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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


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