Humanities Final Multiple Choice
________ presented a positive view of life as a vital impulse that evolved creatively and intuitively. Question 3 options: 1) Bergson 2) Nietzsche 3) Hegel 4) Renoir
Bergson
According to the text, the first modernist painter was which of the following? Question 13 options: 1) Toulouse-Lautrec 2) van Gogh 3) Gauguin 4) Cézanne
Cezanne
Picasso's bold, new style of painting was shaped by two forces: the arts of Africa, Iberia, and Oceana; and the paintings of Question 7 options: 1) Delacroix. 2) Cézanne. 3) Capote. 4) Rockwell.
Cezanne
In painting, ________ led the Realist movement with canvases depicting the activities of humble and commonplace men and women Question 11 options: 1) Talbot 2) Courbet 3) Cameron 4) Brady Save
Courbet
Paxton's ________, the world's first prefabricated cast-iron structure, offered a prophetic glimpse into the decades that would produce steel-framed skyscrapers. Question 13 options: 1) Golden Gate Bridge 2) Pennsylvania Station 3) Eiffel Tower 4) Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace
Picasso's new "language" of painting was called Question 8 options: 1) Bluism. 2) Cubism. 3) paintism. 4) retractable art.
Cubism
Which of the following is the minimalist poet famous for odd punctuation and refusing to capitalize his name in print? Question 9 options: 1) Proust 2) Kafka 3) Joyce 4) Cummings
Cummings
The ________ movement, founded in Switzerland, consisted of a loosely knit group of European painters and poets who, perceiving WWI as evidence of a world gone mad, dedicated themselves to spreading the gospel of irrationality. Question 13 options: 1) Bauhaus 2) Pop 3) Dada 4) Abstract
Dada
Inspired by Indonesian music, Wagnerian opera, and Symbolist poetry, ________ created a mood of reverie in the shifting harmonies of his Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun." Question 1 options: 1) Faust 2) Beethoven 3) Debussy 4) Brahms
Debussy
________ fused the immediacy of the French painting fashion with the Classical demand for line and form; he is famous for his depictions of ballerinas. Question 6 options: 1) Cassatt 2) Toulouse-Lautrec 3) Renoir 4) Degas
Degas
Which of the following hailed imagination as paramount in the life of the artist and focused on sensuous and violent subjects? He said, "I have no love for reasonable painting." Question 5 options: 1) Gros 2) Goya 3) Géricault 4) Delacroix Save
Delacroix
The most popular English novelist of this period of history was which of the following? Question 7 options: 1) Ibsen 2) Zola 3) Flaubert 4) Dickens
Dickens
The long and bitter history of the Mexican Revolution, commemorated in the murals of ________, provides a vivid example of the repeated social upheaval experienced in Latin American countries in their attempts to cope with persistent problems of inequality, exploitation, and underdevelopment. Question 2 options: 1) Anastasio Somoza 2) Rafael Molina Trujillo 3) Diego Rivera 4) Tiburcio Carias
Diego Rivera
The famous Depression-era photographer whose images of the downtrodden, such as Migrant Mother, remain icons of this period of history is named Question 15 options: 1) Joseph Heller. 2) James Jones. 3) Dorothea Lange. 4) Lee Miller.
