• Question 1
4 out of 4 points Which of the following differentiates the Hebrews from other Near Eastern cultures? Correct Answer:
They worshipped a single god • Question 2
4 out of 4 points Why did the arts develop in Mesopotamia? Correct Answer:
As celebrations of the priest-kings' power • Question 3
4 out of 4 points As noted in the chapter's "Continuity and Change' section, what most distinguishes Mesopotamia from Egypt? Correct Answer:
The Egyptians were united by a more stable succession of rulers • Question 4
4 out of 4 points Why is the Epic of Gilgamesh a first in known literary works? Correct Answer:
It is the first to confront the idea of death • Question 5
4 out of 4 points What about the Royal Standard of Ur illustrates social perspective or hierarchy of scale? Correct Answer:
The most important figures are represented as larger than others • Question 6
4 out of 4 points The Egyptian word for sculpture is the same as the word for what other act? Correct Answer:
Giving birth • Question 7
4 out of 4 points Why did Egyptian artists paint human's faces, arms, legs, and feet in profile? Correct Answer:
They believed it was the most characteristic view • Question 8
4 out of 4 points Why were Egyptians buried with Books of Going Forth by Day (Books of the Dead)? Correct Answer:
To help them survive the ritual of judgment • Question 9
4 out of 4 points Why was the Palette of Narmer created? Correct Answer:
For a votive gift to a god or goddess • Question 10
4 out of 4 points Why during the 8th century BCE were the Kushites able to control Egypt? Correct Answer:
The Egyptians needed stronger leadership to thwart an Assyrian invasion Saturday, January 17, 2015 9:24:30 PM EST
• Question 1
4 out of 4 points Why, around 483 BCE, were eight of the earliest stupas built? Selected Answer:
To contain Buddha's remains, which were divided into eight parts

• Question 2
4 out of 4 points What lies at the core of Confucianism? Correct Answer:
Traditional Chinese values of self-discipline and proper relations among people • Question 3
4 out of 4 points To what does the Yi Jing (Book of Changes) provide a guide? Correct Answer:
Interpreting the workings of the universe • Question 4
4 out of 4 points Why do Daoists advocate living in total simplicity? Correct Answer:
To understand qi • Question 5
4 out of 4 points According to Chinese legend, what inspired Fu Xi's invention of a pictographic writing system? Correct Answer:
Constellations and bird and animal footprints • Question 6
4 out of 4 points Why did the Incas build the remote Machu Picchu, high in the Andes? Correct Answer:
As a royal retreat for a ruler • Question 7
4 out of 4 points What "world's first" is Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji considered to be? Correct Answer:
Novel

• Question 8
4 out of 4 points What did the Tang Chinese believe their capital city's grid plan mirrored? Correct Answer:
Order of the cosmos • Question 9
4 out of 4 points What is the Popol Vuh? Correct Answer:
The Maya book of creation • Question 10
4 out of 4 points Why must the Yoruba king cover his face with rows of beads? Correct Answer:
To shield viewers from the power of his gaze Tuesday, January 20, 2015 8:34:32 PM EST

• Question 1
4 out of 4 points How do Minoan frescoes differ from Egyptian frescoes? Correct Answer:
Minoan frescoes appear on walls of homes and palaces, not tombs • Question 2
4 out of 4 points Why do we think the Cycladic figurines served a mortuary function? Correct Answer:
Most were found in graves • Question 3
4 out of 4 points What is the Greek concept of arête? Correct Answer:
Being the best one can be • Question 4
4 out of 4 points What function did the kore, the female equivalent of the kouros, seem to serve? Correct Answer:
Votive offerings to Athena • Question 5
4 out of 4 points How do we know that the Mycenaeans were a warlike people? Correct Answer:
Battle and hunting scenes dominate their art and massive stone gates • Question 6
4 out of 4 points What was the primary duty of women in Athenian society? Correct Answer:
To produce male offspring for their husbands' households • Question 7
4 out of 4 points Why does Sophocles' Antigone oppose her uncle, Creon? Correct Answer:
She believes that burying her brother is her democratic right • Question 8
4 out of 4 points With which cult was drama originally associated? Correct Answer:
The cult of Dionysus • Question 9
4 out of 4 points Why was Socrates brought to trail and condemned to death? Correct Answer:
Subversive behavior, impiety and corruption of Athens' youth • Question 10
4 out of 4 points Why can it be claimed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section that even though Rome conquered Greece in 146 BCE, Greece "ruled" Rome culturally? Correct Answer:
The Romans greatly admired and even copied Greek art Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:28:45 PM EST

• Question 1
4 out of 4 points Why can it be said that in a sense, the Pantheon mirrors the Roman Empire? Correct Answer:
Vast size, unified, harmonious, and orderly space • Question 2
4 out of 4 points Why, by the end of the third century, were the Romans justified in feeling politically and culturally threatened by the Christians? Correct Answer:
Christians made up nearly one-tenth of the empire's population • Question 3
4 out of 4 points What is the symbolic heart of a Roman domus? Correct Answer:
The atrium • Question 4
4 out of 4 points Why was the Arch of Titus constructed? Correct Answer:
To celebrate Titus's sack of the Second Temple of Jerusalem • Question 5
4 out of 4 points To what two groups does Roman culture trace its origins? Correct Answer:
The Greeks and the Etruscans • Question 6
4 out of 4 points Why was the Nicene Creed so important? Correct Answer:
It unified the church behind a prescribed doctrine. • Question 7
4 out of 4 points Which of the following did Boethius consider the highest form of music?

