Art K– to 12

Test Format and Sample Questions

The Art K– to 12 subject area test consists of approximately 80 multiple-choice questions. You will have two and one-half hours to complete the test.

Each question will contain four response options, and you will indicate your answer by selecting A, B, C, or D.

The table below presents types of questions on the exam and directs you to examples of these formats among the sample items that follow.

Table of Question Formats

Type of Question	Sample Question
Direct Question Choose the response option that best answers the question.	Question 1
Sentence completion Select the response option that best completes the sentence.	Question 26

Sample Questions

The following questions represent both the form and content of questions on the examination. These questions will acquaint you with the general format of the examination; however, these sample questions do not cover all of the competencies and skills that are tested and will only approximate the degree of examination difficulty.

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Competency 1—Knowledge of the processes of two-dimensional art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Fixative would most likely be used to preserve artworks made with which of the following media?

Choose an answer

1. oil pastel
2. soft pastel
3. acrylic paint
4. watercolor paint

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: B.

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Competency 1—Knowledge of the processes of two-dimensional art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Use the image below to answer the question that follows.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare by Claude Monet Full description is included in the credit below the following question

Which of the following terms best characterizes the way the composition is balanced?

Choose an answer

1. radial
2. vertical
3. symmetrical
4. asymmetrical

Credit: Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926, Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (59.6 x 80.2 cm), Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1158, The Art Institute of Chicago.

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: D.

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Competency 1—Knowledge of the processes of two-dimensional art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Primarily which of the following printmaking tools is most likely to present a safety concern if not handled properly?

Choose an answer

1. burin
2. screen
3. barren
4. brayer

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: A.

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Competency 2—Knowledge of the processes of three-dimensional art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which of the following tools is traditionally used in the weaving process?

Choose an answer

1. rasp
2. barren
3. shuttle
4. mandrel

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: C.

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Competency 2—Knowledge of the processes of three-dimensional art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Use the image below to answer the question that follows.

Funerary sculpture of a Horse, Middle Tang dynasty Full description is included in the credit below the following question

Colors used in the earthenware sculpture are best described with which of the following terms?

Choose an answer

1. complementary
2. primary
3. warm
4. cool

Credit: Unknown artist. Funerary sculpture of a Horse, Middle Tang dynasty, about 700-800, China. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Hedwig Worch.

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: C.

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Competency 2—Knowledge of the processes of three-dimensional art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which of the following measures should be taken to ensure safety when cutting a narrow piece of wood on a table saw in the process of making a sculpture or mixed media artwork?

Choose an answer

1. using a push stick
2. standing aside the wood
3. wearing heavy-duty construction gloves
4. raising the blade to its maximum height

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: A.

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Competency 3—Knowledge of the processes of digital arts

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Dodging and burning is used in digital image editing and traditional darkroom editing to adjust primarily which of the following aspects of the image?

Choose an answer

1. hue
2. value
3. shape
4. sharpness

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: B.

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Competency 3—Knowledge of the processes of digital arts

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Primarily which of the following types of lighting contributes to the dramatic effects of silhouettes in photographs?

Choose an answer

1. spotlighting
2. sidelighting
3. backlighting
4. downlighting

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: C.

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Competency 3—Knowledge of the processes of digital arts

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which of the following steps is most important to conduct regularly in order to maintain a properly functioning computer?

Choose an answer

1. minimizing the monitor's brightness when not in use
2. performing routine software and operating system updates
3. spraying compressed air under and around the keys on the keyboard
4. storing files on an external hard drive rather than the computer hard drive

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: B.

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Competency 4—Knowledge of art history and culture

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Use the image below to answer the question that follows.

Striped (Rayé), November 1934. Oil with sand on canvas. Full description is included in the credit below the following question

Which artist created this painting?

Choose an answer

1. Henri Matisse
2. Berthe Morisot
3. Käthe Kollwitz
4. Vasily Kandinsky

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: D.

Credit: Vasily Kandinsky. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Striped (Rayé), November 1934. Oil with sand on canvas. 31 7/8 × 39 3/8 inches (81 × 100 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection. 46.1022.

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Competency 4—Knowledge of art history and culture

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Use the image below to answer the question that follows.

Caro, Anthony. Punch and Judy. Full description is included in the credit below the following question

The multimedia work made of wood, paper, pushpins, acrylic, chalk, and pencil was most likely influenced by which of the following styles or movements?

Choose an answer

1. futurism
2. surrealism
3. modernism
4. impressionism

Credit: Caro, Anthony. Punch and Judy, 1981. Pencil, chalk, acrylic, push pins, Tycore, and paper in wood box. overall: 34 1/2 x 21 x 8 1/2" (87.63 x 53.34 x 21.59 cm.). Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1983. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA. Albright-Knox Art Gallery / Art Resource, NY. Copyright to Barford Sculptures Ltd.

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: C.

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Competency 4—Knowledge of art history and culture

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans paintings were most likely a response to primarily which of the following cultural factors?

Choose an answer

1. the influence of psychoanalysis
2. the commercialism of modern life
3. the political upheaval of the 1960s
4. the increase in health consciousness

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: B.

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Competency 4—Knowledge of art history and culture

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Mayan pyramids served primarily which of the following purposes?

Choose an answer

1. disseminating propaganda
2. memorializing the dead
3. depicting everyday life
4. educating the people

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: B.

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Competency 5—Knowledge of art criticism processes

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Käthe Kollwitz' work was inspired primarily by which of the following concepts or topics?

