HUM1B – REVIEW QUIZ

A. PROPERTIES OF MUSICAL SOUND

1. Which of the following property of sound depends on

the length of time over which vibration is maintained?

a. pitch c. volume
b. duration d. timbre/tone color

2. Which of the following refers to the individual quality

of the sound produced by other instruments?
a. pitch c. volume
b. duration d. timbre/tone color

3. Which of the following refers to force or percussive

effects as a result of which the tone strikes us at being
loud or soft?
a. pitch c. volume
b. duration d. timbre/tone color

4. Which of the following refers to highness or lowness

of tone?
a. pitch c. volume
b. duration d. timbre/tone color

B. DRAMA
5. Which of the following best describe about drama?
a. Drama does not need a stage, nor does it need
costume, props and scenery.
b. Drama in Ancient Greek meant something that is
acted out, or lived through.
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

6 . What form of art that deals with sound?

a. Musical Instruments c. Musical Drama

b. Music d. All of the above

7. Who became the star of the show Miss Saigon here

in the Philippines?
a. Lea Salonga c. Lani Misalucha
b. Pilita Corales d. Regine Velasquez

8. Which of the following refers to a very heavy drama

shown in relation to the life sacrifices and death of
Jesus Christ?
a. Moro-moro c. Cenakulo
b. Ati-atihan d. Zarzuela
9. Which of the following refers to a cloak-and-dagger
play depicting the wars between the Christians and
Muslims, with the Christians always on the winning
side?
a. Moro-moro c. Cenakulo
b. Ati-atihan d. Moriones

10. Which of the following refers to a melodrama with

songs and dances that have a three-in-one-act play?
a. Ati-atihan c. Cenakulo
b. Moro-moro d. Zarzuela

11. Which of the following is described as a pagan

ritual which has become an annual affair that the
natives look forward to with great expectation?
a. Moro-moro c. Cenakulo
b. Ati-atihan d. None of the above

12. Which of the following refers to a festival and is a

Lenten ritual that is as colorful as it is uniqe?
a. Moro-moro c. Cenakulo
b. Ati-atihan d. Moriones

13. What does Morion mean?

a. sword c. armor
b. mask or visor d. none of the above
14. Which is not a traditional forms of Japanese
drama?
a. Kabuki c. Wu
b. Noh d. Kodomo

15. Which of the following refers to the oldest form of

Chinese play; it has patriotism and filial devotion for its
subject?
a. Vun Pan Shi c. Vun Min Shi
b. Sin Pan Shi d. None of the above

16. What is an art of portraying or impersonating a

character?
a. Acting c. None of the above
b. Dramatizing d. All of the above

C. MEDIUMS OF MUSIC, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

AND MUSICAL ORGANIZATION

17. Which of the following refers to the method

employed when an actress or actor borrows the voice
of another?
a. recording c. dubbing
b. playback d. All of the above
18. Which of the following is the process where an
orchesta playing the music or song is being recorded in
the soundtrack by the recording apparatus?
a. recording c. dubbing
b. playback d. All of the above

19. What do you call to a director of orchestra who able

to give the most precise directions with his baton and
hands?
a. principal c. concert master
b. conductor d. None of the above

20. "There are two mediums in music: vocal medium

and musical medium."
a. True
b. False

21. How many classes are there in vocal register?

a. 10 c. 6
b. 5 d. 7

22. How do you describe a Soprano?

a. high- register male voice c. medium register
male voice
b. high-register female voice d. medium-register
female voice
23. What is Bass voice?
a. medium- register male voice c. low-register male
voice
b. high-register female voice d. low-register female
voice

24. What about an Alto or Contralto?

a. high- register male voice c. low-register male
voice
b. high-register female voice d. low-register
female voice

25. What is a Tenor voice?

a. high- register male voice c. medium-register
male voice
b. high-register female voice d. medium-register
female voice

26. What is a Baritone voice?

a. low- register male voice c. medium-register
male voice
b. low-register female voice d. medium-register
female voice
27. Which of the following provides basic orchestral
sound, producing tones by means of vibrations of a
stretched strings?
a. Woodwind instrument c. Percussion
instrument
b. Stringed instrument d. Keyboard
instrument

