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HUM exam 2
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Undergraduate 1
03/03/2013

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what was the 1700's known as?
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the age of enlightenment
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in the age of enlightenment:
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learning freed itself from the church and became more secular
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hobbes and locke both believed in:
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social contract
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what did hobbes and locke believe differently?
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hobbes believed that humans were selfish and could not make good decisions, needed authority
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montesquieu did NOT advocate:
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education for males only
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the declaration of independance gave rights to:
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landholding males
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the new US constitution in 1787 provided for:
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3 branches of govt
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who advocated free trade(laissez-faire)
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adam smith
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philosophes
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well educated, interests were secular and social
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salons
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places run by woman for meetings of thinkers
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deists
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believed in God creator, but not personal Redeemer (watchmaker theory)
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Voltaire
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contributed to the encyclopedie, against rule of monarchs and church
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Diderot
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editor of the encyclopedie
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Encyclopedie
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held all knowledge of the time it was created
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who published the first dictionary of the english language?
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samuel johnson
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Liebniz
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humans live in perfect harmony with god and nature; a balance occurs
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Beccaria
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opposed corporal punishment; advocated rehab
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condorcet
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humans can be perfect through application of reason
believed social problems come from inequality
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wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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pope
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Neoclassic english poet; essay on man
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journalistic essay targeted to address:
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middleclass public
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the modern novel began in:
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Asia or china
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"a little learning is a dangerous thing"
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alexander pope
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what did NOT occur in the 1700's?
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American Cival War
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who condemned slavery?
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philosophes
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what was the "middle passage"
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trip between africa and america and islands
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Olaudah Equiano
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ex-slave who became a very strong abolitionist
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Philis Wheatley:
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ex-slave who wrote many poems
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who claimed slavery was a "necessary evil"?
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Thomas Jefferson
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writing the Swift used that was critisizing, but humorous
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satire
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A Modest Proposal
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Jonathan Swift
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who was against all forms of religion?
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Voltaire
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writing by Voltaire:
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Candide
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what was Voltaire solution to happiness?
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cultivate our garden
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what is not true about Candide?
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it is written in iambic pentameter
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William Hogarth
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created and sold many prints of his engravings
visual satirist
work contains caricatures
attacked condition of London
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idea of noble savage came from
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rousseau
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Rousseau said that the first mistake that lead to all the other problems made by man was:
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claiming ownership of land, rather than sharing
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what did Rousseau believe about education?
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it should be accompplished through cultivation of natural inquistiveness rather than rote learning
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what did Emmanuel Kant believe?
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B) What one person perceives in the world depends on the quality and previous experience of the perceiver's mind.
C) Reality exists in the mind and what it understanding.
D) There should be a universal moral law, that will promote what is good for all people at all times.
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what document sharess the same ideas as the declaration of independance?
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the French Declaration of the rights of mand and citizen
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what were the underlying causes of the French Revolution?
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class inequality and financial crisis brought on by war and royal extravagance
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Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
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a radical antiroyalist who was murdered while bathing and became an image of patriotic martyrdom
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Decribe Gin Lane by Hogarth
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black and white. france in an uproar. drunk woman on the steps with her baby falling over the rail
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what is true about the painting of Jean-Paul Marat?
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it is a true event that happened in the Neoclassical style
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there is a giant structurer with many carvings in it, what is it based on?
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Roman Arch of Titus
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what is true about the painting of the prostitute?
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it is neoclassical with some mannerist
it is by ingres
it is sensual and exotic
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what is the painting called that shows the lady on the swing in the pink dress? what is the style?
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"the swing" rococo
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what is the style of the building that thomas jefferson designed?
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neoclassical
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tell about the painting of the 3 brothers and the sad sisters
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by Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassical
reflects roman culture, painted in the 1700's
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what is true about the rococo style?
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themes are of pleasure and sensuality of the aristocracy
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who are some rococo artists?
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Watteau
Boucher
Fragonard
Vigee
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who is NOT a rococo artist?
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David
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what is rococo music known for?
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light and graceful melodies
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how did the philosophes feel about the rococo style?
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they thought it was intellectually trivial and morally degenerative
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Genre paintings
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exalt the virtues and hard work of ordinary people
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how is neoclassisism characterized?
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domes on buildings, god and goddess like sculptures, retelling of ancient stories
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Angelica Kauffmann
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highly paid femal who became a founding member of englands royal academy
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when did opera become popular?
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1700's
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Haydn
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Father of symphony
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Mozart
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foremost genius of classical music
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beethoven
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"bridge" between classical and romantic
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Suprise symphony
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"papa" haydn
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concerto
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solo instrument with orchestra
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symphony
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large composition written in movements
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Marriage of Figaro
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Mozart
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sonata
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written for keyboard
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satyr
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half man - half beast woodland creature
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pastel
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kind of artists crayon
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fete galante
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festive entertainment for aristocracy
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painting of a horse and buggy in the water
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Constable
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where did romanticism get its roots?
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germany
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what is NOT hallmark of the romantic style?
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adherence to authority and love of industry
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roamntic painters and writers both
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opposed the industrial revolutions and its effects
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every condition confronts its opposite condition which ultimately reaches a synthesis was proposed by
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Hegel
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social Darwinism
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certain races are favored over others, which led to eugenics
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the birth of the romantic period of literature in england was
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lyrical ballads by wordsworth and coleridge
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alliteration
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the repetition of initial sound in words that are close together
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sublime
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exemplifies the terrors and bad side of nature
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pastoral
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emphasizes the quiet and peaceful life of the romantic period
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pantheism
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believe that spirits are everything
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lyric poetry
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works that are written to be sung rather than read
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eugenics
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science of improving the world by means of genetic manipulation or elimination
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dialectic
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every condition has a thesis and antithesis that resolve into a synthesis
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