Quiz II1

According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, why did people lose the natural 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

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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

2 points

Question 6

Quiz II3

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

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Its high level of advancement

Its simplified lifestyle

2 points

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

Quiz II5

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

2 points

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

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Napoleon wears a crown even though he was not emperor

Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule, not a white horse

2 points

Question 14

On whose design did Thomas Jefferson model Monticello?

Answer

Andrea Palladio

Giovanni Bon

Charles Le Brun

Christopher Wren

2 points

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

2 points

Question 16

Quiz II7

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

2 points

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

2 points

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

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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

2 points

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

2 points

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

Quiz II9

What view of the world did the Romantics value?

Answer

Empirical observation

Divinely revealed truth

Objective reality

Subjective experience

2 points

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

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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

2 points

Question 26

Quiz II11

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

2 points

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

2 points

Question 28

Who was Wordsworth's co-writer for Lyrical Ballads?

Answer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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2 points

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

2 points

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

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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

2 points

Question 34

What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Answer

Clothing

Music

Setting

Speech

2 points

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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2 points

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

2 points

Question 38

Why did Maxine Du Camp almost always include a human figure in his photographs?

Answer

Quiz II16

To prove their realism

To indicate scale

To make them more marketable

To provide a focal point

2 points

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

2 points

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

Quiz II17

Required factories to provide decent housing