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restrained colors
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Whereas neoclassisicists emphasized symmetry, line, and sober colors, romantics sought all of the following EXCEPT
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arpeggio
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A flamboyant, rolling chord is a
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Symphonie Fantistique
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An idee fixe is included in
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beethoven
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composed nine symphonies
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choplin
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composed primarily for the piano, composed etudes
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berlioz
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wrote program music
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schubert
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composed lieds
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verdi
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leading composer of italian operas, Aida
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Tchailkovsky
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composed ballets
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wagner
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composed der rings des nibelungen
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Berlioz
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Used an idee fixe in a symphony
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napoleon
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gros glorified the accomplishments of
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Houses of parliment
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which of the following buildings is an example of neomedievalism?
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joke
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A scherzo is an Italian word which means
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spain
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goya depicted the horrors of war in
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art song
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a lied is a type of ___
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Napolean
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beethoven initially dedicated his Third Symphony to
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exoticism
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nash's Royal Pavilion is an example of nineteenth
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Spain
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Goya's Third of May, 1808, highlights the brutality of Napoleon's troops in___
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etude
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An instrumental study degned to improve a player's technique is an
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David
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Gros was a pupil of
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joke
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A scherzo is an Italian word that means __________
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ballet
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An arabesque is associated with
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ballet
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An arabesque is part of
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cordier
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Who is the sculptor who created ethnological busts?
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etudes
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The works of the Polish composer, Chopin, include compositions focusing on the technical ability of performers. These are called
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the middle class, the working class and racial minorities
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In his painting Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix showed by their clothing who he considered the heroes of the revolutionary action in France, namely,
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etude
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Which of the following is a type of musical study designed to improve a player's technique?
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interviewing survivors
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In an effort to capture the experience as accurately as possible, Gericault prepared for his painting, The Raft of the Medusa, by
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Delacroix
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The Statue of Liberty is based on a painting of
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song
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a lied is a type of
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delacroix
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This artist portrayed the Byronic hero in his paintings
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program music
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The Symphonie fantastique is an example of
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apreggio
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What is a chord played in rapid succession?
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creative individulism
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What is a chord played in rapid succession?
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a short, repeating musical theme
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A leitmotif is a __________________________________________________
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an actual event
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The Raft of the Medusa is based on
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Degas
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Which artist frequently portrayed ballerinas, horse racing, and the theatre?
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japnese art
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Which type of art feature flat, unmodulated colors, undulating lines, asymmetrical compositions, and daring use of negative space?
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paul gauguin
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The French artist who became entranced with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti, was
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light
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Discoveries in the physics of _________ profoundly influenced the late nineteenth-century cultural community.
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pure brush stroke of color
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Impressionist painters believed that paint should be applied in
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stephane mallarme
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The Dutch postimpressionist who expressed his reaction to a subject rather than to its physical appearance was
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nietzsche
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Who is the German philosopher who rejected organized religion, attacked Christianity and other institutionalized religions that contributed to the formation of "slave morality"?
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nietsche
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Who declared that God is dead?
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monet
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Which artist chose lily ponds and his lavish gardens in Giverny as subjects of his paintings?
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Stephane Mallarme
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Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of the Faun" is a musical interpretation of a poem written by
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Cezanne
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The "father of modern painting," who was more concerned with the composition and technique of a painting than its content, was __________.
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Pleasure is more desirable than essence
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What is the prevailing artistic theme that influenced French art in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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Ferdinand Hodler
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Which of the following poets was not a symbolist poet?
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Debussy
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The impressionist composer who was inspired by the five tone scale of East Asian music was
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Art Nouveau
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Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and Cezanne were
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cassatt
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Which artist preferred to portray indoor domestic scenes and interactions between mothers and children?
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religion
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According to Nietzsche, what has led Europe to decadence and decline?
