SS2 Third Term Creative Arts Past Questions And Answers

 

SS2 (Senior Secondary 2) Second Term Creative Arts questions with options and answers:

 

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the Pop Art movement, creating artworks like “Whaam!”?

 

A) Jasper Johns

B) Roy Lichtenstein

C) Andy Warhol

D) Robert Rauschenberg

Answer: B) Roy Lichtenstein

Question: What is the term for a painting technique where pigments are mixed with a water-soluble binder medium?

 

A) Fresco

B) Tempera

C) Encaustic

D) Watercolor

Answer: D) Watercolor

Question: In literature, what does the term “foreshadowing” refer to?

 

A) Presenting events in chronological order

B) Providing hints about future events in the story

C) Flashbacks to earlier events

D) Developing the main character

Answer: B) Providing hints about future events in the story

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the Cubist movement and co-invented the art style with Pablo Picasso?

 

A) Georges Braque

B) Juan Gris

C) Henri Matisse

D) Wassily Kandinsky

Answer: A) Georges Braque

Question: Which theater practitioner is known for his theories on epic theatre and the “alienation effect”?

 

A) Anton Chekhov

B) Bertolt Brecht

C) Samuel Beckett

D) Tennessee Williams

Answer: B) Bertolt Brecht

Question: What is the term for the repetition of similar vowel sounds within nearby words in a line of poetry?

 

A) Alliteration

B) Onomatopoeia

C) Assonance

D) Consonance

Answer: C) Assonance

Question: Who composed the famous musical “The Phantom of the Opera”?

 

A) Andrew Lloyd Webber

B) Stephen Sondheim

C) Richard Rodgers

D) Lin-Manuel Miranda

Answer: A) Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question: Which art movement sought to capture the essence of a subject rather than its realistic representation?

 

A) Realism

B) Impressionism

C) Expressionism

D) Symbolism

Answer: C) Expressionism

Question: In music, what is the term for a gradual increase in volume?

 

A) Decrescendo

B) Crescendo

C) Staccato

D) Legato

Answer: B) Crescendo

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, creating poems like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?

 

A) Langston Hughes

B) Zora Neale Hurston

C) James Baldwin

D) Claude McKay

Answer: A) Langston Hughes

Question: Which film director is known for his exploration of psychological thrillers, such as “Psycho” and “Vertigo”?

 

A) Alfred Hitchcock

B) Stanley Kubrick

C) Francis Ford Coppola

D) Quentin Tarantino

Answer: A) Alfred Hitchcock

Question: What is the term for a short, humorous play or performance often ending with a twist?

 

A) Tragedy

B) Farce

C) Melodrama

D) Satire

Answer: B) Farce

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the development of the musical genre with works like “West Side Story”?

 

A) Irving Berlin

B) Leonard Bernstein

C) George Gershwin

D) Richard Rodgers

Answer: B) Leonard Bernstein

Question: What is the term for the use of symbols to represent ideas beyond their literal meaning in literature?

 

A) Allusion

B) Allegory

C) Metaphor

D) Simile

Answer: B) Allegory

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the development of the electronic synthesizer and experimental music?

 

A) John Cage

B) Karlheinz Stockhausen

C) Philip Glass

D) Steve Reich

Answer: B) Karlheinz Stockhausen

Question: Which literary term refers to the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to?

 

A) Onomatopoeia

B) Oxymoron

C) Hyperbole

D) Euphemism

Answer: A) Onomatopoeia

Question: What is the term for a traditional Japanese form of theater characterized by elaborate costumes and stylized movements?

 

A) Noh

B) Kabuki

C) Bunraku

D) Kyogen

Answer: B) Kabuki

Question: Who wrote the play “A Raisin in the Sun,” addressing racial and social issues in America?

 

A) Lorraine Hansberry

B) August Wilson

C) Arthur Miller

D) Tennessee Williams

Answer: A) Lorraine Hansberry

Question: In visual arts, what does the term “scumbling” refer to?

 

A) Adding a layer of translucent color over a dry layer

B) Creating texture with thick paint strokes

C) Carving into a surface to create a design

D) Blending colors to create a smooth transition

Answer: A) Adding a layer of translucent color over a dry layer

Question: Who is known for his contributions to the development of jazz music and played the trumpet in the “bebop” style?

 

A) Miles Davis

B) Louis Armstrong

C) Duke Ellington

D) John Coltrane

Answer: A) Miles Davis.