Dorothea Lange
Which of the following painters lived for many years in Tahiti? Question 11 options: 1) Degas 2) Duncan 3) Gauguin 4) Rodin
Duncan
Which of the following was an innovative pioneer of modern dance? Question 10 options: 1) Degas 2) Rodin 3) Duncan 4) Bergson
Duncan
_______ poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," published just after the death of his father in 1951, makes a plea for life-affirming action even in the face of death. Question 7 options: 1) Dylan Thomas' 2) T. S. Eliot's 3) Robert Frost's 4) E. E. Cummings'
Dylan Thomas'
Which of the following WWI poets produced The Waste Land, which became the single most influential poem in early modern literature? Question 6 options: 1) Yeats 2) Eliot 3) Owens 4) Twain
Eliot
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? Question 11 options: 1) Ernst 2) Grosz 3) Léger 4) Remarque
Ersnt
Faulkner, Percy, Cheever, Bellow, and Kerouac were all writers who wrote from which of the following perspectives? Question 5 options: 1) imperialism 2) Zen 3) Existentialism 4) modernism
Existentialism
Edvard Munch's The Scream exemplifies which of the following schools of painting? Question 11 options: 1) the baroque 2) Op Art 3) Expressionism 4) abstract art
Expressionism
The plain-speech American poet who penned "The Road Not Taken" is which of the following? Question 5 options: 1) Sanders 2) Frost 3) Tennyson 4) Pound
Frost
The ________ were enthralled by the speed and dynamism of automobiles, trains, airplanes, and technology in general. Question 9 options: 1) assembly artists 2) Beaux Artists 3) Futurists 4) tekkies
Futurists
Which of the following found inspiration in uncommon subjects such as the restless vitality of untamed horses and the faces of the clinically insane? Question 4 options: 1) Gros 2) Goya 3) Géricault 4) Delacroix
Gericault
Which of the following is famous for his sculptures of very elongated human figures? Question 13 options: 1) Segal 2) Giacometti 3) Hopper 4) Bergman
Giacometti
Mid-nineteenth-century architecture in the West began to pay homage to the ________ style, which was clearly revived in the Houses of Parliament along the Thames River in London. Question 6 options: 1) baroque 2) exoticism 3) Rococo 4) Gothic
Gothic
Which of the following was the principle founder of the Bauhaus? Question 13 options: 1) Le Corbusier 2) Wright 3) Sullivan 4) Gropius
Gropius
Which of the following was the pupil of Jacques-Louis David, but rejected Neoclassicism in favor of more realistic scenes of France's emperor in theatrical settings? Question 3 options: 1) Gros 2) Goya 3) Géricault 4) Delacroix Save
Gros
In his biting cartoons, ________ mocked the German military and its corrupt and mindless bureaucracy in sketchy, brittle compositions filled with pungent caricatures. Question 9 options: 1) Ernst 2) Grosz 3) Léger 4) Remarque
Grosz
Which of the following writers immortalized the WWI Allied offensive in Italy in A Farewell to Arms? Question 7 options: 1) Twain 2) Hemingway 3) Remarque 4) Eliot
Hemingway
Which of the following was one of the few famous American representative painters from the period covered in the chapter? Question 12 options: 1) Segal 2) Giacometti 3) Hopper 4) Bergman
Hopperr
Which of the following was the Norwegian dramatist who shocked his contemporary audiences with such subject matters as incest, insanity, and venereal disease? Question 9 options: 1) Ibsen 2) Zola 3) Flaubert 4) Dickens
Ibsen
The heavy hand of Western ________ in some parts of Africa, Asia, and in the Middle East had a crippling effect on independent growth and productivity. Question 2 options: 1) clergymen 2) civil wars 3) exploration 4) imperialism
Imperialism
The ________ tried to record an instantaneous vision of their world, sacrificing the details of perceived objects in order to capture the effects of light and atmosphere. Question 5 options: 1) Romantics 2) Realists 3) Impressionists 4) Mannerists
Impressionists
Symbolist poets, such as Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, devised a language of ________ that evoked (rather than described) feeling. Question 4 options: 1) simple and general signs 2) sensation 3) numbers 4) natural sounds
sensation
Most psychic disorders, according to Freud, were the result of which of the following? Question 2 options: 1) genetic propensity 2) diet and lifestyle 3) sexual trauma suffered as a child 4) chemical imbalances in the brain Save
sexual trauma suffered as a child
Society should operate entirely in the interest of the needs of the people, communally and cooperatively, rather than competitively, according to which of the following? Question 4 options: 1) liberalism 2) conservatism 3) utilitarianism 4) socialism
socialism
The positive modification and redirection of primal urges is termed Question 4 options: 1) reward. 2) contraindication. 3) sublimation. 4) behavioral reinforcement.
