• 1. 
    Which is an acid yellow-green shade that shares its name with a liqueur distilled by French Carthusian monks?

  • cointreau
  • absinthe
  • sambuca
  • chartreuse
  • 2. 
    Which fossil tree resin, occurring in shades of yellow, has achieved a stable state through loss of volatile constituents and chemical change after burial in the ground?

  • opal
  • copal
  • amber
  • calcite
  • 3. 
    From 1913 to 1925 the Ford Motor Company’s mass-produced Model T was available in only one color. What was it?

  • black
  • green
  • white
  • blue
  • 4. 
    In ancient Rome, which dye was obtained from small glands in a mollusk?

  • coral
  • purple
  • cerulean
  • sapphire
  • 5. 
    In creating which tin-glazed earthenware, produced from the 15th century, was the painter’s palette usually restricted to five colors?

  • redware
  • raku ware
  • majolica
  • lusterware
  • 6. 
    Who produced the first color photograph made by the three-color method?

  • Eadweard Muybridge
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • William England
  • Alfred Maudslay
  • 7. 
    Which Dutch painter said: “I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity”?

  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Paul Cézanne
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Henri Matisse
  • 8. 
    In which neuropsychological trait does the stimulation of one sense causes the automatic experience of another sense—including the association of numbers and letters with colors?

  • synesthesia
  • fibromyalgia
  • syringomyelia
  • snatiation
  • 9. 
    Which French chemist elucidated the chemical composition of animal fats and developed color theories that influenced the techniques of French painting?

  • Michel-Eugène Chevreul
  • René Jacques Lévy
  • Yves Chauvin
  • Antoine Saugrain
  • 10. 
    Which French painter said: “You reason color more than you reason drawing.…Color has a logic as severe as form”?

  • Édouard Vuillard
  • Pierre Bonnard
  • Odilon Redon
  • Paul Gauguin
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