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This is a good gauge of how well you're doing....

The quick quiz below will not be graded.  
It serves as a gauge of how well you are doing, and thus, what you need to do to make your study habits better.

1. To the right, draw a simple color wheel with 6 parts.

What colors are Primaries?
Red, Yellow, Blue

What colors are Secondaries?
Orange, Violet, Green

2. Prehistory is called this because:
Named for the period before events and information was written down.

This period of time is divided into two parts, what are they?
Upper Paleolithic Period
Lower Paleolithic Period
each are BCE (Before the Common Era) or BP (Before Present)

3. Name six formal elements of design that all creative artifacts can be analyzed by:
Line - shape - texture - space - value - color - space

4. Homo sapiens sapiens have been around and making creative artifacts since, when?  
Modern humans spread out from Africa, they encountered other hominins such as Homo neanderthalensis around 
120,000 - 200,000 years ago

5. Name 3 ways in which human can create the illusion of space on a two dimensional plane?
1. Atmospheric Perspective
2. Linear Perspective - consisting of one point, two point and three point linear perspective
3. Scale of objects, those larger will appear closer
4. Color temperature, cool colors tend to recede while warm colors advance forward
5. By simple overlap

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