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Question #1

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

A. saints

B. prophets

C. sibyls

D. donors/patrons

Question #2

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

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

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

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

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

Question #3

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

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

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

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

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

Question #4

What is represented in this painting?

A. famous Greek philosophers

B. important Greek architectural monuments

C. the first public education system in ancient Greece

D. the pantheon of the Greek gods

Question #5

What qualities of painting did Venetians value above all?

A. light and shadow

B. composition and line

C. light and color

D. perspective and line