A (An) __________ is literally a "city of the dead."

A. necropolis
B. acropolis
C. metropolis
D. megalopolis


Answer: A

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The nudity of Michelangelo’s David suggests

1. that the culture had left its squeamishness about representations of male nudity firmly behind it. b. that the artist and his supporters were deliberately trying to insult the Medici. c. that the artist considered Florence highly vulnerable in the post-Medici era. d. that some in the culture were as appreciative of the male nude as were their Classical forebears.

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The Ara Pacis Augustae (Fig. 6-20) commemorates the triumphal return of __________ following the establishment of Roman rule in Gaul and Hispania

A. Caesar B. Hadrian C. Cassias D. Augustus

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a. true b. false

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