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WorksheetsArts & Humanities – Middle Grades – State Worksheet Questions
Total questions: 83
Worksheet time: 42mins
By definition, on how many sides of a thrust stage does the audience sit?
1
2
3
4
Which one of the following movements is non-locomotor?
pull
slide
hop
shuffle
Conjunct and disjunct are adjectives for which element of music?
pitch
texture
rhythm
melody
Which of the following art styles uses a mixture of hot wax and pigments that are burned into a surface?
fresco
encaustic
drypoint
lithography
Which river did Vincent van Gogh feature in the painting seen here?
Amstel
Danube
Rhone
Seine
Which one of the following Michelangelo artworks is in Florence?
David
The Creation of Adam
The Last Judgement
Pietà
She was the little girl in Las Meninas. Which royal below did Diego Velázquez also paint “in a Blue Dress” and “in a Pink Gown”?
Catherine the Great
Margarita Teresa
Isabella of Castile
Marie Antoinette
He possibly depicted Isaac and Rebecca in The Jewish Bride. Which of the following artists also painted Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild, also called The Sampling Officials?
Albrecht Dürer
Peter Paul Rubens
Johannes Vermeer
Rembrandt van Rijn
Which choice below names one of Francisco de Goya’s “Black Paintings”?
The Nude Maja
The Family of Charles IV
Hannibal the Conqueror
Saturn Devouring His Son
Match each artist with his work. Which work below is by Piet Mondrian? Choices: Pier and Ocean; Spring Turning; Diamond Dust Shoes.
Pier and Ocean
Spring Turning
Diamond Dust Shoes
Match each artist with his work. Which work below is by Grant Wood? Choices: Pier and Ocean; Spring Turning; Diamond Dust Shoes.
Pier and Ocean
Spring Turning
Diamond Dust Shoes
Match each artist with his work. Which work below is by Andy Warhol? Choices: Pier and Ocean; Spring Turning; Diamond Dust Shoes.
Pier and Ocean
Spring Turning
Diamond Dust Shoes
Which one of the following paintings did Norman Rockwell create in 1942 to inspire Boy Scouts to plant victory gardens and collect scrap metal?
The American Way
We, Too, Have a Job to Do
The Golden Rule
Growth of a Leader
Mary Cassatt painted three of the works below. Which one did Grandma Moses paint?
Girl Arranging Her Hair
Child in a Straw Hat
The Quilting Bee
The Child’s Bath
The capital at right belongs to which architectural mixed order?
Tuscan
Doric
Composite
Corinthian
A rotunda is a room, hall, or building shaped like which of the following?
circle
square
triangle
pentagon
With Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius designed which one of the works below?
Opus Hong Kong
DZ Bank
Johnson Wax Headquarters
Aluminum City Terrace
Which of the following architects worked on the Capitoline Square, Palazzo Farnese, and Palace of the Holy Office?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Andrea Palladio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Since 1985, it has been the European Union’s official anthem. Which Beethoven work below first appeared in his Choral Symphony?
“The Ruins of Athens”
“Ode to Joy”
“The Creatures of Prometheus”
“Für Elise”
Which of the following operas was the first in Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen tetralogy?
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung
Das Rheingold
Which one of the works below did George Frideric Handel compose?
Zadok the Priest
Bolero
Dido and Aeneas
Pelléas et Mélisande
Match each character with the Mozart opera in which he or she appears. Which opera features Guglielmo? Choices: The Marriage of Figaro; Così fan tutte; The Magic Flute.
The Marriage of Figaro
Così fan tutte
The Magic Flute
Match each character with the Mozart opera in which he or she appears. Which opera features Sarastro? Choices: The Marriage of Figaro; Così fan tutte; The Magic Flute.
The Marriage of Figaro
Così fan tutte
The Magic Flute
Match each character with the Mozart opera in which he or she appears. Which opera features Susanna? Choices: The Marriage of Figaro; Così fan tutte; The Magic Flute.
The Marriage of Figaro
Così fan tutte
The Magic Flute
His son Arlo is also a singer-songwriter. Which of the following men traveled Great Depression-era America and wrote “Blowing Down This Old Dusty Road” and “This Land Is Your Land”?
Woody Guthrie
Harold Arlen
Nat King Cole
Burt Bacharach
He wrote the lyrics to over 1,000 songs, including “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” and “Blue Moon.” Which man below collaborated with Richard Rodgers on the musicals The Boys from Syracuse and Pal Joey?
