ART 133
Review Questions
THE ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT
1. Upper Egypt was located
a. in the Nile delta
b. upstream on the Nile
c. in Nubia
d. on the Red Sea
e. in the Libyan Desert
2. Upper and Lower Egypt were united about
a. 7000 B.C.
b. 5000 B.C.
c. 3000 B.C.
d. 2000 BC
e. 1000 B.C.
3. The period of the unification was the
a. New Kingdom
b. Old Kingdom
c. Middle Kingdom
d. Dynastic
e. Predynastic
4. Upper and Lower Egypt were united by the king
a. Ramses
b. Tutankhamen
c. Narmer (Menes)
d. Khufu
e. Khafre
5. A royal insignia signifying the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt was the
a. papyrus of Ani
b. scarab beetle
c. ankh
d. ureus
e. shabti
6. The symbol of Upper Egypt was the vulture; the symbol of Lower Egypt was the
a. cobra
b. scarab beetle
c. falcon
d. vole
e. bull
7. Another symbol worn by kings symbolizing their authority over the two
kingdoms was the
a. kilt
b. double crown incorporating the cobra crown of lower Egypt and the
bowling-pin hat of upper Egypt
c. mantle of Re
d. falcon-hat of Horus
e. sky-cloak of the goddess Nut
8. A period ruled over by members of a single family is a
a. century
b. dynasty
c. decade
d. eon
e. millenium
9. A relief sculpture which commemorates the unification of Upper and Lower
Egypt is the
a. Great Sphinx
b. panel from the tomb of Hesire
c. Khafre
d. Menkaure and Khamererebty
e. Palette of Narmer
10. Relief sculpture means that
a. figures are free-standing and can be seen from all directions
b. figures are always attached to a background
c. figures are painted on wet plaster
d. the sculptor was glad to be finished with it
e. figures are just painted on the surface with no carving
11. Bas, or low, relief
a. is cut very deeply
b. is very shallow
c. has strong linear shadows around the edges
d. was always painted
e. was never painted
12. High relief
a. is cut very deeply
b. is cut very shallow
c. is made at high elevation
d. was always painted
e. was never painted
13. Incised relief
a. casts no shadows
b. casts hardly any shadows
c. is sunken deep below the level of the surface, then modeled
d. is always painted
e. is never painted
14. The falcon in the Palette of Narmer represents
a. the sky god Horus
b. the King
c. the goddess Isis
d. the god Seth
15. An Egyptian god represented by a falcon was
a. Horus
b. Anubus
c. Seteh
d. Sekret
e. None of the above
16. The palette was a ceremonial object, probably used for
a. mixing eye liner
b. paint for frescoes
c. paint for panels
d. paint for statues
e. lip rouge
17. The lack of consistent scale in the palette indicates that
a. the artist didn't know how to represent figures in space
b. some figures are more important than others
c. some figures are further away, so smaller
d. some figures represent pigmies, others giants
e. artists didn’t understand human anatomy
18. In the Egyptian way of portraying the figure in relief and in painting, the
following canon or rule was always followed:
a. head in profile, torso on front view, legs and feet in profile.
b. head in front view, torso in profile, legs in front view.
c. entire body in front view
d. entire body in profile
e. mixed depending on circumstances
19. The reason for depicting the figure in the Egyptian way was
a. lack of interest in human anatomy
b. to make the figure and its parts instantly recognizable and easily read in
complex circumstances
c. religious dictate
d. inability to understand perspective
20. The earliest large-scale stone structure in history was the
a. ziggurat at Ur
b. the Palace at Khorsabad
c. the step-pyramid of Zoser
d. the Apadana at Persepolis
e. Pyramid of Khafre
21. The step pyramid was conceived as a
a. smooth-sided pyramid
b. series of superimposed mastabas
c. colonnaded structure
d. menhir
e. cromlech
22. Egyptian art centered around religion, particularly
a. the goddess Ishtar
b. the god Marduk
c. Zoroasterism
d. the cult of the dead
e. Islam
23. The Egyptians employed which building method for the great majority of their
buildings?
a. vaulting
b. cantilever
c. post and lintel
d. domes
e. arches
24. The architect of the step pyramid of Zoser was
a. Khafre
b. Khufu
c. Menes
d. Imhotep
e. Frank Lloyd Wright
25. In form, the step pyramid of Zoser was
a. a smooth sided pyramid
b. several uneven stages like a ziggurat
c. like several superimposed mastabas
d. a slope sided single story structure
e. bent with two different angles rising to the top.
