HUM 101 Homework needed by Monday. 2 x 50 questions each. last 2 homework.

Q1. The best known of the beat poets was    a. William Carlos Williams.    b. James Dean.    c. Charlie Parker.    d. Alan Ginsberg. Q2. A totally new art form created in the 1920s was    a. blues.    b. symbolism.    c. impressionism.    d. jazz. Q3. Charlie Parker created a new style of music called    a. bebop.    b. Dixieland.    c. swing.    d. cool. Q4. The protagonist of Invisible Man fills a basement with    a. pages torn out of books.    b. 1,369 lightbulbs.    c. garbage.    d. used clothing. Q5. The Rite of Spring portrays    a. the ritual of human sacrifice.    b. the blossoming of cherry trees.    c. the fulfillment of young love.    d. an imitation of the ancient Dionysian dance. Q6. The poetry of _____________ evokes the sights and sounds of Chile.    a. José Lins do Rego    b. Pablo Neruda    c. Jorge Luis Borges    d. Miguel Angel Asturias Q7. Which of the following brought Nijinsky fame?    a. his revival of the music of Tchaikovsky    b. an "en pointe" technique that emphasized ritual gestures    c. a choreography that imitated the Chinese "Noh" theater dance    d. gestures in dance that tried to express a new "primitive wholeness" Q8. Antonin Artaud was profoundly influenced by ____________ theater and dance.    a. Asian    b. African    c. South American    d. African American Q9. Ansel Adams's favorite subject was    a. the rural American South.    b. urban industrial centers.    c. the American West.    d. the European peasant.

Q10. The Guggenheim Museum was designed by    a. Henry Russell Hitchcock.    b. Frank Lloyd Wright.    c. Le Corbusier.    d. Walter Gropius. Q11. Charlie Chaplin is most memorable for his contribution to    a. dance.    b. theatre.    c. silent film.    d. painting. Q12. Ernesto Cardenal's poetry    a. criticizes liberation theology.    b. gives voice to the voiceless.    c. reflects a tone of social approval.    d. is appealing only to Nicaraguans.

