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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Leads to useful discoveries
(d) Provides exercise for minds and bodies

3. What fruit is used to illustrate the path of creating art?
(a) Banana
(b) Orange
(c) Peach
(d) Apple

4. Which style of painting was an honest expression of the internal turmoil of artists?
(a) Impressionism
(b) Art deco
(c) Expressionism
(d) Minimalism

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

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

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

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

9. What step puts it all together - edits the work for content, arrangement and composition?
(a) Form
(b) Craft
(c) Structure
(d) Surface

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

11. When readers discover comics for the first time, comics act as as an ___________ between storyteller and audience.
(a) interpreter
(b) intermediary
(c) instigator
(d) barrier

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

13. What color technique can be used to add depth?
(a) modelling only
(b) neither tones nor modelling
(c) tones only
(d) tones and modelling

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

15. Words and pictures have historically been thought of as base or simplistic. As a result of this mindset, current works of words and pictures have been base and simplistic. This is an example of what psychological phenomenon?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy
(b) Learned helplessness
(c) Ecological fallacy
(d) Confirmation bias

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following artists was NOT known for a more subjective palette?

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

4. What kind of combination treats words as integral parts of the picture?

5. The bold lines, obtuse angles and heavy blacks in Dick Tracy were meant to suggest a _________ of adults.

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