Daily Quiz

Question 1:

The passage states that wood-block printing was first invented:

Question 2:

As it is used in line 40, the word registration most nearly means:

Question 3:

According to the passage, Japanese attitudes toward wood-block prints in the seventeenth century:

Question 4:

According to the passage, Japanese wood-blocks were primarily defined by:

A. an abundance of black-and-white landscape paintings characterized by fine lines.
B. an unusual number of highly skilled artists such as Hokusai
C. the mass distribution of Buddhist charms and other sutras.
D. the use of sophisticated techniques in layering and combining colors.

Question 5:

The passage states that although entire pages were often printed from a single wood-block, this technique was most often found in:

Question 6:

According to the account of the introduction of movable type in China, it can be reasonably inferred that:

A. trade between Asia and Europe facilitated the development of printing in Germany.
B. eleventh century China was considerably more advanced in certain technologies than was Europe.
C. ancient Chinese society was highly religious.
D. human and landscape subjects were largely replaced by religious ones in the ninth century A.D.

Question 7:

According to the passage, the popularity of wood-block prints in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries resulted from:

I. the use of many different colors
II. viewers’ ability to relate to their subjects
III. artists’ bold personalities

Question 8:

The author includes the anecdote about Hokusai’s painting in the 7th paragraph primarily in order to:

Question 9:

The author states that the result of reproducing many prints “from one set of blocks” (line 24 and 25) was:

Question 10:

We see the Japanese attitudes from Question 3 in which of the following lines?

A. “The prints have a peculiar charm and show great technical skill, not only on the part of the original artist but also in the work of the wood-block carver and the printer" (Lines 28-32)
B. “Even after the introduction of movable type in China about the year 1030 (four centuries before the first Gutenberg Bible was printed in Germany), the method of using a wood block for an entire page was continued” (Lines 78-86)
C. “The art of printing from wooden blocks was, of course, not new in Tokugawa times. The Chinese had used it for centuries for reproducing written characters and pictures of human and landscape subjects.” (Lines 63-69)
D. “Although popular in Japan, they were despised as inferior and vulgar in their subject matter by Japanese connoisseurs of traditional painting in the Chinese style.” (Lines 12-17)

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