ASHWORTH AR300 ONLINE EXAM 8

Question 1 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which is not an aspect of Chinese literati painting?

A. An interest in antique styles

B. Small scale

C. Made for friends or small audience

D. Use of strong colors

Question 2 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which people made the oldest known sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa?

A. Nok

B. Yoruba

C. Shona

D. Kongo

Question 3 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

Why is Zhao Mengfu unusual?

A. He was a high Yuan official.

B. He resigned his position with the Yuan court.

C. He refused association with the Yuan dynasty.

D. He combined poetry and painting

Question 4 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

What is the Japanese name for the popular art, usually woodcuts, that literally means “pictures of the floating world”?

A. Fusuma

B. Ukiyo-e

C. Shikara

D. Li

Question 5 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

What are the stamped characters called that have been added to many Chinese letters and paintings?

A. Pictographs

B. Chakra

C. Seals

D. Calligraphy

Question 6 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

From where does the world’s oldest surviving fired pottery come?

A. Japan

B. Korea

C. China

D. India

Question 7 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which philosophy is evident in Monk Sewing attributed to Kao Ninga?

A. Zen

B. Pure Land Buddhism

C. Shinto

D. Daoism

Question 8 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

What do the parallel lines on the Ife portrait heads represent?

A. Tattoos

B. Ceremonial paint

C. A beaded veil

D. Scarification patterns

Question 9 of 20                                                                                                                                                 5.0/ 5.0 Points

You can tell a bodhisattva from a Buddha because a bodhisattva has:

A. simple monk’s robes.

B. a lotus throne.

C. a tuft of white hair between his eyes

D. lavish clothes and crown

Question 10 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which is a technique in Japan where a large wooden sculpture is constructed from smaller hollow blocks?

A. Woodblock

B. System

C. Assemblage

D. Joined-block

Question 11 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which of the following is the first important surviving example of Chinese wood frame architecture?

A. Horyu-ji

B. Borobudur

C. Nanchan Temple

D. Qin Shihuangdi’s mausoleum

Question 12 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

Byodo-in is designed to evoke the:

A. Forbidden Palace

B. Western Paradise

C. world mountain

D. home of Vishnu

Question 13 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

During the Heian period, Japan was culturally influenced by:

A. China and India.

B. India and Korea.

C. China and Cambodia

D. China and Korea

Question 14 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

In the 15th and 16th centuries, which tradition came to an end in Old Djenné because of rival warfare that caused the city to decline?

A. Weaving

B. Stone architecture

C. Bronze casting

D. Ceramic sculpture

Question 15 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which characteristic do the eyes of Nok sculptural figures have in common?

A. They are left blank

B. They are painted.

C. They are “D”-shaped.

D. Their height is greater than their width

Question 16 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

What is the symbol of purity on the top of the Great Friday Mosque in Djenné?

A. Ivory tusk

B. Gold leaf covered crescent moon

C. Ostrich egg

D. Abstract mask

Question 17 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

The numumusow of the Mande-speaking people use what method to make their pottery?

A. Coiling

B. Wheel-thrown

C. Molds

D. Slab construction

Question 18 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

Which of the following is a specialist in ritual that opens the lines of communication between the supernatural and human worlds?

A. Diviner

B. Oba

C. Iyoba

D. Oni

Question 19 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

The samurai ruled Japan during which of the following periods?

A. Heian

B. Momoyama

C. Kamakura

D. Edo

Question 20 of 20                                                                                                                                               5.0/ 5.0 Points

On which occasion is an ere ibeji made?

A. When a contract is agreed upon

B. When a youth is initiated into adulthood

C. When a woman cannot conceive children

D. When a twin dies