HUMN 1000 True/False
The English poet Robert Burns is the author of the famous poem "To a Mockingbird."
False
Elvis Presley spent two years serving in the U.S. Army, after he had become a major rock and roll star.
True
Frederick II of Prussia is among the monarchs known as "enlightened despots."
True
Giuseppe Verdi composed at least one opera based upon a Shakespeare play.
True
Guillaume de Machaut was the best-known music composer of the 14th century.
True
The term Ars Nova as it applies to music comes from a 14th-century treatise by Philippe de Vitry.
True
The English artist Joshua Reynolds painted Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
False
During his lifetime, Albrecht Dürer was best known for his printmaking.
True
Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Guggenheim Museum in New York is an example of Neo-Classical architecture.
False
Gwendolyn Brooks is the author of the autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
False
Among William Wordsworth's novels is The Sorrows of Young Werther.
False
As a priest in the Anglican Church, Jonathan Swift supported the English government's persecution of Irish Catholics.
False
Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony speaks to the composer's fervent belief in Reformation theology.
False
Charles Darwin coined the term "intelligent selection" to express his ideas about evolution in Origin of Species.
False
Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in Latin.
False
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a ribald comedy.
False
Counterpoint is a term that describes a technique in which lines that are in reality parallel and horizontal are represented as converging diagonals.
False
David Smith is among the artists who specialized in Pop Art.
False
Emily Dickinson was the first female poet to sign an extended contract with an American publisher, which included a guarantee of publishing all her poetry.
False
Haydn wrote his final three symphonies during the summer of 1788, when he was out of work and in financial trouble.
False
Hieronymus Bosch painted The Triumph of Death.
False
In Kikuyu beliefs, the mumbi is the father of the Kikuyu people.
False
In architecture, sonata form refers to a roofed entryway.
False
In the ancient kingdom of Zimbabwe, a hereditary male monarch with the title of oba ruled.
False
John Updike is the author of The Bluest Eye.
False
Le Panthéon is a Neo-Classical structure commissioned by Frederick the Great of Prussia.
False
Montaigne is credited with composing the hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," which is still sung in many churches today.
False
Nelson Mandela is the author of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country.
False
Petrarch wrote over 300 madrigals.
False
Tensions between France and England were resolved during the Hundred Years' War.
False
The Ordinary of the Mass contains texts that change from day to day throughout most of the church year.
False
The best-known French composer of chansons was Heinrich Isaac.
False
The cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is known as the Duomo because of the duo of architects who designed it.
False
The kora is a type of drum played by the Mandinka people of Senegal.
False
The necessity of social hierarchy and optimism about England's rapidly industrializing society are recurrent themes in Charles Dickens's novels.
False
The term isorhythm refers to music in which all voices sing one, isolated rhythm.
False
Cimabue painted Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets.
True
Composer Richard Wagner wrote both the music and the words (sung by the characters) for his operas.
True
Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich developed innovative approaches to traditional musical elements such as melody, harmony, and rhythm.
True
Charles-Louis Montesquieu was an important contributor to the Encyclopédie project initiated by Diderot.
True
Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa demonstrates the typical Romantic view of nature as awe-inspiring and possibly destructive.
True
Henry VIII's dispute with the Catholic Church resulted in his forming the Church of England.
True
In Beninese art, an ikegobo is a royal shrine where the monarch would have offered sacrifices.
True
In her work, Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has focused on the limited role of women in Iran after the country became an Islamic state.
True
Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsberg were among the Beat writers of the 1950s.
True
Léopold Senghor was one of three black writers living in Paris who created the literary movement known as Negritude.
True
Mark Rothko is best known for his hazy, color-field paintings.
True
Matthias Grünewald's depiction of Jesus in his Crucifixion altarpiece exemplifies Italian Renaissance aesthetics.
True
Nelson Mandela's autobiography is entitled Long Walk to Freedom.
True
Pisano sculpted the pulpit for the baptistery in Pisa.
True
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors is actually a synthesis of two plays from Roman antiquity.
True
South Pacific was an early example of the "socially conscious" musical.
True
The English artist Thomas Gainsborough was best known in his day for portraiture, though he was more interested in painting landscapes.
True
The Globe Theater is a playhouse associated with Shakespeare.
True
The contemporary artist El Anatsui has made wall hangings inspired by the kente cloth of his native Ghana.
True
The poet Lord Byron led a brief and action-packed life.
True
The songs known as "spirituals" reference Biblical events that would have been relevant to slaves in the United States.
True
Thomas Mofolo is the author of Chaka, in which he uses African religion as the overriding influence in his characters' lives.
True
William Blake was accomplished as both a poet and a visual artist.
True
William Hogarth created a series of satirical paintings known as Marriage à la Mode.
True
