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