Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a vanitas image because it evokes the __________.
A. shortness of human life
B. power of the church
C. vanity of the middle class
D. realities of daily existence
Answer: A
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Which of the following is NOT true about the term "Broadway" theatre?
a. It refers to a particular area of New York city. b. It refers to the size of the house. c. It refers to commercial theatre. d. It refers to theatres that produce an entire season of plays and sell subscriptions.
What is a trope? a. A short chant sung before and after a psalm and its doxology. b. An addition of music or text, or both, to a preexisting chant that more fullyexplains the theology of the chant to which they are added. c. Chant created by St. Ambrose for the church of Milan in northern Italy
d. A chant sung on high feasts during the Proper of the Mass immediately afterthe Alleluia, in which successive verses were paired into double verses.