CSTU 310 TEST 2
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Question 1
Baroque music differed from Renaissance music in its use of:
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Question 2
all of the above
5 out of 5 points
The Enlightenment philosopher who proposed the slogan Sapare aude, “Dare to
know” was:
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Question 3
Kant
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Henri Nouwen wrote a book about his experience spending hours sitting in front of
which of the following works of art?
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Question 4
Return of the Prodigal Son
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The composer of Messiah is:
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Question 5
Handel
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The composer in whose music the Baroque era reached its peak was:
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Question 6
Bach
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The composer of The Creation is:
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Question 7
Haydn
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Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. The Enlightenment is sometimes called
the Age of .
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Question 8
Reason
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According to our text, the most important of the French philosophes was:
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Question 9
Voltaire
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Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that the structure of the human mind
actually shapes reality?
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Immanuel Kant
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Question 10
5 out of 5 points
An emphasis on the subjective, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, and
the emotional is characteristic of which artistic era?
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Romantic
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Question 11
5 out of 5 points
Choose the best answer. Richard Wagner envisioned the music drama as a
Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total art work,” in which of the following:
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all of the above
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Question 12
5 out of 5 points
Clearness, elegance, and symmetry are adjectives that are used to describe:
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Classicism
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Question 13
5 out of 5 points
A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard
Wagner in his operas, is called:
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leitmotif
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Question 14
5 out of 5 points
Composer Arnold Schoenberg’s use of the 12 musical tones in a specific order
became known as:
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serialism
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Question 15
5 out of 5 points
Which composer’s career was a model for many Romantic composers?
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Question 16
5 out of 5 points
The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion
was called:
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expressionism
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Question 17
5 out of 5 points
Choose the best answer. The word “postmodern” first seems to have been used to
describe a style of:
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architecture
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Question 18
5 out of 5 points
Choose the best answer. Immanuel Kant influenced the way beauty was understood
by:
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modern and postmodern cultures
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Question 19
5 out of 5 points
Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. “Liturgy” literally means “the work of the
”:
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Answer:
people
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Question 20
An article by J. David Richen draws parallels between liturgy and:
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architecture
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Question 21
Psalm 33:1-3 teaches that God’s people are to praise him by:
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Answer:
singing and playing instruments
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Question 22
5 out of 5 points
According to Hans Urs von Balthasar, if the biblical view of beauty is abandoned,
which of the following will suffer as well?
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both goodness and truth
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Question 23
5 out of 5 points
The idea of aesthetics as an independent philosophical discipline was first introduced
by
Selected Alexander Baumgarten
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Question 24
5 out of 5 points
Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Balthasar writes that “beauty demands
for itself at least as much courage as and ”:
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truth/goodness
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Question 25
5 out of 5 points
According to Edward Oakes, the philosopher who “first recognized the connection
between the beauty of art and the truth of belief” was:
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Nietzsche
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Question 26
5 out of 5 points
As Edward Oakes explains Balthasar’s thought, “we will never come to affirm the
truth of revelation unless we first perceive it as:
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Answer:
beautiful
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Question 27
5 out of 5 points
Enlightenment philosophers used the words “beauty” and “sublime” as synonyms.
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Fals
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Question 28
5 out of 5 points
Enlightenment philosophers were generally supportive of the Christian church and its
teachings.
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Fals
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Question 29
5 out of 5 points
Characteristics that exemplify Romanticism include: clearness, elegance, and
symmetry.
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Fals
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Question 30
5 out of 5 points
Bach composed nearly 200 operas, which were performed during Sunday morning
worship services.
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Fals
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