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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Flat color can make shapes, figures and backgrounds more ________.
(a) boring
(b) subjective
(c) objective
(d) oppressive

3. The four color process on better paper created what kind of results?
(a) Garish
(b) Neutral
(c) Confusing
(d) Stunning

4. What is the concept of uniting different art forms associated with different senses?
(a) Marriage
(b) Consolidation
(c) Phenomenology
(d) Synaesthetics

5. What is the first step of art creation, the one that contains the work's content, emotions and philosophies?
(a) Idiom
(b) Craft
(c) Idea/Purpose
(d) Structure

6. Who said, "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible?"
(a) Richard Wagner
(b) French poet Baudelaire
(c) Paul Klee
(d) Wassily Kandinsky

7. Which of the following creators is often regarded as a storyteller who says something through comics and controlling their medium?
(a) Schulz
(b) Barks
(c) Herge
(d) All of these

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

9. Whose artwork incorporated mad lines to create crazy toddler?
(a) Carl Bark
(b) Krystine Kryttre
(c) R. Crumb
(d) Chester Gould

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

11. Which of the following is true, according to historical evidence?
(a) Written word predates pictures.
(b) Pictures predate written word.
(c) Pictures and spoken word developed simultaneously.
(d) Written word predate spoken word.

12. Which of the following is not a benefit from non-basic human activities such as art?
(a) Provides emotional outlets
(b) All of these
(c) Provides exercise for minds and bodies
(d) Leads to useful discoveries

13. What is the most widely-used, most complex, and most versatile synaesthetic icon?
(a) Word balloon
(b) Sound effects
(c) Motion line
(d) Aspect-to-aspect

14. In what year were the three additive primaries isolated?
(a) 1861
(b) 1776
(c) 1612
(d) 1945

15. What combination has words add a soundtrack to a largely complete picture?
(a) Parallel
(b) Picture-specific
(c) Duo-specific
(d) Word-specific

Short Answer Questions

1. What step puts it all together - edits the work for content, arrangement and composition?

2. Which of the following is NOT an additive primary?

3. Which blatantly expressionistic artist created The Underground?

4. Whose uneven lines pantomimed the inner struggles of modern life?

5. The combination of printed art and literature has traditionally been thought of as a style for which audience?

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