26. A portrait of the deceased hidden in a tomb was called
a. hidden head
b. ka
c. ba
d. Spirit trap
e. reserve head
27. Egyptian sculpture usually conforms to the geometrical form of
a. the block
b. the cylinder
c. oval
d. sphere
e. hexagon
28. Mastaba was the name applied to
a. Mesopotamian ziggurat
b. megalithic tombs
c. beehive tombs
d. Old Kingdom Egyptian tomb
e. Egyptian grave statues
29. A Scarab is which of the following
a. a cobra
b. a falcon
c. a beetle
d. a fish
e. a cat
30. Embalmers stored the organs of the mummy in
a. gold bottles
b. ceramic vases
c. glass balls
d. canopic jars
e. Tupperware
31. Egyptians made paper called
a. parchment
b. buff
c. salenta
d. timobe
e. papyrus
32. The Great Pyramid was called the pyramid of
a. Menkaure
b. Kahfre
c. Khufu
d. Djoser
e. Ramsis
33. The great pyramid and the great sphinx were constructed during which period
a. predynastic
b. old kingdom
c. new kingdom
d. late period
e. none of the above
34. A hotel and casino in Las Vegas is named after which Egyptian city?
a. Amen Ra
b. Hamunaptra
c. Luxor
d. Giza
e. None of the above
35. The closest object in shape to the Great Pyramids, which suggests that it may
have inspired their original form, was the
a. Mesopotamian ziggurat
b. mountains
c. fetish of the sun god Re called a "ben-ben"
