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Color Theory

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 2hrs 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the three primary colors?
a)
purple, green, orange
b)
red, blue, yellow
c)
red, blue, green
d)
red, blue, orange
2.
What are the three secondary colors?
a)
blue, yellow, red
b)
violet, green, red
c)
violet, green, orange
d)
blue, yellow, orange
3.
What are warm colors?
a)
red, orange, blue
b)
red, orange, yellow
c)
red, orange, green
d)
yellow, orange, violet
4.
What are cool colors?
a)
violet, green, brown
b)
violet, green, orange
c)
green, blue, red
d)
green, blue, violet
5.
What does red and yellow make?
a)
green
b)
violet
c)
orange
d)
brown
6.
What does red and blue make?
a)
violet
b)
orange
c)
green
d)
pink
7.
What does yellow and blue make?
a)
violet
b)
green
c)
orange
d)
a mess
8.
What does white and red make?
a)
violet
b)
red
c)
pink
d)
maroon
9.
What does black and white make?
a)
brown
b)
black
c)
gray
10.
Opposite colors on the color wheel are called?
a)
Analogous
b)
Complementary
c)
Monochromatic
d)
Secondary
11.
What are the colors named made from mixing primary and secondary colors?
a)
Monochromatic
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Beautiful
12.
What are these called?
a)
Tertiary Colors
b)
Primary Colors
c)
Monochromatic Colors
d)
Complementary Colors
13.
Answer the color equation:
Red + Blue =
a)
Violet
b)
Green
c)
Yellow
d)
Orange
14.
What color scheme does "The Old Guitarist" by Pablo Picasso represent?
a)
monochromatic 
b)
analogous 
c)
triadic
d)
secondary colors
15.
This image uses what color scheme? 
a)
warm
b)
cool
c)
primary
d)
secondary
16.
What is the complement of red?
a)
violet
b)
yellow
c)
green
d)
orange
17.
What color scheme is best represented by this painting?
a)
violet and yellow
b)
complementary
c)
analogous
d)
monochromatic
18.
Which one is NOT a primary color?
a)
green
b)
red
c)
yellow
d)
blue
19.
In the painting of the rooster, what color scheme is represented?
a)
Secondary
b)
Warm
c)
Primary
d)
Cool
20.
The color wheel  ___________. 
a)
must always be in the same order
b)
is an important part of color which is an element of art
c)
can be made only using 3 colors
d)
all of the above
21.
What are these called?
a)
Tertiary Colors
b)
Secondary Colors
c)
Primary Colors
d)
Complimentary Colors
22.
SECONDARY colors are formed by:
a)
mixing tertiary colors.
b)
mixing secondary colors.
c)
mixing primary colors.
d)
you can't mix them
23.
What color scheme is this an example of?
a)
Primary
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Warm
24.
What are the colors called that are made by mixing primary and secondary colors?
a)
Monochromatic Colors
b)
Complimentary Colors
c)
Tertiary Colors
d)
Intensity Colors
25.
This image uses what color scheme
a)
Analogous
b)
Warm
c)
Neutral
d)
Secondary
26.
Color scheme where colors are next to each other on the color wheel
a)
analogous
b)
complementary
c)
secondary
d)
neutral
27.
A monochromatic work of art contains the following colors?
a)
three colors next to one another on the color wheel
b)
one color plus tints and shades of that color
c)
one color plus one complement
d)
all cool colors
28.
How do you make a tint of a color?
a)
add white
b)
add black
c)
add a dot of hue to white
d)
add a dot of black to hue
29.
If you add black to a color, the color becomes...
a)
lighter
b)
darker
c)
stays the same
d)
it's own complement
30.
Three colors equally spaced from each other on the color wheel.
a)
Analogous
b)
Monochromatic
c)
Triadic
d)
Complimentary
31.
What is the color scheme?
a)
Analogous
b)
Complimentary
c)
Red and Green
d)
Split-Complimentary
32.
What is the color scheme? 
a)
Analogous
b)
Complimentary
c)
Cool colors
d)
Warm colors
33.
What color scheme is shown?
a)
Split Complementary Colors
b)
Neutral Colors
c)
Complementary Colors
d)
Tertiary Colors
34.
What are the colors touching each other on the color wheel called?
a)
Complementary
b)
Tertiary
c)
Friends
d)
Analogous
35.
PRIMARY colors can be defined as:
a)
any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be made by mixing
b)
colors made by mixing a primary and secondary color
c)
colors formed by mixing secondary colors