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The movement known as Impressionism took its title from a painting by
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Monet
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Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as
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cubism
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Characteristic of the music of Debussy is...
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the use of shifting harmonies
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Late nineteenth-century colonialism had as its primary motivating force the need...
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for materials and markets
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In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ________ emerged as the center of Western artistic productivity.
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Paris
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The Holocaust resulted from Hitler's...
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theory of Aryan racial superiority
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In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesized that a revolution would make the ________ the new ruling class.
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proletariat
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For their subject matter, the Impressionist painters drew largely on...
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the urban scene
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According to Marcel Duchamp and other Dada figures, the artists should be the...
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destroyers of tradition
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According to Freud, civilization was the product of the...
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ego's sublimation of the ID
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The principal difference between the humanism of Italy and that of Northern Europe was the greater ________ emphasis of the latter.
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religios
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Which Northern Renaissance artist was reputed to have perfected oil painting in such works as his "Arnolfini Wedding"?
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Jan van Eyck
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The thirteenth-century merchant whose sojourn at the court of Mongol China was recorded in Il Milione was...
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Marco Polo
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The word "caravel" refers to a...
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Larger, stronger7& faster ships built by the Portuguese
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Which of the following was NOT a major factor in the onset of European expansion?
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Imitation of China's maritime achievments
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The printing press was effective in...
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1. Accelerating the spread of Protestantism 2. Producing cheaper reading materials 3. Enhancing popular education
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The landmark significance of the Protestant Reformation was the fact that it...
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shattered the religious unity of Western Christendom
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The most popular of secular song forms at the court of Elizabeth was the...
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The English madrigal, generally lighter in mood than its Italian counterpart and technically simple.
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The Spanish troops led by Cortés were most critical of Aztec...
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Religious practices
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Shakespeare modeled his own sonnets after those written by...
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Petrarch (and his themes such as blind devotion, the value of friendship, and love's enslaving power.)
