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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Scottish physicist isolated the three additive primaries?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Sir James Clerk
(c) Lord Kelvin
(d) Louis Ducos Du Hauron

2. One property of flat colors is a tendency to emphasize the _____ of animate and inanimate objects
(a) purpose
(b) action
(c) size
(d) shape

3. Which color is NOT a subtractive primary?
(a) Cyan
(b) Black
(c) Magenta
(d) Yellow

4. The creation of work in any medium will follow a certain path containing how many steps?
(a) Fifty
(b) Twelve
(c) Twenty-four
(d) Six

5. Which French pianist devised the idea of three subtractive primaries?
(a) Louis Ducos Du Hauron
(b) Lord Kelvin
(c) Alexander Graham Bell
(d) Sir James Clerk

6. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?
(a) Blue
(b) Red
(c) Yellow
(d) Green

7. What step constructs the work by applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, and problem-solving?
(a) Idiom
(b) Craft
(c) Structure
(d) Form

8. Which of the following contributed to the shift in resemblance towards meaning in art?
(a) Dada
(b) Expressionism
(c) Futurism
(d) All of the these

9. What drawing style did Jooste Swarte use to depict cool sophistication and irony?
(a) Large gutters and thin uneven lines
(b) Crisp elegant lines and jazzy designs
(c) Polite jagged lines
(d) Thick black lines

10. Pictures and words should have what kind of relationship?
(a) Unequal
(b) Subversive
(c) Domineering
(d) Partnership

11. What is the core of a work of art?
(a) Idiom
(b) None of these
(c) Structure
(d) Craft

12. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?
(a) Jules Feiffer
(b) Jose Munoz
(c) Kirby
(d) Spiegelman

13. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.
(a) grim, deadly attitude
(b) profitable, kind attitude
(c) bleak, neutral attitude
(d) optimistic, dramatic attitude

14. Which of the following activity does not grow out of basic human instincts?
(a) fight or flight
(b) art
(c) survival
(d) reproduction

15. Which artist incorporated neurotic quill-lines into his/her work?
(a) Chester Gould
(b) Carl Bark
(c) Krystine Kryttre
(d) R. Crumb

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-expression and communication?

2. Who was the creator of Uncle $crooge?

3. Which of the following is NOT listed as a flat-color master?

4. What did Eisner call a desperation device?

5. After impressionism, art experienced a shift away from _______ and toward _______.

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