Test Bank for A World of Art 9th Edition by Henry Sayre, ISBN: 9780136828358, All 27 Chapters Covered, Verified Latest Edition
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Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such
buildings are praised for their
A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows.
C) use of high-tech materials.
D) lack of renewable resources.
Difficulty: Moderate
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QuestionID: 01-01
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
C) a universal concept of freedom.
D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-02
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
C) McCarthy era in the 1950s.
D) Desert Storm conflict.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-03
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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, 4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
B) It is purely aesthetic.
C) It is a fertility idol.
D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-04
Topic: The World as Artists See It
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
engage in that process.
Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as possible.
B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
D) creating a large stone monument.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-05
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
possible.
6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
A) reception, extraction, inference
B) detection, processing, reference
C) looking, seeing, believing
D) reception, interpreting, understanding
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-06
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon?
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