Why did Napoleon launch a massive rebuilding program in Paris?
goodness with which they were born?
Answer
| Man’s inherent nature is to sin | ||
| Society and civilization corrupted them | ||
| Formal education crushed imagination | ||
| Organized religion taught false values |
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Question 2
With what were the eighteenth-century French philosophes concerned?
Answer
| Manners and tradition | ||
| Metaphysical matters | ||
| Secular and social concerns | ||
| Theater and painting |
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Question 3
What does Yu the Great Taming the Waters, carved onto a massive piece of jade, represent?
Answer
| China being saved by a miracle | ||
| China’s version of the Noah story | ||
| The might of the Chinese army | ||
| Hard work and service to the ruler |
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Question 4
Why did the philosophes alienate themselves from the Church?
Answer
| Disbelief in God | ||
| Intolerant of hierarchy and ritual | ||
| Disagreement with Church doctrine | ||
| Dislike for church ornamentation |
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Question 5
Why is the music that arose in reaction to the Rococo called “classical”?
Answer
| Its symmetry, proportion, unity, and clarity | ||
| Its reliance upon a small number of instruments | ||
| Its predictability of form and movements | ||
| Its use of Greek and Roman mythological themes |
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Question 6
Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau’s fêtes galantes become so popular?
Answer
| Their mythological allusions | ||
| Their symmetry and perspective | ||
| Their erotic overtones | ||
| Their realistic portrayal of society |
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Question 7
What was the overarching purpose of the Encyclopédie?
Answer
| To accumulate and preserve human knowledge | ||
| To record the findings of the French Academy | ||
| To give a voice to the French philosophes | ||
| To standardize the French language and spelling |
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Question 8
Why were the philosophes attracted to China?
Answer
| Its republican government | ||
| Its Buddhist beliefs | ||
| Its high level of advancement | ||
| Its simplified lifestyle |
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Question 9
Who introduced Western art techniques to the Chinese?
Answer
| The Portuguese | ||
| The Jesuits | ||
| The French | ||
| The Manchurians |
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Question 10
Why did the eighteenth-century Parisian courtiers lose interest in portraits?
Answer
| They desired paintings that entertained | ||
| Portraiture limited artists’ creativity | ||
| They were bored with the realism | ||
| Louis XV disliked portraits |
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Question 11
In France, what triggered the events leading to revolution?
Answer
| Loss of the Seven Years’ War | ||
| Grain and flour shortage | ||
| Murder of Jean Paul-Marat | ||
| The national debt |
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Question 12
Why did Napoleon launch a massive rebuilding program in Paris?
Answer
| To restore Paris to its Baroque grandeur | ||
| To impress his empire with his new palace | ||
| To make Paris the new Rome | ||
| To expand the churches to glorify God |
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Question 13
How is David’s Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard historically inaccurate?
Answer
| Napoleon was much shorter than David painted him | ||
| Napoleon did not cross the Alps with his army | ||
| Napoleon wears a crown even though he was not emperor | ||
| Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule, not a white horse |
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Question 14
On whose design did Thomas Jefferson model Monticello?
Answer
| Andrea Palladio | ||
| Giovanni Bon | ||
| Charles Le Brun | ||
| Christopher Wren |
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Question 15
Why was Wedgwood’s Neoclassical-ornamented jasperware so popular in the United States?
Answer
| It was colored | ||
| It was mass produced | ||
| It was rare | ||
| It was expensive |
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Question 16
Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?
Answer
| Charlottesville, Virginia, is surrounded by hills | ||
| It would be safe from the floods common to that area | ||
| Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples | ||
| It provided the best view of the Virginia countryside |
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Question 17
Why did John Adams defend the British soldiers who in 1770 had killed five protesters at the Boston Customs House?
Answer
| They had fired in self-defense | ||
| The protesters were slaves | ||
| They were following King George III’s orders | ||
| The protesters opened fire first |
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Question 18
Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography of his years as a slave?
Answer
| His description of the slave ship does not match historical records | ||
| He likely was born in the United States, not Africa as he claimed | ||
| The English did not buy slaves from Benin, where he said he was born | ||
| He describes treatment that would not have been given valuable commodities |
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Question 19
As described in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, why does Antoine Jean Gros’s painting of Napoleon and his army battling the Russians make odd propaganda?
