Arts and Humanities Written Assessment

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Which element of music refers to how fast or slow the music is?

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tempo

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The ______ box is a kind of studio theatre where the audience and actors are in the same room surrounded by curtains.

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black

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The part of the stage furthest from the audience is the ______.

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upstage

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A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama) who comment on the action of a play without participation in it is known as the ______.

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chorus

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______ is the Greek goddess of the hearth.

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Hestia

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Shinto is the ancient religion of ______, established in the 5th century A.D., even before writing was introduced.

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Japan

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______ marks the start of the new year with solemn prayer and the blowing of the shofar, a ram’s horn; it is observed for one day by Reform Jews or for two days by Israeli, Orthodox, and Conservative Jews, starting the first day of the lunar month of Tishri. It actually occurs in either September or October.

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Rosh Hashanah

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______, such as those by artist and political activist Diego Rivera, are a popular form of art in Mexico.

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Murals

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Born in a small Iowa town in 1891, Grant Wood is an American artist known for his simple scenes of the land and people. All of the following were painted by Wood EXCEPT: Arbor Day, American Gothic, Dinner for the Threshers, The Haywain.

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American Gothic.

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The didjeridu is an end-blown, straight, natural trumpet made from a termite hollowed eucalyptus branch stripped of its outer bark with beeswax at the mouth end. It was traditionally used in ______.

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Australia