Part 1:
Q1. The breakthrough in eighteenth-century industrialism first came in the ______________ industry.
a. iron
b. cotton
c. coal
d. silk
Q2. The Enlightenment figure who had the most influence on the romantic movement was
a. Voltaire.
b. David.
c. Rousseau.
d. Napoleon.
Q3. Mozart based his Don Giovanni on a play by.
a. Moliere.
b. Locke.
c. Shakespeare.
d. Rousseau.
Q4. One nation that was able to limit Western intrusion during the seventeenth to the nineteenth century was
a. China.
b. Japan.
c. India.
d. Indonesia.
Q5. Edgar Degas is frequently associated with paintings of
a. mountains.
b. harbors.
c. nature.
d. ballerinas.
Q6. In his paintings, J. M. W. Turner concentrated his artistic experimentation on
a. color.
b. light.
c. perspective.
d. shadow.
Q7. In his books, Freud defined religion as
a. an expression of Eros.
b. a search for mother.
c. a universal neurosis, an illusion.
d. an occasion for contemplating the unconscious.
Q8. During the Spanish Civil War, General Francisco Franco led the forces of the
a. Loyalists.
b. Libertarians.
c. Nationalists.
d. Republicans.
Q9. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill makes the point that
a. women should be given the vote, but they are not capable of holding the highest offices.
b. the subordination of women to men would not be an established historical fact if there were not some basis for it.
c. the subordination of one sex to another is completely wrong.
d. women have chosen their status and must take responsibility for it themselves.
Q10. A modern psychologist might state that Don Giovanni portrays the conflict between the id and the
a. ego.
b. conscious.
c. superego.
d. unconscious.
Q11. The Shootings of the Third of May, 1808 condemns
a. ignorant, reactionary peasants.
b. Admiral Nelson.
c. the French soldiers.
d. the citizens of Paris.
Q12. A femme fatale is a woman who
a. dies for love.
b. seduces innocent young men.
c. has great artistic ability.
d. is a young widow.
Q13. An important difference between new liberals of the mid-- nineteenth century and the thinkers who preceded them was that the new liberals believed that
a. government should foster individual freedom.
b. government should protect private property.
c. basic services should be provided by the government for the common good.
d. political power was a basic right of all workers.
Q14. Which of the following is characteristic of the symbolist movement in art and music?
a. It interprets the everyday world.
b. It neglects, though it does not reject, the spiritual.
c. It insists on art for its own sake.
d. It glorifies science and technology.
Q15. Early nineteenth-century liberals believed all of the following except that
a. individuals should follow their own enlightened self-interest.
b. private property should gradually be abolished.
c. the state should not interfere in people's lives.
d. wages would tend to stay at the subsistence level.
Q16. Emily Dickinson's poetry reveals nature sometimes as a soothing mother and sometimes as a harbinger of
a. war.
b. death.
c. heaven.
d. peace.
Q17. The seat of instinctual drives, largely unconscious, was called the ______________ by Freud.
a. superego
b. dreambed
c. id
d. ego
Q18. Which of the following was a champion of women's rights?
a. Mill
b. Jefferson
c. Voltaire
d. Keats
Q19. ___________________â€TMs Les fleurs du mal shocked the French reading public.
a. Baudelaire
b. Balzac
c. Stendhal
d. Flaubert
Q20. _________ wrote Song of Myself.
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Herman Melville
Q21. The ______________, as we know it today, was created by a group of sixteenth-century Italian humanists known as the Camerata.
a. opera
b. chorus
c. symphony orchestra
d. marching band
Q22. The most famous attraction of the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 was the
a. internal combustion engine.
b. ferrisFerris wheel.
c. Crystal Palace.
d. telegraph.
Q23. Byron's poetic allusion to "the rock, the vulture, and the chain" refers to
a. symbols of the revolution in its decline.
b. political forces at work in England.
c. instruments of torture used against Prometheus.
d. symbols of death, prison, and exile.
Q24. Marxism was most successful in countries that had
a. not yet industrialized.
b. already abolished private property.
c. the strongest belief in individual rights.
d. the biggest factories.
Q25. The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" of 1848 was
a. one of the first historic documents to assert the rights of women.
b. a reaction against The Communist Manifesto.
c. a treatise on liberal economics.
d. not taken seriously by its authors.
