Final

What composer achieved innovations in orchestration and tonality that are often called "impressionism in music"?

Claude Debussy

Which term is best associated with the international political situation of the 1950s, in the aftermath of World War II and the defeat of fascism?

Cold War

In which work is the principle of "natural selection" a central concept?

Darwin's Origin of Species

"Futurism" is a term which is best associated with Freud's theory of human psyche.

False

Bruegel's The Hunters in the Snow (Winter) shows the painter's interest in the dramatic conflict between good and evil.

False

Claude Monet was a decadent and mystical artist who helped inspire a movement called l'art pour l'art - "art for art's sake - with morbidly erotic poetry.

False

Claude Monet was an American impressionist painter who was known for paintings focused on the intimacy of mother and child.

False

Copeland's Appalachian Spring is a work associated with Die Brucke, a movement of German expressionist artists of the 1920s

False

Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Mists celebrated the romantic belief in political freedom and social unity.

False

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party is a large-scale assemblage of discarded wooden shapes, a symbol of the refuse of modern urban society

False

Martin Luther was standing in London when he posted his 95 Theses.

False

Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, inspired a set of illustrations by Delacroix, several Lieder by Schubert, and an opera by Charles Gounod.

False

Rembrandt's Sortie of Capt. Cocq's Company (Night Watch) is considered an excellent example of a historical painting.

False

Shakespeare's Hamlet was dedicated to England's Elizabeth I.

False

The philosopher G.W.G. Hegel was referring to George Washington when he wrote, "It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual who, here concentrated into a single point, reaches out over the world and dominates it."

False

Thomas Jefferson and Wolfgang Mozart are two artists who are most closely associated with the rococo style in art.

False

W. A. Mozat's The Marriage of Figaro is an example of the motet musical form.

False

Which of these works might have been most influenced by Palladio's book of classical designs, an important document in eighteenth-century neoclassicism?

Jefferson's Monticello

What philosophical or religious idea exercised the greatest influence on Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence?

John Locke's concept of rights belonging to the people

In what European city would one have seen the first impressionist exhibition?

Paris

Which example best illustrates the Victorian spirit of progress and the use of new industrial materials?

Paxton's Crystal Palace

A great influence on European artists of the late nineteenth century was color wood-block print, a Japanese art perfected by the artists Hiroshige and Hokusai.

True

Building the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile best illustrates Napoleon's desire to recast Paris in the style of the great imperial capital Rome.

True

David's Oath of the Horatii best embodies the principles of eighteenth-century neoclassicism.

True

Flaubert's Madame Bovary would properly classified as "realist" - aiming to depict its subject in full detail and with honesty?

True

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum best applies the belief that architecture should resemble sculpture in its flowing line and organic shape.

True

Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso are two artists who are said to have invented the analytic and synthetic methods of cubist painting

True

Germans' resentment against the Church's corruption was the most cited as the cause of the Reformation.

True

J.L. Borges works were a series of ten plays depicting African-American experience in twentieth-century America.

True

John Cage expanded the definition of music by inventing a music of chance and random sound.

True

John Lock wrote a political treatise that helped justify the Glorious Revolution in England with his ideas of a balance between individual freedom and social order.

True

Ludwig van Beethoven substantially alter the Classical symphony form of Haydn and Mozart by using the motif to expand and unify the symphony structure.

True

The Beats were a post-war American group of poets and novelists who explored themes of rootlessness and the endless quest for meaning

True

The New Deal in the U.S. was documented by photographs of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans between 1910-1945.

True

The cantatas of J.S. Bach served as an important part of Lutheran church worship.

True

The literary works of Franz Kafka depict central characters who are caught in absurd and terrifying circumstances.

True

The majority of J.S. Bach's artistic work appealed most directly to the middle-class, urban public.

True

The rococo movement or style employed shell-like decoration and themes of playful sexuality or seduction.

True

The sentimental drama was a movement or style aimed to free Germany from artificial imitations of French culture.

True

Thomas More's Utopia depicts a fictional land of pious industry.

True

Van Gogh's Starry Night was a post-impressionist work that used vivid colors to achieve greater emotional power and expressiveness than the impressionists did themselves

True

Versailles Palace most clearly illustrates the baroque qualities of the combination of neoclassical forms and baroque splendor.

True

Which modernist figure argued that women who wanted to write needed above all an income independent of men and "a room of one's own?"

Virginia Woolf

Who was closely associated with the Bauhaus school in Germany and was an important innovator in modern architecture?

Walter Gropius

The term "pop art" is best applied to which work?

Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

What statement best describes the function of the Taj Mahal, in Agra, India?

a tomb for the wife of an emperor and himself

What term is best associated with the unification of European states like France and Spain under all-powerful monarchs, who used their power to subdue the nobility and bring central order to government?

absolutism

Which statement best describes Titian's late Renaissance masterpiece Bacchus and Ariadne, painted to decorate a duke's country home in Ferrara, Italy?

creates a lively pagan scene through use of exuberant primary colors

What would an eighteenth-century deist most likely have done?

doubted the revelations of the Christian Bible

Which topic best describes the principal concern of the liberal revolutions of 1776 and 1789?

freedom from tyranny and arbitrary government authority

What was a central argument in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto?

history advances by a dialectical struggle between classes

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers . . ." What romantic idea is expressed in these lines from a poem by William Wordsworth?

humans are too easily distracted from nature by material pursuits

Which statement best describes Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man?

illustrates a young black man's struggle to find his own identity

What would the Academy, as established under the rule of Louis XIV, most likely do?

impose absolutist neoclassical rules on artist

Which statement best describes Picasso's Three Musicians?

its bright colors and irregular shapes give it a humorous tone

In what regard is Velazquez's masterpiece The Maids of Honor (Las Meniñas), a scene in the artist's royal studio, most remarkable?

its complex arrangement of space

One would likely hear the term madrigal in a discussion of what topic?

music in Renaissance England

According to Hobbes' version of the state of nature, analyzed in the Leviathan, for what reason does absolute political authority emerge to establish an orderly and civil society?

otherwise humans would destroy themselves in violence

Which best defines Mahatma Gandhi's principle of satyagraha, which he and his followers employed to win India's independence from colonial rule in 1948?

peaceful non-cooperation with unjust laws

Which of these terms is most closely associated with the religious ideas of John Calvin?

predestination

What American musical form rose to prominence in the age of rock-and-roll and made its African-American practitioners international pop stars?

rhythm-and-blues

Which of these values is associated with the "Protestant ethic?"

self-sacrifice and the virtues of work

Which can be counted as a direct result of the "Great War"?

the convulsion of Russia by social and political revolution

Which statement best describes the aim of the Enlightenment philosophes?

the practical application of reason to human problems

Martin Luther's first attack on the Roman Catholic Church centered on what issue?

the sale of indulgences to raise funds for the Church

Which term is best associated with Louis Sullivan's Wainright Building in St. Louis and other "Chicago-style" skyscrapers?

the steel-cage frame

In what phenomenon did the Parisian Madame Geoffrin play an important role?

the success of the salon as an intellectual and social occasion

Which statement best describes the Industrial Revolution as it had progressed by the year 1820?

transformed textile production through the introduction of power machinery

Which would provide the best illustration of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, first published in 1905?

traveling in a spaceship from the earth at nearly the speed of light

What best states the hero's thoughts at the end of Voltaire's tale Candide?

we must work without theorizing