Finals Study Questions

Question 1

Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include:

Answer 1

Chauvet, France
Lascaux, France
Altamira, Spain

Question 2

The ________________ was discovered in the country of Austria.

Answer 2

Willendorf Venus

Question 3

The term ___________ refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as Stonehenge.

Answer 3

megalith

Question 4

The term __________ refers to the category of megalithic structures that includes Stonehenge.

Answer 4

cromlech

Question 5

____, the god of the moon was the considered the resident god at ____.

Answer 5

Sin
Ur

Question 6

The ____________________ is credited with capturing Jerusalem, destroying its temples, and deporting
many of the Hebrews.

Answer 6

Babylonian army

Question 7

_________, the ancient Egyptian leader, ruled circa 3,000 B.C.E. and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt.

Answer 7

Narmer

Question 8

The new style of art that was developed during the rule of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten was known as the ______________.

Answer 8

Amarna style

Question 9

A _________ and __________ is found on the jade disc known as Pi.

Answer 9

dragon
phoenix

Question 10

Common among the people of Thera were:

Answer 10

-elaborately decorated homes
-clay pipes which connected the toilets and bathes to sewers
-straw which was used to reinforce the walls of their homes.

Question 11

The bull was the creature which was associated with __________________ by the inhabitants of Crete.

Answer 11

male virility and strength

Question 12

___________, the legendary Minoan queen is credited with giving birth to the Minotaur.

Answer 12

Pasiphae

Question 13

Penelope was the wife of _____________.

Answer 13

Odysseus

Question 14

The term Acropolis is translated to mean ____________.

Answer 14

“top of the city”

Question 15

refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center

Answer 15

The Acropolis

Question 16

The ________ is the columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.

Answer 16

entasis

Question 16

The _______ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.

Answer 16

agora

Question 16

The term _______ are a part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards.

Answer 16

demes

Question 17

The illustrations in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies:

Answer 17

giants, centaurs, amazons, and trojans.

Question 18

The illustrations in the _________ on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies.

Answer 18

metopes

Question 19

_________________ was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate.

Answer 19

Marcus Junius Brutus

Question 20

__________ refer to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts.

Answer 20

Imagines

Question 21

In the sculpture of ___________________, Cupid is pictured riding a dolphin.

Answer 21

Augustus of Primaporta

Question 22

Augustus did not view the writings of _______ favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome.

Answer 22

Ovid

Question 23

The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _____________.

Answer 23

Georgics

Question 24

Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order:

Answer 24

ground floor: Tusacan second floor: Ionic thirds floor: Corinthian

Question 25

architectural order favoured by the Romans

Answer 25

Corinthian

Question 26

The Pantheon contained an oculus, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the _____________.

Answer 26

“Eye of Jupiter”

Question 27

a circular opening at the top

Answer 27

oculus

Question 28

The term __________ refer to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome.

Answer 28

patricians

Question 29

The term __________ refer to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.

Answer 29

plebeians

Question 30

____________ was based on the idea of the wergild, or “life-price” of an individual.

Answer 30

Anglo-Saxon law

Question 31

Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the _________, or “life-price” of an individual.

Answer 31

wergeld

Question 32

The epic poem, ____________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of monsters that have ravaged the land.

Answer 32

Beowulf

Question 33

___________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul in London.

Answer 33

Augustine

Question 34

______________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.

Answer 34

Bishop Eadfrith

Question 35

______________ was made from the ivory of an elephants tusk.

Answer 35

Roland’s horn

Question 36

The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the _____________.

Answer 36

refectory

Question 37

The ______________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder.

Answer 37

barrel vault

Question 38

The ____________ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church.

Answer 38

voussoir

Question 39

__________ was considered the center of the cult of the Virgin throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Answer 39

Chartres

Question 40

The tunic Mary wore at Jesus’ birth was considered the most cherished relic at the _________________.

Answer 40

Chartres Cathedral

Question 41

The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to tell the stories of the _______.

Answer 41

Bible

Question 42

The window called ______________ depicts the Virgin Mary as descended from Jesse, the father of King David, Thus fulfilling a prophecy in the book of Isaiah.

Answer 42

“Tree of Jesse”

Question 43

One of the stained-glass windows at the Chartres Cathedral shows _____________________.

Answer 43

the genealogy of Christ

Question 44

In a gothic church, _______________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.

Answer 44

the flying buttress

Question 45

The figure of _____________ found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a contrapposto position.

Answer 45

Saint Theodore

Question 46

The trivium consisted of:

Answer 46

 Grammar  Rhetoric  Dialectic

Question 47

________ was the first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of law.

Answer 47

Bologna

Question 48

_______ was mandatory, and students studied _______ in all courses of their first four years of study.

Answer 48

Latin

Question 49

__________ played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris.

Answer 49

Robert de Sorbon

Question 50

______________, a logician and author of the treatise Sic et Non taught by the dialectical method.

Answer 50

Peter Abelard

Question 51

Trotula is widely recognized as the author of __________________________.

Answer 51

On the Diseases of Women

Question 52

Thomas Aquinas wrote the _________________ and was one of the prominent spokesmen for Scholasticism.

Answer 52

Summa Theologiae

Question 53

The Gothic church at ______________ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.

Answer 53

Sainte-Chapelle

Question 54

_______________ is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good Government.

Answer 54

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Question 55

Which term refers to the "life-price" of an individual in Anglo-Saxon culture?

Answer 55

wergeld