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Question #1

The kneeling figures at the lower left and lower right of the painting represent:

A. donors/patrons

B. saints

C. sibyls

D. prophets

Question #2

Which of the following is true of Anguissola's career?

A. She enjoyed the patronage of the Spanish family as a court painter.

B. She was imprisoned for creating prints sympathetic to Protestant reform.

C. She created works that influenced fashion in sixteenth-century Paris.

D. She created a scandal by recording dissection experiments in a series of notebooks.

Question #3

Why did Michelangelo depict Moses with horns on the Tomb of Julius II?

A. because of his translation of the Bible conflated the image of Moses with the Golden Calf

B. to demonstrate the status of Moses as before the salvation of Christ

C. because he believed that Moses as an Old Testament figure was consigned to Hell

D. because of a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "ray" in the Latin Bible

Question #4

What is represented in this painting?

A. the first public education system in ancient Greece

B. famous Greek philosophers

C. important Greek architectural monuments

D. the pantheon of the Greek gods

Question #5

What qualities of painting did Venetians value above all?

A. perspective and line

B. light and color

C. light and shadow

D. composition and line