Final Quiz American Art - Art Explora Academy

In Western Canadian cultures, the totem is …

A taboo. A sort of ensign for the chiefs. A means of payment. An animal spirit.

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Name the parent civilisation of the Andean region.

The Aztecs The Teotihuacán civilisation The Olmecs The Chavin people

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In pre-Columbian civilisations, human sacrifice is …

Useful for satisfying barbarian appetites. Important, because it helps to preserve the cycle of life. Forbidden. Essential to regulate the population.

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Where is this “Temple of Quetzalcóatl” located?

In Cancún In Teotihuacán In Tenochtitlan In Mexico

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What does the green colour of this Maya death mask symbolise?

Hope Nature’s fertility The god of the forests Rest

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Inca civilisation emerged …

Around 1200 BC. Around 1200 AD. Before the Chavin civilisation. When the Europeans arrived

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These transformation masks from the Subarctic region were worn …

By teenagers. By dancers. Also by the colonisers. Daily.

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The stirrup vase first emerged in which civilisation?

Persia Andean Chavín Maya

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The Aztec capital, located on the site of today’s Mexico, was ………

La Venta. La Maya. Teotihuacán. Tenochtitlan.

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What is this?

A Codex A Mayan calendar A prophecy A personal diary

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In the Westerns of the 1950s, American Indians are…

Shown as the colonisers’ victims. The heroes. Represented highly realistically. Represented in a stereotypical way.

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In which pre-hispanic civilisations was human sacrifice practised?

The Paraca and Nazca cultures. Most of them. None. It was totally taboo. Only the Maya culture.

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