1) A burial mound built by the Etruscans a) dromos b)tumulus c)sarcophagus d)tho
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1) A burial mound built by the Etruscans a) dromos b)tumulus c)sarcophagus d)tholos
2)The 5th c. BC Athenian statesman who commissioned the Parthenon was a)Praxiteles b)Augustus c) Pericles d)Diocletian
3)Multistoried Roman apartments are a)insulae b)citadels c)villas d)forums
4)A public square in a Roman city is a)acropolis b)agora c)forum d)basilica
5) A rectangular Roman building used for public gatherings/governmental function is a)temple b)tumulus c)basilica d)forum
6)An arch extended is a a)cyclopean wall b)barrel vault c)corbelled arch d)groin vault
7)A volcanic eruption in 79 preserved the city of a)Rome b)Ostia c)Pompeii d)Syracuse
8) The Pont du Gard serves as a)bridge b)aqueduct c)both a and b
9)The two main orders of Greek temple design are a)Pompeii and Herculaneum b)Doric and Ionic c)Doric and Corinthian d)Ionic and Corinthian
10) What significant early Christian church located in Rome was commissioned by Constantine a)Hagia Sophia b)Santa Constanza c)Old St. Peter’s d)St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s
11) Etruscans placed temple decoration on the a)roof b) pediments c) frieze d)they did not decorate temples
12) The underground burial sites of the early Christians are called a)insulae b)cemeteries c)catacombs d)tumulus
13)What former Roman city (in Syria) contained both a synagogue and a Christian community house a)Dura-Europos b)Ravenna c)Constantinople d)Rome
14)Romans invented a)concrete b)tufa c)terracotta d)asphalt
15)The sculptor of the Man Scraping Himself/ The Scraper (Apoxymenos) was a)Praxiteles b) Pericles c)Polykleitos d)Lysippos
16)The semicircular recess at one end of a Christian church, usually indicating the location of the altar is a)basilica b)apse c)nave d)baldacchino
17)Thought to be first Christian Roman emperor a)Diocletian b)Constantine c)Trajan d)Augustus
18)The Etruscans lived in a)Greece b)Italy c)Turkey d)France
19) Roman copies of Greek sculptures are a)bronze b)marble c)terracotta d)sandstone
20) Macedonian leader who expanded the borders of the Greek world a)Pericles b)Alexander the Great c)Augustus e)Julius Caesar
21) A stone coffin a)tumulus b)tufa c)sarcophagus d)insula
22) Roman architect/engineer who described a typical Etruscan temple a)Augustus b)Vitruvius c)Palladio d)Virgil
23) Roman emperor who returned to Rome with treasures from Jerusalem a)Vespasian b)Hadrian c)Titus d)Diocletian
24) The last period of Greek art and architecture is known as a)Archaic b)Classical c)Hellenistic d)Geometric
25)Greeks would put sculpture on the a)pediments b)metopes c)frieze d)all of the above
26)The Greeks exaggerated features in their art (muscles and anatomy) A) True B) False
27)The top of a column is a a)styobate b)pediment c)capital d)metope
28) In early Christian Art, a figure with both hands raised a)worshipper b)plebe c)orant
d)believer
29) The Etruscans came/lived before the Romans A) True B) False
30) Early images of Jesus in art show him as a shepherd A) True B) False
Explanation / Answer
1.Latin, "burial mound." In Etruscan architecture, tumuli cover one or more subterranean multi-chambered tombs cut out of the local tufa (limestone). Tumuli are also characteristic of the Japanese Kofun period of the third and fourth centuries.
2.Directed by the Athenian statesman Pericles, the Parthenon was built by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates under the supervision of the sculptor Phidias.
3.Insulae;In Roman architecture, an insula was a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome, including ordinary people of lower- or middle-class status (the plebs) and all but the wealthiest from the upper-middle class (the equites). The term was also used to mean a city block.
4.A forum was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls.
5.Basilica;Literally "King's Hall". In Roman Architecture, a Hall used for public administration. The term generally refers to a rectangular building that has a central section with a higher roof (the nave if a church) flanked by lower aisles on both long sides.
6.A tunnel or barrel vault is a semicircular arch extended in depth; a continuous series of arches, one behind the other.
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