Chapter 6 A: Etruscan Art

Choose the best answer to the questions below. You may report your quiz results if your machine permits it.

1) The area settled by the ancient culture known as "Etruria" can be identified as modern-day:

    A) Apulia

    B) Italy

    C) Tuscany

    D) Rome

2) It was widely acknowledged in ancient times that Etruscans were masters of working in:

    A) Bronze

    B) Marble

    C) Pottery

    D) Stucco

    E) Terra Cotta

3) The architect of the temple of Apollo at Veii was .

4) Which of the following is NOT a site of ancient Etruscan tombs?

    A) Cerveteri

    B) Palestrina

    C) Tarquinia

    D) Rome

5) The Etruscans probably developed an architecture that used the arch. True False

6) Answer the following questions based on this image:

The material this is made of is:

    A) Bronze

    B) Marble

    C) Stone

    D) Terra Cotta

7) The style of the figures reveals the influence of the art of:

    A) Minoan Greece

    B) Archaic Greece

    C) Classical Greece

    D) Hellenistic Greece

8) The Etruscans must have believed that the afterlife was:

    A) non-existant

    B) one big party

    C) similar to life before death

    D) a period of trial and testing

    E) probably C, which at its best would be B

9) Which of the following is NOT true based on what we can deduce about the above image:

    A) The figures were probably originally holding food and drink.

    B) Women enjoyed high status in Etruscan culture.

    C) The figures depict a god and goddess worshipped in Etruria

    D) Human sensuality and sexuality would continue in the afterlife

    E) Etruscans are comparable to Egypians in their interest in life after death.

10) The bronze mirror depicting Calchas reveals Etruscan interest in:

    A) the arts of fortune-telling and divination

    B) complex poses in a realistic natural setting

    C) the Greek poetry of Homer

    D) looking at themselves

    E) all of the above

11) How did Etruscan civilization end?

    A) Mount Vesuvius erupted and covered over their main cities

    B) The Romans conquered them and killed them off.

    C) The Romans conquered them and absorbed them into their own society

    D) We're not sure; the Etruscans just mysteriously disappeared