Modern World Study Guide
Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as 4' 33"?
Cage
Which author offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of nineteenth-century society in works such as David Copperfield?
Charles Dickens
The fact that the nineteenth century was "the age of the virtuoso" is most evident in the work of
Chopin
Both Donne and Wren were associated with the
Church of Saint Paul's in London
Freud theorized that the libido was an important drive of
the id.
The United States Supreme Court did not ban school segregation until
1954.
In his landmark symphonies, Beethoven made use of
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Jung argued that the collective unconscious manifested itself in
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A major component of hip-hop music is
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A major component of the music known as "jazz" is
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For much of his music, Aaron Copland found inspiration in
American folk songs.
Sartre's landmark philosophic treatise is entitled
Being and Nothingness.
One of the most influential Baroque artists was ________, the designer of the piazza in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
Bernini
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
The Social Realist who is primarily associated with the medium of lithography is
Daumier
Which of the genres in which Rembrandt worked was the most lucrative for the Dutch painter?
Group portraiture
Which of the following statements about George Catlin is FALSE?
He used his paintings to garner support for the government's policy of relocating Native Americans to reservations
The names Gropius and Le Corbusier are associated with the
International Style in architecture.
Which of the following statements about the French Revolution is FALSE?
It served as a model for the American Revolution that shortly followed
The assertion that "the world will never be white again" was made by which author of Go Tell It on the Mountain?
James Baldwin
The elements of jazz and street slang in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks show the influence of
Langston Hughes.
The first permanent orchestra in Europe was established by
Louis XIV
The term that most accurately describes Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck is
Mannerist
Purging the canvas of all recognizable subject matter was the aim of artists such as
Mondrian and Kandinsky.
The movement known as Impressionism took its title from a painting by
Monet
Which one of the following figures does NOT belong with the other three?
Neruda
After 1945, there was a shift in major art production from
Paris to New York
Einstein on the Beach, one of the first operas to employ electronically amplified instrumentation, was written by
Philip Glass.
The leading action painter of the twentieth century was
Pollock.
The "Great Criticism" series by the Chinese artist Wang Guangyi reflects the influence of
Pop art.
The first totalitarian state of the twentieth century was established in
Russia
Vaslav Nijinksy is associated with
Russian dance.
Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were pioneering figures in which literary genre?
Science fiction
The feminist Simone de Beauvoir held that women
Should reject the role of "Other".
Both El Greco and Velázquez served in the courts of
Spain
Which influential handbook reflected the mysticism and militancy of the Jesuit order?
Spiritual Exercises
The founding figure of the Society of Jesus was
St Ignatius of Loyola
The Dutch painter Maria van Oosterwyck and other female artists excelled in which genre?
Still life painting
The effort on the part of contemporary physicists to achieve a "theory of everything" is evident in
String Theory.
Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in a landmark series of etchings and aquatints known as
The Disasters of War
Leopold Bloom is the central figure in James Joyce's landmark work,
Ulysses.
The philosophic optimism of Enlightenment figures was satirized in Candide and other writings by
Voltaire
The pioneer figure in American Pop art was
Warhol
The pioneering narrative films of George Méliès and Edwin S. Porter were early examples of which popular genres?
Westerns and science fiction
A major factor in bringing non-Western cultures to the attention of Europeans was
advancing colonialism
Picasso's landmark painting, Guernica, immortalized the
aerial bombing of a civilian target.
The Baroque era represents a turning point in music because it witnessed the
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Some critics contend that Postmodernism originated with the rejection of the International Style in the field of
architecture.
Minimalism and geometric abstraction have this in common: they
are largely nonrepresentational.
By "sublime," romantics like Wordsworth were referring to
awe-inspiring nature
Fauvist artworks are most notable for their bold use of
color
According to Marcel Duchamp and other Dada figures, the artists should be the
destroyers of tradition.
Merce Cunningham's choreography is considered radical because it
does not depend on music.
The aesthetic, production, and materials of minimalist artworks are inspired by
industrial technology.
The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is known as
montage
In his writings on existentialism, Sartre insisted that each individual is
the sum of his or her own actions.
Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of the Western
urge to transcend limitations
Giovanni Gabrieli came to be celebrated for his
Clear and simple religious music
The artist—whose subject matter was individuals in ordinary settings—who challenged, "Show me an angel and I'll paint one" was
Courbet
Which figure famously recanted his scientific theories in 1633 after having been put on trial for heresy?
Galileo
The artist who became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti (where he relocated after abandoning his job and family), was
Gaugin
All of the following figures are generally considered painters of the Rococo style EXCEPT
Greuze
The composer associated with the birth of the English oratorio is
Handel
Which of the following men was NOT a significant figure in the movement known as the Scientific Revolution?
Hogarth
The turn from Romanticism to literary Realism is evident in the novels of
Ibsen
Francis Bacon called the false dogmas or teachings that hindered clear thinking
Idols
Bach's cantatas were largely based on
Lutheran chorales
Academic art, as envisioned by Louis XIV and his followers, depended primarily on
Neoclassical principles
Descartes' proposition, "I think, therefore I am," demonstrated
a premise he could not doubt
J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of
natural landscapes
The French salon, center of intellectual debate, was often organized by
noblewomen
A hallmark of Delacroix's style is
pictorial license
Darwin contributed to the study of biology chiefly by
developing the theory of natural selection
One of the main characteristics of Whitman's landmark poetry is that it
is written in free verse
The music of Debussy
was heavily influenced by the Symbolists and Impressionists.