Frederick Loewe
Milton Babbitt
Lorenz Hart
Virgil Thomson
The cornet, which Louis Armstrong played, was the CLOSEST relative of which brass instrument?
trombone
tuba
French horn
trumpet
How many different instruments are used in a standard string quartet?
3
4
5
2
It can refer to a small German accordion. Which of the following choices can also name a 19th-century organ that resembled the harmonium?
psaltery
euphonium
melodeon
koto
Which of the percussion instruments below consists of loops of steel ball chain wrapped around a wooden cylinder?
güiro
cabasa
djembe
castanet
Examples include Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Which of the following choices, by definition, refers to music meant to tell a story?
absolute music
art music
program music
secular music
Its name is Latin American Spanish for “party.” Cowbells, claves, and the cajón are instruments in what Cuban music genre with a characteristic 3+3+2 rhythm?
rumba
bossa nova
samba
fandango
Match each ballet with its original choreographer. Which choreographer created Apollo? Choices: Michel Fokine; George Balanchine; Marius Petipa.
Michel Fokine
George Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Match each ballet with its original choreographer. Which choreographer created The Firebird? Choices: Michel Fokine; George Balanchine; Marius Petipa.
Michel Fokine
George Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Match each ballet with its original choreographer. Which choreographer created The Nutcracker? Choices: Michel Fokine; George Balanchine; Marius Petipa.
Michel Fokine
George Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Which of the following statements about the Baroque Era is FALSE?
Its composers sometimes used basso continuo.
Mendelssohn and Schumann lived and worked during it.
It lasted approximately 1600 to 1750.
The opera and concerto developed during it.
The feet seen here are in which basic ballet position?
first position
second position
fourth position
fifth position
She studied in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Which woman below was a dance anthropology pioneer and choreographer of Le Jazz Hot and Tropics?
Alicia Markova
Katherine Dunham
Judith Jamison
Pearl Primus
Which one of the following dances is NOT percussive?
tap
Irish dance
hula
clogging
Celebrants sometimes eat apples dipped in honey, pomegranates, and the head of a fish or ram. Some Jewish people throw breadcrumbs in a body of water to symbolically wash away their sins during which two-day holiday?
Rosh Hashanah
Sukkot
Purim
Yom Kippur
The shrine pictured here is the Ka’bah. It stands near the center of the Great Mosque in which city?
Jerusalem
Medina
Tel Aviv
Mecca
Persian king Darius I worshiped him. Which of the following choices is the “wise lord” of Zoroastrianism?
Hanuman
Ahura Mazda
Ganesh
Arjuna
In Western Christianity, it ends the Twelve Days of Christmas. Which holy day below celebrates the Magi’s visit to the infant Jesus?
Ash Wednesday
Pentecost
All Saints’ Day
Epiphany
Ancient Greeks sometimes depicted her with three back-to-back bodies. A pack of barking dogs accompanied which of the following goddesses, who presided over magic and spells?
Nike
Eos
Hecate
Tyche
Match each goddess with the group to which she belongs. Which group does Alecto belong to?
Muses
Fates
Furies
Match each goddess with the group to which she belongs. Which group does Clotho belong to?
Muses
Fates
Furies
Match each goddess with the group to which she belongs. Which group does Erato belong to?
Muses
Fates
Furies
She had connections to Rhea, Cybele, and Consus. Which Roman goddess below married Saturn and bore Jupiter?
Ops
Bona Dea
Ceres
Bellona
He was the brother of Menelaus and ruler of Mycenae. Which of the following men did his wife Clytemnestra and her boyfriend Aegisthus murder when he returned from the Trojan War?
Oedipus
Midas
Hector
Agamemnon
NBC produced a live version in 2015. Which show below is a “Super Soul Musical” that traditionally features an all-Black cast?
Guys and Dolls
The Wiz
Big River
Anything Goes
The jukebox musical We Will Rock You features songs like “We Are the Champions” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” which were originally released by which band?
ABBA
The Temptations
Queen
The Four Seasons
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb collaborated on which one of the following musicals?
Chicago
Les Misérables
Brigadoon
Cats
Which song below can be heard in The King and I?
“You’ve Got a Friend”
“Part of Your World”
“What I Did for Love”
“I Whistle a Happy Tune”
Shohei Ohtani, José Ramirez, and Manny Machado are all professional athletes in what sport?
baseball
basketball
football
golf
In 2023, she became only the second jazz singer to win the Best New Artist Grammy. Which choice below names this winner of the Best Jazz Vocal Album for Linger Awhile?
