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Maryan Osman

Jul 24, 2024

What term describes "films based on ideas that could be expressed in twenty-five words or less" or could be "held in one's hand"?

A) B movies
B) high-concept films
C) Indiewood films
D) independent films

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Ollie Ndikumana

Jul 24, 2024

Which studio gave Francis Ford Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, a first-look deal but ultimately passed on four of the most important films of the 1970s?

A) Paramount
B) Universal
C) Warner Bros.
D) MGM

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Miguel Quezada

Jul 21, 2024

Disney bought out Capital Cities for $19 billion in the second-largest corporate takeover in U.S.history, merging their studios with which TV broadcast network?

A) CBS
B) NBC
C) ABC
D) Fox

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Youmna Mohamed

Jul 21, 2024

Domestic home video accounts for approximately what percentage of a film's income?

A) 5 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent

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Tasnia Tabia

Jul 21, 2024

Thanks to the work of the #OscarsSoWhite movement, data has revealed that approximately what percentage of film roles are cast with white actors?

A) 25 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 99 percent

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Ashley Bussolari

Jul 21, 2024

Name the director who began his career in industrial films and television before finding success with MASH.

A) Martin Scorsese
B) Francis Ford Coppola
C) Roman Polanski
D) Robert Altman

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Rajah Brown

Jul 21, 2024

This Sofia Coppola film highlights the superficiality of conspicuous consumption and the celebrity through its use of costuming, makeup, and hairstyling.

A) The Bling Ring
B) Somewhere
C) Lost in Translation
D) Marie Antoinette

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Heather Blankenbaker

Jul 21, 2024

This process refers to the practice of screening a rough cut for an audience that is then interviewed by a team of market researchers.Sometimes, the collected data is used to complete the film.

A) greenlighting
B) platforming
C) test screening
D) tentpole

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kennith taylor

Jul 20, 2024

Which income-producing activity accounts for Dutch middle-class prosperity the 17th century?

A) Agriculture
B) Mining
C) Weaving
D) Trade

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Christopher Burch

Jul 20, 2024

Which Baroque artist was known for "classical" landscape settings that take precedence over the narrative of the painting?

A) Artemesia Gentileschi
B) Guido Reni
C) Caravaggio
D) Annibale Carracci

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Riley Redding

Jul 20, 2024

Which painter was responsible for establishing still life as an important genre of painting in 17th-century Spain?

A) El Greco
B) José de Ribera
C) Juan Sánchez Cotán
D) Francisco de Zurbarán

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Abhishek Kulkarni

Jul 19, 2024

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Late Antique Christian art?

A) Non-naturalistic
B) Shade and tonality
C) Hieratic sizing
D) Frontal figures

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Ashley Carchi

Jul 19, 2024

What medium is used for the icon of the Virgin (Theotokos) and the Child between Saints Theodore and George?

A) Oil on panel
B) Mosaic
C) Fresco on plaster
D) Encaustic on wood

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Anthony Zuniga

Jul 19, 2024

How did one recognize a Christian sarcophagus?

A) The name of the person buried was carved in its central panel.
B) The iconography in its reliefs is predominantly Christian.
C) The crucifixion always appeared among the relief scenes.
D) Sarcophagi were used for burial only by Christians.

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Shirley Maidang

Jul 19, 2024

What technique did the artist of the spoils from Jerusalem on the Arch of Titus use to create the illusion of depth?

A) Coloring the relief background
B) Arranging figures in a landscape
C) Carving different heights of relief
D) Following strict linear perspective

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Siamanta Nthumba

Jul 14, 2024

During what period did English architect Inigo Jones produce most of his works?

A) 1500-1550
B) 1600-1650
C) 1550-1600
D) 1650-1700

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Amanda McDowell

Jul 14, 2024

Who was a leading portrait painter in Haarlem and is known for his lively, relaxed group portraits?

A) Anthony Van Dyck
B) Frans Hals
C) Rembrandt van Rijn
D) Hendrick ter Brugghen

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Taylor Speirer

Jul 14, 2024

What symbolism do art historians assign to the three (rather than four) pendentives used by Guarini to support the dome of the chapel of the Santissima Sindone?

A) Holy Trinity
B) Air, land, and sea
C) Three Graces
D) Pyramid

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DeAndrea Dennis

Jul 14, 2024

This social justice movement is geared toward exposing progressive hypocrisy in Hollywood in the wake of the 2016 Academy Award nominations.

A) #MeToo
B) #OscarsSoWhite
C) QAnon
D) Time's Up

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Kaleigh Decker

Jul 14, 2024

What principal Renaissance interest is embodied in Masaccio's Holy Trinity alongside realism based on observation?

A) The introduction of the donors into the context of the work
B) The use of antique elements as components of the work
C) The mixture of sculptural media such as stone and metal
D) The application of the new science of perspective

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