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________ 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
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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
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the struggle for political independence
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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) GĂ©ricault 4) Delacroix Save
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Gros
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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) GĂ©ricault 4) Delacroix
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Gericault
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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) GĂ©ricault 4) Delacroix Save
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Delacroix
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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
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Gothic
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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
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exoticism
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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
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the piano
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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
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Paganini
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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
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use of backdrops behind the orchestra
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________ united poetry and music in the intimate form of the lied. Question 11 options: 1) Grieg 2) Schubert 3) Mussorgsky 4) Tchaikovsky
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Schubert
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________ 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
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Tchaikovsky
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_______ 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
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Opera
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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
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Nationalistic themes
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Musical pieces (often short) that have an improvised sound in spite of their carefully written notation are called Question 15 options: 1) Ă©tudes. 2) impromptus. 3) nocturnes. 4) treatments.
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impromptus
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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
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Realism
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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
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Imperialism
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________ 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
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Utilitarianism
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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
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socialism
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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
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liberalism
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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
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Mill
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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
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Dickens
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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
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Zola
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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
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Ibsen
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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
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lithography
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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
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Courbet
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________ shocked public taste by modernizing Classical subjects and violating conventional painting techniques. Question 12 options: 1) Daumier 2) Titian 3) Manet 4) Church
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Manet
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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
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Crystal Palace
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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
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America's imperialistic presence in Asia
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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
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camera
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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
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Debussy
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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
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Nietzche
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________ 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
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Bergson
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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
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sensation
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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
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Impressionists
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________ 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
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Degas
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Which of the following was famous for his posters of Parisian nightlife? Question 7 options: 1) Cassatt 2) Toulouse-Lautrec 3) Renoir 4) Degas
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Toulouse-Lautrec
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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
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Belgium
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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
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art glass
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Which of the following was an innovative pioneer of modern dance? Question 10 options: 1) Degas 2) Rodin 3) Duncan 4) Bergson
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Duncan
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Which of the following painters lived for many years in Tahiti? Question 11 options: 1) Degas 2) Duncan 3) Gauguin 4) Rodin
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Duncan
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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.
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pointillism
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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) CĂ©zanne
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Cezanne
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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
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Paris
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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
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quinine
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________ 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
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Planck
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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
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Michelson and Morley
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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.
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imagists
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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
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Pound
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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
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Frost
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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
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abstraction
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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) CĂ©zanne. 3) Capote. 4) Rockwell.
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Cezanne
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Picasso's new "language" of painting was called Question 8 options: 1) Bluism. 2) Cubism. 3) paintism. 4) retractable art.
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Cubism
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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
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Futurists
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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) CĂ©zanne
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Matisse
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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
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nonobjective art
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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.
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Wright
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Which of the following was the principle founder of the Bauhaus? Question 13 options: 1) Le Corbusier 2) Wright 3) Sullivan 4) Gropius
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Gropius
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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
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Le Corbusier
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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.
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The RIte of Spring
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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
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dreams
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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
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sexual trauma suffered as a child
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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
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super-id
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The positive modification and redirection of primal urges is termed Question 4 options: 1) reward. 2) contraindication. 3) sublimation. 4) behavioral reinforcement.
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sublimation
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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.
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the collective unconscious
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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.
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archetypes
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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
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Joyce
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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
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Proust
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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
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Cummings
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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
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Kafka
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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
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Expressionism
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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.
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magic realism
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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
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Dada
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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
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Surrealism
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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.
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musical drama and theater
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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
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Eliot
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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
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Hemingway
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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
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Remarque
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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) LĂ©ger 4) Remarque
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Grosz
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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) LĂ©ger 4) Remarque
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Leger
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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) LĂ©ger 4) Remarque
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Ersnt
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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.
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Nicholas II
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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
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Lenin
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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
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The Grapes of Wrath
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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.
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Dorothea Lange
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________, 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
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Sartre
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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
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Skinner
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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.