28. What instruments that are blown by the players?

a. Woodwind instrument c. Percussion instrument
b. Stringed instrument d. Keyboard instrument

29. Which of the following is the best known

instrumental group in the Philippines
a. Band c. Rondalla
b. Concerto d. All of the above

30. Which of the following refers to a form written for

orchestra and usually one solo insturment which is
given a prominent role in music?
a. Band c. Rondalla
b. Concerto d. None of the above
D. OVERVIEW OF HUMANITIES: Visual arts, literature,
drama and theater, music, and dance
31. What does Humanities mean from the Latin term
HUMANUS?
a. Social, cultivated and refined c. Human, cultured
and refined
b. Mortal, cultivated and refined d. Human, educated
and cultured
32. What is an art of linking and modifying sounds of
fluctuating tone to produce compositions, expressing
various ideas and emotion?
a. Musical blending c. Sound effects
b. Music d. Musical instruments
33. What play that dramatizes stories from the Bible
and of the lives of saints?
a. Morality and mystery play c. Parable
b. Morality play d. Miracle and mystery play
34. What kind of dance that serves as a mutiny against
the classification formalism of ballet?
a. Ballroom dance c. Modern dance
b. Teenager’s dance d. Ethnologic dance
35. What drama that emphasizes on action rather than
on character? The action is sensational or romantic and
usually has a happy ending.
a. Romantic comedy c. Melodrama
b. Musical comedy d. Tragicomedy
36. What drama that showcases the recent innovation
combining the interpretation of music with the recitation
of poetry and literary source of music?
a. Closet drama c. Melodrama
b. Musical drama d. Piano drama
37. What narrative story produced by the writer as
distinguished from factual accounts?
a. Poetic fiction c. Prose non-fiction
b. Prose fiction d. Fiction
38. Which of the following refers to the design and
construction of three dimensional forms representing
natural objects or imaginary shapes?
a. Landscape architecture c. Interior design
b. Sculpture d. Industrial design
39. Which of the following refers to the drama set to
music and dancers as an important performer?
a. Theatrical drama c. Opera
b. Melodrama d. Musical drama
40. Why art has a psychological effects to humanity?
a. Art has an aesthetic value. c. It conveys a
message.
b. Art expresses feelings. d. All of the above
41. What process of designing that promotes sales or
acceptance of product, service, or idea such as poster
making, advertising, etc.?
a. Mechanical process c. Graphic processes
b. Graphic art d. Commercial art
42. Which of the following does not belong to the
medium of drawing?
a. Ink c. Tempera
b. Brush d. Charcoal
43. Which process of printing in which surface is then
treated so that inks adheres only to areas where
drawing has been done; ink is then transferred to the
paper in printing?
a. Etching c. Silkscreen
b. Surface printing d. Lithography
44. Which of the following does not belong to the
medium of sculpture?
a. Wood c. Fresco
b. Brush d. Wire
45. Which of the following does not belong to the
medium of landscape architecture?
a. Orchids c. Charcoal
b. Trees d. Stone
46. What design refers to the arrangement of
architectural centers for inconvenience and beauty?
a. City planning c. Interior design
b. Industrial design d. Crafts
47. What is the purpose of traditional Ifugao dance?
a. To give thanks for a bountiful harvest
b. To celebrate victory of the warriors
c. To celebrate a religious festival
d. To show gratitude to the spirits for success in war
48. Which of the following refers to the art of combining
spoken or written words and their meanings into forms
which have an artistic and emotional appeal?
a. Essay c. Poetry
b. Prose fiction d. Literature
49. What kind of art which covers all fields of visual arts
materials and materials are organized into three
dimensional forms?
a. Architecture c. Graphic art
b. Industrial design d. Plastic art
50. Which of the following refers to designing of objects
for machine production?
a. Mechanical processes c. Graphic art
b. Industrial design d. Plastic Art
51. What drama that is set to music but light, popular,
romantic and often humorous or comic?
a. Melodrama c. Romantic comedy
b. Operetta and musical comedy d. Musical comedy
52. What does closet drama design for?
a. Action rather than for reading c. Reciting rather
than for staging
b. Reading rather than for staging d. Staging rather
than for reading
53. What performing art is described as a formalized
type of dance which originated in the royal courts of the
Middle Ages?
a.Musical comedy c. Social dance
b. Ballet d. Rhumba
54. Which of the following refers to the dance that can
be performed either in solo or concerted with mimetic
actions accompanied by music?
a. Tango c. Ballet
b. Rhumba d. Acrobatics
55. If dancer is a performer, what about a dramatist?
a. Creator c. Radio drama director
b. Performer d. Musical spinner

