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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. The games and competitions were considered so important by the Greeks that __________________________________.
(a) they were suspended during wars and conflicts
(b) a truce of God was called at the start of the games
(c) they were cancelled for lack of participation
(d) they were only held when the king wanted them

2. The Egyptians believed that when a man died _____________________________________.
(a) the body must return to dust
(b) they would destroy the body
(c) he should have with him the same kind of things that he had in life
(d) it didn't matter what he was surrounded with

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

4. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?
(a) third
(b) fourth
(c) second
(d) fifth

5. The term used to describe the Greek artist is ______________________.
(a) spiritual materialists
(b) abstractionist
(c) realist
(d) symbolist

Short Answer Questions

1. The first scientists were the _________________.

2. The Buddhist artist ________________________.

3. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.

4. The power of the Egyptian priests came from ____________________________.

5. What did the world of the dead represent to the ancient Egyptians?

(see the answer key)

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