PTQ: FA

Question 1

Will Wilson’s Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds shows two ponds used to evaporate water contaminated with ________, which is a radioactive waste product from uranium mining that contains heavy metals and radium.

Answer 1

tailings

Question 2

Alma Woodsey Thomas’ painting Snoopy – Early Sun Display on Earth is part of a series Thomas called what?

Answer 2

“Space Paintings”

Question 3

In Pictures of Garbage, what materials did Vik Muniz use to fabricate the photographs in his collaboration
with the garbage pickers?

Answer 3

trash from the dump

Question 4

In The Fourth World, what does artist Kent Monkman blur in his paintings?

Answer 4

Time periods of cultural encounters

Question 5

What is the highness or lowness of a sound?

Answer 5

pitch

Question 6

Paint is usually composed of three different materials: pigments, _______, and solvents.

Answer 6

binders

Question 7

Who was the instigator of the endeavor to “write music down” by means of musical notation?

Answer 7

the Catholic Church

Question 8

How did Tōru Takemitsu first become exposed to Western music?

Answer 8

by secretly listening to a recording of a popular French song

Question 9

Agnes Denes’s work Rice/Tree/Burial of 1968 is one of the foundational works of ecological contemporary
art and described by her as a “_________,” meaning, a creative work that sets out an agenda for radical
change.

Answer 9

manifesto

Question 10

What term is often used to refer to the vocalization of birds?

Answer 10

birdsong

Question 11

What type of view does the Church Rock Spill photograph represent?

Answer 11

aerial view

Question 12

Why did repressive governments find jazz threatening?

Answer 12

because of its emphasis on the “free expression of the individual”

Question 13

What is wordless music that is meant to evoke or suggest a specific idea or theme?

Answer 13

programmatic music

Question 14

The Fundred Project began in the aftermath of which event and the crisis it posed for lead-polluted water?

Answer 14

Hurricane Katrina

Question 15

Allora and Calzadilla is the name used by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla for their artistic
partnership, which creates artwork through _________.

Answer 15

collaboration

Question 16

In which city was Motown Records founded?

Answer 16

Detroit, MI

Question 17

Whose photos are included in Notion of Family?

Answer 17

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Question 18

Why was the Grand Canyon region eventually taken under government protection?

Answer 18

Awareness of its magnificence grew more widespread

Question 19

For the first time in Motown’s history, this album released in May 1971 included lyrics for each of the songs and also listed all the performing musicians.

Answer 19

“What’s Going On”

Question 20

What does the “key” of a piece of music refer to?

Answer 20

the set of seven notes, or scale, selected for the piece

Question 21

What is a prepared piano?

Answer 21

a piano with objects inserted within its strings to alter its sound

Question 22

What does “R&B” stand for in terms of music??

Answer 22

rhythm and blues

Question 23

Beethoven had the distinction of being one of the first composers to succeed in working “______” rather than as an employee.

Answer 23

freelance

Question 24

The subject matter of Michael Abel’s Global Warming was inspired by the fall of the _________ __________.

Answer 24

Berlin Wall

Question 25

In the context of two-dimensional art, what does perspective help to achieve?

Answer 25

the illusion of depth

Question 26

What is an overture?

Answer 26

an orchestral work, usually shorter than a symphony

Question 27

What is another term for “absolute pitch?”

Answer 27

perfect pitch

Question 28

Rebecca Belmore’s artistic methods and displays are a response to what?

Answer 28

the political and social condition of Indigenous communities

Question 29

Kent Monkman’s artworks address histories of ______ and Indigenous culture.

Answer 29

colonization

Question 30

In 450 BCE, the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno declared, “The goal of life is living in agreement with
______.”

Answer 30

nature

Question 31

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring documents the horrific effects of the chemical pesticide ______.

Answer 31

DDT

Question 32

The Classic period superseded the _______ style and persisted into the start of the nineteenth century.

Answer 32

Baroque

Question 33

During the _____________ ___________, many new materials and processes for building were developed.

Answer 33

Industrial Revolution

Question 34

What is a defining feature of Ana Mendieta’s “Silueta” series?

Answer 34

tracing or sculpting outlines of her body on the ground

Question 35

In what year was one of the earliest scientific notations of birds’ singing patterns published?

Answer 35

1650

Question 36

Vik Muniz’s replication, Action Photo, after Hans Namuth, used __________ to refashion an iconic
documentary photograph by Hans Namuth in 1950 that depicts the postwar American artist Jackson Pollock
at work in his studio.

Answer 36

chocolate syrup

Question 37

Who was the first singer of the iconic song “What a Wonderful World”?

Answer 37

Louis Armstrong

Question 38

Undiluted ink has what characteristic?

Answer 38

it is opaque, or high opacity

Question 39

Even though Rimsky-Korsakov’s first symphony received exuberant applause, as did most of his subsequent
orchestral works, he really wanted to compose ______.

Answer 39

operas

Question 40

The segment of _____________ art within the larger history of environmental art has a strong tradition of
documentation that depicts, in some instances, landscapes being polluted or in other instances, the effects of
that pollution on specific communities.

Answer 40

environmentalist

Question 41

What was Manifest Destiny in the nineteenth-century United States?

Answer 41

the idea that settlers were destined to take possession of the North American continent from east to
west