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Increased production of ________ encouraged expansion of industry and commerce in the European West.
a. coal
b. iron
c. steel
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________ proposed a dialectical model according to which all reality, all history, and all ideas progressed toward perfect freedom.
a. Hegel
b. Shelley
c. Blake
d. Wordsworth |
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________’s deeply spiritual poems reflect a visionary and moral perception of nature.
a. Hegel
b. Shelley
c. Blake
d. Wordsworth |
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________ argued that by means of natural selection, all living things including human beings evolved from a few simple forms: species either develop into higher forms of life or fail to survive.
a. Jung
b. Freud
c. Darwin
d. Leakey |
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Exalting the natural landscape as the source of sublime inspiration and moral truth, Wordsworth and his English contemporaries initiated the ________ movement.
a. Romantic
b. baroque
c. Enlightenment
d. Progressive |
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________ compared the elemental forces of nature with the creative powers of the poet.
a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Blake
d. Wordsworth, Shelley, and Blake all made this comparison. |
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________ rejoiced that nature’s fleeting beauty might forever dwell in art.
a. Shelley
b. Blake
c. Keats
d. Leakey |
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________, the leading nature poet of the nineteenth century, embraced the redemptive power of nature.
a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Leakey
d. Hegel |
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It was among Western romantics that the ________ became an independent and publicly acclaimed subject in the visual arts.
a. musical comedy
b. still life
c. Native American
d. landscape |
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Walt Whitman, Thoreau, and Emerson are all considered ________ writers.
a. right-wing
b. industrial
c. transcendentalist
d. novelistic |
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In the art of ________, the native populations and traditions of America are lovingly documented.
a. Constable
b. Catlin
c. Corot
d. Wordsworth |
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American folk art, as typified by the paintings of ________, made use of natural imagery for decorative and symbolic purposes.
a. Hicks
b. Constable
c. Wordsworth
d. Corot |
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In this industrial-based society, goods were increasingly made at factories rather than
a. by machine.
b. in community centers.
c. in sweatshops.
d. in homes. |
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While the theory of ________ displaced human beings from their elevated place in the hierarchy of living creatures, it advanced the idea of the unity of nature and humankind.
a. natural selection
b. deism
c. divine creation
d. parallel development |
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In Chinese literature, as reflected in Shen Fu’s confessional prose, and in painting, ________ becomes a source of inspiration and personal solace.
a. the spirit realm
b. the family
c. the state
d. nature |
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For nineteenth-century Romantics, ________ was an expression of the expansive subjectivity of the individual.
a. nature
b. the hero
c. the absolute monarch
d. the church |
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________ remarkable career became a model for heroic action propelled by an unbounded imagination and ambition.
a. Thomas Jefferson’s
b. Prosper Johns’
c. Lord Byron’s
d. Napoleon’s |
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________, a Greek deity who selflessly imparted wisdom to humanity, influenced the Romantics as a symbol of heroic freedom.
a. Prometheus
b. Juno
c. Poseidon
d. Athena |
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In America, ________, champion of the abolitionist movement, serves today as a prime example of Promethean defiance of authority and defense of human liberty.
a. Dubois
b. Douglass
c. Garvey
d. Gandhi |
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________, the literary figure symbolizing the quest to exceed the limits of knowledge and power, became the quintessential figure for Romantic writers, painters, and composers.
a. Carmen
b. Claudius
c. Dante
d. Faust |
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________ envisioned his legendary character as a symbol of the ever-striving human will to master all forms of experience, at the risk of imperiling his eternal soul.
a. Dante
b. Shelley
c. Fernbank
d. Goethe |
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The act of exalting the sovereign state above all else is called which of the following?
a. xenophobia
b. bicameralism
c. nationalism
d. fascism |
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The defeat of Napoleon’s second army happened at which of the following locations?
a. Waterloo
b. Lieges
c. Moscow
d. the Ardennes Forest |
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Which of the following would be considered a Gothic novel?
a. Gone With the Wind
b. Frankenstein
c. Vanity Fair
d. Robin Hood |
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The most famous antislavery novel in America was which of the following?
a. The Underground Railroad
b. Little Nell
c. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
d. Gone With the Wind |
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The beginning of Faust is a scene in which God is making a wager with which of the following?
a. Jesus
b. Satan
c. Gabriel
d. Adam and Eve |
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Which of the following was the final exile location for Napoleon I?
a. St. Helena
b. Devil’s Island
c. Elba
d. Madagascar |
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________ generally elevated the heart over the mind and the emotions over the intellect.
a. Romantic architects
b. Romantic writers
c. Romantic artists
d. All these answers are correct. |
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The artists of the late seventeenth century favored heroic themes and personalities, especially those illustrating
a. the struggle for political independence.
b. the realities of peasant life.
c. the open vistas of the American plains.
d. the majesty of European monarchs. |
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| the struggle for political independence. |
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Which of the following was the pupil of Jacques-Louis David, but rejected Neoclassicism in favor of more realistic scenes of France’s emperor in theatrical settings?
