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12. What is cubism?
	the study of hexahedrons and other square prisms
	the culture surrounding the popular mechanical puzzle the Rubik's Cube
	the modernist art movement in which artists used a grid-form to capture subjects accurately
	the avant-garde art movement in which artists abstracted their subjects and often depicted them from multiple viewpoints

Pablo Piccaso cubism history:"During the early days of cubism historians attributed the creation of cubism to one man: Pablo Picasso. Now we know that he has to share to honor with Georges Braque. Braque had studied Cézanne's method of representing three dimensions as seen from several viewpoints, in the same year (1907) that Picasso created his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."

Due to nudity in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, I instead included Houses with Trees.

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13. Where is Portugal located?
	Africa
	Europe
	South America
	Indonesia

VisitPortugal.com: "Portugal is situated at the south-west point of Europe"

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14. Iran is an Arabic country.
	true
	false

Hejleh:"Arabs, name originally applied to the Semitic peoples of the Arabian peninsula; now used also for populations of countries whose primary language is Arabic, e.g., Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Yemen." Iran is not listed.

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15. Choose the sentence in which "its" and "it's" are used correctly.
	Its annoying in its redundancy.
	It's annoying in it's redundancy.
	Its annoying in it's redundancy.
	It's annoying in its redundancy.

Grammar Slammer: "Its is the possessive pronoun; it modifies a noun.

It's is a contraction of it is or it has."

Therefore, "[It is] annoying in its redundancy."

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16. Which Renaissance artist created the sculpture David ?
	Michelangelo
	DaVinci
	Carravaggio
	Vermeer

Michelangelo.com: " The high point of Michelangelo's early style is the gigantic (4.34 m/ 14.24 ft) marble David (Accademia, Florence), which he produced between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence"

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17. Choose the sentence that has a dangling modifier:
	Being very patriotic, the flag inspires me every day.
	After the party, Ted went home to sleep.
	While walking to the store, I saw the craziest thing.
	He decided to wear those shoes, which had been stored away since last winter.

Englishplus.com:" A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause which says something different from what is meant because words are left out. The meaning of the sentence, therefore, is left "dangling."

Therefore, although "patriotic" refers to the author, it sounds like it refers to the flag in, "Being very patriotic, the flag inspires me every day."

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18. Why is it warmer in summer than in winter?
	Because the Earth is physically closer to the sun, allowing the sun's rays to hit with greater intensity.
	Because the Earth's tilt allows the sun's rays to hit more directly.
	Because the sun has tilted closer to the Earth in its orbital plane and thus rises more frequently.
	Because the Earth is going through its rhythmic annual heating period.

UT Astrophysics: "There is a popular misconception that the seasons on the Earth are caused by varying distances of the Earth from the Sun on its elliptical orbit. This is not correct...The primary cause of the seasons is the 23.5 degree of the Earth's rotation axis with respect to the plane of the ecliptic, as illustrated in the adjacent image."

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19. Which of the following Shakespeare plays is not a tragedy?
	Othello
	Hamlet
	Antony and Cleopatra
	Twelth Night

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/:

Comedy	History	Tragedy	Poetry
All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's Tale	Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III	Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus	The Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Funeral Elegy by W.S.

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20. Darwin's theory of natural selection posits that organisms with favorable genetic traits are more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass those traits on to the next generation.
	true
	false

Biology Online: "

The Theory of Natural Selection

One of the prime motives for all species is to reproduce and survive, passing on the genetic information of the species from generation to generation. When species do this they tend to produce more offspring than the environment can support.
The lack of resources to nourish these individuals places pressure on the size of the species population, and the lack of resources means increased competition and as a consequence, some organisms will not survive.
The organisms who die as a consequence of this competition were not totally random, Darwin found that those organisms more suited to their environment were more likely to survive.
This resulted in the well known phrase survival of the fittest, where the organisms most suited to their environment had more chance of survival if the species falls upon hard times. (This phrase if often associated with Darwin, though on closer inspection Herbert Spencer puts the phrase in a more accurate historical context.)
Those organisms who are better suited to their environment exhibit desirable characteristics, which is a consequence of their genome being more suitable to begin with."

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21. Plants, algae, and bacteria use the process of (________) to convert sunlight to chemical energy.
	chemotherapy
	photosynthesis
	chlorophyll
	oxidation

Estrella Mountain Community College: "Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things. The conversion of unusable sunlight energy into usable chemical energy, is associated with the actions of the green pigment chlorophyll."

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Whew, I think I deserve extra credit!

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Haha! Good show Mz! Well, I didn't know the cheatsheet was out here before I took the quiz, but I did OK...after I dusted a few cbwebs off the old brain! wink

You paid attention during 80% of high school!

68-84% Pretty good, you know that there are libraries and newspapers, and you remember what you've read. You were a child that wasn't left behind!

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