Ineed with these seven art questions

1. what did many early american samplers show?

a. alphabets and numbers

b. portraits and decorative scrolls

c. scenes from storybooks

d. pictures without special meanings

2. who usually made early american samplers?

a. men

b. women

c. schoolgirls

d. schoolboys

3. which statements about early american furniture are true?

choose all answers that are correct.

a. chinese and japanese immigrants made many pieces of decorated furniture.

b. some decorated pieces of furniture were used for storage.

c. pennsylvania germans painted fraktur pictures on furniture.

4. which statements about limner portraits are true?

choose all answers that are correct.

a. they were often painted by self-taught artists.

b. they included objects that tell about the artist.

c. they were made by traveling artists.

d. they were used by the owners as signs of wealth and importance.

5. is this statement true or false?

artists stenciled designs by dabbing or brushing paint through cutout shapes.

a. true

b. false

6. is this statement true or false?

stenciling was a very expensive way to decorate walls.

a. true

b. false

7. which statements about folk art landscapes are true?

choose all answers that are correct.

a. many folk art landscapes show farm scenes.

b. they are painted by artists trained in art academies.

c. they show the illusion of space.

d. they show more details in the background than in the foreground.

1. What did many early American samplers show?
Answer – A.  Alphabets 
Rationale - Loara Standish is said to have made the earliest known American sampler
around the year 1645. She was from the Plymouth Colony. Early American samplers
seen in the 1700s depicted alphabets.

2.  Who usually made early American samplers?
Answer – B. Women
Early American samplers were made by young women. The young women made the samplers as a way of learning simple needlework skills that is needed in the day to day operation of the family.

3.  Which statements about early American furniture are true?
Answer – B and C
Rationale – It is true that some decorated pieces of early American furniture were used as cupboard for storage, and it is also true that Pennsylvania Germans, mostly from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centurie, painted Fraktur pictures on furniture.

4.  Which statements about limner portraits are true?
Answers – A, C and D
Rationale – It is true that limner portraits were often painted by self-taught (untrained) artists, who generally lived hardscrabble lives; these artists were typically traveling artists, who would travel from place to place to lobby for commissions. The paintings were used by the owners as status symbols; they were commissioned as signs of wealth and importance.

5.  TRUE 
It is true that the artists who made early American stencils made their designs by dabbing or brushing paint through cutout shapes. This has made the early American stencils to be categorized as “Cut and Use Stencils”

6.  Answer – False
It is not true that stenciling was a very expensive way to decorate walls. As a matter of fact, the easiest and least expensive way to decorate walls was by painting them. Stenciling, a method of painting was known to be a simple do-it-yourself method that requires just a few tools.

7.  Answers A and C
Many folk art landscapes depict farm scenes and they show the illusion of space. Typically, folk art landscapes show more details in the foreground than in the background. Fine artists are the ones trained in art academies, not folk artists.