All 100 questions from the Junior Secondary Certificate Examination (JSCE) Cultural and Creative Arts 2024 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation for each. Free, no signup needed.
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Fine art as a branch of visual art comprises ______
Fine art covers drawing, painting and sculpture.
The consumption of prohibited substances is called drug ______
Using prohibited substances is drug abuse.
One of the most essential quality of lettering in Graphic design is ______
Lettering must be easy to read, so legibility.
Which of these chords moves from iv – i?
IV to I is the plagal cadence.
Which of the following easels is ideal for supporting Artist's board in still life drawing class?
The donkey easel is the type used in classroom drawing. Best guess.
Apart from 'Court Art', Benin also practise ______
Benin has court art and folk art.
A process of working together as a group in order to achieve a goal is called ______
Working together as a group is teamwork.
Musical form that has two sections is called ______
Binary form has two sections (A and B).
Igbo Ukwu was scientifically excavated at the following three sites.
Thurstan Shaw excavated Igbo-Isaiah, Igbo-Richard and Igbo-Jonathan; option A is the nearest.
The object that is used as a skeletal support in sculpture is called ______
An armature is the skeleton that supports a sculpture.
A crotchet note has one beat, therefore the duration rest is ______
A crotchet rest lasts the same as the note, 1 beat.
The female lead character in a play is known as ______
The main character of a play is the protagonist.
In figure drawing 'Head' is used as a ______
A figure is measured in head-lengths.
A dried unfired clay work is called ______
Clay that is dried but not yet fired is bone dry.
The big board used in advertising commercial products and activities along the major road is called ______
A big roadside advert is a billboard.
The following are process of preparing Art works for display EXCEPT ______
Scrapping is not a display step.
The application of perspective in Landscape drawing brings out the visual feeling of ______
Perspective gives the feel of depth and distance.
In playing the scale on a musical instrument, the performer plays the notes ______
A scale is played one note after another, step by step.
The materials used by actors and actresses are known as ______
Actors use costumes.
Identify the major qualities of a good poster among the following.
A good poster attracts, interests and informs.
The basic difference between a book cover design and book jacket in Art is the ______
A book jacket has flaps; a cover does not.
3/4 is a ______ time.
3/4 has three beats per bar, which is simple triple time.
Blacksmith is classified under ______
Blacksmithing is a craft.
Another name for Decorative stitches is ______
Decorative stitches are embroidery.
The coming together of different people to achieve a common goal is called ______
This is unity.
The Artist commissioned to produce drawings for book publication is known as ______
An illustrator draws for books.
The bronze statue of 'Anyanwu' (Awakening) in front of the Lagos Museum was produced by ______
Ben Enwonwu made Anyanwu.
A place where work of Art are usually displayed for people to view, appreciate and buy is regarded as ______
An art gallery displays and sells art.
Naturalistic Art of Ife is noted for ______
Best guess from the options: Ife heads are lifelike. Option A is the nearest.
The value of crotchet and a semi-breve is ______
A crotchet is 1 beat and a semibreve is 4 beats.
Pre-historic paintings were mostly found on ______
Prehistoric paintings are found on cave walls.
In calabash decoration, to 'scrape' is also regarded as ______
Scraping removes the background so the pattern stands out.
The above diagram is a ______ repeat pattern.
The rows of fish are flipped alternately, which is a mirror repeat. Best guess.
The coil method in modelling involve ______
Coil pots are built from rolled clay snakes.
Identify an ideal pencil for sketching in an Art class.
A 2B pencil is soft enough for sketching and not too dark.
In pottery, when a pot is fired a second time, it is known as ______
The second firing melts the glaze.
The state of being trustworthy is an element of ______
Being trustworthy is part of honesty. (The fourth option is lettered (e) in the print.)
Ivory carving are found in ancestral alters in ______
Benin ancestral altars carry carved ivory tusks.
A system of moral principles rules of conduct among individual group in a society is called ______
Moral principles and rules of conduct are ethics.
One of these is an art composer.
Fela Sowande was a Nigerian art music composer.
One of the following is a good example of outdoor painting.
Landscapes are painted outdoors.
The following are studio Artists EXCEPT ______
Buraimoh is known as an Oshogbo school bead and mosaic artist. Best guess.
To protect the hand from the effect of dye and chemical, the artist is required to use ______
Gloves protect the hands.
Identify a non-element of Art among the following.
Variety and proportion are principles of art, not elements.
The list of all people that feature in play is referred to as ______
The people in a play are the cast.
Patriotism is the demonstration of ______ for one's country.
Patriotism is love for one's country.
Which of these items is an example of three dimensional art?
A teapot has height, width and depth.
The following pigments; blue, green and violet are good example of ______
Blue, green and violet are cool colours.
A kind of stage where the audience is seated around the acting space is called ______
Theatre-in-the-round surrounds the stage with the audience.
6/8 time is a ______ time
6/8 has two main beats, each split in three, so compound duple.
G major has ______ sharp or sharps.
G major has one sharp, F#.
Which of these materials needs a fixative?
Charcoal smudges easily so it is sprayed with fixative.
The techniques of applying colours heavily on canvas is called ______
Thick paint application is impasto.
Benin Art of bronze casting was influenced by ______
Benin bronze casting was learnt from Ife.
The act of moving hand or body with the expression of face to tell a story without speaking is ______
Telling a story silently with gestures is mime.
Which of the following letters occupy more space in lettering construction?
W is the widest letter. Best guess.