Choose an answer

1. popular culture
2. aesthetic beauty
3. human suffering
4. environmentalism

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: C.

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Competency 5—Knowledge of art criticism processes

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Use the image below to answer the question that follows.

Eggleston, William. Dye transfer print, printed July 13, 1981. Full description is included in the credit below the following question

Which of the following statements most effectively and accurately analyzes the principles of design used in the photograph?

Choose an answer

1. The human figure is the focal point of the composition, rendering all other details secondary to the ominous suggestion.
2. The photograph is so full of side stories that rhythm is hard to come by, as if the artist had something against repetition and theme.
3. The image is unbalanced, compositionally, which results in a piece that shuns unity even as it has a consistent, pleasant backyard message.
4. The viewer's eye is drawn to contrast—the child's bicycle next to the much larger car and a seemingly mundane suburban scene lit up by serious flames.

Credit: Eggleston, William (b. 1939) © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York. Memphis, c. 1972. Dye transfer print, printed July 13, 1981, 12 9/16 x 19 1/8" (32 x 48.9 cm). Purchased as the gift of the John E. Galvin Charitable Trust on behalf of the Crouse Family. (301.1987).

AnswerEnter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded

Correct Response: D.

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Competency 5—Knowledge of art criticism processes

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Use the image below to answer the question that follows.

Durand, Asher Brown, Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York. Full description is included in the credit below the following question

Which of the following statements about the painting most exemplifies the description stage of the critical process?

Choose an answer

1. The purpose is to convey a sense of stunning beauty and maybe even awe. The focus is so soft, though, that the work veers toward haziness, which tends to undermine both visual interest and the message.
2. What at first glance appears to be a fairly straightforward theme—the tranquility and transcendence of nature—is complicated by the appearance of what may be storm clouds encroaching from the left.
3. Several figures—cows and people—occupy the foreground of the landscape. Hues are soft through the middle ground and especially in the background mountains and sky. Visual weight on the left and right of the painting help balance it.
4. The viewer's eye is drawn to the cluster of people on the left side of the composition and then naturally follows the gaze of the standing figure to the mountains beyond. In this sense, the viewer is the standing figure, absorbed by the magnificence of setting.

Credit: Durand, Asher Brown (1796-1886). Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York. 1848. Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (107.9 x 153.7 cm). Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, U. Photo Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY.

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Correct Response: C.

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Competency 5—Knowledge of art criticism processes

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which of the following aesthetic theories focuses on the elements of art and principles of design in artworks?

Choose an answer

1. formalism
2. expressionism
3. imitationalism
4. instrumentalism

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Correct Response: A.

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Competency 6—Knowledge of art education and pedagogy

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which researcher claimed that there are two major stages of human and artistic development—presymbolic and symbolic?

Choose an answer

1. Jean Piaget
2. Alfred Binet
3. Betty Edwards
4. Howard Gardner

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Correct Response: D.

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Competency 6—Knowledge of art education and pedagogy

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Primarily which of the following theorists or art educators proposed that from birth to age 2 children experience the world through their senses and are extremely egocentric?

Choose an answer

1. Jean Piaget
2. Howard Gardner
3. Viktor Lowenfeld
4. Brent and Marjorie Wilson

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Correct Response: A.

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Competency 6—Knowledge of art education and pedagogy

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which of the following accommodations would be most effective and appropriate for a visually impaired inclusion student in a 5^th-grade fifth grade  art class?

Choose an answer

1. breaking activities into shorter tasks
2. allowing the student to work independently
3. assigning projects that use highly tactile materials
4. designating a peer to help the student complete projects

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Correct Response: C.

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Competency 6—Knowledge of art education and pedagogy

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Which of the following strategies is most likely to contribute to a student's progress in drawing over a period of time?

Choose an answer

1. allowing the student to use an eraser
2. asking the student to develop a drawing portfolio
3. requiring the student to research drawing techniques
4. encouraging the student to draw variations of the same subject

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Correct Response: B.

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Competency 6—Knowledge of art education and pedagogy

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

Which of the following resources that could be used to enhance learning via an art teacher's class blog is generally considered public domain?

Choose an answer

1. Internet articles from an online magazine
2. electronic reproductions of iconic artworks
3. scanned pages from an art history textbook
4. original written work published before 1923

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Correct Response: D.

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Competency 6—Knowledge of art education and pedagogy

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Anecdotal observation is an example of which of the following types of assessment?

Choose an answer

1. formative
2. summative
3. norm referenced
4. criterion referenced

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Correct Response: A.

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Competency 7—Knowledge of present-day connections and applications of art

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Understanding of which of the following principles of design is most likely to enhance learning in mathematics and art?

Choose an answer

1. unity
2. contrast
3. movement
4. proportion

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Correct Response: D.

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Competency 7—Knowledge of present-day connections and applications of art

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Mastery of skills such as drawing, design, and digital imagery is most necessary to prepare students for which of the following careers?

Choose an answer

1. video editor
2. jewelry maker
3. museum curator
4. package designer

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Correct Response: D.

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Competency 7—Knowledge of present-day connections and applications of art

DIRECTIONS: Read the question and select the best response.

In addition to broadening students' understanding of art, a field trip to an art museum can benefit students by deepening their understanding of

Choose an answer

1. a range of real-world applications of art.
2. connections between art and other disciplines.
3. the careers and occupations available to artists.
4. experiences and perspectives other than their own.

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Correct Response: D.

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