Lesson T4.2.1

T4.2.1 History of craft, design and architecture Quiz: KS3 Art & Design, Unit 4

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Lesson T4.2.1, History of craft, design and architecture: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Art & Design (National Curriculum), Unit 4: History of art, craft, design and architecture, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which movement led by William Morris valued handmade craft in the late nineteenth century?

    • The Futurist movement, which celebrated speed, machines and modern life in Italy
    • The Bauhaus movement, which united art, craft and industrial design in Germany
    • The Arts and Crafts movement, which valued handmade craft and good design
    • The Surrealist movement, which explored dreams and the unconscious in its images

  2. What did the Arts and Crafts movement oppose?

    • The idea that craftspeople should be trained and skilled in their trade properly
    • The use of natural materials such as wood, stone and wool in making everyday objects
    • The use of decoration and pattern on everyday household objects and furniture
    • Poor-quality mass-produced goods that were made without care for design or craft

  3. What is Art Nouveau known for?

    • Realistic copies of Roman statues displayed in public squares across the city
    • Plain brick walls with small windows and no ornament of any kind on the building
    • Strict geometric shapes with no decoration or ornament on the surface at all
    • Flowing, organic curves inspired by plants and natural forms in design

  4. Which architect described the house as a 'machine for living'?

    • Antoni Gaudi, who designed organic, sculptural buildings in Barcelona in the 1900s
    • Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed houses with open plans in the United States
    • Christopher Wren, who rebuilt many churches in London after the Great Fire in 1666
    • Le Corbusier, a leading modernist architect who wrote about the house as a machine

  5. What was the Crystal Palace built from for the 1851 Great Exhibition in London?

    • Brick and lime mortar, which were used to build thick walls in the old way
    • Timber frames and thatch, which were laid out in the traditional English manner
    • Prefabricated cast iron and glass, which allowed a large, light building to be built
    • Solid marble and stone blocks, which were carved by hand on the building site

  6. What effect did the Industrial Revolution have on the making of goods?

    • Goods had to be made by hand in every case, with no use of machines in workshops
    • Goods could be made in large numbers using machines in factories across the country
    • Goods were made only for the royal family and a small group of very wealthy people
    • Goods stopped being produced because the factories were not able to run at all

  7. Which potter in the eighteenth century founded a famous pottery company in Staffordshire?

    • Josiah Wedgwood, who founded his pottery company in Staffordshire in 1759
    • William Morris, who led the Arts and Crafts movement in England in the 1880s
    • Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who designed furniture and buildings in Glasgow in the 1890s
    • Walter Gropius, who founded the Bauhaus school in Weimar in Germany in 1919

  8. Which structural feature allowed Gothic cathedrals to have tall walls with large windows?

    • Flying buttresses, which carry the outward push of the vaults to the ground
    • Solid stone walls with no windows at all in the upper parts of the building
    • Concrete domes spread across the top of the building in a single curved span
    • Steel beams that hold the roof up on each side of the nave in the church

  9. What is a timber-framed building?

    • A building carved from a single large tree trunk with no joints or separate parts
    • A building made of concrete poured into moulds in a factory and then lifted into place
    • A building with a structure of wooden beams and infill panels between the beams
    • A building made entirely of steel and glass with no wooden parts in the structure

  10. Which design school was founded by Walter Gropius in Germany in 1919?

    • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which painted detailed scenes from literature in London
    • Art Deco, which used bold geometric shapes and streamlined forms in its decorative design
    • The Arts and Crafts movement, which valued handmade craft and good design in England
    • The Bauhaus, which united art, craft and technology in design workshops in Weimar

  11. What is the Sydney Opera House known for in architecture?

    • Its Roman concrete dome and round temple columns in the centre of the city
    • Its sail-like shells, designed by the architect Jorn Utzon in the 1950s and 1960s
    • Its ancient Egyptian pyramid shape and tomb chambers beneath the building
    • Its Gothic pointed arches and tall stained glass windows in a stone cathedral

  12. What is a key feature of Art Deco design?

    • Bold geometric shapes, stepped forms and streamlined patterns in buildings and objects
    • Ancient Roman columns and round arches repeated on every building in the street
    • Hand-carved wooden details with plant forms that curl in spirals on the furniture
    • Soft, blurred shapes that suggest the movement of light on water in a landscape

  13. Why did the Bauhaus aim to combine art and industry?

    • To return design to traditional methods with no machines used in the workshops at all
    • To make objects so expensive that only the richest families could afford to own them
    • To stop designers from working with any of the modern materials of the period
    • To design well-made, functional objects that could be produced in quantity

  14. Which craft is associated with the Wiener Werkstatte in Vienna in the early twentieth century?

    • Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, used for record keeping in cities
    • Mosaics made from gold tesserae, set into the walls of churches in Ravenna
    • Decorative metalwork and furniture with geometric design, made by skilled craftspeople
    • Stained glass windows set in Gothic stone tracery in great cathedrals across Europe

  15. What did Thomas Chippendale become famous for in the eighteenth century?

    • Furniture design in the Georgian style, with carefully crafted chairs and tables
    • Cave paintings in prehistoric sites found in the caves of southern France
    • Stained glass windows for Gothic churches in the cathedral towns of England
    • Mosaics for Byzantine basilicas decorated with gold backgrounds and religious scenes

  16. What is a key difference between craft and mass production?

    • Craft is usually made by hand by a skilled maker, while mass production uses machines
    • Craft is only made from plastic, while mass production uses natural materials
    • Craft cannot be made in the same design more than once in a lifetime of work
    • Craft is always cheaper to produce than mass-produced goods of the same kind

  17. Which feature is typical of Gothic architecture?

    • Wooden frames with straw walls and a thatched roof over a single room
    • Round arches and thick walls with very small windows set high up the walls
    • Pointed arches and tall windows that fill the walls with light from outside
    • Concrete domes with no windows at the top of the building in the centre

  18. Which of these is an example of a craft object?

    • A digital photograph of a bowl that has been edited on a computer at home
    • A factory-made plastic bottle that is moulded and filled on a production line
    • A printed poster of a bowl that was produced in a large print run at a press
    • A hand-thrown pottery bowl made by a potter on a wheel in a studio

  19. Why were many designers in the nineteenth century concerned about machine-made goods?

    • They were always too expensive for ordinary people to buy in the shops
    • They were always made from materials that could not be recycled or reused later
    • They were always produced in such small numbers that they were rare and costly
    • They often looked poor and lacked the care and quality of hand-made objects

  20. What is a building's structure?

    • The landscaping and gardens that surround the building on the plot of land it is on
    • The colour scheme and finishes that are applied to the walls and ceilings inside
    • The load-bearing framework that holds the building up and carries its weight
    • The furniture and fittings that are placed in the rooms once the building is ready

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