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Beginning Art-Formative Quiz on Color

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How do you make this color?
a)

red+blue

b)

orange+blue

c)

yellow+blue

d)

purple+yellow

2.
What two colors do you mix to make violet?
a)
blue and yellow
b)

red (or primary magenta) and green

c)
blue and violet
d)

red (or primary magenta) and blue

3.
What are the primary colors?
a)

Red (primary magenta), blue (cyan), yellow (Primary yellow)

b)
Blue, green, purple
c)
Orange, purple, green
d)
red, orange, yellow
4.

A color scheme that uses different values of a single hue(hue means color) by showing tints and shades of the same color.

a)
monochromatic
b)
analogous
c)
complementary pairs
5.
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
intermediate
6.
a)
monochromatic
b)
analogous
c)
complementary 
7.
Yellow + Blue =
a)
Green
b)
Brown
c)
Orange
d)
Purple
8.

Red (primary magenta) + Yellow =

a)
Green
b)
Blue
c)
Orange
d)
Brown
9.
What are the 3 Secondary Colors?
a)

Red (primary magenta) Orange Yellow

b)
Green Blue Purple
c)
Orange Green Purple
d)
Brown Grey Black
10.
What do you get when you mix 2 PRIMARY colors together?
a)

Brown

b)

A Secondary Color like green

c)

A Tertiary color like yellow-green

d)
Black
11.
How do you find Complimentary Colors on the Color Wheel?
a)
Colors Across From Each other
b)
Colors Next to Each other
12.
Add ___________ to a color to make a TINT
a)
Pink
b)
White
c)
Black
d)
Brown
13.
When you mix 2 Complimentary Colors together, you get______?
a)
Black
b)
White
c)
Brown
d)
Blue
14.

When you mix Blue and Violet together to make a tertiary color, you get______?

a)
Black
b)

Violet-blue

c)
Brown
d)

blue-violet

15.

The primary colors are

a)

Red , yellow, and blue

b)

Orange and green

c)

Black and White

d)

Tertiary

16.

The secondary colors are

a)

Blue and white

b)

orange, green and purple

c)

black and white

d)

monochromatic

17.
What color do you get when you mix blue with yellow?
a)
Orange
b)
Red
c)
Blue
d)
Green
18.
How many Primary colors are there?
a)
3
b)
2
c)
18
d)
6
19.
Which of the following are ALL SECONDARY colors.
a)
yellow, purple, orange
b)
yellow, red, blue
c)
purple, orange, green
20.
SECONDARY colors are formed by:
a)
mixing tertiary colors.
b)
mixing secondary colors.
c)
mixing primary colors.
21.
what are warm colors?
a)
red, orange, blue
b)
red, orange, yellow
c)
red, orange, green
d)
yellow, orange, purple
22.
what are cool colors?
a)
purple, green, brown
b)
purple, green, orange
c)
green, blue, red
d)
green, blue, purple
23.
Opposite colors are called?
a)
Analogous
b)
Complementary
c)
Monochromatic
d)
Secondary
24.
What is this called?
a)
Color Circle
b)
Color Prism
c)
Color Wheel
d)
Color Spectrum
25.

To make a secondary color you need to mix two equal amounts of primary colors.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

What intermediate color will you make if you mix mostly yellow paint and only a little bit of red paint?

a)

Yellow-Orange

b)

Blue-Green

c)

Red-Orange

27.

What intermediate color will you make if you mix mostly red paint and only a little bit of blue paint?

a)

Blue-Violet

b)

Red-Violet

c)

Yellow-Violet

28.

Neutral colors are ________________________.

a)

red, pink, dark red

b)

yellow, orange, red

c)

black, white, brown

29.

What is the correct order of the color spectrum?

a)

ROIGBYV

b)

ROBGBYV

c)

ROYGBIV

30.

A flat-sided, transparent object that refracts (bends) light into the visible color spectrum:

a)

Color

b)

Prism

c)

Rainbow

31.

What we see after light has been bent through a prism:

a)

The Color Spectrum

b)

White Light

c)

Shadows

32.

A radial graph that artists use to organize color and see color relationships:

a)

Color Spectrum

b)

Rainbow

c)

Color Wheel

33.

Why are the colors on the color wheel arranged in a specific order?

a)

They are based off of the Primary Colors

b)

They are based off of White Light

c)

They are based off of the order of the Color Spectrum

34.

What colors are considered the "building blocks" of all color?

a)

The Primary Colors

b)

The Secondary Colors

c)

The Tertiary Colors

35.

Which of the following colors is NOT a primary color?

a)

Red

b)

Orange

c)

Yellow

d)

Blue

36.

Which of the following colors is NOT a secondary color?

a)

Orange

b)

Violet

c)

Blue

d)

Green

37.

What two colors would you mix to create Yellow-Orange?

a)

Yellow & Orange

b)

Red & Yellow

c)

Orange & Red

38.

What two colors would you mix to create Blue-Green?

a)

Blue & Yellow

b)

Blue & Green

c)

Green & Yellow

39.

Which of the following is NOT a tertiary color?

a)

Red-Green

b)

Red-Orange

c)

Red-Purple

40.

Colors can be mixed to make primary colors.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

Red and yellow are two primary colors. If you mix red and yellow together you will get a secondary color. Which secondary color will you get?

a)

Orange

b)

Red-Yellow

c)

Yellow-Red

d)

Blue

42.

Which football team is an example of complementary colors?

a)

Broncos - Orange/Blue

b)

Cardinals - Black/Red/White/Yellow

c)

Eagles - Green/White

d)

Raiders - Black/Silver

43.

Which of these colors are basically interchangable (meaning they mean the same thing)

a)

Green/Yellow

b)

Black/White

c)

Red/Pink

d)

Purple/Violet

44.

What object could be considered a warm color?

a)

Fire

b)

Ocean

c)

Lake

d)

Sunset

45.

Name 1 of the 4 neutral colors?

(a)