chapter 12
By "sublime," romantics like Wordsworth were referring to?
Awe-inspiring nature
The fact that the nineteenth century was "the age of the virtuoso" is most evident in the work of?
Chopin
Which of the following statements about Charles Darwin is true?
Darwin was the first to substantiate the theory of evolution by explaining the process by which evolution occurs.
Darwin contributed to the study of biology chiefly by?
Developing the theory of natural selection
Who was a male counterpart to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth?
Douglass
Match the Romantic-era female writer with her work.
Emily Brontë ---> Wuthering Heights Mary Shelley---> Frankenstein Charlotte Brontë --> Jane Eyre Jane Austen ---> Sense and Sensibility
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is named after a monster created by a scientist.
False
What novel was the first to question the human impact of scientific experimentation?
Frankenstein
Which of the following persons was primarily known for being a major figure in the abolitionist movement?
Frederick Douglas
Who is considered to be one of the first Realists in the English novel-writing tradition?
Jane Austen
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is considered music, as it is an instrumental music with specific literary or pictorial content.
Program
Percy Bysshe Shelley took inspiration for his poetry from which of the following?
The changing states of human desire Nature
The most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya depicted?
current events
Berlioz uses a specific musical phrase or idée to relate his musical narrative.
fixe
One of the main characteristics of Whitman's landmark poetry is that it?
is written in free verse
Richard Wagner is well known for his use of ______, or short musical phrases, in his monumental work, The Ring of the Nibelung.
leitmotifs
What are some characteristics of nineteenth-century music?
the orchestra grew to grand proportions
The predominant theme of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is
the spirit of nationalism
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, is what kind of novel, which revived elements of the Middle Ages?
Gothic
Who created this painting, The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid
Goya
By 1812, Napoleon's empire and allies included all the following regions EXCEPT
Great Britain
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the best-known antislavery novels?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's
What were interests of the Transcendentalists?
Hinduism and Buddhism, The belief in the oneness of spirit and nature
What are some of the concepts Romantics rebelled against?
Individualism
The landmark work that marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England was William Wordsworth's?
Lyrical Ballads
Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in a landmark series of etchings and aquatints known as?
The Disasters of War
Francisco Goya depicted the French occupation of Spain in
The Third of May
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 American writer Henry Thoreau valued?
nature as a source of instruction
Virtuoso pieces
Paganini
Eugene Delacroix was the pupil of which artist?
Theodore Gericault
Where did Napoleon fight his last battle?
Waterloo
Who were the co-authors of Lyrical Ballads?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Is it true that the hallmark of Romantic music is personal expression?
Yes, and this is clear in large orchestral works, as well as small, intimate pieces.
Henry David Thoreau
defended the principle of civil disobedience
What are some hallmarks of Delacroix's style?
pictorial license
The nineteenth century was an important time in African history because?
1. African music and literature came to be recorded 2. Africans produced some of their most notable textile and beadwork artifacts 3. medical advances against malaria permitted increased contact with Western explorers.
What was an effect of the Industrial Revolution?
The rise to a class of poorly paid urban workers