HUMANITIES FINAL
Sojourner Truth
Ain't I a Woman
Romanticism
An artistic and literary movement that responded to disillusionment with enlightenment values
The phrase from Kant's work, 'What is Enlightenment?' considered emblematic of the Enlightenment is,
Dare to know
Which of the following ideas is incompatible and inconsistent with Deism?
God became a man
Lord Mansfield is relevant to the painting 'Dido Elizabeth Belle Murray and Lady Elizabeth Murray' because,
He was the uncle of her father and her benefactor.
Dorrie Miller
Medal of Honor
Jean Paul Sartre
No Exit
Jackson Pollock
Number 1
"Woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum."
Olympe de Gouges
Thomas Cole
Painter inspired by the Hudson River School
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
Simone de Beauvior
The Second Sex
The Somerset Case (1772) is related to the painting Dido Elizabeth Bell and Lady Elizabeth Murray because,
The judge in the case was Lord Mansfield, Dido Belle's great uncle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
The Spring Offensive of 1918 is best characterized as,
a. A German offensive that had initial success but ultimately resulted in defeat for Germany.
Which of the following statements about Dada, modernistic art and abstraction is most true?
a. Dada was a post -WWI artistic movement that is modernist and employed abstraction.
Which of the following artists did not have art included for ridicule in the Degenerate Art Exhibit?
a. Leni Riefenstahl
The term 'action painting' means,
a. That a canvas becomes an arena in which to act, an event unto itself.
Kierkegaard held which of the following views,
a. That believing that an eternal, infinite God became incarnate in a man, Jesus, requires a leap of faith.
Picasso's painting Guernica is about which event in the Spanish Civil War?
a. The bombing of a town in Northern Spain by fascist forces.
Which of the following is true of the Surrender of Japan in 1945?
a. The surrender of Japan was announced on August 15, 1945 after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Nuremberg laws were law that,
a. made it illegal for Jews in Germany to do many things, including publishing, working in a bank or in a hospital.
Olympe De Gouges argued for which of the following?
all of the above
The Declaration of the Rights and Man and Citizen includes which of the following provisions:
all of the above
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
approved by french national assembly
Mary Wollstonecraft
author of Vibndication of the rights of women
Harriet Beecher Stowe
author of a famnous novel about evils of slavery
Frederick Douglass
author of a slave narrative
The Degenerate Art Exhibit aimed to vilify what kind of art?
b. Modernism.
The paintings of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock can be contrasted in which of the following ways?
b. Pollock's paintings focus more on action and Rothko's paintings are more meditative.
Which of the following is a principle and ideal of the age of Enlightenment?
b. Science and reason cure superstition and lead to truth.
Which of the following ideas is not directly expressed in the text of the final draft of the Declaration of Independence?
b. The idea that slavery is unacceptable.
Consider the following passage from the Second Coming, "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity." How might this depiction of the world be considered in some way related to Picasso's painting The Guitarist?
c. Although one work is created before World War I and the other at the close of the War both depict reality as in some way ruptured.
Frederick Douglass challenged Lincoln's policies on slavery prior to 1863 because Douglass wanted Lincoln to,
c. Bring a definitive end to slavery in all of the United States with an Emancipation Proclamation.
The principle that "existence precedes essence" can be said to imply that,
c. Human beings define what they are by what they do.
Which of the following best characterizes the architectural design of Saint Paul's cathedral in London?
c. Saint Paul's incorporates several design elements including Neoclassical, Gothic, and Baroque.
Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, implies which the following commentary on war?
c. That war steals the lives of young men, no matter if they die on the battlefield or survived forever changed.
Which of the following people publicly despised the novel All Quiet On the Western Front?
d. Adolf Hitler
The landscape painting of Thomas Cole and the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson are most influenced by which of the following ideas:
d. Contemplating the beauty of nature and the wilderness is a path to the divine.
Although distinguished by individual styles, most Abstract Expressionists shared which of the following common artistic and intellectual interests?
d. Interests in marxist ideas of social and economic equality and influences from Regionalist styles of American artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, as well as the Socialist Realism of Mexican muralists including Diego Rivera and José Orozco.
Artists mentioned as possible painters of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray are,
d. Johann Zoffany and David Martin
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of 'Enlightenment thinking?
d. The idea that prayer is efficacious.
Which of the following events, all of these are related to World War II, is the earliest event?
d. The invasion of the Sudetenland.
JMW Turner's painting, The Slave Ship (1840) is about,
d. The murder of black slaves being thrown overboard in a storm reminiscent of the Zong massacre.
The term "Jim Crow" originates from,
d. The name of a slave character in a minstrel show in the early 19th century.
The governments of Nazi Germany and the communist government of Stalinist Soviet Union could both be considered to be,
d. Totalitarian governments.
In December of 1944,
d. the German army counter-attacked in Belgium launching 'the Battle of the Bulge'.
The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin became a symbol of which movement in the mid-19th century,
e. Abolition
Artists who created modernist art include,
e. All of the above
Abstraction in art can be associated with which of the following ideas and beliefs,
e. All of the above.
What do the Zong massacre and the Somerset case have in common?
e. All of the above.
Which of the following ideas is associated with modernist art?
e. All of the above.
Which of the following is a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust?
e. All of the above.
Which of the following statements is true of Saint Paul's Cathedral?
e. All of the above.
Which of the following statements is true of Willem de Kooning's painting Woman 1?
e. All of the above.
Which of the following statements is true of the Weimar Republic?
e. All of the above.
Which of the following statements is true of the implementation of the GI Bill after World War II
e. All of the above.
The work, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), is best described by which of the following statements?
e. An early, influential 18th century slave narrative.
Which of the following characterizations of cubism is accurate?
e. Cubism simultaneously revealed more than the eye could see using multiple perspectives and moments in time.
The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau both promote which of the following ideas (answer only one),
e. Individualism
Which of the following statements about the French Revolution is false?
e. Napolean Bonaparte lead the revolt on Bastille Day.
Which of the following traits does Mary Wollstonecraft associate with weakness in Vindication of the Rights of Women:
e. Refinement of taste
Which of the following statements below concerning Frederick Douglass, his work, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and her work, is false?
e. Stowe's novel never mentions Christianity whereas Douglass argues that good Christians should oppose slavery.
In the Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir tries to demonstrate,
e. That women should strive to create an authentic existence.
In the first paragraph of the Gettysburg address the phrase "dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"" is a clear reference to which document? [The text is provided here: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal""]
e. The Declaration of Independence.
The photography of Timothy O'Sullivan at Gettysburg focused on the expression of,
e. The horrors and reality of war.
Which of the following statements is false concerning photograph, 'There is No Way Like the American Way'?
e. The photograph is considered to be one of Bourke-White's only memorable works.
The GI Bill
enacted by congress in 1944
Olympe de Gouges
executed during french revolution
"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
jean jacques rousseau
Wilem de Kooning
woman 1