sublimation
Which of the following is NOT a member of the three-part psyche as identified by Freud? Question 3 options: 1) id 2) ego 3) superego 4) super-id
super-id
Jung's idea of a shared layer of human psyche, a layer all humans are tied to, is called Question 5 options: 1) the collective unconscious. 2) the force layer. 3) the veil. 4) social contract theory.
the collective unconscious
By far, the most popular musical instrument in nineteenth-century Europe was which of the following? Question 8 options: 1) the trumpet 2) the piano 3) the lute 4) the bassoon
the piano
________, the leading philosopher of the twentieth century, made significant contributions as a playwright, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. Question 2 options: 1) Hobbs 2) Sartre 3) Kant 4) Handel
Sartre
________ united poetry and music in the intimate form of the lied. Question 11 options: 1) Grieg 2) Schubert 3) Mussorgsky 4) Tchaikovsky
Schubert
The American behavioral psychologist ________ anticipated a society in which the behavior of human beings might be scientifically engineered for the benefit of both the individual and the community. Question 3 options: 1) Orwell 2) Bradbury 3) Huxley 4) Skinner
Skinner
One of modernism's most distinctive movements, ________ was devoted to giving physical expression to the workings of the unconscious mind. Question 14 options: 1) Surrealism 2) Realistic Fantasia 3) performance art 4) assemblage
Surrealism
________ heightened the importance of fantasy and story in his legendary Russian ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. Question 12 options: 1) Grieg 2) Schubert 3) Mussorgsky 4) Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
John Steinbeck's classic Depression-era novel of migrant farmers en route to California is called which of the following? Question 14 options: 1) Of Mice and Men 2) The Sound and the Fury 3) Ironweed 4) The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
Igor Stravinsky shocked musical audiences with his famous composition for ballet called Question 15 options: 1) The Rite of Spring. 2) The Flower Drum Song. 3) The Nutcracker. 4) The Firebird Suite.
The RIte of Spring
Which of the following was famous for his posters of Parisian nightlife? Question 7 options: 1) Cassatt 2) Toulouse-Lautrec 3) Renoir 4) Degas
Toulouse-Lautrec
________ is a social theory forwarded by Jeremy Bentham, stating governments should work to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Question 3 options: 1) Liberalism 2) Conservatism 3) Utilitarianism 4) Socialism Save
Utilitarianism
Prairie School architecture and a clear influence from Japanese structure were the signatures of Question 12 options: 1) Sullivan. 2) Wright. 3) Kandinsky. 4) Gropius.
Wright
Which of the following initiated a variant form of literary Realism known as naturalism? Question 8 options: 1) Ibsen 2) Zola 3) Flaubert 4) Dickens Save
Zola
One of the central tenets of modernism, ________ sought to arrive at a more concentrated emotional experience through visual art. Question 6 options: 1) op art 2) pop art 3) mannerism 4) abstraction Save
abstraction
Jackson Pollock's daring new method, which came to be called ________, allowed him "to walk around [the canvas], work from the four sides and literally be in the painting." Question 10 options: 1) pointillism 2) splatter painting 3) action painting 4) nihilism
action painting
Primal patterns from the realm of the shared layer of human psyche such as myths, dreams, and fairy tales are called Question 6 options: 1) mythemes. 2) signposts. 3) guides. 4) archetypes.
archetypes
Louis Comfort Tiffany is famous for advancing the "new art" in which of the following mediums? Question 9 options: 1) art glass 2) jewelry 3) porcelain 4) furniture
art glass
By the mid-nineteenth century the ________ was used to document all aspects of contemporary life as well as to provide artists with detailed visual data. Question 15 options: 1) camera 2) pictogram 3) telescope 4) optical lens
camera
Of all his discoveries, Freud considered his research on ________ his most important. Question 1 options: 1) psychoanalysis 2) dreams 3) free association 4) sexual drives
dreams
The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, England remains the quintessential example of which of the following architectural styles? Question 7 options: 1) baroque 2) exoticism 3) Rococo 4) Gothic
exoticism
The leaders in the search for a more concentrated style of poetic expression were a group of poets who called themselves Question 3 options: 1) verbalists. 2) distillers. 3) imagists. 4) deconstructuralists.
