In his writings on existentialism, what condition did Sartre insist is fundamental to each individual?

Character is the sum of his or her own actions.

What did Einstein and other physicists discover?

Newtonian laws did not function at the microscopic level.

Which of the following attitudes is LEAST characteristic of art in the first half of the twentieth century?

Confidence in an orderly and predictable universe

What event is immortalized in Picasso’s landmark painting, Guernica?

Aerial bombing of a small Spanish town

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Quiz 3 HUM 1302

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1
Which artistic movement thrived on nihilism and irrationalism?
Cubism
Dada
Futurism
Fauvism
2
According to Freud, civilization was the product of what condition?
Unchecked libido, or sex drive
Ego's sublimation of the id
Conscious efforts of the superego
Undirected power of the id
3
In his writings on existentialism, what condition did Sartre insist is fundamental to each individual?
Behavior is controlled by social and economic forces.
An essential nature is inborn.
Character is the sum of his or her own actions.
Anxiety is created because a person is unable to shape their own lives.
4
When did the United States Supreme Court finally ban school segregation?
1975
1954
1925
1900
5
What is a major component of hip-hop music?
Microtonality
Atonal patterns of sounds
Chance procedures
Intense, rhythmic beats
6
Why is Merce Cunningham’s choreography considered radical?
It requires a polyrhythmic score.
It relies on narrative structure.
It excludes female dancers.
It does not depend on music.
7
The elements of jazz and street slang feature prominently in the poetry of which writer?
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Ashbery
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
8
What did Einstein and other physicists discover?
Physical laws correspond exactly with the world of sense perception.
Newtonian laws did not function at the microscopic level.
Newtonian laws of physics only functioned at the cosmic level.
Objects preserved the same properties whether at rest or in motion.
9
Which of the following attitudes is LEAST characteristic of art in the first half of the twentieth century?
An interest in the purely formal aspects of artistic expression
The influence of new theories of time and space
Confidence in an orderly and predictable universe
The disjunctive juxtaposition of motifs
10
Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were pioneering figures in which literary genre?
painting
scince fiction
poetry
verse drama
11
The assertion that “the world will never be white again” was made by which author of Notes of a Native Son?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Langston Hughes
12
Where was the first totalitarian state of the twentieth century established?
Russia
Japan
China
Germany
13
What event is immortalized in Picasso’s landmark painting, Guernica?
Fall of Moscow during the Russian Revolution
Aerial bombing of a small Spanish town
Destruction of Hiroshima
Revolt of underpaid Spanish workers
14
Which Harlem Renaissance artist painted “The Migration Series,” a visual narrative of the great northward movement?
Louis Armstrong
📷Jacob Lawrence
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston

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