The course

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  Section I: 80 multiple-choice questions in 1 hour, 50% of the score. Section II: six free-response questions in 2 hours, 50%.

  Free: A tour of the course and the examFree: Works you have never seen: visual analysis and attribution
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  Unit 1: Global Prehistory, 30,000-500 BCE

  ~4% of the multiple-choice section, about 3 of the 80 questions; required works 1 to 11

  Free: Global prehistory16 questions
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  Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE-300 CE

  ~15% of the multiple-choice section, about 12 of the 80 questions; required works 12 to 47

  Free: Mesopotamia, Egypt and PersiaFree: Greece and EtruriaHellenistic and Roman art65 questions
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  Unit 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200-1750 CE

  ~21% of the multiple-choice section, about 17 of the 80 questions; required works 48 to 98

  Late antique, Byzantine and early medieval artRomanesque, Gothic and the early RenaissanceThe Renaissance in Italy and the northNew Spain, the Reformation and the BaroqueBaroque Europe and colonial Americas88 questions
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  Unit 4: Later Europe and Americas, 1750-1980 CE

  ~21% of the multiple-choice section, about 17 of the 80 questions; required works 99 to 152

  Enlightenment, Neoclassicism and RomanticismRealism, photography and ImpressionismPost-Impressionism and early modernismArt between the warsPostwar art and architecture45 questions
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  Unit 5: Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE-1980 CE

  ~6% of the multiple-choice section, about 5 of the 80 questions; required works 153 to 166

  Sites and cities of the Indigenous AmericasObjects of the Inka and North American nations21 questions
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  Unit 6: Africa, 1100-1980 CE

  ~6% of the multiple-choice section, about 5 of the 80 questions; required works 167 to 180

  Architecture and royal arts of AfricaMasks, figures and memory in African art21 questions
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  Unit 7: West and Central Asia, 500 BCE-1980 CE

  ~4% of the multiple-choice section, about 3 of the 80 questions; required works 181 to 191

  West and Central Asia23 questions
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  Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE-1980 CE

  ~8% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 80 questions; required works 192 to 212

  South and East Asia to 1000Later South, East and Southeast Asia26 questions
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  Unit 9: The Pacific, 700-1980 CE

  ~4% of the multiple-choice section, about 3 of the 80 questions; required works 213 to 223

  The Pacific17 questions
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  Unit 10: Global Contemporary, 1980 CE to Present

  ~11% of the multiple-choice section, about 9 of the 80 questions; required works 224 to 250

  Global contemporary art, 1979 to 1995Global contemporary art, 1995 to 201124 questions
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  Free response

  Section II: six questions in 2 hours: two long essays (8 and 6 points) and four short essays of 5 points

  The comparison essayThe visual or contextual analysis essayThe four short essays