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13/19 13. Early Modern Global Encounters and Exchanges Online Quiz Questions

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20 questions

True or false

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True or false: The Atlantic world was interconnected, but its exchanges did not equalize the societies involved; they were also shaped by colonization, enslavement, extraction, and resistance.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

Which approach best applies the political level of analysis to an eighteenth-century casta painting from New Spain?

A
They should be understood only as neutral family portraits.
B
They should be examined for the assumptions about race, labor, gender, status, and colonial order that they promote.
C
They prove that colonial identities were fixed and universally accepted.
D
They were primarily diagrams of Mughal court hierarchy.

Written response

1 point

In what year was the Taj Mahal in Agra completed, according to the material?

Fill in the blank

1 point

The Spanish Pacific trade route that connected Manila and Acapulco was called the .

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An Iznik dish adapts floral forms related to Chinese models but reorganizes them through Ottoman Islamic geometry. What concept best describes this process?

A
It copied Chinese designs without changing them.
B
It rejected all designs associated with other regions.
C
It borrowed and transformed elements from another tradition within a new Ottoman visual structure.
D
It used only locally sourced motifs and avoided transregional exchange.

Choose all

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Select all practices that exemplify Indigenous survivance in the material.

A
Maintaining and renewing cultural knowledge
B
Adapting introduced materials or images while preserving community identity
C
Treating Indigenous cultures as having disappeared after conquest
D
Asserting presence, sovereignty, and authority under changing conditions

True or false

1 point

True or false: Chinese export porcelain could respond to European tastes while remaining rooted in Chinese manufacturing knowledge and labor.

A
True
B
False

Written response

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What Spanish term identifies a Mexican folding-screen painting that may combine European subjects, Asian lacquer techniques, and mother-of-pearl?

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1 point

Why did the Qing court deliberately produce some objects in ancient Chinese styles?

A
It demonstrated that Qing rulers had abandoned Chinese traditions.
B
It helped the Qing court claim legitimacy as guardian of Chinese civilization.
C
It prevented the court from controlling materials and labor.
D
It showed that foreign motifs were excluded from Qing production.

Fill in the blank

1 point

An Ottoman mosque complex that could include schools, kitchens, hospitals, shops, and baths was called a .

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When analyzing an early modern object globally, which questions help identify movement and exchange as well as power and audience? Select all correct choices.

A
Where did the materials, techniques, or imagery come from, and did they travel?
B
Which modern museum category should automatically determine the object's meaning?
C
Who commissioned or owned the work, who made it, and who was meant to see it?
D
Does the object reflect trade, diplomacy, missionary activity, forced migration, colonial administration, or collecting?

Open ended

1 point

Compare two works or artistic practices from the material to explain how hybridity or translation created new visual forms. How did movement across cultures shape each example, and why must the analysis also address unequal power, labor, or cultural agency?

True or false

1 point

True or false: Early modern cabinets of curiosity were only private collections of personal taste and had no economic, political, intellectual, or colonial significance.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

What does the production of Benin ivory and brass objects incorporating Portuguese figures or ships demonstrate?

A
They incorporated Portuguese elements into existing Edo court traditions.
B
They abandoned established Benin conventions and reproduced European art exactly.
C
They produced only objects intended for Christian missionary instruction.
D
They rejected all forms of contact with European traders.

Choose one

1 point

An Ottoman Iznik workshop uses floral forms related to Chinese models but reorganizes them through Ottoman Islamic geometry and surface design. Which concept best describes this process?

A
The workshop copied Chinese designs without alteration.
B
The workshop borrowed related forms and reorganized them through Ottoman visual conventions.
C
The workshop rejected all foreign motifs in favor of purely local imagery.
D
The workshop reproduced European Renaissance perspective in ceramic form.

Choose one

1 point

Which exchange best describes the Manila Galleon route?

A
European silver traveled to Mexico, and American textiles traveled to Manila.
B
African ivory traveled to Manila, and Chinese porcelain traveled only within China.
C
Mexican silver traveled to Asia, and Asian luxury goods traveled to the Americas and Europe.
D
Indigenous featherwork traveled from the Andes to Europe, and European silk traveled to Mexico.

Choose one

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When analyzing an eighteenth-century casta painting at the political level, what should an art historian examine?

A
It shows that colonial identities were entirely private and had no public meaning.
B
It proves that every person in New Spain occupied a fixed and uncontested social position.
C
It records only the painter's interest in clothing and domestic activities.
D
It presents colonial society as a system of racialized classification and social management.

Written response

1 point

In what year did construction of the Taj Mahal begin, according to the stated 1632–1653 construction period?

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Which statement best explains the artistic exchange associated with Giuseppe Castiglione at the Qing court?

A
European missionaries replaced Chinese court traditions with an exclusively European style.
B
European techniques were adapted within Chinese court formats, subjects, and materials.
C
Chinese artists abandoned naturalistic observation because it conflicted with court culture.
D
Qing workshops accepted foreign images only when they were used for export porcelain.

Written response

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What Ottoman term names a mosque complex that could include schools, kitchens, hospitals, shops, and baths?