CHAPTER 26 Test Bank

CHAPTER 26 – Test Bank

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. “The Wars” in the title of this chapter refer to a. World War II and the Vietnam War. b. the Spanish Civil War and World War II. c. World War I and World War II. d. the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War. Answer: c

2. “The lost generation” was a phrase coined by a. Ernest Hemingway. b. F. Scott Fitzgerald. c. Zelda Fitzgerald. d. Gertrude Stein. e. Frank Lloyd Wright. Answer: d

3. The Cabaret Voltaire was located in a. Zurich. b. Paris. c. Avignon. d. Madrid. e. Utrecht. Answer: a

4. Who of the following was NOT a Dadaist? a. Arp b. Man Ray c. Duchamp d. Pelton e. Höch Answer: d

5. L.H.O.O.Q. is an example of a a. collage. b. Ready-Made. c. graffiti poster. d. Ready-Made-Aided. e. found object. Answer: d 6. Duchamp coined “Ready-Made” a. while exhibiting a urinal. b. after purchasing a shovel. c. inspired by tubes of artist’s paint. d. while fighting during WWI. e. while viewing a cracked mirror. Answer: b

7. Which is LEAST characteristic of Dada? a. nonsense b. nihilism c. punning d. Classicism e. iconoclasm Answer: d

8. Who started the quarterly journal Camera Work? a. Lange b. Van Der Zee c. Stieglitz d. Evans e. Pippin Answer: c

9. Which is true of the Rayograph? a. It is a black and white photograph made with a camera. b. It is a black and white photograph made without a camera. c. It is a black and white collage. d. It is the name of a painting by Man Ray. Answer: b

10. “Violon d’Ingres” is a French expression a. referring to a painting by Ingres. b. that is the title of a painting by Man Ray. c. meaning “hobby.” d. meaning “modern odalisque.” Answer: c

11. Which of the following correctly matches artist with country of birth? a. Klee – Germany b. Ernst – Holland c. O’Keeffe – Ireland d. Lawrence – England e. Magritte – Belgium Answer: e 12. Which is NOT a Surrealist element in Miró’s Dog Barking at the Moon? a. the colors of the ladder b. the colors of the dog c. the placement of the dog d. the space occupied by the ladder Answer: c

13. Who of the following is NOT a Surrealist? a. Salvador Dalí b. Giorgio de Chirico c. René Magritte d. Georges Braque Answer: d

14. Who defined “Surrealist” as “pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations”? a. André Breton b. Gustave Caillebotte c. Gustave Moreau d. Sigmund Freud Answer: a

15. Surrealists a. used titles that were intentionally provocative. b. felt dreams were another level of reality. c. embraced Jungian symbolism. d. All these answers are correct. Answer: d

16. Dalí’s “paranoiac-critical” method a. showed inner truth. b. showed inner irrationality as reflected in dreams. c. showed the cruel reality of the world as it was. d. showed both inner truth and inner irrationality as reflected in dreams. Answer: d

17. Simultaneous viewpoint is an element of a. Cubism and Surrealism. b. Surrealism and Futurism. c. Cubism and Pointillism. d. Dada and Futurism. Answer: a 18. The so-called veristic Surrealism of Magritte means that a. his forms are imaginary. b. his forms are clear and realistic but their combinations are surreal. c. his forms are surreal and fantastic. d. his arrangements make manifest sense but latent nonsense. Answer: b

19. The Surrealist artist who envisioned himself as a shaman was a. Magritte. b. Klee. c. Miró. d. Ernst. e. Giacometti. Answer: d

20. A Kachina is a Hopi a. toy. b. painting. c. spirit. d. mask. e. house. Answer: c

21. Pueblos are a. communal living quarters. b. rock-cut houses. c. Hopi temples. d. Hopi tombs. Answer: a

22. Which of the following does NOT correctly match artist with work? a. Ernst – The King Playing with the Queen b. Lange – Two Shells c. Giacometti – Large Standing Woman III d. Stieglitz – Equivalent e. Magritte – The False Mirror Answer: b

23. Who of the following was most interested in “found objects”? a. O’Keeffe b. Van der Zee c. de Chirico d. Moore e. Giacometti Answer: d 24. Which most accurately describes a mobile? a. It moves when its motor is activated. b. It hangs on a wall. c. It hangs from the ceiling. d. It moves when there is an air current. e. It hangs from the ceiling and moves when there is an air current. Answer: e

25. American Gothic is an example of a. Gothic Revival. b. Romanticism. c. Social Realism. d. Regionalism. e. photography. Answer: d

26. Which work inspired the CBS logo? a. Le Violon d’Ingres b. The False Mirror c. Helmet Head No.1 d. Fog Horns e. Goin’ Fishin’ Answer: b

27. The “underground railroad” was a. a subway line in New Orleans. b. an escape route for Civil War spies. c. an escape route for slaves. d. a tunnel planned for the English Channel. Answer: c

28. FSA stands for a. Foreign Socialist Association. b. Farmers’ Socialist Administration. c. Farm Security Administration. d. Freed Slaves of America. Answer: c

29. ______photographed the rural poor during the Great Depression. a. Alfred Stieglitz b. Buckminster Fuller c. Matthew Brady d. Dorothea Lange Answer: d 30. Which is NOT a feature of Rivera’s History of Mexico fresco murals? a. Cubism b. non-representational forms c. Leftist politics d. references to Mesoamerican history e. Surrealism Answer: b

31. Rivera’s wife, also a painter, was a. Georgia O’Keeffe. b. Agnes Pelton. c. Dorothea Lange. d. Frida Kahlo. Answer: d

32. Frida Kahlo painted a. her own life. b. her subjective reality as wife of a great Mexican muralist. c. symbols of her existential pain. d. All these answers are correct. Answer: d

33. The 291 was a. the address of the Seventh Regiment Armory. b. the address of the Museum of Modern Art. c. an avant-garde art gallery in New York. d. Gertrude Stein’s apartment number in Paris. e. a groundbreaking issue of Camera Work. Answer: c

34. Which is NOT an element of Dove’s Goin’ Fishin’? a. denim b. bamboo c. bark d. buttons Answer: d

35. Which is NOT a subject of American folk art? a. pinball machines b. cigar-store Indians c. carved gravestones d. shop signs e. weather vanes Answer: a 36. Which is NOT a feature of Grandma Moses’ The Old Checkered House? a. the influence of embroidery b. references to industrialization c. Romanticism d. local imagery Answer: b