Answer
| The Russians defeated Napoleon’s army | ||
| Napoleon’s army never fought the Russians | ||
| Most of Napoleon’s men died in that campaign | ||
| Napoleon did not lead his army against the Russians |
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Question 20
According to German philosopher Immanuel Kant, what was the Enlightenment’s precondition?
Answer
| Revolution | ||
| Freedom | ||
| Courage | ||
| Education |
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Question 21
What view of the world did the Romantics value?
Answer
| Empirical observation | ||
| Divinely revealed truth | ||
| Objective reality | ||
| Subjective experience |
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Question 22
What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?
Answer
| Scherzo | ||
| Fortissimo | ||
| Idée fixe | ||
| Étude |
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Question 23
Why was the natural world Romantic poetry’s primary subject?
Answer
| Its absence of complexity and pretension | ||
| Its availability to everyone no matter what social class | ||
| Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination | ||
| Its distraction from everyday problems |
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Question 24
Why did the Romantics revere Prometheus?
Answer
| For being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom | ||
| For being the Greek god of wisdom and creativity | ||
| For refusing to obey the laws of the Titans | ||
| For his ability to be restored after suffering cruel treatment |
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Question 25
In Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, why does the hero commit suicide?
Answer
| For being ostracized from the city society | ||
| For making a pact with the devil | ||
| For killing his pregnant mistress | ||
| For falling in love with a married woman |
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Question 26
Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America as having so much potential?
Answer
| Its native American population | ||
| Its freedom of worship | ||
| Its pristine rivers and lakes | ||
| Its vast tracts of wilderness |
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Question 27
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, why does the creature embark on a quest for revenge against Dr. Frankenstein?
Answer
| For creating him from dead body parts | ||
| For abandoning him to fend for himself | ||
| For not giving him a soul | ||
| For leaving him in the Arctic |
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Question 28
Who was Wordsworth’s co-writer for Lyrical Ballads?
Answer
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ||
| Dorothy Wordsworth | ||
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| John Keats |
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Question 29
In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” what does the Mariner’s killing of the albatross represent?
Answer
| Coleridge overcoming opium addiction | ||
| An attack on nature | ||
| Salvation for his shipmates | ||
| Christ’s crucifixion |
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Question 30
In “Tintern Abbey,” why does Wordsworth believe he looks at the world differently than he did five years previously?
Answer
| The losses he endured has made him more sensitive | ||
| He now sees the connection between all things | ||
| His memory becomes sharper as he matures | ||
| He has a closer relationship with his sister |
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Question 31
What was a central mission of the abolitionist movement?
Answer
| To return the Africans to their homeland | ||
| To redistribute the Southerners’ wealth | ||
| To Christianize the African slaves | ||
| To feel self-righteous by helping the slaves |
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Question 32
Why did Charles Darwin sail on the H.M.S. Beagle in 1831?
Answer
| To serve as the ship’s physician | ||
| To find evidence for human evolution | ||
| To photograph South America | ||
| To serve as the ship’s naturalist |
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Question 33
Why did Neoclassically-trained Théodore Géricault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of the Medusa?
Answer
| To protest aristocratic privilege | ||
| To call attention to the plight of slaves | ||
| To expose the French government’s cover-up | ||
| To shock the French into another revolution |
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Question 34
What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer
| Clothing | ||
| Music | ||
| Setting | ||
| Speech |
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Question 35
What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?
Answer
| “Painting is dead!” | ||
| “The world is black and white!” | ||
| “This is not art!” | ||
| “Realism is here!” |
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Question 36
As reported in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, why possibly did Roger Fenton exclude the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs?
Answer
| British government forbade it | ||
| He wasn’t allowed on the battlefield | ||
| The families requested him to do so | ||
| Newspapers would not print them |
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Question 37
Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway slave Jim in for a reward?
Answer
| Huck would be arrested for property theft | ||
| Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in | ||
| Huck has learned to appreciate Jim’s humanity | ||
| Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage |
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Question 38
Why did Maxine Du Camp almost always include a human figure in his photographs?
Answer
| To prove their realism | ||
| To indicate scale | ||
| To make them more marketable | ||
| To provide a focal point |
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Question 39
Why did architect A. W. N. Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones?
Answer
| They were guided by Christian principles | ||
| They were inside the abbey, not separate | ||
| They were smaller than the nineteenth-century ones | ||
| They were located in rural, not urban, areas |
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Question 40
What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers?
Answer
| Established a minimum daily wage | ||
| Banned employment of children under age nine | ||
| Displaced women from the workforce | ||
| Required factories to provide decent housing |
