SS3 Third Term Creative Arts Past Questions And Answers

SS3 Creative Arts questions with options and answers:

 

Question: Who is known for his abstract expressionist paintings, such as “No. 5, 1948”?

 

A) Mark Rothko

B) Jackson Pollock

C) Willem de Kooning

D) Franz Kline

Answer: B) Jackson Pollock

Question: In classical music, what term is used for a composition written for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra?

 

A) Symphony

B) Concerto

C) Sonata

D) Overture

Answer: B) Concerto

Question: Who is the author of the play “The Glass Menagerie”?

 

A) Tennessee Williams

B) Arthur Miller

C) Anton Chekhov

D) Henrik Ibsen

Answer: A) Tennessee Williams

Question: Which ancient Greek philosopher is often considered the father of Western philosophy and wrote dialogues like “The Republic”?

 

A) Socrates

B) Aristotle

C) Plato

D) Heraclitus

Answer: C) Plato

Question: What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of closely placed words?

 

A) Alliteration

B) Onomatopoeia

C) Assonance

D) Consonance

Answer: A) Alliteration

Question: Who is known for his role in the development of modern dance and choreographed “The Rite of Spring”?

 

A) Martha Graham

B) Isadora Duncan

C) Vaslav Nijinsky

D) Alvin Ailey

Answer: C) Vaslav Nijinsky

Question: What is the term for a style of painting that emerged in the 18th century, emphasizing light and color, and often depicting outdoor scenes?

 

A) Rococo

B) Baroque

C) Romanticism

D) Impressionism

Answer: D) Impressionism

Question: Who is known for his use of pointillism, a painting technique where small dots of color create a larger image?

 

A) Georges Seurat

B) Claude Monet

C) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

D) Edgar Degas

Answer: A) Georges Seurat

Question: What is the term for a play that ends happily, often involving marriage and the resolution of conflicts?

 

A) Comedy

B) Tragedy

C) Farce

D) Satire

Answer: A) Comedy

Question: Who wrote the surrealist novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?

 

A) Gabriel García Márquez

B) Jorge Luis Borges

C) Isabel Allende

D) Julio Cortázar

Answer: A) Gabriel García Márquez

Question: In film, who directed the classic “Citizen Kane” and is often considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time?

 

A) Alfred Hitchcock

B) Orson Welles

C) Stanley Kubrick

D) Martin Scorsese

Answer: B) Orson Welles

Question: What is the term for a dramatic work in which the central character meets an unfortunate or disastrous end?

 

A) Comedy

B) Tragedy

C) Farce

D) Satire

Answer: B) Tragedy

Question: Who is known for his large-scale environmental artworks, such as “The Gates” in Central Park?

 

A) Christo and Jeanne-Claude

B) Banksy

C) Yayoi Kusama

D) Damien Hirst

Answer: A) Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Question: Which literary genre often features magical elements and is set in an imaginary universe?

 

A) Science Fiction

B) Fantasy

C) Mystery

D) Historical Fiction

Answer: B) Fantasy

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the Harlem Renaissance and wrote poems like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?

 

A) Langston Hughes

B) Zora Neale Hurston

C) Claude McKay

D) James Baldwin

Answer: A) Langston Hughes

Question: What is the term for a short musical composition for a solo instrument?

 

A) Symphony

B) Sonata

C) Concerto

D) Overture

Answer: B) Sonata

Question: Who is considered the founder of modern ballet and established the Royal Ballet School in London?

 

A) George Balanchine

B) Vaslav Nijinsky

C) Marius Petipa

D) Enrico Cecchetti

Answer: C) Marius Petipa

Question: In literature, what term is used for a figure of speech where a part represents the whole or vice versa?

 

A) Simile

B) Metaphor

C) Symbolism

D) Irony

Answer: C) Symbolism

Question: Who painted “The Persistence of Memory,” featuring melting clocks, and is associated with the Surrealist movement?

 

A) René Magritte

B) Salvador Dalí

C) Max Ernst

D) Joan Miró

Answer: B) Salvador Dalí

Question: What is the term for a musical composition for

a full orchestra, typically in four movements?

 

A) Sonata

B) Symphony

C) Concerto

D) Overture

Answer: B) Symphony