Deck 1: The Art of Prehistory

Question 1

Pigment is

A) a racial characteristic
B) color
C) paint
D) painted relief
E) watercolor

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is not Paleolithic?

A) Venus of Laussel
B) Handprint of Pech-Merle
C) Mother Goddess from Tarxien
D) Stag from Lascaux
E) Jellyfish from Cosquer

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following does not have a representation of a bison?

A) Altamira
B) Stonehenge
C) Tuc d'Audoubert
D) La Madelaine

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The most important Paleolithic cave paintings are located in

A) Spain
B) France
C) England
D) Spain and France

Question 5

The main shapes in the Venus of Willendorf are

A) rectangular
B) oval
C) cubic
D) trapezoidal
E) triangular

Question 6

Paleolithic art has been found in the form of sculpture,friezes and paintings,but _______________ is the earliest.

A) "fertility figurines" like the Venus of Willendorf
B) the animal frieze at Lascaux
C) Stonehenge
D) the animal frieze at Altamira

Question 7

A kiln is

A) for cooking dinner
B) for heating pigments
C) for baking clay
D) for cooking herbs
E) for drying wet paint

Question 8

The term "prehistory" means

A) before people wrote history books
B) before people had written language
C) before people had libraries
D) before people could count
E) before people could talk

Question 9

The artists at Lascaux and Altamira seem to have done their art as

A) decoration for the cave
B) part of a ceremony to ensure success in the hunt
C) the totem of the tribal chief
D) an ex-voto for a man killed in a hunt

Question 10

The term "Paleolithic" refers to the

A) Old Stone Age
B) Middle Stone Age
C) New Stone Age
D) Old Stones
E) Old Dispensation

Question 11

By definition,Paleolithic paintings are not

A) endowed with life
B) abstract
C) naturalistic
D) designed to conjure up game for hunters

Question 12

The caves at Altamira share certain things in common with Lascaux

A) they are in France
B) they are in flat, lake country
C) they contain remarkable Paleolithic depictions of animals
D) they are in France, they are in flat, lake country, and they contain remarkable Paleolithic depictions of animals

Question 13

As used in this text,a relief refers to

A) a rest
B) a vacation
C) a category of sculpture
D) a painted image
E) a post-and-lintel

Question 14

The term Homo sapiens literally means

A) simple man
B) stupid man
C) stoic man
D) wise man
E) genius

Question 15

A good example of a Paleolithic sculpture-in-the-round is

A) the Venus of Laussel
B) the Tuc d'Audoubert Bison
C) the Venus of Willendorf
D) the Wandjina
E) the Mimi

Question 16

Old Stone Age people

A) had stone houses
B) used stone tools
C) worshipped in stone temples
D) built stone tombs
E) used stone for building

Question 17

Which of the following is a logical interpretation of the Venus of Willendorf?

A) an obese figure
B) a wealthy figure
C) a fertility figure
D) a pregnant figure
E) a blind figure

Question 18

The so-called Shaman cave painting is at

A) Lascaux
B) Pech-Merle
C) Chauvet
D) Trois-Freres
E) Altamira

Question 19

Who of the following was never involved in studying cave paintings?

A) Leroi-Gourhan
B) Henri Breuil
C) Pech-Merle
D) Reinach
E) Chauvet

Question 20

Which term is not related to making sculpture?

A) carving
B) modeling
C) relief
D) post-and-lintel
E) incising

Question 21

Which is true of the Beaker People?

A) they hunted ducks
B) they were nomads
C) they made pottery
D) they destroyed Stonehenge
E) they were literate

Question 22

To what does the Aboriginal Dreaming most refer?

A) Australian rituals
B) Australian myth
C) Australian dreams
D) Australian art
E) Australian folk tales

Question 23

Stonehenge dates from the __________ period.

A) Paleolithic
B) Late Jurassic
C) Mesolithic
D) Neolithic

Question 24

Stonehenge is located at

A) Marlborough Downs
B) Carnac
C) Crucuno
D) Sussex
E) Salisbury Plain

Question 25

Taboo means that something or someone is

A) a saint and a sinner
B) good and evil
C) sacred and profane
D) magic and sacred
E) untouchable

Question 26

Paleolithic paintings of animals usually have been found

A) in the uninhabited depths of caves
B) at the mouths of caves
C) in Neolithic shelters
D) on rock faces open to the light of day

Question 27

Wandjina are

A) Mimi hunters
B) Aboriginal kangaroos
C) shaman
D) cloud spirits
E) Aboriginal X-rays

Question 28

When an animal's body is shown in perspective,but with its head shown full front,the artist is using

A) twisted perspective
B) atmospheric perspective
C) linear perspective
D) aerial perspective

Question 29

Who built Stonehenge?

A) Druids
B) Merlin
C) King Arthur
D) Men of Wessex
E) Men of Camelot

Question 30

An important cultural change from Paleolithic to Neolithic is

A) from nomadic to agricultural
B) from megalithic to caves
C) from pottery to sculpture
D) from warlike to peaceful
E) from illiterate to literate

Question 31

Which is not a subject of Aboriginal rock painting?

A) Mimi
B) kangaroos
C) Wandjina
D) buffalo

Question 32

Lascaux cave paintings of animals could be described as

A) painted relief
B) stylized
C) old fashioned
D) superimposed
E) stick figures

Question 33

Which of the following is not found at Lascaux?

A) a horned owl
B) a stag
C) horses
D) bulls
E) humans

Question 34

The oldest known Aboriginal rock painting style is

A) Mimi
B) x-ray
C) megalithic
D) Dreaming

Question 35

In which of the following modern countries have the fewest number of megaliths been found?

A) France
B) Spain
C) Malta
D) Britain

Question 36

Which is not connected to Stonehenge?

A) Aubrey Holes
B) Camelot
C) Sarsen
D) Marlborough Downs
E) Heel Stone

Question 37

Which is not a Celtic term?

A) Dolmen
B) Cromlech
C) Menhir
D) Wessex
E) Druid

Question 38

Civilization received its greatest push forward from the

A) discovery of fire
B) agricultural revolution
C) discovery of the potter's wheel
D) domestication of animals

Question 39

A trilithon is a

A) single post-and-lintel
B) three posts-and-lintels
C) a fossil
D) a three-part painting
E) a triple stone

Question 40

Which is not connected to Malta?

A) Gozo
B) Cosquer
C) Ggantija
D) Tarxien

Question 41

The sun rises over the Heel Stone at Stonehenge at

A) the winter solstice
B) the summer solstice
C) Easter
D) Christmas
E) dawn