1. What are the most distinctive landmarks of African culture? How do these reflect the preservation of cultural values?
2. Explain why we call the Age of the Baroque an era of piety and extravagance? Use specific examples from the readings to support your position.
3. Discuss the ways in which the upper classes influenced production and style in the arts of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Draw examples from both Europe and regions beyond the West.

4. Describe and then explain what you see to be some of the unique features of Northern Renaissance art from van Eyck to Brueghel. Use specific examples from the reading to support your position.

5. Select five landmark works from between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries that best reflect, in your view, the concept of "rebirth."

6. Explain the artistic style of Rembrandt. Use at least three specific painting from the material to demonstrate your point.

7. Compare and contrast dance at the court of Elizabeth I with that of the birth of ballet and Louis XIV.