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In the wake of the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church launched a reform movement known as the
A) Babylonian Captivity.
B) Great Schism.
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Under the leadership of Ignatius Loyola, the ________ order became the most influential missionary society of early modern times.
A) Dominican
B) Jesuit
C) Benedictine
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Between 1540 and 1563, the ________ undertook papal and monastic reforms that eliminated corruption and restored Catholicism to many parts of Europe.
A) Ecumenical at Brighton
B) Council of Trent
C) Vatican I Council
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In ________, where European traders were regarded as “ocean devils,” Catholic missionaries assumed a cordial relationship with the intellectual classes and succeeded in converting a number of native scholars.
A) China
B) Japan
C) Korea
D) Arabia |
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By 1624, ________ expelled almost all Western foreigners, after a wave of brutal persecutions of both European Christians and Japanese converts to Catholicism.
A) China
B) Japan
C) Korea
D) Arabia |
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In sixteenth-century Latin America, where ________ political authority went largely unchallenged, Catholicism went hand in hand with colonization.
A) local
B) French
C) Dutch
D) Spanish |
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In literature during this age there appeared a new emphasis on heightened spirituality and on personal visionary experience acquired
A) through divine intercession.
B) through meditation.
C) by way of the senses.
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The writings of Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Avila set the tone for a new, ________ Catholicism.
A) militant
B) conservative
C) mystical
D) all-inclusive |
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________ anticipated the baroque style by its figural distortions, irrational space, bizarre colors, and general disregard for the “rules” of Renaissance painting.
A) Mannerism
B) Impressionism
C) Dadaism
D) Romanticism |
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The baroque style brought about new levels of naturalism and emotionalism to Western art. Which of the following does NOT describe the baroque style?
A) an expanded sense of space
B) the theatrical staging of the subject matter
C) restrained and relaxing
D) dynamic contrasts of light and dark |
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________ challenged sculptural tradition by combining illusionism, naturalism, and implied movement. He brought a flamboyant style to the city of Rome, both in his fountain sculptures and in his designs for Italian baroque churches.
A) Michelangelo
B) Bernini
C) Gabrieli
D) Palestrina |
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As absolute monarch, ________ brought France to a position of political and military preeminence among the European nation-states.
A) Louis X
B) Louis XV
C) Louis XIV
D) Louis V |
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Under Louis’ leadership, the center of artistic patronage and productivity shifted to
A) England.
B) Spain.
C) Italy.
D) France. |
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At ________, Louis’ newly constructed palace emerged as an amalgam of Greco-Roman subject matter, Classical principles of design, and baroque theatricality.
A) the Hague
B) Versailles
C) the Louvre
D) Notre Dame |
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In Spain, ________, court painter to King Philip IV, became the country’s most prestigious artist, thanks to aristocratic portraits that conveyed the powerful presence of real objects in atmospheric space.
A) Goya
B) Rubens
C) Velázquez
D) Titian |
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As court painter to King Charles I of England, ________ produced elegant, idealized portraits of his patrons.
A) Velázquez
B) van Dyck
C) Goya
D) Rubens |
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To provide musical entertainments for state dinners, balls, and operatic performances, Louis established a
A) permanent orchestra.
B) national chorus.
C) guild of musicians.
D) new system of arranging written music. |
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Of lasting significance was Louis’ contribution to the birth of ________ and its transformation into an independent art form.
A) gold leafing
B) professional dance
C) portrait painting
D) baroque architecture |
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François de La Rochefoucauld wrote ________ that reflect the self-interest, hypocrisy, and greed of human beings—including and especially the aristocrats of his day.
A) song lyrics
B) sonnets
C) maxims
D) moody dramas |
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The French tragedian Jean Racine added unity-of-place to ________’s unities of action and time.
A) Pythagoras
B) Aristotle
C) Euripides
D) Agamemnon |
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France’s leading comic playwright, ________, brought to life the comic foibles of such stock characters as the miser, the hypochondriac, the hypocrite, the misanthrope, and the would-be gentleman.
A) Rochefoucauld
B) Molière
C) Rubens
D) Racine |
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Like Versailles in France, which of the following were highlighted by the text as epitomizing the wealth, absolute authority, and artistic vision of a privileged minority and autocratic rule?
A) the Imperial Mosque at Isfahan
B) the Red Fort at Old Delhi
C) the Taj Mahal in Agra
D) All these answers are correct |
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The imperial complex at the Forbidden City in ________ stands as a symbol of the absolutism of China’s Ming and Qing emperors.
A) Tokyo
B) Beijing
C) Chunking
D) Hanoi |
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The ________ dynasty created a unified central state over which the shogun assumed political and economic control.
A) Qing
B) Tokugawa
C) Ming
D) Yulan |
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________, associated with Zen Buddhist culture, came to define the Japanese way of life.
A) Urbanization
B) Martial arts
C) Meditation
D) Tea-drinking |
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Queen Elizabeth of England was unmarried, bore no sons, and was the last ruler of her direct family line. Which of the following families assumed the English throne upon Elizabeth’s death in 1603?
A) Plantagenet
B) Stuart
C) Windsor
D) Hanover |
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Which of the following monarchs governed England for more than a decade without the approval and support of the Parliament?
A) Charles I
B) Henry VIII
C) George I
D) Edward VIII |
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A written constitution, elected representation, and universal manhood suffrage were some of the benefits that Great Britain realized from
A) the Boer War.
B) the Revolutionary War.
C) the English Civil War.
D) the Hundred Years’ War. |
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The Northern baroque style emphasized which of the following?
A) personal piety
B) private devotion
C) minimal ornamentation
D) All these answers are correct. |
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Elaborate metaphors that compare two apparently dissimilar objects or emotions with the goal of shocking or surprising the listener or reader are called which of the following?
A) motifs
B) follies
C) anagrams
D) conceits |
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________, Puritan, humanist, and defender of Cromwell’s Commonwealth, was the most notable English-language poet of the seventeenth century.
A) Chaucer
B) Milton
C) Wren
D) Handel |
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Following the devastating fire that destroyed three-quarters of London, ________, an architect, scientist, professor and one of the founding fathers of the Royal Society of London, was commissioned to prepare designs for the city’s reconstruction and the new St. Paul’s Cathedral.
A) Chaucer
B) Milton
C) Wren
D) Handel |
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During this period, the Dutch were embroiled in a nineteen-year war with which of the following countries?
A) England
B) Portugal
C) Spain
D) France |
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Which of the following was the official religion of the emerging Dutch Republic?
A) Anabaptist
B) Lutheran
C) Calvinism
D) Roman Catholic |
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Rembrandt’s artistic medium of choice was invariably which of the following?
A) egg tempura
B) intaglio etching
C) layers of linseed-oil paint
D) fresh plaster |
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| Hyacinthe Rigaud - Portrait of Louis XIV |
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| Rembrandt - Return of the Prodigal Son |
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| Maria van Oosterwyck - Vanitas Still Life |
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| Jean-Antoine Houdon - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Marat |
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| William Hogarth - The Marriage Transaction |
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| Antonio Canova - Pauline Borghese as Venus |
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| Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Socrates |
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| Ingres - La Grande Odalisque |
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