred Benin plaques now in European and American museums, and they offer us a

remarkable picture of the structure of this West African kingdom."




"It is about 40 centimetres (16 inches) square; its colour strikes you as coppery rather than brassy, and

there are five figures on it, three Africans and two Europeans." - ANSWER✔✔-"It is about 40 centimetres

(16 inches) square; its colour strikes you as coppery rather than brassy, and there are five figures on it,

three Africans and two Europeans."


Which details from the passage help readers visualize the plaque? Check all that apply.




To either side kneel two high-court functionaries, dressed very like the Oba, but with plainer

headdresses and fewer neck-rings. They wear belts hung with small crocodile heads, the emblem of



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those authorized to conduct business with Europeans - and the heads and shoulders of two tiny

Europeans can be seen floating in the background.




The Europeans are Portuguese, who from the 1470s were sailing down the west coast of Africa in their

galleons on their way to the Indies, but who were also seriously interested in West African pepper, ivory

and gold.




-"plainer headdresses and fewer neck-rings"


-"belts hung with small crocodile heads"


-"the heads and shoulders of two tiny Europeans"


-"sailing down the west coast of Africa"


-"West African pepper, ivory and gold" - ANSWER✔✔--"plainer headdresses and fewer neck-rings"


-"belts hung with small crocodile heads"


-"the heads and shoulders of two tiny Europeans"


What central idea is best supported by details in the passage?




The brass needed to make the plaques was usually transported in the form of large bracelets - called

manillas - and the quantities involved are staggering. In 1548 just one German merchant house agreed to

provide Portugal with 432 tons of brass manillas for the West African market. When we look again at the




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plaque, we can see that one of the Europeans is holding a manilla, and this is the key to the whole scene:

the Oba is with his officials who manage and control the European trade.




-The Benin plaques demonstrate why brass is not typically used in sculpture.


-The Benin plaques reveal the importance of trade between Europe and Africa.


-The Benin plaques highlight the great skill of sixteenth-century African artists.


-The Benin plaques show that the Oba was not a powerful or valued leader. - ANSWER✔✔--The Benin

plaques reveal the importance of trade between Europe and Africa.


Which idea from the text is best supported by details in the passage?




Many wild theories were put forward. It was thought that the plaques must have come from ancient

Egypt, or perhaps that the people of Benin were one of the lost tribes of Israel. Or the sculptures must

have derived from European influence (after all, these were the contemporaries of Michelangelo,

Donatello and Cellini). But research quickly established that the Benin plaques were entirely West

African creations, made without European influence. The Europeans had to revisit, and to overhaul, their

assumptions of easy cultural superiority.




-"Modern British life and culture now have a strong African component."


-"All European visitors were struck by the Oba's position as both the spiritual and the secular head of the

kingdom . . ."




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-"This plaque is dominated by the majestic figure of the Oba himself."


-"[The plaques] changed European understanding o - ANSWER✔✔--"[The plaques] changed European

understanding of African history and African culture."


Which detail from the text best supports the idea that the invention of the chronometer had a significant

effect on British and world culture?




-"During what is sometimes called the 'long' nineteenth century . . . the countries of western Europe and

America were transformed from agricultural societies into industrial powerhouses."


-"There are twenty-four hours in the day so, as the Earth rotates, every hour the Sun apparently 'moves'

across the sky one twenty-fourth of a complete circle of the globe . . ."


-"It is made of brass and is around the size of a large pocket watch, with a normal clock dial showing

roman numerals and a smaller dial at the bottom for the second hand."


-"The chronometer for the first time allowed absolutely accurate charting of the oceans, with all that

implied for establishing safe and rapid shipping routes." - ANSWER✔✔--"The chronometer for the first

time allowed absolutely accurate charting of the oceans, with all that implied for establishing safe and

rapid shipping routes."


Which sentence best establishes visual details?




-The paintings were on display for seven months at the local museum.


-A local artist created the paintings to celebrate the town's history.



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