Brandi Carlile
Jazmine Sullivan
Samara Joy
Molly Tuttle
She starred as Harley Diaz in Stuck in the Middle. Which of the following actresses most recently portrayed the title character in the Netflix series Wednesday?
Sadie Sink
Jenna Ortega
Mia Goth
Stephanie Hsu
Match each actor with his movie. Which movie features Dwayne Johnson in the listed title role?
The Adam Project
Jurassic World Dominion
Black Adam
Match each actor with his movie. Which movie stars Ryan Reynolds?
The Adam Project
Jurassic World Dominion
Black Adam
Match each actor with his movie. Which movie features Chris Pratt?
The Adam Project
Jurassic World Dominion
Black Adam
He came to be identified with Bacchus. In Lavinium, an entire month was dedicated to which Roman god below, who was one of a pair of cultivation and fertility deities?
Liber
Sol
Quirinus
Janus
His orchestra shared the role of Cotton Club house band with Duke Ellington’s orchestra. Which man below composed “Minnie the Moocher” and was nicknamed “The Hi-De-Ho Man”?
Benny Goodman
Artie Shaw
Charlie Parker
Cab Calloway
Cajun music is MOST closely associated with which of the following states?
Virginia
Florida
Louisiana
New Mexico
Theravada Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death during an annual holiday in April or May. Which choice below names that holiday?
Vesak
Kwanzaa
Diwali
Holi
Which one of the works below did Raphael paint?
Venus of Urbino
The School of Athens
The Persistence of Memory
View of Toledo
Which of the following choices is the word for the grooves in a column’s shaft?
buttressing
vaulting
arcading
fluting
Which choice below names the protagonist of the musical Sister Act?
Deloris Van Cartier
Molly Aster
Christine Daaé
Jane Banks
Who painted Second Story Sunlight, seen here?
James Whistler
Edward Hopper
David Hockney
Andrew Wyeth
It possibly spread from Italy to Spain, France, and England. In Elizabethan times, which of the following dances preceded the galliard and was a way for couples to present themselves to the monarch?
gigue
allemande
pavane
bolero
Match each composer with his work. Which work is by Frédéric Chopin?
Fantaisie in F Minor
Griselda
Romeo and Juliet
Match each composer with his work. Which work is by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
Fantaisie in F Minor
Griselda
Romeo and Juliet
Match each composer with his work. Which work is by Antonio Vivaldi?
Fantaisie in F Minor
Griselda
Romeo and Juliet
His composition Different Trains earned a Grammy. Which of the following Minimalist composers won a Pulitzer Prize for Double Sextet?
Philip Glass
Terry Riley
La Monte Young
Steve Reich
Which choice below is NOT part of Laban Movement Analysis?
perspective
shape
effort
body
Which one of the following woodwinds has the LOWEST register?
clarinet
piccolo
oboe
contrabassoon
It is a short, light piece usually written for the piano. Which label below did Beethoven give his Für Elise?
requiem
bagatelle
motet
fugue
Her 2023 Grammy win for the Spoken Word Album Finding Me made her an EGOT. Which actress below starred in How to Get Away with Murder and Fences?
Jennifer Hudson
Viola Davis
Lupita Nyong’o
Halle Berry
Cady Heron, Regina George, and Gretchen Wieners are all characters in which of the following musicals, whose songs include “Revenge Party” and “Apex Predator”?
Sunset Boulevard
Mamma Mia!
Mean Girls
School of Rock
Zeus fathered children with each woman below. Which one, the mother of Dionysus, died after Zeus appeared to her in all his splendor?
Maia
Leto
Semele
Europa
Mahavira likely founded which of the following religions, whose followers are vegetarian and believe in nonviolence, or ahimsa?
Sikhism
Confucianism
Shinto
Jainism
Which of the following men combined painting, drama, and music with new choreography by founding the Ballets Russes?
Sergei Diaghilev
Alvin Ailey
Vaslav Nijinsky
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Match each architect with his work. Which work is by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Louvre Pyramid
Gateway Arch
Farnsworth House
Match each architect with his work. Which work is by I. M. Pei?
Louvre Pyramid
Gateway Arch
Farnsworth House
Match each architect with his work. Which work is by Eero Saarinen?
Louvre Pyramid
Gateway Arch
Farnsworth House