a. Gros
b. Goya
c. Géricault
d. Delacroix |
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Which of the following found inspiration in uncommon subjects such as the restless vitality of untamed horses and the faces of the clinically insane?
a. Gros
b. Goya
c. Géricault
d. Delacroix |
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Which of the following hailed imagination as paramount in the life of the artist and focused on sensuous and violent subjects? He said, “I have no love for reasonable painting.”
a. Gros
b. Goya
c. Géricault
d. Delacroix |
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Mid-nineteenth-century architecture in the West began to pay homage to the ________ style, which was clearly revived in the Houses of Parliament along the Thames River in London.
a. baroque
b. exoticism
c. Rococo
d. Gothic |
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The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, England remains the quintessential example of which of the following architectural styles?
a. baroque
b. exoticism
c. Rococo
d. Gothic |
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, as Western industrialization accelerated, ________ came to rival Romanticism both as a style and as an attitude of mind.
a. modernism
b. Realism
c. Cubism
d. abstraction |
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The heavy hand of Western ________ in some parts of Africa, Asia, and in the Middle East had a crippling effect on independent growth and productivity.
a. clergymen
b. civil wars
c. exploration
d. imperialism |
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________ is a social theory forwarded by Jeremy Bentham, stating governments should work to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
a. Liberalism
b. Conservatism
c. Utilitarianism
d. Socialism |
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Society should operate entirely in the interest of the needs of the people, communally and cooperatively, rather than competitively, according to which of the following?
a. liberalism
b. conservatism
c. utilitarianism
d. socialism |
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Which of the following early social theories was firmly based in the ideals of the Enlightenment?
a. liberalism
b. conservatism
c. utilitarianism
d. socialism |
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The leading proponent of liberalism, ________, defended the exercise of individual liberty as protected by the state.
a. Flaubert
b. Marx
c. Mill
d. Ibsen |
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The most popular English novelist of this period of history was which of the following?
a. Ibsen
b. Zola
c. Flaubert
d. Dickens |
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Which of the following initiated a variant form of literary Realism known as naturalism?
a. Ibsen
b. Zola
c. Flaubert
d. Dickens |
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Which of the following was the Norwegian dramatist who shocked his contemporary audiences with such subject matters as incest, insanity, and venereal disease?
a. Ibsen
b. Zola
c. Flaubert
d. Dickens |
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Photography and ________ were invented during the nineteenth century; both encouraged artists to produce objective records of their surroundings.
a. electroplating
b. etching
c. lithography
d. facsimile |
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In painting, ________ led the Realist movement with canvases depicting the activities of humble and commonplace men and women
a. Talbot
b. Courbet
c. Cameron
d. Brady |
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________ shocked public taste by modernizing Classical subjects and violating conventional painting techniques.
a. Daumier
b. Titian
c. Manet
d. Church |
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Paxton’s ________, the world’s first prefabricated cast-iron structure, offered a prophetic glimpse into the decades that would produce steel-framed skyscrapers.
a. Golden Gate Bridge
b. Pennsylvania Station
c. Eiffel Tower
d. Crystal Palace |
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By the mid-nineteenth century the ________ was used to document all aspects of contemporary life as well as to provide artists with detailed visual data.
a. camera
b. pictogram
c. telescope
d. optical lens |
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The provocative German thinker ________, who detected in European materialism a deepening decadence, called for a revision of traditional values.
a. Debussy
b. Hegel
c. Einstein
d. Nietzsche |
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________ presented a positive view of life as a vital impulse that evolved creatively and intuitively.
a. Bergson
b. Nietzsche
c. Hegel
d. Renoir |
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Symbolist poets, such as Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, devised a language of ________ that evoked (rather than described) feeling.
a. simple and general signs
b. sensation
c. numbers
d. natural sounds |
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The ________ tried to record an instantaneous vision of their world, sacrificing the details of perceived objects in order to capture the effects of light and atmosphere.
a. Romantics
b. Realists
c. Impressionists
d. Mannerists |
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________ fused the immediacy of the French painting fashion with the Classical demand for line and form; he is famous for his depictions of ballerinas.
a. Cassatt
b. Toulouse-Lautrec
c. Renoir
d. Degas |
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Originating in ________, art nouveau (“new art”) was an ornamental style that became enormously popular in the late nineteenth century.
a. Austria
b. Germany
c. France
d. Belgium |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany is famous for advancing the “new art” in which of the following mediums?
a. art glass
b. jewelry
c. porcelain
d. furniture |
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The use of many tiny dots to generate the impression of a solid from is called
a. impressionism.
b. pixilation.
c. pointillism.
d. abstraction. |
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According to the text, the first modernist painter was which of the following?
a. Toulouse-Lautrec
b. van Gogh
c. Gauguin
d. Cézanne |
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| George Catlin - The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - At the Mountain Rouge |
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| JL David - Napolean Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass |
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| JM Cameron - Whisper of the Muse |
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| JMW Tuner - The Slave Ship |
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| John Nash - The Royal Pavilion |
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| Paul Cezanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire |
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| Theodore Gerricault - The Raft of the Medusa |
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| Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night |
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