Multiple Choice Questions, Color, Elementary School

1. How many primary colors are there?

a. two
b. six
c. three
d. four

2. Which list is the correct primary color list?

a. red, white, blue, yellow
b. blue, red, yellow
c. blue, green
d. blue, green, yellow, red, white and black

3. How may secondary colors are there?

a. three
b. four
c. two
d. five

4. What are the correct secondary colors?

a. green, orange
b. orange, green, white
c. orange, green, purple
d. black, green, orange and purple

5. What color would you get if you mixed red and yellow?

a. blue
b. orange
c. green
d. purple

6. What color would you get if you mixed red and blue?

a. black
b. brown
c. purple
d. orange

7. What color would you get if you mixed blue and yellow?

a. green
b. red
c. brown
d. black

8. What colors do you use to mix brown?

a. red, green, black
b. red, blue, white, yellow
c. red, orange, green
d. red, yellow, blue

9. What is the most effective way to mix brown?

a. a lot of red, little yellow and tiny blue
b. a lot of yellow, little red and tiny blue
c. a lot of blue, little red, tiny yellow
d. a lot of yellow, little red, tiny white, tiny blue

10. What is the correct definition for complementary colors?

a. colors near each other on the color wheel
b. colors directly opposite from each other on the color wheel
c. colors next to each other on the color wheel
d. colors mixed together

11. What happens when complementary colors are mixed together in equal amounts?

a. they produce a white color
b. they produce a black color
c. they produce a black or dark grey color
d. they produce a dark grey color

12. What is the complement of blue?

a. green
b. violet
c. red
d. orange

13. When you add white to a color what is that color called?

a. tone
b. tint
c. shade
d. tertiary

14. When you add black to a color what is that color called?

a. tone
b. tint
c. shade
d. tertiary

Color Talk

Name ________________________________

Class _______________________________

Hue -- refers to the name of a color. "Hey color, who are Hue?"
Write six hues: _____________, _______________, ___________, _______________, __________________, __________________

Value -- is the lightness or darkness of a color.
White will lighten a color to make a TINT.
Black will darken a color to make a SHADE.

Intensity -- is how bright or dull a color is. Pure colors are very bright. To dull a color you add some of the color's COMPLIMENT. (A compliment is the opposite color on the color wheel.)

What is the compliment of	red? _______________________
	blue? ______________________
	violet? ____________________

Orange said to Blue, "You
have the loveliest eyes
I've ever seen!"

Neutrals -- black, white and gray. They are not on the color chart. "We just came along for the tints and shades."

(From Gay Kohl, Paradise Valley Schools, AZ)

Multiple Choice Items

created by the Standards and Assessment Division of the Illinois State Board of Education used images of four masterworks as motivation for the questions. This lead to quite challenging response alternatives that, in some cases, demanded demonstration of understanding and analysis.

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