The Empress Theodora was given the same status as her husband in the mosaic in San Vitale. She would also have been given equal status when she visited the church and stood by the altar.
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False
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What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.5)?
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a bloodletting ritual
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Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves.
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False
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What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters (4.6.6)?
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sunken-relief carving
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The Stela of Hammurabi:
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has an entire law code written on it
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Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of Rome?
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Constantine
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The colossal statue of Constantine the Great departs completely from statues of earlier Roman emperors.
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False
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The giant portrait that hangs over Tiananmen depicts one of the founders of ancient China.
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False
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The portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs over Tiananmen has not been taken down since the day it was first hung.
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False
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Which American Pop artist made several silkscreen prints of Mao?
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none of the other answers
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How long after it was placed in the central square of Baghdad was the statue of Saddam Hussein destroyed?
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1 year
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Which of these rulers used art to regulate their society?
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Roman Emperor Constantine
Chinese ruler Mao Zedong
King Hammurabi of Babylon
answers b and c
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Which of these artworks was made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it represents?
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Elizabeth I (The Armada Portrait)
Mao Zedong's portrait at Tiananmen
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Stela of Hammurabi
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Timothy O'Sullivan was a photographer whose images were the result of random snapshots.
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False
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Nick Ut never found out what happened to the Vietnamese girl he photographed running away after a napalm attack in which she had been burned.
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False
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Nick Ut's photographs of the Vietnam War are brutally truthful because he was not an impartial photographer.
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True
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Otto Dix's The War is a ________.
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triptych
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In The War, Otto Dix paints a soldier lying in a trench in the ________ section of his artwork.
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predella
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The ruler in the Palette of Narmer is identified using hierarchical scale.
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True
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The Bayeux Tapestry is approximately ________ long.
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290 ft.
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The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by women.
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True
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Which of the following artworks depict in great detail the specific wardrobe of warriors?
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the Tula warrior columns
the Bayeux Tapestry
Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
answers b and c
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The Japanese scroll painting the Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace shows a raid by samurai warriors during which they kidnapped the Emperor Nijo from his palace.
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True
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The Tula warrior columns (4.7.7) once supported an Aztec temple.
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False
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The Tula warrior columns (4.7.7) were made by the Toltec people of Mexico, a civilization which came after the Aztecs.
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False
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An oba is the name for a jaguar in Benin culture.
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False
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Goya's The Third of May, 1808 depicts Napoleon's trips murdering Spanish civilians.
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True
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Which formal element is used in Goya's The Third of May, 1808, to put more attention on one figure than the others?
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light
line
color
answers b and c
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Pablo Picasso would not let Guernica be seen by the public until Adolf Hitler was out of power.
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False
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Pablo Picasso's Guernica was an invented vision he made to express the terror he felt after waking from a nightmare.
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False
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Anselm Kiefer's Breaking of the Vessels refers to:
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all of the other answers
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Anselm Kiefer's own experiences and his German nationality have affected the way he interprets war in his artworks.
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True
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In Ganzeer's Tank vs. Bike, a team of understudies created the tank and the bike - Ganzeer only painted his signature panda.
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False
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Which of these artists created a war artwork that was also an interactive performance?
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Wafaa Bilal
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Why were some against Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
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all of the other answers
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What is not true about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
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the names of the dead are carved into the wall alphabetically
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Which elements are part of the 9/11 Memorial in New York City?
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all of the other answers
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The 9/11 Memorial has been achieved without any controversy over its final design.
interviewed survivors
built a replica of the raft
studied corpses
answers a and c
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The water in Teresa Margolles's En el aire (In the Air) was
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used to clean corpses
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The guns for Palas por Pistolas (Guns for Shovels) were donated by who?
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the public
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Which of the following is NOT true about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
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he lived in the United Kingdom from 1981-1993
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Mary Richardson, who attacked The Toilet of Venue (Rokeby Venus) in 1914, compared the physical beauty of the woman in the painting to the beautiful character of:
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Mary Richardson, attacked The Toilet of Venue (Rokeby Venus) because:
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she wanted more rights for women
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The artist of the sculpture Falling Woman is:
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Eric Fischl
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Critics of the sculpture Falling Woman said that it was irrelevant to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and did not capture any of the pain and emotion of that day.
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False
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What is true about Emil Nolde?
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he was a member of the Nazi party
he painted in watercolor
his painting The Crucifixion was considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate"
he was ordered to stop making art
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Emil Nolde's The Crucifixion was admired by Adolf Hitler.
True
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False
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What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her?
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she was ashamed of the photograph
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The identity of Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother has never been discovered.
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False
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What is Shirin Neshat's Women of Allah about?
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Western stereotypes of Islamic women
violence
beauty
answers b and c
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28 Millimeters, Face2Face addresses the conflict between which two cultures?
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Israel and Palestine
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What color does Sherrill Roland use in The Jumpsuit Project?
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orange
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Chris Jordan's "Gyre" refers to:
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Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa"
a Pacific whirlpool
trash created by humans
consumerism
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Chris Jordan used 2.4 million pieces of plastic in his artwork "Gyre." These represent the number of:
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pounds of plastic trash that enters the world's oceans every hour
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