Quiz: The Modern World and the Future of Western
Culture
Due Aug 18 at 11:59pm Points 80 Questions 30
Time Limit 40 Minutes
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Question 1
Who said these famous words? With malice toward none; with
charity for all; with rmness in the right, as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to nish the work we are in; to bind up the
nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all
nations.
Jefferson
Washington
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Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Question 2
The most representative poet of the mid-Victorian era, He reected
the mood of the period in poetry that was sad, quiet,
contemplative, melancholy, sometimes wistful, and often
pessimistic. The old optimism of the early Romantics had
vanished.
Arnold
Tennyson
Gauguin
Shelley
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Question 3
Between 1750 and 1850 England’s economic structure changed
drastically as the nation shifted from an agrarian society to
modern _________________.
Industrialism
Democracy
Technology
Modernism
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Question 4
From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” In the American
Western culture, our coins describe three of the values that provide
the foundation that holds American culture together, as well as
unites us. You can think of these like a three-legged stool. If you
remove any leg the stool will fall. Which of these is not one of the
three?
“In God We Trust”
Liberty
Freedom
“E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, one”),
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Question 5
He believed in an all-encompassing Absolute, a world Spirit that
expressed itself in the historical process. Basing his logic on the
“triadic dialectic,” He stated that for every concept or force (thesis)
there was its opposite idea (antithesis). He has a strong inuence
on Karl Marx. Lived from 1770-1831.
Darwin
Kant
Hegel
James Adams
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Question 6
Perhaps more than any other period, the Romantic era was
expressed as well in literature as in music and the visual arts. “Art,”
wrote _____________, “is the most intense mode of individualism
that the world has known.”
Rousseau
Oscar Wilde
Shelley
Wordsworth
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Question 7
Which group concludes that truth is off the table, so relax?
Modernists
Christians
Postmodernists
Communists
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Question 8
The so called “War to end all Wars.”
Great War
World War II
Spanish-American War
Civil War
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Question 9
From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Which letters
below signify-we are Roman and all of this is ours?
Pax-Romano
SPQR
Omega
Alpha
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Question 10
For him, the way people made a living, their “means of production,”
determined their beliefs and institutions. He based his worldview
on the class struggle between the bourgeois vs the proletariat.
Darwin
Marx
Wordsworth
Tennyson
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Question 11
On a larger scale, ______________ reinforced the idea that some
nations were more competent than others; defeating an adversary
in warfare would thus demonstrate that superiority. Indeed, it
became almost a moral duty.
Social Darwinism
Romanticism
Existentialism
Nihilism
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Question 12
Published years after their death. These 1,775 poems were written
as if they were entries in a diary, the private thoughts of a solitary
person who took just a little from society and shut out all the rest.
Lived from 1830-1886--
Twain
Emily Dickinson
Crane
Poe
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Question 13
Who wrote these words from his famous work Don Juan? He was
the epitome of the Romantic Hero.
“I want a hero: an uncommon want, . . .
But can’t nd any in the present age
Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one):
So, as I said, I’ll take my friend Don Juan.”
Shelley
Lord Byron
Keats
Wordsworth
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Question 14
The spokesman and chief painter of the Impressionist style was
__________ who throughout his long and productive career relied
wholly on his visual perceptions.
Monet
Dickinson
Cezanne
Rousseau
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Question 15
Who helped set the initial stages of the Romanticism with his
inspirational Social Contract. With the ringing proclamation: “Man
is born free and everywhere he is in chains”.
Darwin
Rousseau
Marx
Napoleon
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Question 16
Whose sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” which mourns a
world so overwhelmed with materialism that it may lose its
spiritual qualities.
Wordsworth
Beethoven
Rousseau
Lord Byron
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Question 17
The English philosopher who argued that evolution occurred not
only in nature, but in human institutions as well.
Spencer
Keats
Kant
Flanagan
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Question 18
Which is these is not an American author?
Emerson
Shelley
Poe
Whitman
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Question 19
Although he did not consider himself a Romantic poet, he is
remembered for a classic Romantic quote: “Each man is meant to
represent humanity in his own way, combining its elements
uniquely”.
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Byron
Shelley
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Question 20
What event in the early 1900’s was such a cataclysmic event that
it ended a era of idealism and set the stage for the search for new
values: chaos followed by a period of adjustment.
World War 1
Spanish American War
Industrial Revolution
Roaring 20’s
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Question 21
From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Radical
individualism is demanded when there is no danger that
achievement will produce inequality and people wish to be
unhindered in the pursuit of pleasure.
True
False
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Question 22
According to the video presentation “Modernist Inuences on Western
Thought”, Rousseau had a low view of mankind and taught that mankind
never had a chance in life because we are born bad.
True
False
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Question 23
According to the video “A Prism for Christian Reection on Popular
Culture”, the presenter stated that as Christians, we can and should
remove ourselves from Culture.
True
False
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Question 24
In many ways, the modern environmental movement could be
traced back to the romantic veneration of nature.
True
False
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Question 25
Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” illustrates his love of
puritanism during the late 19th century.
True
False
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Question 26
Whitman’s epic novel Moby Dick is still read by many.
True
False
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Question 27
The Vietnam Memorial is a prime example of Neo-Classical
architecture.
True
False
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Question 28
Globalization does not appear to have created a global community.
Indeed, one can argue it has made the possibility even more
remote.
True
False
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Question 29
People's religious views will determine the direction of their
individual lives and of their society.
True
False
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Question 30
Impressionists saw themselves as the ultimate realists whose
main concern was the perception of optical sensations of light and
color.
True
False
Quiz Score: 80 out of 80