E. METHODS OF PRESENTING ART SUBJECT

56. What method is used if the artist’s main function is
to describe accurately what is observed through
senses?
a. Futurism c. Symbolism
b. Surrealism d. Realism

57. What abstraction is described if the artist will use

strong color, uneven brush strokes and rough
textures?
a. Cubism c. Distortion
b. Expressionism d. Elongation
58. What method is used if the artist will reveal a new
artwork and highly realistic than that of daily life?
a. Realism c. Surrealism
b. Futurism d. Dadaism

59. Most of the subjects are railroads, motorcycles,

etc., what method is used by the artist?
a. Realism c. Surrealism
b. Futurism d. Symbolism

60. What method is used by Juan Luna in his

“Spoliarium?”
a. Realism c. Surrealism
b. Dadaism d. Symbolism
61. What method is developed by the Poet Andre
Breton with influence of Fredian Psychology and
declare that the magical world is more beautiful than
the real one?
a. Realism c. Surrealism
b. Expressionism d. Abstraction

62. What method is described if the artist will convey a

message of poverty, violence, war, chaos and the
like?
a. Realism c. Surrealism
b. Expressionism d. Fauvism

63. What method is usually used by Fernando

Amorsolo in depicting the typical lives of the town
folk like farming?
a. Realism c. Symbolism
b. Expressionism d. Fauvism
64. If distortion is to twist the regular shape, what about
mangling?
a. Misshapen the art c. Show form through
subject shapes
b. Lengthened the part of d. Portray a mutilated or
the artwork hacked art object

65. What is the objective of Dadaism?

mechanical energy
a. To show a playful and model
highly experimental
art which basically
outrageous
c. To reveal something
b. To create reaction in invisible such as idea
the public and of struggle
depicts the
d. To express a paint of
comfort and joy
66. What is the intention of applying fauvism in an
artwork?
a. To reveal the deeper meaning of human nature
b. To express its belief on spiritual rebirth
c. To apply bright colors appealing to the eyes
d. To present something with a deeper meaning behind
the artwork
67. If a skull symbolizes death, what about lion?
a. Respect c. Meekness
b. Braveness d. Trustworthiness
68. What is used by Paul Dumol in his “Ang Paglilitis ni
Mang Serapio” to depict the reality of injustice society?
a. Realism c. Symbolism
b. Expressionism d. Dadaism
69. Who is the first proponent of abstract
expressionism?
a. Jason Pallock c. Jackson Pollack
b. Jayson Pallock d. Jackson Pollock
70. What is the usual method used by Henry Matisse in
his artwork to convey happiness?
a. Fauvism c. Symbolism
b. Expressionism d. Dadaism

F. MEDIUMS OF THE VISUAL ARTS

71. Why oil painting is a popular and best medium by

artist?
a. The medium is easy to be mixed with plaster.
b. It has an albuminous or colloidal effect.
c. It’s because of their transparent colors.
d. It’s easy to cover any mistake committed during the
process.

72. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about oil

paint?
a. The paints are opaque.
b. It has two methods to be used.
c. It has no limit to the ways of handling it.
d. It’s major effects are caused by the white paper.

73. Which of the following is TRUE about tempera?

a. It can be done through mixing the product with a
preparation of gum and water.
b. It dries rapidly with the evaporation of water.
c. It can be applied through a thick surface and seemed
to have water color transparency.
d. It gives no glazed effect.

74. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about pastel?

a. It serves as an emulsion.
b. It is closely related to dry pigment.
c. It can be used in a canvas.
d. It is not a popular medium because it’s not easy to
preserve its original freshness.
75. What painting material is usually used by the
Egyptian, Medieval and Renaissance painter
because of its accessibility?
a. Fresco b. Water color
c. Pastel d. Tempera

76. Which of the following is NOT a medium of

painting?
a. wood c. paper
b. stone d. plaster

77. What medium of painting is used by Michelangelo

in his work of art?
a. Acrylic c. Fresco
b. Tempera d. Oil

78. What medium of painting is described which some

artists call it as synthetic paints and are as flexible
as oil?
a. Oil paint c. Acrylic
b. Tempera d. Fresco
79. What type of medium for painting which uses
colors mixed with water and applied to a fresh
plaster which absorbs the color?
a. Oil paint c. Acrylic
b. Water color d. Fresco

80. What process of sculpture is applicable for stone

and wood?
a. Additive c. Relief
b. Subtractive d. Free standing

G. ELEMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF THE

VISUAL ARTS AND ORGANIZATION IN
ARCHITECTURE
81. How do you describe relief sculpture?
a. The art can be perceived through sense of sight.
b. The art has all sides.
c. It is about putting the materials together.
d. It is about using the ground as its pedestal.
82. What medium in architecture can easily be polished
and has beautiful color but may decay easily?
a. Terracotta c. Ivory
b. Marble d. Wood
83. How do you describe cantilever?
a. Dominant in Roman architecture
b. With two vertical posts for support
c. Projecting horizontally and anchored at one end only
d. Typical for stone construction which can be observed
in churches

84. What type of construction can be observed in

Parthenon in Athens, Greece?
a. Cantilever c. Post and lintel
b. Arch d. Concrete type

85. What type of construction if it needs a beam with a

great tensile strength that can be securely fastened
at the supported end?
a. Wood carving c. Post and Lintel
b. Voussoirs d. Cantilever

86. What element does the human being possesses

when engage into course of action?
a. Shape c. Line
b. Perspective d. Color

87. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about color?

a. It is a property of light.
b. It has three dimensions.
c. It is an effect in the presence of light.
d. Value covers hue and intensity.
88. Which of the following is NOT classified as warm
color?
a. blue c. yellow
b. orange d. red
89. Which of the following does not describe hue?
a. It is a dimension of color.
b. It includes red-yellow as tertiary color.
c. It names intermediate colors.
d. Violet is a combination of blue and red.

90. What does white color denote?

a. Unity c. Cleanliness
b. Innocence d. Life
91. Which of the following is NOT an example of
tertiary color?
a. Red-violet c. Blue-green
b. Blue-purple d. Red-blue

92. Which of the following does NOT belong in a

group?
a. Yellow c. Violet
b. Blue d. Red
93. Which of the following does NOT belong in a
group?
a. Violet c. Red
b. Green d. Orange
94. What period of architecture adopts the columnar
and trabeated style of the Greeks as well as
develop an arch and vault?
a. Egyptian c. Roman
b. Mesopotamian d. Gothic

95. What period of architecture popularizes the

Pyramid and The Great Sphinx?
a. Egyptian c. Roman
b. Greek d. Byzantine

96. What period of architecture develops the post and

lintel construction?
a. Baroque c. Roman
b. Greek d. Byzantine
H. ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE AND THE
COMBINED ARTS
97. What appeal is used in the work of Rizal’s two
revolutionary novels?
a. Humanistic c. Emotional
b. Intellectual d. Rational

98. The word HOME for instance it means a place

where one lives. What type of definition is it?
a. Connotative c. Subjective
b. Denotative d. Imagery

99. What element of a short story that focusses on the

arrangement of the action?
a. Setting c. Plot
b. Climax d. Sequence
100. When reading an essay, the following elements
should be considered, except?
a. The issue introduced
b. The writer’s background
c. The relevance of the issue to the life of the reader.
d. The writer’s viewpoint and thought