Fine Arts

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Fine Arts

• Academic Team Practice Questions

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Tchaikovsky composed Waltz of the Flowers and
Dance of the

• Firebird
• Bumblebee
• Vienna Woods
• Sugar Plum Fairy
• Sorcerers Apprentice

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The city said to be the birthplace of jazz is
adjacent to the

• Mississippi
• Golden Gate
• Great Divide
• Appalachians
• Mojave Desert

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A romantic composition intended to be sung in the
evening below a ladys window is a(n)

• hymn
• sonata
• rhapsody
• serenade
• interlude

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The term for a licensed amateur radio operator
also describes a an actor who ...

• overplays a part
• has a supporting role
• often forgets his lines
• has risen to prominence
• makes cameo performances

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The Dali Lama is associated with the temporal and
spiritual rule of

• Iran
• Tibet
• Scandinavia
• ancient Egypt
• the Aztec Empire

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The Maple Leaf Forever and Marseillaise, are
classified together with

• Brahms Lullaby
• The Star Spangled Banner
• Beethovens Fifth Symphony
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home

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Where are the largest number of Buddhist temples?

• Idaho
• Hawaii
• Oklahoma
• Minnesota
• New Hampshire

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Which Greek was a sculptor?

• Plato
• Homer
• Aristotle
• Praxiteles
• Archimedes

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Van is painting a huge picture on the side of a
building, an art form called a

• mural
• mobile
• tapestry
• holograph
• Fleur-de-lis

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Which song is a march?

• Edelweiss
• Summertime
• Greensleeves
• Maple Leaf Rag
• Washington Post

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All ascetics

• live in Africa
• are polytheistic
• celebrate bar mitzvah
• pray daily toward Mecca
• lack many material possessions

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A distinctive characteristic of a crypt is its

• use of arches
• pentagonal shape
• decorative mosaics
• underground location
• masonry construction

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Which terms would you be most unlikely to hear at
a ballet school?

• glissade, en pointe
• pirouette, arabesque
• allemande, promenade
• entrechat, battement
• cabriole, pas de deux

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Which religion was organized most recently?

• Islam
• Judaism
• Hinduism
• Christianity
• Confucianism

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Traditional elements of design do not include

• line
• shape
• rhythm
• texture
• loudness

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Which architectural marvel is part of a citadel?

• Taj Mahal
• Parthenon
• Stonehenge
• Eiffel Tower
• Pyramid of Cheops

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The composer of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker
came from the same country in which

• Von Braun built rockets
• Darwin proposed evolution
• Pasteur studied fermentation
• Galileo did gravity experiments
• Mendeleev devised the periodic table

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The silhouette of a Mobius strip has the
appearance of

• a circle
• a pyramid
• the letter C
• a question mark
• the symbol for infinity

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The terms cabriole, entrechat, glissade,
arabesque, and pirouette are associated with

• ballet
• mosaics
• sculpture
• oil painting
• architecture

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Abstract art is always

• shadowed
• monochromatic
• two dimensional
• non-naturalistic
• geometrically symmetrical

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