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Pissaro
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Paris boulevards at various times of the year and during different lighting is a favorite subject in the art by ___________________________
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heroic subject matter
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Late nineteenth-century painters looked to Japanese woodblock prints for all the following EXCEPT
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intuition
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According to Bergson, ________________ controls humans.
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sculptor
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Rodin was primarily a(n)
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Bergson
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This French philosopher of the late nineteenth century argued that all reality is constantly in the process of evolving and can only be understood intuitively.
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False
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To increase luminosity in his painting "Impression: Sunrise," Monet coated his canvas with egg yolk.
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Le Moulin de la Galette
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In which urban setting did Renoir depict the idle pleasures of dancers and diners?
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Seurat
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The artist most closely associated with the colorist style known as pointillism is __________.
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The afternoon of a faun
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The following excerpt is from which of the following literary works? I would immortalize these nymphs: so bright Their sunlit coloring, so airy light, It floats like drowing down. Love I a dream?
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Art nouveau
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Which artistic style originated in Belgium and is an ornamental style influenced by the English Arts and Crafts movement and by art of the Middle Ages?
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Mary Cassatt
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The American impressionist whose work did much to popularize that artistic style in North America was
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Manet
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The French artist whose painting gave a name to the impressionist school was
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Vaslav Nijinsky
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Who choreographed Debussy's "Prelude to Afternoon of the Faun"?
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Russia
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Constructivism originated in
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Robert Frost
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The American poet who exalted individualism in his lyric works by affirming that he took the road "less traveled" was
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Georges Braque
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Another cubist painter is
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Which architect blended architecture with natural elements as well as low, cantilevered roofs, brick, rock and ?
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quantum physics
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Max Planck is a pioneer in the field of
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Japanese poetry
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Haiku is an example of
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Panel for Edwin Campbell No. 1.
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Which of the following paintings is an example of nonobjective art?
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cubism
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Picasso borrowed which tradition from Cezanne?
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SPAIN
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PICASSO WAS BORN IN
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African art
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Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon demonstrates the influence of
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steel and glass
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What are basic elements of twentieth century architecture?
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motion
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Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space illustrates
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Traditonal tonality
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In general, twentieth century music rejected all except which of the following elements?
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sheet metal and wire
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Alexander Archipenko's sculpture Woman Combing Her Hair includes
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lyric poetry
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Robert Frost preferred to write
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futurism
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Which of the following art movements demonstrated an intimate relationship between modern science and modern art?
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Matisse
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Who is the artist who expressed his scorn of art, "Exactitude is not truth."
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subject matter
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Nonobjective art as practiced by Malevich, Kandinsky, and Mondrian eliminated __________ from art.
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free verse rhythms
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Which of the following is a characteristic of imagist poetry?
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Schoenberg
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The serial technique is an atonal musical composition developed by
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albert einstein
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Who developed the theory of relativity?
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robert Frost
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Which of the following is not an imagist poet?
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Still Life on a table
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Which of the following paintings is an example of a collage?
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in studying subatomic particles, time, and space were relative
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Einstein's theory of relativity asserted that
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rite of spring
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Which musical composition caused a riot when it was performed?
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wild beast
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"Fauve" literally means
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it depicted women with unpresedented brutality
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The celebrated Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shocked observers because
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Ezra pound
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Which Imagist poet was influenced by the haiku style?
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color
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Fauve artists explored the expressions of
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sculptor
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Brancusi is a
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bauhaus
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Which of the following forms of architecture originated in Germany?
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mondrain
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Who was the artist who primarily used three colors in his art: yellow, red, and blue?
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Kate choplin
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"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills." This is an excerpt from the author
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manet
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The French painter who scandalized the public by presenting traditional themes in unconventional ways is
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need for materials and markets
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Colonialism had as its motivating force the
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tries to inject romance into her everyday life
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In Flaubert's novel, Emma Bovary meets with disaster as she
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olympia
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Which of the following paintings featured a short, stocky prostitute wearing only a black ribbon and satin slippers?
