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Humanities Sectional Exam #3
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A #humanities review for a sectional exam covering #enlightenment to #thecontemporarysprit
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1
Which painters best define the pure impressionist style (brilliant color & vibrant brushwork)?
Edouard Manet & Edgar Degas
Claude Monet & Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paul Cezanne & George Seurat
Gustave Courbet & Honore Daumier
2
What bests describes Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled
Ring of the Nibelung
?
adapted the love stories and gay tales of traditional opera
experimented with the tonalities of exotic instruments
important in the development of late 19th-century ballet
synthesized orchestral music & staging in a "total" artwork
3
Who were often the organizers of the French Salon, the center of intellectual debate?
artisans
priests
noblewomen
government officials
4
London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of what Romantic style?
Neomedievalism (Gothic)
Neoclassicism
Ecclecticism
Indian Gothic
5
The Marriage of Figaro
by Mozart is an example of what musical form?
oratorio
motet
opera
symphony
6
What best describes the achievement of Jonathan Swift?
a leading composer of the Classical period
the author of an influential epistolary novel
the ingenious architectural adapter of neoclassical styles
a satirical commentator on human folly
7
Which author satirized the philosophical optimism of Enlightenment figures in
Candide
and other writings?
Diderot
Descartes
Jefferson
Voltaire
8
He created romanticized portraits he called "fancy pictures" appealing to British wealthy class
William Hogarth
Antoine Watteau
Balthasar Neumann
Thomas Gainsborough
9
Who is best categorized as an "abstract expressionist" painter of the New York school?
Robert Smithson
Judy Chicago
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
10
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
, an early feminist manifesto, was written by:
Mary Shelley
Marie Guillemine Benoist
Clara Schumann
Mary Wollstonecraft
11
The two artists who invented the analytic and synthetic methods of cubist painting:
Salvador Dali & Joan Miro
Georges Braque & Pablo Picasso
Marcel Duchamp & Henri Matisse
Paul Klee and Walter Gropius
12
What does Descartes' proposition, "I think, therefore I am," demonstrate?
his respect for the theories of Francis Bacon
a premise he could not doubt
his rejection of scientific inquiry
his debt to the empirical method
13
Which playwright brought literary Realism to the theatrical stage?
Gustave Flaubert
Leo Tolstoy
Henrik Ibsen
Mark Twain
14
Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as
4'33"
?
John Corigliano
John Cage
Benjamin Britten
Merce Cunningham
15
Why did both Protestants and Catholics oppose the heliocentric theory?
It was a form of paganSun God worship
It was introduced to Europe by Muslim astronomers
it had no empirical basis
it contradicted Scripture
16
What was the most important new medium in mid-19th-century architecture?
cement
brick & mortar
cast iron & glass
wood & bronze
17
Picasso's landmark work
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
was a precursor to what style?
Fauvism
Futurism
Impressionism
Cubism
18
Which of these works was a pioneering work of music
minimalism
?
Piere Boulez, Structures I
Philips Glass, Einstein on the Beach
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
August Wilson, Fences
19
Artists of the Hudson River School, such as Thomas Cole, are noted as painters of what subject?
Native American
heroic actions
natural landscapes
historical events
20
Why would the artistic public of the 1860s have likely rejected Manet's
Luncheon on the Grass
?
picture placed a bold nude woman in a contemporary setting
work depicted exotic tropical scenes in garish colors
work seemed to call for violent uprisings of urban workers
the work's sketchy brushstrokes seemed amateurish
21
Which artist anticipated 20th-century abstract art in his later works by focusing on form rather than subject?
Vincent Van Gogh
Paul Cézanne
Edouard Manet
Paul Gauguin
22
Which statement best describes Kandinsky's
Improvisation 28
?
swirling lines & color have no reference to figure or story
painted on geometric grid that dissolves object into shapes
used atonal harmonies to create an atmosphere of dissonance
used multiple rhythms to create jarring dislocations
23
How did Beethoven substantially alter the Classical symphony form of Haydn and Mozart?
selectively reduced the number of instruments in orchestra
eliminated the symphony's fourth movement
used the motif to expand and unify the symphony structure
emphasized the classical simplicity of his mentor's style
24
Who was the pioneer figure in American Pop art?
Robert Rauschenberg
Roberth Smithson
Frank Gehry
Andy Warhol
25
In Romanticism, what was the "sublime?"
the promises of industrialization
secret messages encoded in the works of ancient scholars
awe-inspiring nature
the Hegelian dialectic
26
What characteristic separated the operas of Mozart from those of his predecessors?
use of symphony form
sentimentalism
improvisation
sympathetic, flesh-and-blood characters
27
Which of these works is best described with the term
earth art
?
Calder's Spring Blossoms
David Smith's Cubi XVIII
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure
28
What was a principle of John Locke's?
security lay in conferring power upon a single ruler
legitimate goverment required the consent of the governed
religion is the bedrock of the social contract
revolution is never justified
29
What was one of the main characteristics of Whitman's landmark poetry?
It promotes celibacy as a means to transcendence
It celebrates the traditional monarchy
It is both modest and self-effacing
It is written in free verse
30
Which author offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of 19th-century society in works like
David Copperfield
?
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gustave Flaubert
31
Matthew Brady and Eadweard Muybridge are associated with what genre?
impressionism
literary Realism
photography
lthography
32
What aspect of romanticism is best expressed in Albert Bierstadt's
Among the Sierra Nevada?
a nostalgic attraction to the medieval past
search of exotic pleasure and sensual delight
the protest against tyranny and inhumanity
fascination with the unspoiled beauty of nature
33
What was the most distinctive feature of Imagist poetry?
pared down, abstract style
lyricism
revival of fixed meter and rhyme
attention to realistic detail
34
Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot
belongs to what dramatic genre?
hip hop
theater of the cruel
aleatory drama
theater of the absurd
35
Fauvist artworks are most notable for their bold use of what element?
distorted geometric shapes
color
abstract imagery
dreamlike images
36
Francois Boucher's
The Toilet of Venus
most clearly illustrates what idea or topic?
the legitimacy of royal power
a loving reconciliation of husband and wife
tensions among the social classes of Europe
the luxurious self-indulgence of the rococo style
37
What was the predominate theme of Rococo paintings?
nobility of patriotic self-sacrifice
omnipresence of death and suffering
dignity of the common peasant
pursuit of pleasure
38
According to Marcel Duchamp and other Dada figures, what should be the role of artists?
advocates for peace
destroyers of tradition
eyes of the people
conscience of the nation
39
Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of what Western ideal?
veneration of class
urge to transcend limitations
desire to conform to societal norms
emphasis on knowlegde over experience
40
Which work is best classified as
surrealist
?
Dali's The Persistence of Memory
Wright's "Fallingwater"
Picasso's Three Musicians
Charles Ives' Three Pieces in New England