Whose "music of mystic serenity" captured the conservative quality of the Catholic Reformation?
Palestrina
Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson were both noted eighteenth-century writers of which new literary form?
The novel
Which of the following items was NOT an innovation of the nineteenth century?
The novel
The most important new medium in mid-nineteenth-century architecture was
cast iron
Neoclassical art and classical music share an emphasis on
clarity and formal structure
One reason that both Protestants and Catholics opposed the heliocentric theory was that it
contradicted Scripture
Romantic ballets such as La sylphide derived their plot lines from
fairy tales and folk legends
In his landmark poem The Rock, T. S. Eliot claimed that the knowledge accumulated by Western civilization brought twentiethcentury Westerners closer to
ignorance and death.
Arguably the most radical development in music in the last fifty years, as seen in synthesizers and sampling, has been the
impact of electronic technology.
Romanticism might be said to have rebelled against all of the following EXCEPT ______
individualism
Beckett's Waiting for Godot belongs to a dramatic genre known as
theater of the absurd.
The Holocaust resulted from Hitler's
theory of Aryan racial superiority.
The American writer Henry Thoreau
valued nature as a source of information
In the seventeenth-century, Cremona, Italy, was the world center for the manufacture of
violins
The plays of Molière
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Which of the following persons was a male counterpart to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth?
Douglass
Japanese prints had the greatest influence on late-nineteenth-century European
Postimpressionism
A leading figure in the evolution of academic art was
Poussin
Nietzsche called for a new morality that
Privileged the "superman"
"Oceania" refers to the
islands of the South and Central Pacific Ocean
John Locke maintained that
legitimate government required the consent of the governed
In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the artist featured those whom he considered the heroes of revolutionary France, including
members of the middle and working classes
The most distinctive feature of Imagist poetry was its
pared down, abstract style.
The names Matthew Brady and Eadweard Muybridge are associated with
photography
The Naturalistic novels of Zola were grounded in his belief that human beings were
products of their environment and their heredity
In his Novum Organum, Bacon objected to
the corruption of science by superstition and theology.
Diderot's Encyclopedia was
the largest compendium of knowledge produced in the West
Of nineteenth-century music, it is correct to say that
the orchestra grew to grand proportions
For their subject matter, the Impressionist painters drew largely on
the urban scene
Characteristic of the music of Debussy is
the use of shifting harmonies
The artist who wished to "redo nature after Poussin," and whose later work anticipated twentieth-century abstract art, was
Cézanne
Which of the following best describes the Romantic architecture at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton?
Eastern exotic
Which of the following authors was credited with inventing the modern novel with his Madame Bovary?
Flaubert
Which nineteenth-century composer, who wrote the piece nicknamed "The Surprise," is often called the "father of the symphony"?
Franz Joseph Haydn
Puccini's verismo operas
brought a new level of realism into opera
Which of the following is NOT one of the three parts of the traditional sonata?
composition
The most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya depicted
current events
Milton's Paradise Lost is a landmark epic that
describes the fall of Adam and Eve
Late nineteenth-century colonialism had as its primary motivating force the need
for materials and markets
Mozart drew many of the melodies for his symphonies and compositions from
popular dance tunes
Which of the following former slaves learned to write and personally authored a memoir with his or her own hand?
Frederick Douglass
In seventeenth-century England, the influential Calvinists who called for church reform were known as
Jesuits.
Whose "Ode on a Grecian Urn" concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?
Keats
The landmark work that marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England was William Wordsworth's
Lyrical Ballads
Italian baroque churches are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
minimal ornamentation
Genre painting depicts scenes of
ordinary life
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesized that a revolution would make the ________ the new ruling class.
proletariat
The predominant theme of Rococo paintings was the
pursuit of pleasure
Leading artists of China's Pop art movement, such as Wang Guangyi, have assumed the role of
social critic.
The term, "baroque" in painting comprises all of the following EXCEPT
strict compositional symmetry
Wright's extraordinary house, "Fallingwater," depended on the inventive use of
the cantilever.
The title of Francis Bacon's landmark work, Novum Organum, means
"new method."
Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as
Cubism
Which artistic movement thrived on nihilism and irrationalism?
Dada
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ________ emerged as the center of Western artistic productivity.
Paris
The belief in a mechanistic universe fashioned by a Creator God who does not directly intervene in its affairs is called
deism
Ingres' Grande Odalisque deviated from the principles of Classical art by
disproportionately elongating the body of his female subject
According to Freud, civilization was the product of the
ego's sublimation of the id.
The text of an opera is found in its
libretto
The independent art song originated by Franz Schubert that united music and poetry was called the
lied
The works of Boucher and Watteau reflect a style
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Of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, it is correct to say that it was
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The nineteenth century was an important time in African history because
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The fusion of art and politics that exalted the ideal of service and sacrifice to one's country is exemplified by which landmark?
David's The Oath of Horatii
Which of the following people is considered to be one of the first Realists in the English novel-writing tradition?
Jane Austen
London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of
Neomedievalism
Albert Einstein and other twentieth-century physicists argued that
Newtonian laws of physics did not function at the cosmic level.
"Whatever is, is right" reflects the philosophic optimism of
Pope
