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Q1. The breakthrough in eighteenth-century industrialism first came in the ______________ industry.
a. iron
b. cotton
c. coal
d. silk
Q2. The Enlightenment figure who had the most influence on the romantic movement was
a. Voltaire.
b. David.
c. Rousseau.
d. Napoleon.
Q3. Mozart based his Don Giovanni on a play by.
a. Moliere.
b. Locke.
c. Shakespeare.
d. Rousseau.
Q4. One nation that was able to limit Western intrusion during the seventeenth to the nineteenth century was
a. China.
b. Japan.
c. India.
d. Indonesia.
Q5. Edgar Degas is frequently associated with paintings of
a. mountains.
b. harbors.
c. nature.
d. ballerinas.
Q6. In his paintings, J. M. W. Turner concentrated his artistic experimentation on
a. color.
b. light.
c. perspective.
d. shadow.
Q7. In his books, Freud defined religion as
a. an expression of Eros.
b. a search for mother.
c. a universal neurosis, an illusion.
d. an occasion for contemplating the unconscious.
Q8. During the Spanish Civil War, General Francisco Franco led the forces of the
a. Loyalists.
b. Libertarians.
c. Nationalists.
d. Republicans.
Q9. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill makes the point that
a. women should be given the vote, but they are not capable of holding the highest offices.
b. the subordination of women to men would not be an established historical fact if there were not some basis for it.
c. the subordination of one sex to another is completely wrong.
d. women have chosen their status and must take responsibility for it themselves.
Q10. A modern psychologist might state that Don Giovanni portrays the conflict between the id and the
a. ego.
b. conscious.
c. superego.
d. unconscious.
Q11. The Shootings of the Third of May, 1808 condemns
a. ignorant, reactionary peasants.
b. Admiral Nelson.
c. the French soldiers.
d. the citizens of Paris.
Q12. A femme fatale is a woman who
a. dies for love.
b. seduces innocent young men.
c. has great artistic ability.
d. is a young widow.
Q13. An important difference between new liberals of the mid-– nineteenth century and the thinkers who preceded them was that the new liberals believed that
a. government should foster individual freedom.
b. government should protect private property.
c. basic services should be provided by the government for the common good.
d. political power was a basic right of all workers.
Q14. Which of the following is characteristic of the symbolist movement in art and music?
a. It interprets the everyday world.
b. It neglects, though it does not reject, the spiritual.
c. It insists on art for its own sake.
d. It glorifies science and technology.
Q15. Early nineteenth-century liberals believed all of the following except that
a. individuals should follow their own enlightened self-interest.
b. private property should gradually be abolished.
c. the state should not interfere in people's lives.
d. wages would tend to stay at the subsistence level.
Q16. Emily Dickinson's poetry reveals nature sometimes as a soothing mother and sometimes as a harbinger of
a. war.
b. death.
c. heaven.
d. peace.
Q17. The seat of instinctual drives, largely unconscious, was called the ______________ by Freud.
a. superego
b. dreambed
c. id
d. ego
Q18. Which of the following was a champion of women's rights?
a. Mill
b. Jefferson
c. Voltaire
d. Keats
Q19. ___________________’s Les fleurs du mal shocked the French reading public.
a. Baudelaire
b. Balzac
c. Stendhal
d. Flaubert
Q20. _________ wrote Song of Myself.
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Herman Melville
Q21. The ______________, as we know it today, was created by a group of sixteenth-century Italian humanists known as the Camerata.
a. opera
b. chorus
c. symphony orchestra
d. marching band
Q22. The most famous attraction of the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 was the
a. internal combustion engine.
b. ferrisFerris wheel.
c. Crystal Palace.
d. telegraph.
Q23. Byron's poetic allusion to "the rock, the vulture, and the chain" refers to
a. symbols of the revolution in its decline.
b. political forces at work in England.
c. instruments of torture used against Prometheus.
d. symbols of death, prison, and exile.
Q24. Marxism was most successful in countries that had
a. not yet industrialized.
b. already abolished private property.
c. the strongest belief in individual rights.
d. the biggest factories.
Q25. The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" of 1848 was
a. one of the first historic documents to assert the rights of women.
b. a reaction against The Communist Manifesto.
c. a treatise on liberal economics.
d. not taken seriously by its authors.