imagists
Musical pieces (often short) that have an improvised sound in spite of their carefully written notation are called Question 15 options: 1) études. 2) impromptus. 3) nocturnes. 4) treatments.
impromptus
Which of the following early social theories was firmly based in the ideals of the Enlightenment? Question 5 options: 1) liberalism 2) conservatism 3) utilitarianism 4) socialism
liberalism
Photography and ________ were invented during the nineteenth century; both encouraged artists to produce objective records of their surroundings. Question 10 options: 1) electroplating 2) etching 3) lithography 4) facsimile
lithography
A mode of artistic representation in which commonplace objects and events are exaggerated or juxtaposed in unexpected ways to evoke a mood of mystery or fantasy is called Question 12 options: 1) magic realism. 2) realistic fantasia. 3) Surrealism. 4) modernism.
magic realism
The Freudian impact on music was most evident in the second decade of the century in the medium of Question 15 options: 1) musical notation. 2) instrument design. 3) musical drama and theater. 4) choral arrangement.
musical drama and theater
The Russians Kandinsky and Malevich, and the Dutchman Mondrian were all pioneers of which of the following artistic movements? Question 11 options: 1) nonobjective art 2) abstraction 3) assemblage 4) Futurism
nonobjective art
The use of many tiny dots to generate the impression of a solid from is called Question 12 options: 1) impressionism. 2) pixilation. 3) pointillism. 4) abstraction.
pointillism
What medical innovation allowed Europeans to send expeditions into Africa without the fear of malaria? Question 15 options: 1) aspirin 2) sulfa drugs 3) quinine 4) vitamin C
quinine
Which of the following was the first important style of painting originating in the United States rather than Europe? Question 9 options: 1) Mannerism 2) Cubism 3) Existentialism 4) Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Which of the following authors is considered pessimistic and tended to lean towards a "dystopian" viewpoint? Question 4 options: 1) Orwell 2) Bradbury 3) Huxley 4) All these answers are correct.
All
________ generally elevated the heart over the mind and the emotions over the intellect. Question 1 options: 1) Romantic architects 2) Romantic writers 3) Romantic artists 4) All these answers are correct. Save
All
In the opera Madame Butterfly, the Italian "verist" Giacomo Puccini presented a timely view of Question 14 options: 1) European aristocrats at leisure. 2) America's imperialistic presence in Asia. 3) an absolutist monarch. 4) the European obsession with nature. Save
America's imperialistic presence in Asia
________, in his often-painted Pope Innocent X, created a logo for de-spiritualized Modernism, looking back to Munch, Eisenstein, and Picasso. Question 8 options: 1) Eliot 2) De Kooning 3) Frost 4) Bacon
Bacon
Originating in ________, art nouveau ("new art") was an ornamental style that became enormously popular in the late nineteenth century. Question 8 options: 1) Austria 2) Germany 3) France 4) Belgium
Belgium
________'s landmark work, The Seventh Seal, is an allegorical tale of despair in the face of impending death. Question 11 options: 1) Segal 2) Giacometti 3) Hopper 4) Bergman
Bergman
Which of the following Irish expatriates popularized the literary interior monologue and stream-of-consciousness writing? Question 7 options: 1) Proust 2) Kafka 3) Joyce 4) Cummings
Joyce
Which of the following writers was so paranoid about the ills of society that he directed his lawyers upon his own death to destroy all his works, a request which was fortunately ignored? Question 10 options: 1) Proust 2) Kafka 3) Joyce 4) Cummings
Kafka
Insisting that the house "is a machine for living," which of the following championed form over function and employed devices such as roof gardens, partitions, and large façades of glass? Question 14 options: 1) Le Corbusier 2) Wright 3) Sullivan 4) Gropius Save
Le Corbusier
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. Question 10 options: 1) Ernst 2) Grosz 3) Léger 4) Remarque
Leger
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. Question 13 options: 1) Lenin 2) Nicholas II 3) Marx 4) Catherine the Great
Lenin
