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Art of the Americas

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do we call the art or period during pre-Columbian times, wherein the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec cultures flourished?

a)

Mesopotamian

b)

Mesoamerican

c)

Mesozoan

d)

Mesozoic

2.

Which of these objects belong to, or are identified with Native Americans (North America)?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

Which of these objects below belong to, or are identified with Mesoamerican art?

a)
b)
c)
d)
4.

What is this called among Native Americans?

a)

Totem pole

b)

Obelisk

c)

Monolith

d)

Pyramid

5.

Which of these art involves weaving? Check 3 possible answers.

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which people group was found to be producing jade masks in Mesoamerica? Clue: They are considered the mother culture.

a)

Aztecs

b)

Cherokee

c)

Apache

d)

Olmec

7.
a)
Maya
b)
Olmec
c)
Aztec
d)
Inca
8.
a)
Maya
b)
Olmec
c)
Inca
d)
Aztec
9.
a)
Incan
b)
Maya
c)
Olmec
d)
Aztec
10.

The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings

a)

architecture

b)

sculpture

c)

pottery

d)

weaving

11.

Forming cloth by interlacing strands of fiber

a)

architecture

b)

sculpture

c)

pottery

d)

weaving

12.

Almost all Aztec art used what kind of subjects and themes?

a)

plants

b)

religious

c)

ordinary people

d)

the stars

13.

Where did the Mayans live?

a)

Desert of South America

b)

Arctic Circle

c)

Southern Mexico and Central America

d)

Woodlands of North America

14.

Giant stone heads belong to which civilization?

a)

Olmec

b)

Maya

15.

______ are written signs that represent concepts and objects.

a)

slash-and-burn

b)

glyphs

c)

elite

d)

surplus

16.

Which Mesoamerican civilization came first?

a)

Inca

b)

Olmec

c)

Aztec

d)

Maya

17.

What place did textiles hold in Incan culture?

a)

They were limited to the lower classes.

b)

They were considered the highest form of art.

18.

Where did the Inca live?

a)

Yucatan Peninsula

b)

South America, specifically mostly modern Peru

c)

Central Mexico

19.

Totem poles were a beautiful art form, but what important purpose did they have in the tribes?

a)

to tell a clan's history

b)

to tell a clan what to do

c)

to tell if they were going to war or not

20.

Who has been carving totem poles for hundreds of years?

a)

native people who live on many South Pacific islands

b)

hunters who trap beaver and fox in the mountains

c)

people who live along the Pacific coast of Alaska and Canada

d)

people from China who moved to California and Mexico