Q13. All of the following were involved in the founding of L'étudiant noir EXCEPT    a. Aimé Césaire.    b. Léopold Sédar.    c. Gaston Antoine.    d. Léon Gontran Damas. Q14. It is clear that American society is becoming more and more    a. culturally pluralistic.    b. religious.    c. ethnocentric.    d. capitalistic. Q15. One of the foremost chroniclers of the world-weariness and emotional emptiness of modernist writing was    a. Gertrude Stein.    b. Ezra Pound.    c. T. S. Eliot.    d. James Joyce. Q16. The first important skyscraper in the International style was the    a. Robie House.    b. Empire State Building.    c. Guggenheim Museum.    d. Lever Building. Q17. The cradle of modernism in the early twentieth century was    a. Rome.    b. Paris.    c. Berlin.    d. New York. Q18. A major point of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is that women    a. are defined in terms of their biological functions.    b. have achieved financial independence in the twentieth century.    c. should avoid having children.    d. must forcibly seize political control from men. Q19. The total death toll of World War II is estimated to have been at least    a. 50 million.    b. 75 million.    c. 100 million.    d. 150 million. Q20. In preserving an African style of dance, African Americans developed the    a. ballet.    b. waltz.    c. tap dance.    d. fox trot. Q21. A painting referred to as "pop" art would most likely depict    a. geometric forms and synthetic materials.    b. popular ethnic folk art.    c. a can of tomato soup.    d. a canvas spattered with random color. Q22. Which of the following photographers is most often associated with photography's development as an art form in early twentieth-century America?    a. Dorothea Lange    b. Jacob Riis    c. Alfred Stieglitz    d. James Van Der Zee Q23. Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House is an example of    a. the cubist style.    b. functionalism.    c. the "prairie" style.    d. the bold, new design theory of the Bauhaus. Q24. Brancusi's Bird in Space could be interpreted as    a. an intricate study of an eagle in flight.    b. the universal essence of a bird's form.    c. a surrealistic painting of flight.    d. an imitation of the "ashcan school" technique. Q25. Each of the following is an expression of postmodernism in art except    a. antiform or open form.    b. the expression of self.    c. the world as global village.    d. the mixing of different styles. Q26. The modern tendency most notable in Picasso's art is    a. an imitation of the color and vigor of Gauguin.    b. a rejection of sensuality and a turning toward asceticism.    c. a transformation of the figurative or naturalistic tradition in art.    d. a concern with religious values. Q27. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors was a seminal piece of art that demonstrated the new style called    a. surrealism.    b. impressionistic sculpture.    c. cubism.    d. expressionism. Q28. Brecht's popular musical __________________ was written in collaboration with the composer Kurt Weill    a. Mother Courage    b. The Three Penny Opera    c. The Good Women of Setzuan    d. Galileo Q29. The Dinner Party, a controversial work of art celebrating the achievements of women and women's creativity in the minor arts, was created by    a. Virginia Woolf.    b. Adrienne Rich.    c. Judy Chicago.    d. Alice Walker. Q30. Critic and theorist Michel Foucault proclaimed that humans have moved from a God-centered world, to a human-centered world, and now to a world without    a. love.    b. beauty.    c. creativity.    d. center. Q31. As Ralph Ellison defined it, the blues are    a. an autobiographical chronicle of personal suffering expressed lyrically.    b. propaganda used by blacks as a legitimate form of protest.    c. a reaction to the white capitalistic exploitation of the lower class.    d. a form of art for art's sake. Q32. _______________ of Buenos Aires had an enormous international impact from the late 1950s on.    a. Jorge Luis Borges    b. Mariano Azuela    c. Ciro Alegria    d. José Lins do Rego Q33. Antonin Artaud's The Theater and its Double compares and contrasts the _______________ theater.    a. oriental and occidental    b. modern and premodern    c. realist and symbolist    d. African and European Q34. The __________________ was the largest land war in history    a. Second Anglo-French-German War (1939–1945)    b. Russo-German War (1941–1945)    c. Japanese American War (1941–1945)    d. War for Greater East Asia (1931–1949) Q35. Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die," is representative of the ______________ school of artistic expression.    a. neoclassical    b. expressionist    c. Harlem Renaissance    d. abstract Q36. In "The Republic of Silence" Jean-Paul Sartre states that people have never been so free as    a. when thinking.    b. after the war.    c. under German occupation.    d. during battle. Q37. Jazz _______________ Ornette Coleman was as much a social leader as a musical artist.    a. guitarist    b. drummer    c. saxophonist    d. pianist Q38. The thrust of the postcolonial movement is to    a. discard harmful Western assumptions and stereotypes.    b. create a new set of ideals totally opposite Western ones.    c. denigrate Westerners.    d. take an aggressive stance against economic imperialism. Q39. The feature most characteristic of the school of abstract expressionism or action painting is    a. a return to the use of identifiable subject matter.    b. a smaller, more intimate type of painting.    c. the necessity of an intense and vital act depicted in the art.    d. a belief in the primacy of the unconscious in the gesture of painting. Q40. The sculptor who created the stretched, attenuated human form was    a. Calder.    b. Smith.    c. Giacometti.    d. Davis.

Q41. Being and Nothingness established Sartre as    a. a nihilist.    b. a naturalist.    c. a realist.    d. an existentialist. Q42. The subject of Ezra Pound's poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is    a. spiritual emptiness.    b. the danger of young marriage.    c. love.    d. trade. Q43. The beginning of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man depicts a man who    a. has no trouble making people see him for who he is.    b. actually becomes invisible.    c. tries to live out the role others have assigned to him.    d. has resolved his identity problems. Q44. Race riots broke out in the "bloody summer" of ___________ in more than twenty-five U.S. cities.    a. 1929    b. 1919    c. 1939    d. 1909 Q45. The event that impelled Claude McKay to write "If We Must Die" was    a. a race riot in the summer of 1919.    b. World War I.    c. an influenza epidemic.    d. the murder of "Back to Africa" leaders. Q46. Braque and Picasso experimented with pasting and gluing materials onto canvas, an art form called    a. cubism.    b. collage.    c. essentialism.    d. expressionism. Q47. Ezra Pound was interested in the aesthetics and techniques of _______________ poetry.    a. American    b. French    c. Chinese and Japanese    d. German Q48. Kandinsky tells us that one consideration was more important to him than any other:    a. how to paint the familiar object and make it seem new.    b. how to contrast the orderly and formal with the sensuous and energetic.    c. how to get the public to accept his new and radical approach.    d. what abstract forms would replace the missing object. Q49. World War II differed most dramatically from World War I in that    a. fewer nations were involved.    b. the United States was more actively involved.    c. communism gained tremendous ground.    d. World War II was truly global. Q50. In such novels as Ulysses, Joyce used    a. interior monologue.    b. surrealism.    c. religious fervor and spiritual piety.    d. an informal, loose style.