Q26. The _____________ movement in the United States became organized when William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator.
a. womenâ€TMs rights
b. liberal
c. abolitionist
d. free trade
Q27. The American painter Thomas Eakins was greatly influenced by the works of
a. VelásquezVelázquez.
b. Delacroix.
c. Goya.
d. Constable.
Q28. The "magic" word for America during the Roaring Twenties was
a. music.
b. dance.
c. money.
d. credit.
Q29. By 1785, the Industrial Revolution was clearly underway in
a. France
b. Britain
c. Prussia
d. Russia
Q30. In his book Civilization and Its Discontents Freud concluded that
a. human culture develops through the sublimation of instinctual drives.
b. primitive societies were happier because they did not impose so many taboos.
c. there are grounds for being optimistic about human survival.
d. technological progress and civilization are largely responsible for human misery.
Q31. The most famous of the realist painters was
a. Goya.
b. Delacroix.
c. Gustave Courbet.
d. Frederick D. Maurice.
Q32. Freud saw the human being as
a. primarily rational.
b. a creature of internal conflict.
c. a child.
d. motivated by altruism.
Q33. One of the first leaders in the French Revolution, later put to death, was
a. Louis the Bastard.
b. Napoleon.
c. Marat.
d. Robespierre.
Q34. The Central Powers included all of the following except
a. Turkey.
b. Serbia.
c. Germany.
d. Austria-Hungary.
Q35. In the first scene of Don Giovanni, the title character murders the father of
a. Donna Elvira.
b. Zerlina.
c. Donna Anna.
d. Leporello.
Q36. The leading revolutionary painter, who took themes of political injustice such as the death of Socrates as his subject matter, was
a. Fragonard.
b. Boucher.
c. Watteau.
d. David.
Q37. In "Letter to Lord Irwin," Gandhi claims that he
a. must defend his people, using violence if necessary.
b. intends harm to Englishmen.
c. cannot hurt anything that lives.
d. must remain neutral when regarding the claims of Indians and Englishmen.
Q38. The __________________ (1885) set off a scramble for new African colonies.
a. Berlin Conference
b. Morocco Conference
c. Algiers Conference
d. Munich Conference
Q39. In Marx's view of history, the ancient slave economy was replaced by the
a. bourgeoisie.
b. feudal system.
c. medieval merchant class.
d. Industrial Revolution.
Q40. During the second half of the eighteenth century, the ______________ emerged as the primary musical medium.
a. opera
b. chorus
c. symphony orchestra
d. marching band
Q41. Marx believed that the conflict between classes was
a. reaching a crisis in his times.
b. centuries from reaching its culmination.
c. not an important factor in historical change.
d. more an illusion than a reality.
Q42. Ford Madox Brown's painting Work deals with
a. the brutal working conditions of the poor.
b. the idealization of labor.
c. the sharp contrast between laborers and passersby.
d. propaganda for a socialized utopia.
Q43. In Mozart's Don Giovanni, the role of Don Giovanni is sung by a(n)
a. bass.
b. baritone.
c. alto.
d. tenor.
Q44. Symbolist art began as an attempt to
a. paint things exactly as they appeared.
b. project an ideal image of society.
c. render the qualities of light.
d. express emotional and spiritual values.
Q45. Of the following countries, in which did women acquire the vote first?
a. Canada
b. England
c. The United States
d. France
Q46. The surface of _____________________â€TMs Home Insurance Building hangs on its steel and iron frame.
a. Louis Sullivan
b. Marshall Field
c. William LeBaron Jenney
d. J. P. McCormick
Q47. In Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 represented the victory of forces that believed that Japan needed to
a. ally with China to defeat the West.
b. modernize its industries and its military.
c. avoid contact with modern societies.
d. practice nonviolence in order to defeat colonialism.
Q48. ______________ liked to paint several versions of the same subject, such as Mont Sainte-Victoire, presenting it in its own right and yet acting as an abstract equivalent for the seen world.
a. Cézanne
b. Picasso
c. Kandinsky
d. Brancusi
Q49. Opera has traditionally been associated with the upper classes because
a. it is the most expensive musical form to produce.
b. the stories used always concern kings and nobles.
c. it is directly descended from Greek tragedy.
d. most operas were commissioned by kings or nobles.
Q50. All of the following are forms of musical drama, in the sense that they represent different ways of combining music and important words, except
a. opera.
b. Gregorian chant.
c. The Play of Daniel.
d. the baroque toccata.
Part 2:
Q1. The best known of the beat poets was
a. William Carlos Williams.
b. James Dean.
c. Charlie Parker.
d. Alan Ginsberg.
