Art History · Unit 2 · Paper 1

Ancient Mediterranean unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 24 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 2, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 35 min 32 points0/17 attempted

Head of a Roman patrician

Augustus of Prima Porta

Anavysos Kouros

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Colosseum

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena

Palette of King Narmer

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

White Temple and its ziggurat

Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx

Standard of Ur

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Statues of votive figures, Square Temple at Eshnunna

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Pantheon

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Niobides Krater

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Lamassu, citadel of Sargon II

3 pts

Free response

8 pts

LONG ESSAY: COMPARISON (Question 1, 8 points). The objects shown are the Statues of Votive Figures from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq), c. 2700 BCE — the required-image-set group of gypsum worshipper figures with enormous inlaid staring eyes, clasped hands, and rigid cylindrical bodies. These objects demonstrate how artists have modified or reshaped the human form to express cultural beliefs. Select and completely identify another work in which the human form is modified or reshaped — from the list (Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters; Fang byeri; Nio guardians at Todai-ji Temple) or any other relevant work; at least two accurate identifiers beyond those given are required.

Completely identify your selected work (at least two accurate identifiers beyond those given).

Describe one visual characteristic of the Statues of Votive Figures and one visual characteristic of your selected work.

Using specific visual evidence from both works, explain one similarity or difference in how each artist modified or reshaped the human form.

Using specific visual evidence from both works, explain another similarity or difference in how each artist modified or reshaped the human form.

Make a claim that explains a similarity or difference in how the appearance of the human figure(s) in each work expresses the beliefs of its culture, supported with specific contextual evidence from both works.