Correct Answer:
Musica mundana • Question 8
4 out of 4 points Why did the San Vitale artists depict their subjects in reverse perspective and in shallow space? Correct Answer:
To reject earthly illusion for the sacred space of the image • Question 9
4 out of 4 points Why had Judaism split into three distinct sects by the early first century CE? Correct Answer:
Difference in philosophy and key religious beliefs • Question 10
4 out of 4 points Why was early Christianity syncretistic, incorporating into itself pagan mythic traditions? Correct Answer:
To convert pagans by presenting Christianity in their terms Wednesday, February 4, 2015 10:01:28 PM EST

1. Why was the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins?
It housed images of their gods
2. Why did Mohammad leave Mecca for Medina in 622?
Mecca's leadership was displeased with him
3. Why did Mohammad allow Muslim men to have up to four wives?
To provide protective charity
4. What did Muhammad and his followers initially think music would do?
Distract the faithful from their true purpose
5. Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year?
The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles
6. Why was the Book of Kells moved from Iona off the Scottish coast to Kells in Ireland?
To protect it from Vikings threatening the Scottish coast
7. What advantages did feudalism offer the fiefs?
Use of land and protection
8. Why did Pope Leo III crown Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor?
For Christianizing the people of his vast empire
9. Which of the following was NOT a motivation for the First Crusade?
To free the enslaved Jews

10. What was the main task of Christian missionaries in England?
To transfer the people's allegiance from their king to God
1. Why was Saint Denis not completed during Suger's lifetime?
Louis VII left for the Crusades and withdrew funding
2. Why is the Jesse tree a common stained-glass motif?
It establishes Mary's royal lineage from King David
3. Why was Louis IX so beloved by the French people?
He abolished serfdom and private wars and reformed the tax structure
4. What religious relic does Chartres Cathedral house?
The tunic Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ
5. Why did Siena experience population growth after 1125?
Its free commune status offered freedom from feudalism
6. What was the Florentine bankers' most important invention?
Europe's first single currency
7. Why did the flagellants believe Europe was devastated by plague?
God's wrath against human sins
8. Who was Florence's patron saint?
John the Baptist
9. Why did Chaucer complete only 22 of his planned 120 Canterbury Tales?
He died
10. On whose method did Peter Abelard base his teaching?
Socrates

1. Why are Ghiberti's doors known as the Gates of Paradise?
They open onto the paradiso, the area in front of the cathedral
2. Which is the only panel on the Baptistery doors to represent a single event?
Meeting of Solomon and Sheba
3. Why does Masaccio place the vanishing point in The Tribute Money behind Christ's head?
To identify Christ as the fresco's most important figure
4. What distinction does Donatello's David hold?
The first life-size freestanding male nude since antiquity
5. Why does Michelangelo's Moses have horns?
A mistranslation of the Bible from Hebrew to Latin
6. Which of the following is not one of the four major areas of humanist learning that Julius II commissioned Raphael to paint on the Vatican's Stanza della Segnatura?
Mathematics
7. Why did Titian paint a sleeping dog on the foot of his Venus of Urbino's bed?
To symbolize fidelity and lust
8. According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why did Titian become the most sought-after painter in Europe?
His portraits revealed the subjects' character and personality
9. What criticism did Vasari offer of the Venetian artists such as Giorgione and Titian?
Their work lacked the intellectual design of the Florentines
10. Why in the School of Athens does Aristotle direct his palm down?
To indicate that knowledge comes from study of the natural world
1. Why were Morris dancing and its musical equivalent, the madrigal, so popular in the north?
They provided light-hearted and frivolous entertainment to all the classes
2. What is an advantage of a polyptych over a diptych or a triptych?
A polyptych allowed for different arrangements
3. What is a particularly distinctive feature of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece?
Its setting the Annunciation in an ordinary, middle-class Flemish home

4. Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece underscores what northern European preoccupation?
Death
5. In his landscape study The Large Turf, Albrecht Dürer was able to blend his northern interest in minute detail with what Italian Renaissance interest?
The phenomenon of the natural world
6. Why did English families agree to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587?
In exchange for land
7. Why did Henry VIII write a tract condemning Luther and his religious reforms?
To earn a "Defender of the Faith" title from the pope
8. With what character from antiquity did Erasmus in his Adages seem to equate Henry VIII?
Achilles
9. Which great humanist met the child Henry, called him a "universal genius," and corresponded with him in Latin?
Desiderius Erasmus
10. Why did Hans Holbein paint Thomas More with beard stubble and sagging skin?
To emphasize More's tireless service to the king