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La Boheme
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Which of the following operas is considered to be a verismo-style opera?
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Marx
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Who is the author of the Communist Manifesto?
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Marx
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Who is the author of the Communist Manifesto?
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realist
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Who challenged the acute subjectivity, exoticism and escapism that typified romanticism?
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Crime and Punishment
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Dostoevsky is the author of
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still Life
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Harnett's The Artist's Letter Rack is an example of
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society
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Realists focused primarily on
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England
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Which nation established colonies throughout the world during the nineteenth century?
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racial superioity
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The poem "The White Man's Burden" highlighted which of the following?
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Steel
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What building material revolutionized architecture and led to the development of sky scrapers?
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bourgeoisie
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According to Marx, who is responsible for feudal and patriarchal form of social order?
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Photography
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Matthew Brady is primarily known for his
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Daumier
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Who created lithographs that satirized technology, the pretentions of thenouveaux riches, politicians, and the French Salon.
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Class Struggles
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The author of the Communist Manifesto argued that the "history of all existing society is the history of
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her freedom to choose
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In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard discovers in her mourning what is "the strongest impulse of her being," namely,
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sentiments
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John Staurt mill wrote that men do not simply want obedience from women (as men might demand for slaves) but a women's ____ as welll
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Tanner
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Who is an African American painter who realistically portrayed simple, everyday events in genre paintings?
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entrepreneurs
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People who organize, manage, and assume risks of a business are
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A doll's House
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An example of a feminist drama is
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Proletariat
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According to the Communist Manifesto, which social group will rebel because they are deprived of money, land, and power?
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The gulf stream
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Which painting illustrated the artist's interest in African-Americans?
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Mill
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Which writer described women of all classes as the unwilling subjects of more powerful males?
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Camera
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Which invention altered the way that artists portrayed nature in their art during the realistic era?
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under the authority of first of first her father, then her husband
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The "doll" whom Ibsen described in his play was Nora, who had been
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Charles Dickens
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Who is the most popular British novelist during the nineteenth century who described the conditions of the working class?
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Photomontage
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Juxtaposed bits and pieces of photographic images is
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psychoanalysis
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What therapeutic method did Freud developed that revels emotional disturbances?
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True
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Freud argued that neuroses and psychoses were illnesses that required medical treatment.
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surrealism
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The poet, Gillaume Apollinaire, coined the word
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beetle
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Gregor Samsa, in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" awakens and discovers that he has been transformed into a
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Proust
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A la Recherche du temps perdu is written by
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False
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The theater of cruelty was influenced by the expressionist artists.
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False
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is an allusion to Homer's Iliad.
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concrete poem
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A poem produced in the shape of external objects, such as watches, neckties, and pigeons is a form of
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True
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Surrealistic art relied on the liberating principles of automatism.
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Ibsen
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Edvard Munch was an admirer of ___________________________
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true
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Giorgio de Chirico pioneered a style he called "metaphysical."
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watches
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Dali's painting "The Persistence of Memory" features
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germany
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Expressionism started in
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Tr
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Miro and Georgia O'Keefe included biomorphic shapes in their art.
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Freud
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Whose philosophies influence theatrical performance with method acting?
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False
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Kirchner's art combined memories of his life in Russia and included folk motifs and superimposed images that float in space and defy the rules of gravity.
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Stream of consciousness
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The narrative style of A la Recherche du temps perdu, "The Metamorphosis," and Ulysses employs the literary device of
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hobbyhorse
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"Dada" literally means
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False
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Kafka's novel,A la rechrche du temps perdu is a novel that explores psychology in space and time.
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O'keefe
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Who is the artist who featured biomorphic shapes derived from greatly enlarged flowers and bleached animal bones?
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False
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The focus of Proust'sRemembrance of Things Past is primarily external.
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ego
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Which part of the psyche is the "manager" that administers our instincts?
