Class Quiz. Art

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The first example of cave painting was discovered in 1879.
What country was it found in?
America
China
Africa
Spain
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3.

Red and black-figure vases were a characteristic of
what civilization?
Polynesian
Greek
Roman
African
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How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
fifty-four
one hundred
one
sixteen
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Which type of paint dries the most quickly?
watercolour
oil
gouache
acrylic
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6.

What type of five-line poem with a strict meter
was popularised by Edward Lear?
cinquain
limerick
tanka
haiku
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Which of these painters was not left-handed?
Kazimir Malevich
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Edvard Munch
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8.

What red-headed priest-composer
taught music at an orphanage?
Nicolo Paganini
Frederic Chopin
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Antonio Vivaldi
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9.

Which famous twentieth-century artist painted
"100 Cans"?
Piet Mondrian
Jeff Koons
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
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10.

The renowned Russian chemist Dmitri
Mendeleev was a Russian lyrical poet’s father-inlaw. What was Mendeleev’s son-in-law’s name?
Nikolay Gumilev
Alexander
Pushkin
Vasily Zhukovsky
Alexander Blok
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11.

In 1495 Leonardo da Vinci began painting "The
Last Supper" and designed …
a helicopter
a crane
a submarine
a pyramid-shaped
parachute
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12.

The world-famous Louvre Museum and Art
Gallery in Paris, France was built in 1190. What
was it first used as?
a fortress
a warehouse
a shop
a library
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What is Pablo Picasso’s style of artwork called?
realism
abstract
romanticism
cubism
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14.

Who painted 'The Scream' (the famous painting
of a man screaming with a nuclear mushroom
cloud behind him)?
Oskar Kokoschka
Edvard Munch
Marc Chagall
Egon Schiele
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“After all, tomorrow is another day!” was the last
line in which Oscar winning Best Picture?
Harold and
Maude
Great
Expectations
Gone With the
Wind
The Matrix
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