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Identify the Dutch master who painted this intensley personal depiction of an Old Testament biblical story.

A) Ribera

B) Rembrandt

C) Rubens

D) Vermeer

France's monarch, Louis XIV, used ________________________  to act out the role of supreme ruler and to retain his mastery over the aristocracy.

A) San Carlo alle Quattro Foontane

B) Westminster Abbey

C) Palace of Versailles

D) St Peter's

This Italian scientist designed and built his own telescope to study the phases of Venus.

A) Copernicus

B) Descartes

C) Pascal

D) Galileo

This author's philosophical masterpiece describes the life of humans in their natural state as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

A) Milton

B) Cervantes

C) Hobbes

D) Crashaw

This innovation in musical entertainment (represented by Monteverdi's works) first appeared in the 1600s

A) piazzas

B) gallerias

C) concertos

D) operas

This French philosopher is associated with the phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" and is often called the "Father of Modern Philosophy."

A) Hobbes

B) Descartes

C) Spinoza

D) Pascal

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The extreme contrast in light and dark, as evidenced in this painting by Caravaggio, is an example of what baroque technique?

A) Chiaroscuro

B) Mannerism

C) Perspective

D) Monody

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Spain's king and queen appear here, in Velazquez's finest and most complex painting, as an indication that they had visited him in his studio

A) Las Meninas

B) Madonna of Loreto

C) Et in Arcadia Ego

D) the Night Watch

This musician composed the opera L'Orfeo.

A) Handel

B) Scarlatti

C) Lully

D) Monteverdi

This metaphysical poet was appointed to one of the most prestigious religious positions in London: Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

A) Cervantes

B) Milton

C) Cranshaw

D) Donne

Which musician wrote over 200 cantatas, one of which is the Saint Matthew Passion?

A) Vivaldi

B) Handel

C) Scarlatti

D) JS Bach

Which of these works did Molière write?

A) Don Quixote

B) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

C) Paradise Lost

D) Lazarillo de Tormes

In these words from his epic poem, Paradise Lost, John Milton is describing whom?

"Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads..."

A) Michael

B) God

C) Satan

D) Peter

Who are the main characters in Book I of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost?

A) Satan and His Legions

B) Mary and Jesus

C) Satan and Michael

D) God and Michael

This author intends to "justify the ways of God to men" in one of the greatest epic poems of the seventeenth century.

A) Moliere

B) Milton

C) Hobbes

D) Cervantes

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Invoking an overall impression of lightness and gaiety, this is the predominant art style of the mid-1700s, typified by Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera.

A) Neoclassicism

B) Realism

C) Rococo

D) Baroque

This composer of The Marriage of Figaro is often considered the greatest composer of the late 1700s.

A) Bach

B) Handel

C) Scarlatti

D) Mozart

This author is closely associated with the 17-volume Encyclopédie of the French Enlightenment.

A) Swift

B) Milton

C) Pope

D) Diderot

This French philosopher and author of the Social Contract believed that the natural goodness of humans had been corrupted by the growth of civilization.

A) Rousseau

B) Montesquieu

C) Pope

D) Swift

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Painted only five years before the French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David's ___________________ established the official style of revolutionary art.

A) Deception Unmasked

B) Napoleon Crossing the Alps

C) Oath of the Horatti

D) Pastoral Scene

IN general, the classical symphony has ________ movements

A) four

B) one

C) two

D) three

This author's Gulliver's Travels includes a visit to the land of the Houyhnhnms

A) Schiller

B) Swift

C) Montesquieu

D) Pope

This author translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

A) Schiller

B) Dryden

C) Pope

D) Metastasio

This monarch's lack of interest in the affairs of his subjects or in the details of government and his awareness of the consequences likely to follow are summarized in this comment: "After me the flood."

A) George III of England

B) Louis XV of France

C) Frederick II of Prussia

D) Charles III of Spain

By what name is each self-contained section of a symphony known?

A) fugue

B) allegro

C) movement

D) concerto

This artist created a large number of portraits in pastel.

A) Carriera

B) Watteau

C) David

D) Hogarth

In the Essay on Man, this author expresses his philosophical position that humans occupy a preeminent place in the divine scheme of life.

A) Pope

B) Rousseau

C) Diderot

D) Swift

This author gained economic independence by producing highly successful translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, plus an edition of Shakespeare's works.

A) Pope

B) Voltaire

C) Diderot

D) Swift

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This Italian-born artist was one of the few painters who tried to apply rococo principles to religious subjects, as illustrated in his painting The Immaculate Conception.

A) Fragonard

B) Carriera

C) Tiepolo

D) Gainsborough

This philosopher and author spent time at the courts of Louis XV and Frederick the Great, but also served a prison sentence.

A) Swift

B) Pope

C) Diderot

D) Voltaire

This art movement, characterized by emotion and an interest in nature, predominated the cultural world of nineteenth century Europe.

A) Realism

B) Romanticism

C) Expressionism

D) Impressionism

The musician who is considered the greatest composer of Italian opera during the 19^th century.

A) Wagner

B) Verdi

C) Paganini

D) Moussorgsky

Like Beethoven, the Spanish-born painter of this work, lost his hearing later in life.

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A) Goya

B) Constable

C) Delacroix

D) Turner

French painter Gericault painted this work, inspired by a real-life disaster and a major national scandal.

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A) The Entombment of Atala

B) Death of Sardanapalus

C) Raft of the Medusa

D) Massacre at Chios

This author's contempt for bourgeois society is evident in Madame Bovary.

A) Dickens

B) Flaubert

C) Tolstoy

D) Hugo

This English painter's The Slave Ship uses light, color, and movement to form a union of the elements in which earth, sky, fire, and water dissolve into one another.

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A) Cassatt

B) Friedrich

C) Homer

D) Turner

This author's Les Misérables describes the plight of the victims of society's injustices

A) Hugo

B) Shaw

C) Dickens

D) Ibsen

This chemist's experiments led to processes that improved the safety of food.

A) Pasteur

B) Brecht

C) Darwin 

D) Hegel

This is the author of Communist Manifesto, which explains his belief in the inherent evil of capitalism and in the historical inevitability of a proletarian revolution.

A) Kant

B) Hegel

C) Engels

D) Marx

This naturalist and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection concluded that animals and plants evolve by a process of natural selection.

A) Bruckner

B) Pasteur

C) Flaubert

D) Darwin

This author's Oliver Twist attacked the treatment of the poor in workhouses.

A) Thoreau

B) Dickens

C) Tolstoy

D) Keats

This composer's most monumental achievement is The Ring of the Nibelung, which represents the end of the world.

A) Liszt

B) Chopin

C) Wagner

D) Verdi

This author's Faust deals with Dr. Faustus's pact with the devil.

A) Tolstoy

B) Dickens

C) Flaubert

D) Goethe

Which of these musicians performed exciting piano concerts throughout Europe and created piano works that exploited the possibilities of the nocturne?

A) Chopin

B) Beethoven

C) Liszt

D) Schubert

Which of these Russian composers created the opera Boris Godunov?

A) Moussorgsky

B) Rimsky-Korsakov

C) Borodin

D) Balkirev