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Frida Kahlo
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Which of the following artists stated "I am the subject I know best"?
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True
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Freud asserted that sublimation is the positive modification and redirection of primal urges of the ego.
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Sprechstimme
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The Shoenberg musical composition, Pierrot Lunaire is an example of a
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pleasure
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According to Civilization and Its Discontents, people are sometimes dominated
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de Chirico
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Which of the following is NOT an expressionist artist?
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True
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Marcel Duchamp constructed the first mobile work of art.
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Carl Jung
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Which one of Freud's disciples developed a theory of collective unconscious?
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True
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Dada art is often improvised art.
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Klee
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Which surrealistic artist portrayed organic signs and sacred signs including flowers, fish, and human figures in his art?
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Flase
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According to Freud, pleasure is not the primary goal of most humans.
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Duchamp
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Found objects are frequently used by
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eats a cake
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The character in Swann's Way is able to recapture a lost memory after he
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dreams
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According to Freud, we are able to probe our subconscious mind with
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libido
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Freud theorized that the __________ governed human behavior.
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reason
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André Breton asserted in the "Surrealist Manifesto" that the artist should be liberated from ____________ and the demands of conventional society.
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False
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Trompe l'oeil is effectively used in klee's Fish magic painting
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cummings
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Which American poet wrote poetry that violated grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules?
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Frida Kahlo
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Which artist explored her pain and suffering in her art?
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distorted forms
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Expressionist artists created a style that featured
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false
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Giorgio de Chirico is a member of the Die Brucke artists.
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Flase
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Irrational and antirational forces of the superego became the subject and inspiration of expressionism and surrealism.
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archetype
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A motif that is an example of "the child-god," "the hero," and "the wise old man," are examples of a(n)
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expressionistic
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Edvard Munch's paintings are
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True
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Stream of consciousness is a narrative strategy that was frequently used in the literature of Proust, Kafka, and Joyce.
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True
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Appalachian Spring features a Shaker hymn, "'Tis the Gift to be Simple."
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Randall Jarrell
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"From my mother's sleep I fell into the State" is the first line of a poem written
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False
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Diego Rivera's art depicted the plight of the Okies who fled to California during the Great Depression.
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Flase
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Thomas Hart Benton was not a social realist painter.
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flimmaker
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Sergei Eisenstein is a(n)
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A farewell to Arms
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Which of the following novels was written by Ernest Hemingway?
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Germany
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Max Ernst and George Grosz expressed their dissatisfaction with social conditions within
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photography
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Dorothea Lange used _________________ to portray the plight of people caught in the throes of the Depression.
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mural
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Stream of What type of art did Thomas Hart Benton popularize?is a narrative strategy that was frequently used in the literature of Proust, Kafka, and Joyce.
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False
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Leger's art reveals his rejection of modern machinery.
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False
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Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front is an example of social realism.
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World War I
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Wilfred Owen described the horrors of
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Thomas Heart Benton
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Who is the artist who portrayed steel working, mining, farming, and other working-class activities in his art.
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Lenin
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Who succeeded Tsar Nicholas II as the Russian leader?
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pessimistic
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Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" is
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True
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Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is set during the Great Depression.
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Yeats
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Who was the Irish poet who despaired that the world was falling apart, "the center cannot hold"?
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American folks songs
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For much of his music, Copland drew on
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catch-22
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Which of the following novels is an example of gallows humor?
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False
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Hitler's book Das Kapital outline his views of Jews, Marxists, bourgeois liberals, and "social deviates."
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mein kampf
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Hitler expressed his utopian plan of a master race in his book
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True
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The poetry, novel, and art of Owens, Remarque, and Ernst reflected their experiences as soldiers in World War I.
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Flase
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The first totalitarian regime of the twentieth century was in Germany.
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true
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A Farewell to Arms was set during World War I.