Among the most daring of the International Style proponents and last director of the Bauhaus was the Dutch architect Question 14 options: 1) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 2) Richard Buckminster Fuller. 3) Frank Lloyd Wright. 4) Philip Johnson.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
________ shocked public taste by modernizing Classical subjects and violating conventional painting techniques. Question 12 options: 1) Daumier 2) Titian 3) Manet 4) Church
Manet
Which of the following led the group of painters who made color the principal feature of their canvases in this era? Question 10 options: 1) Manet 2) Matisse 3) Monet 4) Cézanne
Matisse
Which of the following determined that the speed of light is a universal constant, perhaps the only thing that never changes? Question 2 options: 1) Planck 2) Einstein 3) Heisenberg 4) Michelson and Morley
Michelson and Morley
The leading proponent of liberalism, ________, defended the exercise of individual liberty as protected by the state. Question 6 options: 1) Flaubert 2) Marx 3) Mill 4) Ibsen
Mill
The Italian composer Verdi and Germany's Wagner are still famous for exploiting ________ in their compositions. Question 14 options: 1) nationalistic themes 2) new instrumentation 3) chromatic scales 4) dissonance
Nationalistic themes
One of the last of the European powers to become industrialized, Russia entered World War I in 1914 under the leadership of Question 12 options: 1) Lenin. 2) Nicholas II. 3) Marx. 4) Catherine the Great.
Nicholas II
The provocative German thinker ________, who detected in European materialism a deepening decadence, called for a revision of traditional values. Question 2 options: 1) Debussy 2) Hegel 3) Einstein 4) Nietzsche
Nietzche
_______ was a new, flamboyant spectacle of the era that united all aspects of theatrical production: music, dance, stage sets, and costumes. Question 13 options: 1) The musical 2) The concerto 3) The leitmotif 4) Opera
Opera
Rumored by contemporaries that he had made a pact with the Devil for his musical abilities, ________ refused to publish his own work, which he alone would perform. Question 9 options: 1) Beethoven 2) Mozart 3) Paganini 4) Chopin Save
Paganini
Contributing to the European obsession with foreign culture was the World's Fair of 1880 held in which of the following cities? Question 14 options: 1) Brussels 2) Philadelphia 3) London 4) Paris
Paris
________ determined that light waves behave as "quanta," breaking up into discrete and separate bundles of energy. Question 1 options: 1) Planck 2) Einstein 3) Heisenberg 4) Michelson and Morley Save
Planck
At the forefront of the modernist revolution in poetry stood the American expatriate ________, who studied the literatures of many peoples in the East and West. Question 4 options: 1) Sanders 2) Frost 3) Tennyson 4) Pound
Pound
Which of the following was a virtual shut-in who, from his cork-lined room in France, pursued a life of introspection and literary achievement? Question 8 options: 1) Proust 2) Kafka 3) Joyce 4) Cummings
Proust
During the second half of the nineteenth century, as Western industrialization accelerated, ________ came to rival Romanticism both as a style and as an attitude of mind. Question 1 options: 1) modernism 2) Realism 3) Cubism 4) abstraction
Realism
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? Question 8 options: 1) Twain 2) Hemingway 3) Remarque 4) Eliot
Remarque
Which of the following was the architectural champion of the geodesic dome? Question 15 options: 1) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 2) Richard Buckminster Fuller 3) Frank Lloyd Wright 4) Philip Johnson
Richard Buckminster Fuller
The artists of the late seventeenth century favored heroic themes and personalities, especially those illustrating Question 2 options: 1) the struggle for political independence. 2) the realities of peasant life. 3) the open vistas of the American plains. 4) the majesty of European monarchs. Save
the struggle for political independence
In the medium of ________, characters undergo little or no change, dialogue contradicts actions, and events follow no logical order. Question 6 options: 1) theater of the absurd 2) Bauhaus 3) Cubist theater 4) absurd opera
theater of the absurd
Wagner's ________ tied sound to story, evidence of the Romantic search for an ideal union of poetry and music. Question 10 options: 1) use of backdrops behind the orchestra 2) invention of new brass instruments 3) use of minor keys 4) leitmotif
use of backdrops behind the orchestra