d. mastaba
e. pyramid of Zoser
36. The outer surface of the Great Pyramid was covered with
a. smooth white limestone
b. red granite
c. diorite
d. copper
e. fresco
37. Fresco secco means
a. painting on wet plaster
b. painting on dry plaster
c. painting in wax
d. low relief
e. none of the above
38. The wooden statue of Ka-Aper, a person of lesser importance in the court, shows
a. more realism than representations of kings
b. extreme formalism and conventionalization
c. not much interest in personality
d. lack of technical control in carving
e. lack of skill in observation
39. Which is not a characteristic of Old Kingdom art?
a. Use of size to distinguish importance
b. dignity
c. crowded human images
d. sensitive and formal balance
e. massive forms
40. The rock-cut tomb replaced the mastaba in the
a. Old Kingdom
b. First Intermediate Period
c. Middle Kingdom
d. Second Intermediate Period
e. New Kingdom
41. Greater concern with personality in royal portraits came first during the
a. Old Kingdom
b. First Intermediate Period
c. Middle Kingdom
d. Empire
e. Late Period
42. An example of that greater concern for personality is found in the portrait of
a. Sesostris III
b. Khafre
c. Ramses II
d. Khufu
e. Tutanhkamen
43. In the New Kingdom , royal tombs were located in
a. the Valley of the Kings
b. pyramids
c. mastabas
d. step pyramids
e. temples
44. A splendid example of the New Kingdom mortuary temple was that of Queen
a. Cleopatra
b. Hatshepsut
c. Nefertiti
d. Menuhotep
45. The emperor in the New Kingdom who proclaimed Aten to be the one and only
sun god was
a. Akhenaton
b. Imhotep
c. Tutankhamen
d. Cleopatra
e. Ramses II
46. This emperor also built a new capital at a site now known as
a. Memphis
b. Karnak
c. Amarna
d. Heliopolis
e. Alexandria
47. During the New Kingdom , the sub-period when painting and sculpture achieved
an infusion of informality and naturalism is known as the
a. Late Period
b. Ptolemaic Period
c. Amarna Period
d. Roman Period
e. Second Intermediate Period
48. Possible inspiration for this new style might have come from
a. Hyksos
b. Cretan craftsmen
c. loss of technique by Egyptian craftsmen
d. Hittites
e. the Middle East
49. An atlantid is a
a. a citizen of Atlantis
b. male figure serving as a column
c. female figure
d. a type of relief carving
e. painting
50. The temple at Abu Simbel in Nubia was built by
a. Sesostris III
b. Hatshepsut
c. Ramses II
d. Tutankhamen
e. Cleopatra
51. The Temple of Amen Re at Karnak is an example of
a. pylon temple
b. prostyle temple
c. amphiprostyle temple
d. rock-cut temple
e. mortuary temple
52. Which of the following is not a part of the Egyptian pylon temple?
a. pylon gate
b. courtyard
c. hypostyle hall
d. Apadana
e. sanctuary
53. The first feature of the temple at Karnak that an approaching person would
encounter was
a. a row of sphinxes
b. the hypostyle hall
c. the court
d. the sanctuary
e. the pylon gate
54. The facade of the temple, next encountered, was dominated by
a. a row of sphinxes
b. the hypostyle hall
c. the courtyard
d. the sanctuary
e. the pylon gate
55. On entering the temple, the first space a person would encounter was
a. a row of sphinxes
b. the hypostyle hall
c. the courtyard
d. the sanctuary
e. the pylon gate
56. Once into this space, looming ahead of the visitor would be
a. a row of sphinxes
b. the hypostyle hall
c. the courtyard
d. the sanctuary
e. the pylon gate
57. If you were an Egyptian of high rank, you could not enter this dark space. Only
the Pharaoh and high priests might enter
a. a row of sphinxes
b. the hypostyle hall
c. the courtyard
d. the sanctuary
e. the pylon gate
58. The basic layout or plan of the Temple of Amen-Re at Karnak was
a. that of a maze
b. circular
c. bilaterally symmetrical along a single axis
d. dominated by a great dome
59. A rock-cut temple is constructed by
a. piling cut rocks into a massive form
b. cutting rocks to fit neatly together without the use of mortar
c. tunneling corridors and chambers deep into rock cliffs
d. cutting rock into the form of the king
e. none of the above
60. The capitals above the column shafts in the hypostyle hall at the Temple at
Karnak were in the form of
a. the head of a bull
b. lotus and papyrus flowers
c. scrolls
d. Hathor heads
e. simple saucer shapes
61. The word "hypostyle" means
a. roof supported by columns
b. made of cement
c. columns in the form of a man
d. bell-shaped capitals
e. central roof raised higher than the flanking sides
62. The center portion over the processional way of the hypostyle hall in the Temple
of Amen-Re was
a. lower than the rest of the building
b. the same height
c. raised higher
d. vaulted with a barrel vault
e. covered with a dome
63. The columns in the central passage of the hypostyle hall are
a. 20 feet high
b. 33 feet high
c. 66 feet high
d. 100 feet high
64. The part created by the higher columns along the central passageway is called a
a. vault
b. cathedral ceiling
c. clerestory
d. apadana
e. cantilever
65. The only tomb of an Egyptian king found intact is that of
a. Ramses II
b. Akhenaton
c. Sesostris III
d. Tutankhamen
e. Thutmose II
66. The Book of the Dead is
a. a listing of all the deceased Pharaohs
b. a novel
c. ritual of the cult of Osiris, prescribing all the spells, prayers, etc. that the
deceased would need in the afterlife
d. a medieval manuscript wrongly thought to be Egyptian
e. None of the above
67. Columns in Egyptian temples could be based on plant forms such as the
a. palm tree
b. lotus
c. papyrus
d. bundle of reeds
e. all of the above
68. Columns in an Egyptian temple could be symbolic of
a. the primordial marsh
b. realm of the gods
c. a tomb
d. palace of the pharaoh
e. realm of the dead