Chapter 12 Humanities – Flashcards
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By "sublime," romantics like Wordsworth were referring to?
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Awe-inspiring nature
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Which of the following former slaves learned to write and personally authored a memoir with his or her own hand?
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Frederick Douglass
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Who was George Catlin?
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U.S. painter who advocated environmental protection
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The nineteenth century was an important time in African history because?
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1. African music and literature came to be recorded 2. Africans produced some of their most notable textile and beadwork artifacts 3. medical advances against malaria permitted increased contact with Western explorers.
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What are some hallmarks of Delacroix's style?
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pictorial license
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The independent art song originated by Franz Schubert that united music and poetry was called the?
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Lied
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Darwin contributed to the study of biology chiefly by?
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Developing the theory of natural selection.
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Whose "Ode" concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?
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Keats
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Goethe's hero, Faust, is symbolic of the Western ideal of?
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Urge to transcend limitations
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Which of the following best describes the Romantic architecture at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton
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Eastern exotic
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London's Houses of Parliament are a landmark example of?
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Neomedievalism
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In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the artist featured those whom he considered the heroes of revolutionary France, including?
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members of the middle and working classes
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Who was a male counterpart to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth?
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Douglass
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What are some of the concepts Romantics rebelled against?
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Individualism
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The fact that the nineteenth century was "the age of the virtuoso" is most evident in the work of?
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Chopin
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One of the main characteristics of Whitman's landmark poetry is that it?
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is written in free verse
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In his landmark symphonies, Beethoven made use of?
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1. strong contrasts of loud and soft sound 2. the scherzo
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Romantic ballets such as La Sylphide derived their plot lines from?
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fairy tales and folk legends
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Who is considered to be one of the first Realists in the English novel-writing tradition?
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Jane Austen
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The landmark work that marked the birth of the Romantic movement in England was William Wordsworth's?
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"Lyrical Ballads"
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The American writer Henry Thoreau valued?
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nature as a source of instruction
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Goya immortalized the history of the French occupation of Spain in a landmark series of etchings and aquatints known as?
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The Disasters of War
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J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Cole were all noted painters of?
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natural landscapes
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What are some characteristics of nineteenth-century music?
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the orchestra grew to grand proportions
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The most famous paintings of Géricault and Goya depicted?
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current events