Q2. A totally new art form created in the 1920s was
a. blues.
b. symbolism.
c. impressionism.
d. jazz.
Q3. Charlie Parker created a new style of music called
a. bebop.
b. Dixieland.
c. swing.
d. cool.
Q4. The protagonist of Invisible Man fills a basement with
a. pages torn out of books.
b. 1,369 lightbulbs.
c. garbage.
d. used clothing.
Q5. The Rite of Spring portrays
a. the ritual of human sacrifice.
b. the blossoming of cherry trees.
c. the fulfillment of young love.
d. an imitation of the ancient Dionysian dance.
Q6. The poetry of _____________ evokes the sights and sounds of Chile.
a. José Lins do Rego
b. Pablo Neruda
c. Jorge Luis Borges
d. Miguel Angel Asturias
Q7. Which of the following brought Nijinsky fame?
a. his revival of the music of Tchaikovsky
b. an "en pointe" technique that emphasized ritual gestures
c. a choreography that imitated the Chinese "Noh" theater dance
d. gestures in dance that tried to express a new "primitive wholeness"
Q8. Antonin Artaud was profoundly influenced by ____________ theater and dance.
a. Asian
b. African
c. South American
d. African American
Q9. Ansel Adams's favorite subject was
a. the rural American South.
b. urban industrial centers.
c. the American West.
d. the European peasant.
Q10. The Guggenheim Museum was designed by
a. Henry Russell Hitchcock.
b. Frank Lloyd Wright.
c. Le Corbusier.
d. Walter Gropius.
Q11. Charlie Chaplin is most memorable for his contribution to
a. dance.
b. theatre.
c. silent film.
d. painting.
Q12. Ernesto Cardenal's poetry
a. criticizes liberation theology.
b. gives voice to the voiceless.
c. reflects a tone of social approval.
d. is appealing only to Nicaraguans.
Q13. All of the following were involved in the founding of L'étudiant noir EXCEPT
a. AiméCésaire.
b. Léopold Sédar.
c. Gaston Antoine.
d. Léon GontranDamas.
Q14. It is clear that American society is becoming more and more
a. culturally pluralistic.
b. religious.
c. ethnocentric.
d. capitalistic.
Q15. One of the foremost chroniclers of the world-weariness and emotional emptiness of modernist writing was
a. Gertrude Stein.
b. Ezra Pound.
c. T. S. Eliot.
d. James Joyce.
Q16. The first important skyscraper in the International style was the
a. Robie House.
b. Empire State Building.
c. Guggenheim Museum.
d. Lever Building.
Q17. The cradle of modernism in the early twentieth century was
a. Rome.
b. Paris.
c. Berlin.
d. New York.
Q18. A major point of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is that women
a. are defined in terms of their biological functions.
b. have achieved financial independence in the twentieth century.
c. should avoid having children.
d. must forcibly seize political control from men.
Q19. The total death toll of World War II is estimated to have been at least
a. 50 million.
b. 75 million.
c. 100 million.
d. 150 million.
Q20. In preserving an African style of dance, African Americans developed the
a. ballet.
b. waltz.
c. tap dance.
d. fox trot.
Q21. A painting referred to as "pop" art would most likely depict
a. geometric forms and synthetic materials.
b. popular ethnic folk art.
c. a can of tomato soup.
d. a canvas spattered with random color.
Q22. Which of the following photographers is most often associated with photography's development as an art form in early twentieth-century America?
a. Dorothea Lange
b. Jacob Riis
c. Alfred Stieglitz
d. James Van Der Zee
Q23. Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House is an example of
a. the cubist style.
b. functionalism.
c. the "prairie" style.
d. the bold, new design theory of the Bauhaus.
Q24. Brancusi's Bird in Space could be interpreted as
a. an intricate study of an eagle in flight.
b. the universal essence of a bird's form.
c. a surrealistic painting of flight.
d. an imitation of the "ashcan school" technique.
Q25. Each of the following is an expression of postmodernism in art except
a. antiform or open form.
b. the expression of self.
c. the world as global village.
d. the mixing of different styles.
Q26. The modern tendency most notable in Picasso's art is
a. an imitation of the color and vigor of Gauguin.
b. a rejection of sensuality and a turning toward asceticism.
c. a transformation of the figurative or naturalistic tradition in art.
d. a concern with religious values.
Q27. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors was a seminal piece of art that demonstrated the new style called
a. surrealism.
b. impressionistic sculpture.
c. cubism.
d. expressionism.
