Can you answer these questions?

Objective Questions (multiple-choice, True/False) :

Which painting showed a horizontal equality in a group of mourners that included everyday people — El Greco’s Burial of Count Orgaz, or Courbet’s Burial at Ornans?

Pablo Picasso was responsible for what important shift in painting in the early 20th century?

What are Renaissance paintings noted for in terms of their depiction of human bodies?

According to the Art of the Western World (“The High Renaissance”) what was the first monumental free-standing male nude carved from marble since antiquity?

According to the Art of the Western World (“The High Renaissance”) which of his paintings caused Veronese to be called up before the Inquisition because of “offensive” depictions in it?

When and where did our current subspecies homo sapiens sapiens arise?

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, how many of the 148 species of wild, plant-eating mammals over 100 pounds have been successfully farmed?

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, some scholars think there may have been a population of 20 million Native Americans. What percentage of them might have been killed by Old World diseases?

Which great empire arose in early 13th-century Africa, incorporating trading centers and a renowned university?

How is Native Americans’ relationship to nature best described?

In Guns, Germs, and Steel Episode 2, what “weapon of mass destruction” marched into the New World ahead of the conquering Spanish?

For much of the Western time line, how were comedy and tragedy defined?

What prominent force influenced the Northern Renaissance?

Which Northern Renaissance artist was the first to portray a secular couple in a domestic interior?

According to Art of the Western World (“The Early Renaissance” part 2), why did the Dukes of Burgundy place great importance on all the arts?

Who usually commissioned Northern Baroque paintings?

What does the branch of philosophy known as aesthetics concern itself with?

Definitions:

animism

baldacchino

tenebrism

metaphysics