50 questions
1. Which of the following does NOT define art?
It is any skill or mastery.
It deals with the various branches of creative activity such as painting, music, literature, etc.
It is a branch of knowledge that deals with the human culture.
It refers to a process or a product of a creative skill.
All of the above.
2. Tempera, oil, watercolor and acrylic are types of _______.
Architecture
Painting
Sculpture
Drawing
Photography
3. Green, Purple and Orange are examples of what colors?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Monochromatic
None of the above
4. Textbook images that are drawn by illustrators to help students learn about concepts serve what function of art?
Educational
Physical
Personal
Spiritual
All of the above
5. Which of these is NOT a fundamental compositional element of dance?
Time
Force
Space
Texture
None of the above
6. It is the simultaneous sounding of a group of tones, the vertical relationship between a melody and its accompanying chords
Timbre
Harmony
Pitch
Rhythm
Texture
7. This dance form emerged in the 15th century in Europe and started the trend of dancing in couples, nowadays. It is also called ballroom dancing.
Folk Dance
Communal Dance
Social Dance
Ballet
Contemporary Dance
8. Who painted the famous "Spoliarium?"
Antonio Luna
Fernando Amorsolo
Felix Resurrection
Juan Luna
Botong Francisco
9. The Great Sphinx sculptures are found in in what country?
Egypt
Brazil
Greece
Rome
Mesopotamia
10. What is the simplest and most universal means for creating a visual art?
Color
Texture
Line
Intensity
Style
11. Different methods in painting such as fresco, acrylic, tempera are under in what element of painting?
Subject
Color
Style
Media
Texture
12. A period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
Romantic
Renaissance
Baroque
Industrial
Enlightenment
13. It is the main focus in the work of art.
Subject
Style
Line
Color
Form
14. What painting bears significance to Fernando Amorsoloโs preference for Filipina beauty?
Madonna of Slums
Palay Maiden
Noche Clara
Espanya Y Filipinas
The Fruit Gatherer
15. Which of the following is TRUE about pitch as an element of music?
It determines the speed of a beat
It describes how long a sound or silence lasts.
Beats are organize into recognizable/recurring accent patterns
It is the highness and lowness of a tone.
All of the above
16. A non-representational or non-figurative imagery in painting of the Western art.
Realism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Abstract
Pop Art
17. An art movement that centers on the expression of
inner emotions.
Abstract
Impressionism
Expressionism
Realism
Pop Art
18. What is the earliest medium in painting?
Encaustic
Fresco
Tempera
Acrylic
Oil
19. Which of the following best describes mosaic art?
Fabrics with colored designs which are woven in a pattern.
Small pieces of colored stone or glass glued on the surface
An indigenous woven fabric made from abaca by the Tโboli
tribe of South Cotabato
The art of creating pictures by recording light into a
sensitive medium, such as film.
All of the above
20. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?
Carving
Molding
Casting
Modeling
Welding
21. In the Philippine Architecture, in what period was bahay na bato constructed?
Pre-colonial Period
Spanish Period
American Period
Japanese Period
Contemporary Period
22. Who among the Filipino sculptors was awarded as National Artist of the Philippines because of his famous work "UP Oblation"?
Guillermo Tolentino
Mariano Madrinian
Napoleon Abueva
Lamberto Hechanova
None of the above
23. Taj Mahal is to India; Borobudur is to _____________.
China
Myanmar
Indonesia
Cambodia
Malaysia
24. Himeji Castle is to Japan; ________ is to Cambodia.
Shwedagon Pagoda
Angkor Wat
The Forbidden City
Zahir Mosque,
Wat Phra Kaew,
25. Japanese flower arrangement with origins in early Buddhist
flower offerings.
Ikebana
Origami
Bunraku
Ukiyo-e
None of the above
26. The traditional Indonesian shadow play usually shadow puppets is called?
Wayang
Wayang Kulit
Wayang Golek
Dalang
None of the above
27. Which of the following beliefs/philosophies did not have a great influence on
Chinese arts?
Confucianism
Taoism
Shintoism
Buddhism
All of the above
28. The small figurines for sale in malls are identically produced sculptures.
What process is used to create these items?
Molding
Modeling
Welding
Carving
Casting
29. Juan Lunaโs painting, Spoliarium, shows the ill fate of fallen Gladiators after
a brutal tournament. By saying so, what aspect of artwork are we referring to?
Form
Medium
Content
Context
Texture
30. In dynamic of music, fortissimo (ff), means _______.
Very loud
Very soft
Half soft
Half loud
None of the above
31. French horns, trumpets, cornets, trombones and
tuba are belong to __________ instruments.
String
Percussion
Brass
Woodwinds
None of the above
32. Instruments which are made to sound by striking them with special sticks,
or by striking or shaking parts together.
String
Percussion
Brass
Woodwinds
None of the above
33. The viol family produces sound by means of a __________.
Pua
Beater
Bow
Mallet
All of the above
34. An instrumental group composed of stringed, woodwind, brasswind and
percussion instruments?
Band
Symphony
Orchestra
Gamelan
Concert
35. A song of the people and consists of simple melodic, harmonic, and metric fundamentals.
Folk Song
National Song
Ballad
Popular Song
All of the above.
36. A kind of cradle song, sung to make babies go to sleep.
Hila-Hila
Suliranin
Tagumpay
Oyayi
Tagulaylay
37. Who was regarded as the "Father of Kundiman"?
Lucio San Pedro
Nicanor Abelardo
Antonio Molina
Santiago Alvarez
Alfredo Buenaventura
38. Who composed the Philippine National Anthem?
Jose Palma
Julian Felipe
Felipe Calderon
Emilio Aguinaldo
Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista
39. This is the period of the pabasa, pasyon and flores de mayo in the Philippines.
Ethnic Period
Spanish Period
American Period
Japanese Period
Contemporary Period
40. From which region is the song Dandansoy?
Tagalog
Ilocano
Visayas
Kapampangan
Bikolano
41. The best-selling Philippine music record of all time by Freddie Aguilar is _________.
Ipaglalaban Ko
Magdalena
Bulag, Pipi at Bingi
Anak
Pilipinas Kong Mahal
42. There are many mediums used in painting. What kind of traditional paint uses egg yolk as its binder?
Fresco
Encaustic
Watercolor
Tempera
None of the above
43. Manunggul Jar is an indigenous art that was found in ___________.
Mindoro
Palawan
Guimaras
Davao
Zamboanga
44. A technique of an art production used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from on assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Collage
Origami
Graffiti
Land Art
All of the above.
45. Which of the following fibrous local materials is derived from the surrounding of coconut fruit?
Rattan
Pandan
Tikiw
Coir
Buri
46. Which of the following steps of art criticism would explain the intent expressed in the artwork?
Interpretation
Judgement
Description
Analysis
47. A drama sung with instrumental accompaniment and presented with appropriate scenery, costumes, and staging.
Cantata
Opera
Oratorio
Recital
None of the above
48. Ziggurat was one of the oldest architectural building found in ____________.
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Greece
Rome
China
49. Who constructed the famous "Hanging Gardens" in the history?
King Nebuchadnezzar
King Herod
King Hammurabi
King Nefertiti
None of the above
50. What is the earliest system of writing used by the early Egyptians?
Calligraphy
Alibata
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
All of the above