The term in Art which shows that the farther an object is from the observer, the paler its colour, is regarded as ______
Distant objects look paler, which is aerial perspective.
Which of the following statements suggest imaginative composition'?
Imaginative composition comes from the mind, such as illustrating a story from memory.
The alphabetical succession of sound, ascending or descending from a starting note is ______
This is a scale.
In sculpture, additive methods is to modelling, as ______ method is to carving.
Modelling adds material; carving takes it away, so subtractive.
The following are the activities that take place in a typical rehearsal EXCEPT ______
Reading, blocking and polishing happen in rehearsal; spreading does not.
The following are the principles in choreography EXCEPT ______
Options B and D are partly illegible in the scan. Best guess.
One of the following is a ... of design that is used to form a pattern.
A motif is the unit of design used to build a pattern.
One of the following is an aspect of dance ______
Body awareness is an aspect of dance.
Another name for pen lettering is ______
Pen lettering is calligraphy.
The major coordinator during rehearsal is referred to as ______
The stage manager coordinates rehearsals.
A picture that is totally built up from bits of colour paper and cloth is called ______
A picture made from pieces of paper and cloth is a collage.
Who is regarded as father of church music in Nigeria?
T.K.E. Phillips is known as the father of Nigerian church music.
Rubber stamp print is a typical example of ______
A rubber stamp print is stamp printing.
Which of these combination is a tint of Red?
A tint is a colour plus white.
A play that is full of sad events and ends mostly with death or blood shed is ______ drama
A sad play ending in death is a tragedy.
In ceramics, building up of a lump of clay into an holloware, starting from the centre of the lump of clay is called a ______ method.
Opening the centre of a lump and pulling up the walls is the pulling method. Best guess.
Who is a Comedienne?
A comedienne is a female comedian.
Anatomical studies are highly essential in ______
Figure drawing needs knowledge of the body's anatomy.
In perspective drawing, all parallel lines converge at ______
Parallel lines meet at the vanishing point.
The following are parts of a choir EXCEPT ______
Staff is the music lines, not a choir part.
Which of the following is a characteristic of Benin Art?
Benin memorial heads wear a high collar of beads.
The best means to get a true copy of a sculptural piece or ceramic ware is through ______
Casting gives an exact copy of a sculpture.
The following are area of specialization in dance as a profession EXCEPT ______
Call girls is not a dance specialization.
One of these is a pair of complementary colour.
Red and green are opposite on the colour wheel.
Which of these is NOT a craft?
Music is a performing art.
Another name for abstract is
Abstract art does not represent real objects, so non-representational.
Basically, letters are broadly classified into two, namely ______
Letters are classed as Roman and Gothic. Best guess.
The 'lost wax' technique of casting is called ______
Cire perdue is French for lost wax.
Drawing and painting of branches of a plant. Flower fruits is regarded as ______
Drawing plants, flowers and fruits is nature drawing. Best guess.
The classes of African musical instrument are ______
The four classes are idiophones, membranophones, aerophones and chordophones.
The surface quality of an object is called ______
Surface quality is texture.
Which of these is a technique of transferring design on cloth in embroidery?
Best guess; tracking (tacking) is the nearest option.
______ is a type of stitch that is used to secure a raw edge of cloth neatly.
Catch stitch is used to secure edges. Best guess.
Another name for dance drama is ______
Dance drama tells a story through dance. Best guess.
In tie-dye fabric production using two colours i.e purple and yellow. The dying process starts with ______ colour first, and later follow by ______ colour. The dyed fabric is allowed to ______ after this, the fabric is untied, ______ and ironed.
The lighter colour (yellow) is dyed first, then purple; the fabric oxidises, is untied, dried and ironed.
Portrait → Painting; Tjanting → ???; Kiln → Ceramics; Bust → ???
A tjanting is a batik (textile) tool and a bust is a sculpture.
Embroidery is the art of decorating cloth with different pattern of stitches using thread with needles manually or machine to form a pattern. The media needed for embroidery are ______
Embroidery uses fabric, thread, needle, thimble and scissors.
Fill in the technical names of the following Tonic solfa below in the order it was written below.
The 2nd degree is the supertonic, the 4th subdominant, the 6th submediant and the 8th upper tonic.
To produce a good composition of mosaic art work, a flat surface is needed. ______ the desired images on it, and apply ______ on the drawn images, ______ the collected materials until it covers up the drawn images, its foreground and background
Sketch the images, apply adhesive, then fix the materials.
In creating dance pattern. A Choreographer first consider the ______. Gathering of dance ______. Putting and arranging the ______ by teaching the dancers. Creating the ______ the ______ structure and ______ it for performance.
A choreographer first considers the audience, gathers ideas, arranges movements, then creates the final structure and polishes it.
The following people are Nigerian contemporary Artists and their area of specialization. Supply the missing area of specialization in the order it was written below.
Oshinowo is a painter, Onobrakpeya a printmaker, Idubor a sculptor and Fakeye a traditional carver.
In a drama production, a make-up artist applies make-up on actors and actressess in order to make them suitable for the role they want to act. Some types of make up in drama are ______, ______, ______ and ______
Straight, character and foundation make-up are standard stage make-up types. Best guess.
Colour is the decomposition of light into seven colours on the colour spectrum. The three properties of colour are ______, ______ and ______.
The three properties of colour are hue, intensity and value.
The African instrument that takes its sources of sound from the vibration of their entire body is being referred to as ______. Two examples of such instruments are ______ and ______.
Idiophones sound by vibrating their whole body, such as the gong and the sekere.
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