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The Assassin crept softly and slowly along the stone brick pavement until he found his destination. Even with the darkness of the night sky and the countless amounts of Askarv guards patrolling the streets it was practically child’s play for him to find exactly what he was looking for. The Assassin had been watching his target in secret for days and observing his every movement every second of the day; it was absolutely vital for this to take place so as to make sure the contract the Assassin had been issued was indeed valid and suitable to execute. As the contract issued the target would take random citizens from around the town (mostly looking like beggars and whores) and then take them back into his home in which they would not been seen again. The guards had picked up on his continuous guests not but yesterday somehow and the Assassin watched cautiously from a distance, unfortunately for him however, they came out with nothing and left without so much as a backwards glance. The word went around that the target had told the guards the guests had left in a hurry and that they were merely only friends of his. The Assassin knew this was in fact a lie as he had had keep constant surveillance over the house without so much as a wink of sleep and seen no one leave the house apart from the target to of course pick up more of his *friends*. Based on that information, it was time to act.
Shrouded by shadow, the Assassin stepped up to the wooden doorframe of the targets house and searched around in his black leather chaps for a lock pick. He swiftly plucked one from within the many other objects and moved forwards to insert the device into the locking mechanism. With a few seconds works and a few gentle clicks the cylinders inside the mechanism sprung up and the lock opened; he took no time in waiting and gently opened the door, stepping out of the cold darkness, and into the stranger’s house.
The Assassin gently shut the door, trying making as little noise as possible before turning around to take in his surroundings. The house contained a large living room with a giant golden oak table set down in the middle of it, they were also a pair of marble staircases at opposite sides of the room; the closest leading to the landing upstairs and the furthest leading down into what the Assassin assumed was the cellar. Thanks to the small amount of moonlight shining through the small square windows and the months of training that had attuned the Assassins eyes to the darkness, he could see almost perfectly.
A number of purple coloured bottles and ale bottles lay tipped over on the golden oak table, drained of any substance that were once inside. The Assassin recognised the purple bottles immediately for exactly what they were; bottles of a dangerous substance called Vaqinsh. It was strange liquor made from a rare weed only found in the realm of Rasheeth and caused dazzling effects to the consumer. The drinker would feel immense happiness and comfort upon drinking but after time angry and disoriented. Abusing the drink could cause the negative effects to get even worse and cause brain deformity and even madness. The substance was banned a while back because of these effects but somehow still managed to make its way onto the black market, the target must have had contacts. They was nothing else too unusual about the room apart from a bloody meat cleaver and a little brown sack on the wooden bench at the far end of the room; the Assassin hoped with all his might that the cleaver hadn’t been used on a human being. The Assassin walked over and picked up the little brown sack, it was rather heavy and jingled when it was shaken. Upon further inquiry it appeared the sack contained a large amount of large amount of gold coins, the man had to have been a rich bastard to simply leave a sack of gold coins lying around. The Assassin pocketed the sack of coins and quietly tip toed up the marble staircase and up onto the landing. The landing was incredibly dark even for the Assassins attuned eyesight as they were no windows for the moonlight to shine through. The landing contained a remotely smaller marble staircase that lead up to a wooden hatch in the celling. The target must have indeed been infatuated with the black market trading as only the incredibly wealthy were able to afford such construction. The landing also contained another doorway that was more than likely the entrance to targets bedroom. The Assassin took in a giant breath and stepped towards the doorway, if the Target was indeed asleep then he would have to kill him as quick as possible, the Assassin had never been caught before, and he wasn’t planning on getting caught now. Placing one hand on the doorframe and one around his sharp dagger, the Assassin pushed open the wooden doorframe and stepped inside the dark room.
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Arh 2000 Lesson 5 Questions Help?


16. During the Renaissance period, there was a revival
of all of the following except ____.
a. Classical themes in art and literature
b. realism and naturalism
c. religious spirituality and otherworldliness
d. the Greek philosophy of humanism
e. delight in beauty for its own sake
17. The Renaissance began in 1402 with a competition
for the commission to sculpt bronze doors for the baptistery
of Florence. The subject of the entry panels was ____.
a. Rebecca at the Well
b. Moses and the Ten Commandments
c. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
d. The Sacrifice of Isaac
e. Cain and Abel
18*. Donatello’s David was the first life size ____
sculpture since the end of the Clasical period.
a. nude
b. stone
c. relief
d. worship
e. ancient
19. Considered a true Renaissance man, ____ excelled
in engineering, the natural sciences, anatomy, music, and
technological prototypes, not to mention creating some of the
world’s best loved paintings.
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Michelangelo
c. Raphael
d. Bramante
e. Piero della Francesca
20*. Using the laws of perspective in his Holy Trinity
fresco, Masaccio created the illusion of an extension of the
architectural space of the church by painting a(n) ____.
a. illusionistic ceiling depicting heaven
b. barrel vaulted chapel with holy and common figures
c. deep niche with sculptural figures
d. throne chair depicting the Holy Trinity
e. archway depicting a “who’s who” of Classical
Greece
21. When Michelangelo was only 27, he carved the 13 –
foot statue of David from ____.
a. two blocks of limestone
b. a single block of granite
c. a hillside of living rock
d. a single piece of almost unworkable marble
e. three odd shaped blocks of Carrara marble
22. Raphael was commissioned by Pope JuliusII to paint
the Vatican apartments where he painted ____.
a. The School of Athens
b. The Last Supper
c. The Birth of Venus
d. Mona Lisa
e. The Flagellation
23. The word ____ is derived from the French and
means rebirth.
a. Mannerism
b. Renaissance
c. Baroque
d. Archaic
e. Resurrection
24. A highly individualized and mannered style
developed in Italy post 1520 was called ___.
a. Mannerism
b. Renaissance
c. Baroque
d. Archaic
e. Resurrection
25. “Ecstasy of St. Theresa” is a Baroque dramatic
religious sculptural group made by_____.
a. Boticelli
b. Bernini
c. Brunelleschi
d. Caravaggio
e. Da Vinci

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