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Chemical warfare attack
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"Dulce Et Decorum Est" and the excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front describe a(n)
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False
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Joseph Stalin is the first Russian ruler after Tzar Nicholas II was killed.
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In the holocaust
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Elie Wiesel described his experience
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1941
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America entered World War II in
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Night
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"Where is God?" is a refrain in
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montage
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A composite juxtaposing heterogeneous images in cinema is a
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France
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Which of the following was NOT an axis power during World War II?
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Aaron Copland
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Who is the American composer whose music blended American folk melodies and simple melodies in his compositions?
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Which of the following novels is an example of social realism?
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Nazis
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Leni Riefenstahl used film to promote the
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False
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The nihilistic phrase, Catch-22, was popularized by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Slaughterhouse Five?
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realism
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The artistic style that portrayed social problems in an objective manner was called social _____________
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spaiin
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Picasso's Guernica portrayed the aftermath of a bombing of a town in
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Who is the Russian novelist who described his Siberian experiences in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
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True
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The writings of Karl Marx influenced Lenin to convert private property into property held in common by members of Russian society.
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German
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Erich Marie Remarque described the effects of war on a __________________ soldier.
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Kierkegaard
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Which of the following philosophers believed that we can verify God's existence with a "leap of faith"?
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True
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Dylan Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is optimistic.
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True
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Dylan Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is optimistic.
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Guggenheim Museum
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Frank Lloyd Wright is the architect of _____________________. It's interior resembles the inside of a huge snail shell that is bathed with natural light.
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theatre of the absurb
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Waiting for Godot is an example of
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False
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Sartre's literature featured the choices that humans make between a divine guidance absolute values.
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random nature and the absurd
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In writing music for twelve radios and twenty-four performers, John Cage was questioning the relationships between
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False
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The Trans World Airlines Terminal at Kennedy Airport is a good example of the international style and cool rationalism.
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New York
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Abstract expressionism flourished at first in
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Abstract expressionism
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The American artistic movement of the 1940s and 1950s that embodied the break with traditional, representational art was called
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international style
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"Form follows function" is the credo of the
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choices
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According to Sartre, individuals are defined by ___________.
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India
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Rabindranath Tagore, an author from ____________ describes the existential responsibility for individual choice in his literature.
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False
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George Balanchine is a famous abstract expressionist artist who fused surrealism and existentialism in his nihilistic paintings that portrayed humans adrift in a dark world.
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assembled sculptures
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George Segal is renowned for his
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jean-Paul Sartre
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Who is the author of Being and Nothingness?
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False
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"Less is More" is the credo of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Alexander Calder
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The creator of whimsical wire constructions or mobiles is
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Alberto Giacometi
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Which sculptor frequently portrayed humans as disengaged, ravaged figures?
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flayed carasses
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Francis Bacon's paintings often featured
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rothko
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Which artist created paintings that featured soft-edged blocks of color
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true
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Abstract expressionism began in America.
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Mark Rothko
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Which artists explored color field painting?
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Edward Hopper
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Who is the American abstract expressionist who featured urban landscapes devoid of meaningful relationships?
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Jackson Pollock
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This artist walked around the canvas while working in order to literally be "in" the painting.
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choreographer
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Merce Cunningham is a(n)
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True
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Willem de Kooning's art frequently featured fierce, totemic women.
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False
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Rabindranath Tagore's poem "The Man Had No Useful Work" affirms that humans must be goal-oriented and practical.
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rhythm
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According to composer John Cage, music has as its only common denominatormelody
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Existential literature in the twentieth century was influenced by the philosophy of
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True
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Dystopian literature portrays life as bleak and negative.
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True
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David Smith often created nonfigurative sculptures.
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True
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Waiting for Godot is a good example of the theatre of the absurd.
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international
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A symbol of corporate wealth, skyscrapers designed in the __________ style embodied the spirit of the West in the twentieth century.
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True
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Sartre asserted that humans are "condemned to be free."
