Art History: Chapter Quiz 7

Images of deities ____. D. can be male or female

Most early deities represented ____. B. a female fertility goddess

The Snake Goddess is from ____. C. Crete

From ancient Egypt came the convention of representing deities as ____. D. animals

The Hindu god Brahman can never be ____. A. known

The Buddhist concept of heaven or paradise is called ____. C. nirvana

A Buddhist stupa, at first a mound tomb, was transformed into a relic ____. D. of a Buddha

Later statues of Buddha emphasized ____. D. serenity

The nearest analogy to a Bodhisattva would be ____. B. a saint

When Christianity became the official state religion, Christ was shown as ____. A. a king or ruler

The special rituals of the Kwakiutl were ____. A. held annually

Mexican votive paintings are called ____. A. retablos

Depictions of ritual sacrifice were shown in many cultures, including ____. D. Christian and Mesoamerican

The Hopi make spirit dolls called ____. B. kachinas

A mandala is an attempt to show ____. B. the cosmos

The images of Michelangelo's Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel present ____. A. the origin of the universe

The Ziggurat of Ur is an ____. D. artificial mountain

Many religious structures, from Stonehenge to the Pantheon, use ____ to convey their power. B. geometry

A journey to a special shrine is called a ____. C. pilgrimage

The Parthenon frieze probably shows ____. B. the Panathenaic Festival

The deities of ancient Egypt were mostly personifications of ____. A. natural forces

The Hindu God ____ is the unity in which all opposites meet the source of good and evil, male and female. C. Shiva

The ____ religion in Japan teaches that forests and enormous stones are sacred dwellings of the gods of nature, who are connected to growth and renewal. B. Shinto

As seen in the columns of the Parthenon, ____ is a slight swelling at the middle of a column to create a feeling of organic flexing. D. entasis

Minarets are associated with ____ structures. B. mosque

In the Islamic religion, ____ is never depicted in visual form. C. Allah

The ancient ____ believed that Gaia, the Earth Goddess, was the beginning of all life on earth. C. Greeks

In the Hindu religion, there are many gods, but this is not considered to be ____ because they are all manifestations of the same being. A. polytheism

Buddhists and Hindus believe that human beings are ____ until they attain nirvana. B. reincarnated

A ____ was originally a mound tomb, but eventually it became a monument, which contained the relics of a Buddha. B. stupa

A ____ is a living being who has attained Buddhahood but chooses to remain on earth to help others. D. Bodhisattva

____ is one of the oldest religions of the Western world and is the foundation of Christianity and Islam. C. Judaism

In Mexico, small votive paintings called ____ are left at religious shrines as a prayer or an offering. D. retablos

The ____, representing the cosmos, begins with a circle, which symbolizes the void before creation. A. mandala

In Egypt, ____ were believed to be the actual dwellings of the gods and were modeled after the residences of nobles and pharaohs. B. cult temples