Q26. The _____________ movement in the United States became organized when William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator.
a. women’s rights
b. liberal
c. abolitionist
d. free trade
Q27. The American painter Thomas Eakins was greatly influenced by the works of
a. VelásquezVelázquez.
b. Delacroix.
c. Goya.
d. Constable.
Q28. The "magic" word for America during the Roaring Twenties was
a. music.
b. dance.
c. money.
d. credit.
Q29. By 1785, the Industrial Revolution was clearly underway in
a. France
b. Britain
c. Prussia
d. Russia
Q30. In his book Civilization and Its Discontents Freud concluded that
a. human culture develops through the sublimation of instinctual drives.
b. primitive societies were happier because they did not impose so many taboos.
c. there are grounds for being optimistic about human survival.
d. technological progress and civilization are largely responsible for human misery.
Q31. The most famous of the realist painters was
a. Goya.
b. Delacroix.
c. Gustave Courbet.
d. Frederick D. Maurice.
Q32. Freud saw the human being as
a. primarily rational.
b. a creature of internal conflict.
c. a child.
d. motivated by altruism.
Q33. One of the first leaders in the French Revolution, later put to death, was
a. Louis the Bastard.
b. Napoleon.
c. Marat.
d. Robespierre.
Q34. The Central Powers included all of the following except
a. Turkey.
b. Serbia.
c. Germany.
d. Austria-Hungary.
Q35. In the first scene of Don Giovanni, the title character murders the father of
a. Donna Elvira.
b. Zerlina.
c. Donna Anna.
d. Leporello.
Q36. The leading revolutionary painter, who took themes of political injustice such as the death of Socrates as his subject matter, was
a. Fragonard.
b. Boucher.
c. Watteau.
d. David.
Q37. In "Letter to Lord Irwin," Gandhi claims that he
a. must defend his people, using violence if necessary.
b. intends harm to Englishmen.
c. cannot hurt anything that lives.
d. must remain neutral when regarding the claims of Indians and Englishmen.
Q38. The __________________ (1885) set off a scramble for new African colonies.
a. Berlin Conference
b. Morocco Conference
c. Algiers Conference
d. Munich Conference
Q39. In Marx's view of history, the ancient slave economy was replaced by the
a. bourgeoisie.
b. feudal system.
c. medieval merchant class.
d. Industrial Revolution.
Q40. During the second half of the eighteenth century, the ______________ emerged as the primary musical medium.
a. opera
b. chorus
c. symphony orchestra
d. marching band
Q41. Marx believed that the conflict between classes was
a. reaching a crisis in his times.
b. centuries from reaching its culmination.
c. not an important factor in historical change.
d. more an illusion than a reality.
Q42. Ford Madox Brown's painting Work deals with
a. the brutal working conditions of the poor.
b. the idealization of labor.
c. the sharp contrast between laborers and passersby.
d. propaganda for a socialized utopia.
Q43. In Mozart's Don Giovanni, the role of Don Giovanni is sung by a(n)
a. bass.
b. baritone.
c. alto.
d. tenor.
Q44. Symbolist art began as an attempt to
a. paint things exactly as they appeared.
b. project an ideal image of society.
c. render the qualities of light.
d. express emotional and spiritual values.
Q45. Of the following countries, in which did women acquire the vote first?
a. Canada
b. England
c. The United States
d. France
Q46. The surface of _____________________’s Home Insurance Building hangs on its steel and iron frame.
a. Louis Sullivan
b. Marshall Field
c. William LeBaron Jenney
d. J. P. McCormick
Q47. In Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 represented the victory of forces that believed that Japan needed to
a. ally with China to defeat the West.
b. modernize its industries and its military.
c. avoid contact with modern societies.
d. practice nonviolence in order to defeat colonialism.
Q48. ______________ liked to paint several versions of the same subject, such as Mont Sainte-Victoire, presenting it in its own right and yet acting as an abstract equivalent for the seen world.
a. Cézanne
b. Picasso
c. Kandinsky
d. Brancusi
Q49. Opera has traditionally been associated with the upper classes because
a. it is the most expensive musical form to produce.
b. the stories used always concern kings and nobles.
c. it is directly descended from Greek tragedy.
d. most operas were commissioned by kings or nobles.
Q50. All of the following are forms of musical drama, in the sense that they represent different ways of combining music and important words, except
a. opera.
b. Gregorian chant.
c. The Play of Daniel.
d. the baroque toccata.
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