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All
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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
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Existentialism
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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
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theater of the absurd
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_______ 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'
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Dylan Thomas'
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________, 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
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Bacon
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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
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Abstract Expressionism
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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
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action painting
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________'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
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Bergman
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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
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Hopperr
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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
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Giacometti
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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.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
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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
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Diego Rivera
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One of the earliest revolts against colonial rule took place against the British Empire in Question 3 options: 1) India. 2) Pakistan. 3) Bangladesh. 4) Australia. Save
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India
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The ________ took the first Africans to America in 1619, and during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of slaves were imported to the American colonies, especially those in the South. Question 4 options: 1) Portuguese 2) Spanish 3) French 4) Dutch
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Dutch
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Between 1920 and 1940, the quest for racial equality and a search for self-identity among African-Americans inspired the ________, an upsurge of creative expression in the arts centered in a part of Manhattan occupied largely by African-Americans. Question 5 options: 1) Nation of Islam 2) Great Migration 3) Harlem Renaissance 4) Niagara Conference Save
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Harlem Renaissance
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"________," the stage name of a popular nineteenth-century minstrel performer, Thomas D. Rice, had come to describe anything pertaining to African-Americans, including matters of racial segregation. Question 6 options: 1) Sleep n' Eat 2) Man Tan 3) Step n' Fetchit 4) Jim Crow
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Jim Crow
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail was addressed to which of the following? Question 7 options: 1) the governor of Alabama 2) the membership of the SCLC 3) a group of local white clergymen 4) his wife, Coretta Scott King
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a group of local white clergymen
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Which of the following joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, later using Muslim morality and social structure to encourage racial separatism in the United States? Question 8 options: 1) Malcolm X 2) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 3) Richard Wright 4) Frederick Douglass Save
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Malcolm X
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Ellison's novel Invisible Man is about which of the following themes? Question 10 options: 1) a black family on the move from the American South to Detroit 2) the civil rights movement 3) colonial slavery and its societal consequences 4) an unnamed black man living in a basement room in Harlem
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an unnamed black man living in a basement room in Harlem
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The first black woman to be honored with the Nobel Prize in literature is Question 11 options: 1) Dorothy West. 2) Alice Walker. 3) Toni Morrison. 4) Zora Neale Hurston.
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Toni Morrison
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Possibly the most important contribution made by African-Americans to world culture occurred in the birth and development of that unique form of modern music known as Question 12 options: 1) the blues. 2) jazz. 3) ragtime. 4) swing.
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jazz
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________ is a form of piano composition and performance featuring highly syncopated rhythms and simple, appealing melodies. Question 13 options: 1) The blues 2) Jazz 3) Ragtime 4) Swing
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Ragtime
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While difficult to define, the musical concept of ________ may best be described as the practice of playing just off the beat—slightly ahead or behind. Question 14 options: 1) the blues 2) jazz 3) ragtime 4) swing
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swing
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In 1992, AIDS activists assembled which of the following artistic media in Washington, D.C., to protest governmental inaction with regard to the AIDS crisis? Question 15 options: 1) a sit-down tableau 2) a mobile 3) a giant quilt 4) hundreds of coffins
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a giant quilt
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The decade of the Holocaust and the devastation of World War II prompted the Postmodern shift from an Industrial Age (dominated by farming and manufacturing) to a(n) Question 1 options: 1) Computer Age. 2) Service-sector Age. 3) Information Age. 4) Neo-Renaissance.
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Information Age
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The two key contributing factors to today's historical age as explained by the text are Question 2 options: 1) trans-global communications and computers. 2) television and computers. 3) television and cell phones. 4) television and the European Union.
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television and computers
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The world's first online, nonprofit English-language encyclopedia, ________, was launched in 2001. Question 3 options: 1) Britannica 2) the World Wide Web 3) Google 4) Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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As communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously observed, "the ________ is the message." Question 4 options: 1) audience 2) medium 3) feedback 4) message
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medium
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String theory seeks to unite quantum physics with which of the following? Question 5 options: 1) the Doppler effect 2) gravity 3) the theory of relativity 4) time and spatial theory
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the theory of relativity
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________ became the popular mode of analysis in philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism in the late twentieth century. Question 7 options: 1) Deconstruction 2) Reconstruction 3) Dialectic 4) Rhetoric
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Deconstructiom
