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Arts & Humanities Exam # 2 2015-16 Practice Questions – Middle Grades Student Instructions:  Write your complete ID code on your answer sheet.  If you change your answer, erase well. 1. When an artist creates a tint by adding white to a dollop of paint, which color property below is she changing? A. intensity B. value C. hue D. saturation 2. Which one of the following musical terms is most closely associated with harmony? A. crescendo B. dissonance C. largo D. syncopation 3. One of the choices below names a non-locomotor movement. Which one? A. skip B. leap C. sway D. hop 4. Listed below are four parts of a theater. In which one does the audience sit? A. house B. wings C. proscenium D. green room 5. Girl with a Flute , pictured at right, is the work of what Golden Age painter, also known for The Milkmaid and Young Woman with a Water Pitcher ? A. Rembrandt van Rijn B. Peter Paul Rubens C. Jan van Eyck D. Johannes Vermeer 6. Albrecht Dürer created several paintings and engravings of him, both in the wilderness and in his study. Which of the following saints did the artist always depict beside a lion? A. Peter B. Jerome C. Sebastian D. Mark 7. Which of the painters below created portraits of the slave Juan de Pareja, Pope Innocent X, and Infanta María Teresa? A. Titian B. Caravaggio C. Diego Velázquez 2015-16 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions - Page 1

D. El Greco 8. Numerous Renaissance artists depicted the Virgin Mary, but which one painted the Sistine Madonna , as well as a pensive Portrait of Pope Julius II ? A. Raphael B. Donatello C. Michelangelo D. Leonardo da Vinci 9. Edward Hopper’s painting Chop Suey depicts two women in conversation at which of the following locations? A. a laundromat B. a church C. a movie theater D. a restaurant 10. Match each artwork with its creator. x. Banana 1. Mary Cassatt y. The Boating Party 2. Andy Warhol z. Young Woman Powdering Herself 3. Georges Seurat A. x-1, y-2, z-3 B. x-1, y-3, z-2 C. x-2, y-1, z-3 D. x-3, y-2, z-1 11. Alexander Calder is best known for his innovations in what kind of art below? A. pastels B. sculpture C. watercolor D. woodcuts 12. In works like Broadway Boogie-Woogie and his “Composition” paintings, Piet Mondrian limited his color palette. Which one of the following hues was NOT traditionally part of his artwork? A. green B. blue C. red D. yellow 13. Which of Frank Lloyd Wright’s works below was one of the only structures to survive Tokyo’s 1923 earthquake, in part because of its floating cantilever design? A. Robie House B. Fallingwater C. Taliesin D. Imperial Hotel 14. One of the structures below, unfinished at Palladio’s death, includes a trompe-l’oeil painting and is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving stage set. Which one? A. San Giorgio Maggiore B. Villa Foscari C. Teatro Olimpico D. Loggia del Capitanio 2015-16 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions - Page 2

15. He designed the world’s largest commercial office space at the time of its opening, the Pan Am Building, now named the MetLife Building, as well as the Fagus Factory in Lower Saxony and Harvard’s Graduate Center. Who was he? A. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe B. Antoni Gaudí C. Frank Gehry D. Walter Gropius 16. A triangular gable that sits above a portico or doorway, such as the one pictured at right, is known by what architectural term below? A. pediment B. keystone C. buttress D. arcade 17. Tamino, Pamina, and the Queen of the Night are three key players in which of Mozart’s operas? A. Don Giovanni B. Così fan tutte C. The Magic Flute D. The Marriage of Figaro 18. Allegedly composed to soothe a count on sleepless nights, which J. S. Bach work below consists of a harpsichord aria followed by thirty modified versions of it? A. Brandenburg Concertos B. St. Matthew’s Passion C. The Well-Tempered Clavier D. Goldberg Variations 19. The ballet The Fairy’s Kiss and the symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale are two compositions by what man better known for The Firebird ? A. Richard Wagner B. Igor Stravinsky C. Felix Mendelssohn D. Claude Debussy 20. Match each composer with his work. x. Ludwig van Beethoven 1. A German Requiem y. Edvard Grieg 2. Eroica z. Johannes Brahms 3. In the Hall of the Mountain King A. x-1, y-2, z-3 B. x-2, y-1, z-3 C. x-2, y-3, z-1 D. x-3, y-1, z-2 21. “The Open Prairie,” “Gun Battle,” and “Street Scene in a Frontier Town” are three of the eight numbers composing what Aaron Copland ballet? A. Billy the Kid B. Rodeo 2015-16 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions - Page 3