Q28. Brecht's popular musical __________________ was written in collaboration with the composer Kurt Weill
a. Mother Courage
b. The Three Penny Opera
c. The Good Women of Setzuan
d. Galileo
Q29. The Dinner Party, a controversial work of art celebrating the achievements of women and women's creativity in the minor arts, was created by
a. Virginia Woolf.
b. Adrienne Rich.
c. Judy Chicago.
d. Alice Walker.
Q30. Critic and theorist Michel Foucault proclaimed that humans have moved from a God-centered world, to a human-centered world, and now to a world without
a. love.
b. beauty.
c. creativity.
d. center.
Q31. As Ralph Ellison defined it, the blues are
a. an autobiographical chronicle of personal suffering expressed lyrically.
b. propaganda used by blacks as a legitimate form of protest.
c. a reaction to the white capitalistic exploitation of the lower class.
d. a form of art for art's sake.
Q32. _______________ of Buenos Aires had an enormous international impact from the late 1950s on.
a. Jorge Luis Borges
b. Mariano Azuela
c. CiroAlegria
d. José Lins do Rego
Q33. Antonin Artaud's The Theater and its Double compares and contrasts the _______________ theater.
a. oriental and occidental
b. modern and premodern
c. realist and symbolist
d. African and European
Q34. The __________________ was the largest land war in history
a. Second Anglo-French-German War (1939-1945)
b. Russo-German War (1941-1945)
c. Japanese American War (1941-1945)
d. War for Greater East Asia (1931-1949)
Q35. Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die," is representative of the ______________ school of artistic expression.
a. neoclassical
b. expressionist
c. Harlem Renaissance
d. abstract
Q36. In "The Republic of Silence" Jean-Paul Sartre states that people have never been so free as
a. when thinking.
b. after the war.
c. under German occupation.
d. during battle.
Q37. Jazz _______________ Ornette Coleman was as much a social leader as a musical artist.
a. guitarist
b. drummer
c. saxophonist
d. pianist
Q38. The thrust of the postcolonial movement is to
a. discard harmful Western assumptions and stereotypes.
b. create a new set of ideals totally opposite Western ones.
c. denigrate Westerners.
d. take an aggressive stance against economic imperialism.
Q39. The feature most characteristic of the school of abstract expressionism or action painting is
a. a return to the use of identifiable subject matter.
b. a smaller, more intimate type of painting.
c. the necessity of an intense and vital act depicted in the art.
d. a belief in the primacy of the unconscious in the gesture of painting.
Q40. The sculptor who created the stretched, attenuated human form was
a. Calder.
b. Smith.
c. Giacometti.
d. Davis.
Q41. Being and Nothingness established Sartre as
a. a nihilist.
b. a naturalist.
c. a realist.
d. an existentialist.
Q42. The subject of Ezra Pound's poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is
a. spiritual emptiness.
b. the danger of young marriage.
c. love.
d. trade.
Q43. The beginning of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man depicts a man who
a. has no trouble making people see him for who he is.
b. actually becomes invisible.
c. tries to live out the role others have assigned to him.
d. has resolved his identity problems.
Q44. Race riots broke out in the "bloody summer" of ___________ in more than twenty-five U.S. cities.
a. 1929
b. 1919
c. 1939
d. 1909
Q45. The event that impelled Claude McKay to write "If We Must Die" was
a. a race riot in the summer of 1919.
b. World War I.
c. an influenza epidemic.
d. the murder of "Back to Africa" leaders.
Q46. Braque and Picasso experimented with pasting and gluing materials onto canvas, an art form called
a. cubism.
b. collage.
c. essentialism.
d. expressionism.
Q47. Ezra Pound was interested in the aesthetics and techniques of _______________ poetry.
a. American
b. French
c. Chinese and Japanese
d. German
Q48. Kandinsky tells us that one consideration was more important to him than any other:
a. how to paint the familiar object and make it seem new.
b. how to contrast the orderly and formal with the sensuous and energetic.
c. how to get the public to accept his new and radical approach.
d. what abstract forms would replace the missing object.
Q49. World War II differed most dramatically from World War I in that
a. fewer nations were involved.
b. the United States was more actively involved.
c. communism gained tremendous ground.
d. World War II was truly global.
Q50. In such novels as Ulysses, Joyce used
a. interior monologue.
b. surrealism.
c. religious fervor and spiritual piety.
d. an informal, loose style.