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________ artists appropriate (or borrow) pre-existing texts and images from history, advertising, and the media. Question 8 options: 1) Abstract 2) Modernist 3) Mannerist 4) Postmodern
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Postmodern
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________ is a literary genre that gives an original (and fictionalized) narrative context to contemporary events and situations. Question 9 options: 1) "Old" media 2) Subjectivism 3) Docu-fiction 4) All these answers are correct. Save
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Docu-fiction
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Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Isaac Asimov all write within what literary genre? Question 10 options: 1) nonfiction 2) suspense 3) science fiction 4) poetry
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science fiction
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________, the quintessential style of the Information Age, embraced the imagery of consumerism and celebrity culture as mediated by television, film, and magazines. Question 11 options: 1) Abstraction 2) Neoclassicism 3) Op art 4) Pop art
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Pop art
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The oversized paintings of ________, modeled on comic-book cartoons, bring attention to familiar clichés and stereotypes of popular entertainment. Question 12 options: 1) Oldenburg 2) Lichtenstein 3) Johns 4) Warhol
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Lichtenstein
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The operation of conflicting visual cues and the elemental effects of colors and shapes on the faculties of the human retina is a style known as Question 13 options: 1) Abstraction 2) Neoclassicism 3) Op art 4) Pop art
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Op art
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Not overtly political nor even necessarily critical of the status quo, ________ seeks to transform society by awakening its visionary potential. Question 14 options: 1) subjective art 2) commentary art 3) social conscience art 4) total art
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social conscience art
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A classic kind of total art, ________, was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006). Kaprow, who coined the name for this conceptual genre, called it "a performance that occurs in a given time and space." Question 15 options: 1) the Happening 2) the Be-in 3) performance art 4) total art
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the Happening
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In 1962, the Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the electronic transformation of the planet earth into a "________." Question 1 options: 1) spaceship 2) global village 3) single computer 4) billion individual nations Save
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global villiage
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Edward Osborn Wilson's early work in evolutionary biology examined parallels between ants and other animal societies, including those of human beings; and more recently he has proposed a new type of interdisciplinary research which he calls "________," that works to improve the human condition. Question 2 options: 1) Globalism 2) devolution 3) humanistic reconstructuralism 4) scientific humanism
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scientific humanism
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Robert Smithson pioneered one of the most important ecological landmarks of the late twentieth century, the piece known as ________, a 1,500 foot-long coil consisting of 6,650 tons of local black basalt, limestone, and earth. Question 3 options: 1) Remains 2) Spiral Graph 3) Twist 4) Spiral Jetty
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Spiral Jetty
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The Swiss Re building is called "the Gherkin" by Londoners and is famous for which of the following reasons? Question 4 options: 1) It is a solid green color. 2) It is environmentally sustainable. 3) It is independently nuclear-powered. 4) It is essentially a tent shaped like a gigantic dome.
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It is environmentally sustainable
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An ongoing counterpoint to Globalism is the recurring emphasis in the arts regarding which of the following? Question 5 options: 1) nationalism 2) ethnicity 3) religiosity 4) anarchy
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ethnicity
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"________," the exercise of power by means of group solidarity, has often pitted ethnic groups against each other in militant opposition. Question 6 options: 1) Coup d'etat 2) Identity politics 3) Putsch 4) Junta
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Identity politics
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Probably the greatest single threat to the global community is ________, the deliberate and systematic use of violence against civilians in order to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. Question 7 options: 1) terrorism 2) pacification 3) sabotage 4) exploitation
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terrorism
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It is widely believed that ________ will be the next great global power. Question 8 options: 1) India 2) the People's Republic of China 3) Iran 4) Korea
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the People's Republic of China
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Nam June Paik initiated the ________ genre with performance pieces and electronic installations. More ambitious in size and conception, however, are the artist's multi-screen television installations. Megatron (1995), for instance, consists of 215 monitors. Question 9 options: 1) digital art 2) computer art 3) viewer art 4) video art
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video art
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________ is art in which the computer is employed as a primary tool, medium, or creative partner. Question 10 options: 1) Digital art 2) Computer art 3) Viewer art 4) Video art Save
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digital art
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Perhaps the most intriguing computer-driven form of interactive art is ________, a technology that allows the user to interact with a computer-simulated environment. Question 11 options: 1) object-oriented design 2) the matrix 3) virtual reality 4) computer-aided design (CAD)
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virtual reality
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One of the most notable experiments in contemporary intercultural music is the ________, which involves the exchange of Western musical traditions with those of the vast skein of trade routes that linked East Asia to Europe. Question 12 options: 1) Silk Road Project 2) Oriental Exchange 3) Artists Without Borders 4) Open Source Project
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Silk Road Project
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The vocal dimension of hip-hop music is which of the following? Question 13 options: 1) scat 2) trance 3) rap 4) disc jockey Save
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rap
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Paul Taylor's 1999 chorographical spoof of the Ku Klux Klan is named which of the following? Question 14 options: 1) Dance...Now! 2) Three Sheets 3) Oh, You Kid 4) Nothing Better To Do
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Oh, You Kid
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While ________ directly contributes to the blending of different ethnic populations, it has inspired efforts to maintain distinctive ethnic values and traditions. Question 15 options: 1) civil war 2) immigration 3) globalization 4) the mass media
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immigration
