Chapters 1-3

Question 1

Purposes and functions of art

Answer 1

Communicating information, day to day living, worship and ritual, personal expression, social causes, visual delight

Question 2

Naturalism

Answer 2

How closely the image resembled the subject in nature

Question 3

Cuneiform

Answer 3

Wedge shaped signs

Question 4

Ziggurat

Answer 4

High tower built of mud brick forming the base for a temple

Question 5

Megaliths

Answer 5

Big stone such as those used in cromlechs and dolmens

Question 6

Post and lintel

Answer 6

System of construction in which two or more uprights support a horizontal member

Question 7

Relief

Answer 7

The projection of a figure of a design from the background on which it is carved

Question 8

Registers

Answer 8

Horizontal bands

Question 9

Hieratic Scale

Answer 9

Importance of figures indicated by size

Question 10

Stele

Answer 10

Upright marker stone

Question 11

Lamassu

Answer 11

Guardian figures at gateways shaped as human headed bulls

Question 12

Hieroglyphs

Answer 12

Writing system used in religious and administrative context. A symbol standing for a word.

Question 13

Sarcophagus

Answer 13

Stone coffin

Question 14

Necropolis

Answer 14

Cemetery or city of dead

Question 15

Cloisonné

Answer 15

Metalworking technique used for enamel

Question 16

Obelisks

Answer 16

Tall stone markers topped by pyramid shaped points

Question 17

Medium

Answer 17

Material from which a work of art is made

Question 18

Faience

Answer 18

Glass paste fired to a shiny finish

Question 19

Pigment

Answer 19

Powder mixed with a base to make paint

Question 20

Dolmen

Answer 20

Monument of 2 or more upright stones supporting a horizontal stone slab

Question 21

Mastaba

Answer 21

Rectangular mud brick or stone marked early royal burial