Chapter 12: humanities

Which of these was a novel of willful and tortured souls living in the wild English countryside, buffeted by romantic passion and moral dilemma?

A) Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Which of these was famed as a virtuoso pianist and composer of Polish dances such as the mazurka and polonaise?

A) Frédéric Chopin

The romantic hero who strives excessively for greater love, power, and knowledge, is best exemplified by what figure?

A) Goethe's Faust

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

A) John Locke's concept of rights belonging to the people

Who was the author of the poem "London" and other romantic protests against the effects of industrial urban life on children and the poor?

A) William Blake

Which of these would one most likely visualize during the last movement of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique?

A) a murderer's march to the scaffold

Which statement best describes the tone of sculptural works of Antonio Canova, as evidenced in his reclining figure of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus?

A) coolly neoclassical in their style

J. A. D. Ingres' Grande Odalisque is an example of what romantic theme?

A) interest in the exotic

Which of these best illustrates Napoleon's desire to recast Paris in the style of the great imperial capital Rome?

B) Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile

Which of these works was most influenced by Lord Byron's vision of a rebellious and self-destructive hero?

B) Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus

Which of these romantic works inspired a set of illustrations by Delacroix, several Lieder by Schubert, and an opera by Charles Gounod?

B) Goethe, Faust

"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." To whom was the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel referring here, seeing in this individual the embodiment of the World-Spirit?

B) Napoleon Bonaparte

For what reason would Turner's The Slave Ship have been criticized by traditional art critics?

B) disregarded precise detail in favor of atmospheric color and light

What statement best describes Goya's Executions of the Third of May, 1808?

B) expresses a romantic protest against tyranny and oppression

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

B) freedom from tyranny and arbitrary government authority

"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?

B) humans are too easily distracted from nature by material pursuits

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

B) transformed textile production through the introduction of power machinery

Which of these paintings is notable for the vitality of its treatment of light and color, a method that influenced other painters?

C) Constable's The White Horse

Which of these works celebrated the romantic belief in political freedom and social unity?

C) Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People

"Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers . . ." These lines are from an early feminist manifesto by what author?

C) Mary Wollstonecraft

In what kind of work would one most likely expect to encounter the technique of the idée fixe?

C) a symphony by Hector Berlioz

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

C) history advances by a dialectical struggle between classes

How did Ludwig van Beethoven substantially alter the Classical symphony form of Haydn and Mozart?

C) used the motif to expand and unify the symphony structure

What leading painter of the French Revolution shifted his allegiance to Napoleon and became the "First Painter" of imperial France?

D) Jacques-Louis David

What poet wrote a sprawling dramatic poem based on the medieval legend of a scholar who sells his soul to the devil?

D) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which is the best example of romantic exoticism - the Western fascination with the styles and subjects of Islamic and Asian civilizations?

D) Nash's Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Which figure, inspired by the principles of the French revolution, led the inhabitants of his Caribbean island home against the power of the Napoleonic empire?

D) Toussaint l'Ouverture

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, how is the central figure of the doctor best characterized?

D) a Prometheus with God-like ambitions but morally blind

With what term or concept did the Federalist write James Madison describe the self-regulating interaction among branches of government in the U.S. Constitution?

D) checks and balances

Which phrase best describes program music, a frequent format of music in the romantic era?

D) explicitly tells a story or describes a place

What aspect of the romantic sensibility is best expressed in Albert Bierstadt's painting Among the Sierra Nevada?

D) fascination with the unspoiled beauty of nature

Which statement best applies to Goya's etching The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters, a scene of an artist asleep at his desk?

D) realizes the romantic fascination with evil, the grotesque and bizarre

What romantic era philosopher proposed that the mind possessed imaginative or transcendental powers to give shapes and order to sense experience?

Immanuel Kant