Computer-generated imagery has done away with the need for making miniatures and models for special effects.

What can be said for certain about the Snake Goddess or Priestess discovered in a storage pit at the Palace of Minos at Knossos?

a. It represents the snake goddess who was the principal deity of the Minoans. b. It is a fake commissioned by Sir Arthur Evans, its “discoverer.” c. Its imaginative reconstruction as a snake goddess confirmed theories Sir Arthur Evans, its discoverer, had about Minoan religion. d. Its alternation of light and darker sections was a deliberate design choice on the part of its original creator.

During the thirteenth century, political power in Florence and Siena rested largely with

a) the leading merchant families. b) the landed aristocracy. c) foreign authorities. d) the Holy Roman emperor.