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Braunte Stevens

1 day ago

What is the explanation for one figure being represented as larger than the others in one of the scenes from the Wu family shrine?

A) The larger size of the figure means he is a deity.
B) The larger size of the figure is an attempt at perspective.
C) The larger size of the figure means he is a deceased ancestor.
D) The larger size of the figure highlights his importance.

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Natalia Suttle

1 day ago

Which of the following would have been included in the reorganized curriculum for court artists set up by Emperor Huizong?

A) Study of the tactical methods of the Mongols
B) Study of the classical Chinese art of earlier periods
C) Study of the calligraphic art of Nara, Japan
D) Study of the governing methods of the first emperor

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Diamond Young

1 day ago

Which of the following would explain the artist's decision to depict an exemplar moral and political virtue in Yan Liben's The Thirteen Emperors ?

A) The Daoist ideal of retreat from society to attain wisdom in nature
B) The system of laws and belief set forth by the Chinese first emperor
C) The ideal of good government as seen in Gandharan India
D) The Confucian ideal of learning from the past to create an ordered society

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Narshinee Chinnaya

1 day ago

Which site is home to the earliest Hindu stone sculpture?

A) Borobudur
B) Ajanta
C) Udayagiri
D) Deogarh

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setthapan thaweesin

1 day ago

The Neolithic Majiayao Culture is notable for which art form?

A) Bronzes
B) Jades
C) Calligraphy
D) Pottery

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Courtney Bishop

1 day ago

Which of the following is NOT a site of early Hindu stone temples and sculptures?

A) Udayagiri
B) Badami
C) Elephanta
D) Gal Vihara

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Kiran Elahi

1 day ago

What is the significance of the Bodhi tree in Buddhist art?

A) The Buddha was meditating beneath it when he attained enlightenment.
B) It was the tree that sheltered the mother of the Buddha as she gave birth.
C) The tree grew thin and tall, making it a symbol of the axis mundi.
D) The Bodhi tree was sacred to the many principal gods of Buddhism.

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Merveille Muyizere

1 day ago

Which mudra appears in images of the Buddha giving his first sermon?

A) Abhaya mudra
B) Earth-touching mudra
C) Meditation mudra
D) Wheel-turning mudra

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Gaargi Gupta

1 day ago

The plan of the monument at Borobudur is meant to resemble which sacred form?

A) Amalaka
B) Axis mundi
C) Mandala
D) Jataka

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Sadia Lindsey

1 day ago

The caves of Ajanta provide evidence for which artistic genre?

A) Later South Asian relief sculpture
B) Pillared stone-carved chaitya halls
C) Early South Asian wall painting
D) Inscribed and painting stone texts

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Matthew Gartamaker

1 day ago

The canonical version of statues of Buddha combines which two forms?

A) Gandharan and Mathuran
B) Mathuran and Guptan
C) Theravadan and Mahayanan
D) Northern and Southern

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Audra Whetten

1 day ago

A chaitya hall was built to contain what object(s) ?

A) Statues
B) Stupa
C) Texts
D) Vessels

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Starrett vesper

1 day ago

At which site did successive Khmer kings, over more than four centuries, each build a temple mountain dedicated to his own personal god?

A) Angkor Wat, Cambodia
B) Borobudur, Java
C) Vishvanatha Temple, Khajuraho
D) Great Stupa, Sanchi

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Davalin White

1 day ago

A yakshi is the personification of which of the following?

A) War and conquest
B) Famine and hunger
C) Fertility and vegetation
D) Meditation and prayer

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Paden clements

1 day ago

Which of the following was the unifying characteristic of the regional dynasties of South Asia in the third through first centuries BCE?

A) Patronage of Shiva
B) Patronage of monasteries
C) Patronage of Vishnu
D) Patronage of Buddhism

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Justin Lohneis

1 day ago

Which of the following was among the innovative concepts of the Upanishads?

A) Belief in Shiva as the multi-armed destroyer god
B) Belief in the trinity of Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi
C) Belief in an almost endless sequence of rebirths
D) Belief in the self-discipline advocated by the Buddha

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Jezalene Joy Albeza

1 day ago

The monolithic pillars of Ashoka are said to serve as which of the following?

A) The path to enlightenment
B) The cosmic mountain
C) The axis of the universe
D) The Wheel of the Law

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Anita Gupta

1 day ago

The Gandhara region is the home of many portrayals of which being?

A) Yakshis
B) Shiva
C) Elephants
D) Buddha

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Miranda Carrasco

2 days ago

Which work derives some of its technical effects from the products of the silk trade in 13th- and 14th-century Italy?

A) Giotto's Arena Chapel
B) Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece
C) Duccio's Maestà
D) Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country

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Ralph Alfredo

2 days ago

Which feature of the small seal discovered at Mohenjo-daro references the Indian practice of meditation?

A) Figure is making the meditation gesture
B) Figure appears in a yogic posture
C) Figure is Shiva as lord of the beasts
D) Figure is Buddha in his first incarnation