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Humanities chapter 19
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Cultural movement that rejected both Greco-Roman classicism and the Judeo-Christian tradition
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Modernism
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3 major forces that helped shape events between 1871 and 1914
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imperialism
militariism
nationalism
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Europed witnessed the growing political power of the middle class between
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1871 and 1914
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What played a larger role in the second industrial revolution than in the First Industrial Revolution
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scientific research
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Many Europeans moved to cities between 1871 and 1914 because
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Urban jobs paid better than those in the country
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Life in the growing cities of the late 19th century provided women with new oppurtunities for
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jobs
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In the 2nd industrial revolution, women experienced what
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new careers including teaching, nursing, and retailing
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A social change that occured between 1871 and 1914
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the establishment of public school systems
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Countries that comprimised the Triple Entente
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France, Great Britain, and Russia
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Unlike Germany and France, Great Britain during the 1871-1914 period
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had mores success reforming the living conditions of the poor
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The city that epitomized modernism during the period
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Vienna
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European nations between 1871 and 1914 shifted their interests from
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domestic affairs and the global economy
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When the Industrial Revolution came to Russia
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the government became more opressive and dicatorial
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major cause of late 19th century imperialism
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industrialized nations require new markets
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developed a theory of universal collected unconscious
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Jung
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The immediate cause of World war 1
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quarrel between Austria and Serbia
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characterized by a yearning to move an uncertain but exciting future
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Early modernism
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Early Modernisms optimism about the future was reinforced by
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advances in science and technology
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Nietzche's life and thought are ironical in what way
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He was an opponent of a strong German state, his writings were later taken up by the Nazis, who advocated a unified Germany
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Nietsche and Freud explored
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beneath the surface of human motices to find the underlying truth.
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Freud thought that human personality was
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the product of an inescapable struggle between inborn instincts and a culturally-created conscience.
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The three styles of early modernist literature are
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naturalism, decadence, expressionism.
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Kate Chopin can be described as
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a writer moving away from romanticism and toward realism and naturalism.
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Zola’s novels express naturalism by
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exploring serious social issues.
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Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is written in which style?
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naturalism
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The hero in Huysmans’s Against Nature expresses what decadence means by
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cultivating unfashionable and exotic pleasures.
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An example of decadence in literature is
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Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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An example of expressionism in literature is
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Strindberg’s The Dream Play.
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Kafka’s novel The Trial and novella “Metamorphosis” have which modernist theme?
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a person victimized by forces beyond the individual human’s control
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The first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes for science was
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Madame Curie.
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Max Planck is credited with
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establishing the quantum theory of radiation.
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explained the behavior of electrons at the subatomic level.
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Niels Bohr
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Whose groundbreaking research was rediscovered by three researchers in 1900, and became the basis for the new science of genetics?
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Mendel
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Impressionist painters were innovative because
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they painted out of doors, not in their studios
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The impressionists were influenced by the
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romantic painters
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The first critics of impressionist painting ridiculed the new style as being
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messy and slapdash
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Which of Monet's paintings became a rallying cry for his fellow artists
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Impression: Sunrise
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Renoirs painting style can be described as
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moving beyond impressionalism to a greater concentration on form
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One of the results of the impressionist movement
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art was freed to move in many directions
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The leading painter of postimpressionism
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Cezzanne, Gaguin, Van Gogh
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Cezanne's paintings pointed the way to the twentieth centrury's
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abstract art
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Van Gogh launched the postimpressionist trend in painting called
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expressionism
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In painting, representing the emotions
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expressionism
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Which impressionist artist was the first to imitate ukiyo-e prints
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Mary Cassat
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Which architect coined the phrase "form follow function"
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Louis Sullivan
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A characteristics of expressionist music
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an abscence of harmonious frames of reference
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What was the most striking feature of expressionist music
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atonality
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Jazz was influenced by
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West African and African-Carribean rhythms
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