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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Way of the East and the Way of the West in Art.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Greek art is based on _________________________.
(a) symboliswm
(b) abstractions of reality
(c) the reality of what the artist sees
(d) the orders of the priests

2. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.
(a) not important in the life of the ancient Greeks
(b) montheistic
(c) represented by the gods and goddesses they believed in
(d) nonexistant

3. What is the reason for the Egyptian preoccupation with death?
(a) good living conditions
(b) belief in God
(c) the fairness of the ruler
(d) the misery of everyday life

4. The Buddhist artist ________________________.
(a) creates from within
(b) copies, doesn't create
(c) the Buddhists have no interest in art
(d) creates what he is told to create

5. The Greeks _________________________.
(a) applied no limits to thoughts
(b) practiced mind control
(c) limited intellectual thought to priests
(d) limited thought to certain fields

Short Answer Questions

1. The Greek architecture of the time was _________________________________.

2. The artist conceptualizes reality in the form of _______________________.

3. Which Pharaoh opposed the priests?

4. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?

5. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.

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