Fine Arts Practice

1) Where did dePaola receive his master of fine arts?

• A) California College of Arts and Crafts

• B) Newton College of the Sacred Heart

• C) Chamberlayne Junior College

• D) Colby-Sawyer College

• E) New England College

2) Brought up Catholic, dePaola had found early delight in the church's mysteries, liturgies of worship, and stories of saints. "Once, when I was ten, I stayed for three continuous showings of the movie ____.

• A) The Song of Bernadette

• B) St. Patrick the Celtic

• C) The Art of St. Francis

• D) The Song of Francis

• E) Mary, the Mother of God

3) In 1955, while spending a summer studying fresco and painting at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, dePaola met ____, who for a time became his mentor. He remembered ____ once telling him, "Being an artist is not only what you do with your artwork but how you live your life."

• A) Georges Rouault

• B) Leo Lionni

• C) Anita Lobel

• D) Mother Placid

• E) Ben Shahn

4) Bobby was named after his best friend, his grandfather, Bob. When Bobby was just a baby, his grandfather told everyone, 'Bobby will be three years old before he can say Grandpa, so I'm going to have him call me Bob.' Which book is this referencing?

• A) The Baby Sister

• B) Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs

• C) Now One Foot, Now the Other

• D) The Art Lesson

• E) 26 Fairmount Avenue

5) Charles Massey, a New York theatrical manager, gave copies of this book to performers in the musical A Chorus Line in its beginning years on Broadway.

• A) The Art Lesson

• B) Oliver Button is a Sissy

• C) Strega Nona

• D) Sound

• E) Andy, That's My Name

6) Background materials are often appended to the 26 Fairmount Avenue books for historical context. Which of the following is NOT part of those background materials?

• A) pieces on gas rationing

• B) links to popular World War II music

• C) links to World War II art

• D) excerpt of President Roosevelt's December 8

• E) All are background materials

7) Which title does Strega Nona send presents (candy and a bottle of bubble bath) to her faithful helpers, Bambolona and Big Anthony?

• A) Strega Nona, Her Story

• B) Strega Nona's Harvest

• C) Strega Nona Does it Again

• D) Strega Nona Takes a Vacation

• E) Strega Nona and the Twins

8) In ____, for example, a full page is balanced with four horizontal bands showing various colorful vegetables. In another spread the vegetable grow in clay pots alongside the three main characters.

• A) Strega Nona's Harvest

• B) Strega Nona and Her Tomatoes

• C) Strega Nona's Gift

• D) Strega Nona, Her Story

• E) Strega Nona Does it Again

9) This story contains small vignettes of Jack and Jill, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack Be Nimble, Charlie (from "Charlie Needs a Cloak"), and an itsy-bitsy spider in the background.

• A) Jack

• B) The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote

• C) Days of the Black Bird

• D) Strega Nona Does it Again

• E) Michael Bird-Boy

10) The title page nicely sets the scene. Villagers gather around a festooned open-air stage on which a masked clown holds high a tambourine. This description references which title?

• A) Strega Nona, Her Story

• B) Sing, Pierrot, Sing

• C) The Moon's Almost Here

• D) The Song of Francis

• E) The Clown of God