Chapter 34

11. Which of the following artists portrayed gas-masked machine-like monsters in his collage, Two Ambitious Figures, by combining the images of equipment in a scientist's laboratory? a. Ernst b. Grosz c. Léger d. Remarque

a

13. According to ________, in the first phase of communist society (generally called socialism), private property would be converted into property held in common, and the means of production and distribution would belong to the whole of society. a. Lenin b. Nicholas II c. Marx d. Catherine the Great

a

1. World War I (WWI) was the first ________ war in world history. a. European b. total c. civil d. multi-national

b

12. One of the last of the European powers to become industrialized, Russia entered World War I in 1914 under the leadership of a. Lenin. b. Nicholas II. c. Marx. d. Catherine the Great.

b

3. The underlying cause of both world wars was a. slavery. b. rivalry between European powers. c. too many years of preceding peace. d. industrialization.

b

5. The Allied forces alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following? a. Great Britain b. the Ottoman Empire c. France d. Belgium

b

6. Which of the following WWI poets produced The Waste Land, which became the single most influential poem in early modern literature? a. Yeats b. Eliot c. Owens d. Twain

b

7. Which of the following writers immortalized the WWI Allied offensive in Italy in A Farewell to Arms? a. Twain b. Hemingway c. Remarque d. Eliot

b

9. In his biting cartoons, ________ mocked the German military and its corrupt and mindless bureaucracy in sketchy, brittle compositions filled with pungent caricatures. a. Ernst b. Grosz c. Léger d. Remarque

b

10. The French artist who, after four years at the front, adopted a "mechanical" aesthetic, visible in his painting Three Women. Robust and robotic, the near identical nudes (and their cat) share a common, austere geometry. a. Ernst b. Grosz c. Léger d. Remarque

c

15. The famous Depression-era photographer whose images of the downtrodden, such as Migrant Mother, remain icons of this period of history is named a. Joseph Heller. b. James Jones. c. Dorothea Lange. d. Lee Miller.

c

8. Wounded in combat several times, which of the following writers brought first-hand experience of World War I to his book All Quiet on the Western Front? a. Twain b. Hemingway c. Remarque d. Eliot

c

14. John Steinbeck's classic Depression-era novel of migrant farmers en route to California is called which of the following? a. Of Mice and Men b. The Sound and the Fury c. Ironweed d. The Grapes of Wrath

d

2. A full eighty percent of the casualties of WWI were from which of the following technological developments? a. the land mine b. the canon c. mustard gas d. the automatic machine gun

d

4. The Central Powers alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following? a. Austria-Hungary b. Germany c. the Ottoman Empire d. Serbia

d