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The present study aims to analyzing the questions of Curriculum and General Methods of Teaching Textbook for the second Grade of Institute of Fine Arts according to the skills of creative thinking. To achieve this aim of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire of (71) questions covered the nine chapters of the Textbook. The questionnaire was shown to a jury of experts who are specialized in methods of teaching and psychological and educational sciences. The study ended with results which show that the textbook’s questions contained few skills of creative thinking with different ratios, Fluency skill scored high ratio in comparison with the skills of Flexibility and originality which scored low ratio. According to the results of the study, the researcher suggested textbook’s questions should contain the skills of creative thinking according to a clear strategy and should be distributed equally among the textbook’s chapters. Researcher suggested including creative thinking questions in the book content according to a clear strategy and specific skills, in addition to taking into account the principles included in the integration of these skills and coordination in order levels are distributed evenly between the chapters of the book. (Published Abstract)