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Albert Camus
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The author of The Stranger, who affirmed the potential for human solidarity, was
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False
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Franz Kline cultivated a painterly style that featured the pouring of thin washes of paint directly on raw canvases.
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True
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After World War II alienation pervaded art and literature.
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Scott Joplin
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Who is a virtuoso of ragtime music?
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Africa
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Black Skin, White Masks is a handbook for revolution in _______________________
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Malcolm X
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Who asserted that "the white man" is the common enemy of blacks?
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Judy Chicago
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Who created The Dinner Party project?
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New Orleans
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Louis Armstrong is a native of ______________
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blues
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Which type of jazz music is evocative of sorrow, loss, loneliness, and despair?
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1920-1940
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When was the Harlem Renaissance?
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Langston Huges
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Whose poetry featured black dialect and compares a dream deferred to "a raisin in the sun"?
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herself
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Who is featured in Cindy Sherman's photography?
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Toni Morrison
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Which black writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?
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Richard Wright
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Which author describes the struggles of growing up in the Jim Crow South?
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We Real Cool
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Which poem depicts jazz rhythms?
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Richard Wright
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Whose literature described black people as strangers in the modern world?
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Invisible Man
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Which novel begins in a Harlem basement illuminated by 1,369 light bulbs?
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Sonia Sanchez
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Who is a black poet?
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Virgina Woolf
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Which British novelist asserted that women could become powerful only by achieving financial and psychological independence from men?
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gwendolyn Brooks
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Who is the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
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silhouttes
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What media does Kara Walker use in her artwork?
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Zora neale Hurston
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Who is a leader of the Harlem Renaissance who described Eatonville, Florida, in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?
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expressionism
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Jacob Lawrence's art resembles which artistic style?
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an Uncle Tom stereotype
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What does Uncle Albert represent in Alice Walker's "Elethia"?
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Self in 1958
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Which feminist poem describes women's stereotypes?
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scat
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What type of singing includes improvised set of nonsense syllables?
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george gershwin
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Who is the composer of Rhapsody in Blue?
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Latin america
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Pablo Neruda's poetry focuses on which area?
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Migration of blacks from the south to the north
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What narrative is featured in Lawrence's art?
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Niki de Saint Phalle
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Who created Nana sculptures of women with curves?
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Britain
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Gandhi led a non-violent rebellion in India against ________________.
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hip hop
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Which type of music fuses electronically mixed music, spoken word, and street-dance?
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charlie parker
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Who is associated with bebop?
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robert colescott
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Which artist created artistic parodies of white artists that portray stereotypical blacks?
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segregation statutes
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Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birminham Jail" explains his opposition to
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Islam
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Iqbal's poetry is infused with the morality of which religion?
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Romare Bearden
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Which artist primarily uses collages?
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Choreography
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What artistic genre is associated with Katherine Dunham?
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TV and computer
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Which innovations affected art and literature in the postmodern age?
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chaos theory
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Which theory explains that the universe follows random patterns that are predictable?
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language
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According to Wittgenstein, what limits our understanding of reality?
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deconstruction
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What theory is popularized by Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault?
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metafiction
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What type of literature is characterized by fragments of information juxtaposed with little or no commentary on its meaning?
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Don DeLillo
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Which of the following authors wrote "docufiction"?
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shortly after World War II
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Postmodernism began
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Magic Realism
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What type of literature is associated with Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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H.G. Wells
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Who initiated science fiction?
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cyberpunk
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What type of literature is a sub-genre of science fiction?
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litrature of social conscience
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What literature is associated with Joyce Carol Oates?
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Andy Warhol
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Which artist examined mulitple images of prducts, such as Coca-Cola bottles and Brillo boxes, in his art?
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Claes Oldenberg
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Which artist created soft vinyl sculptures of everyday items such as clothespins, hot dogs, and table fans?
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assmblages
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What type of art is associated with Robert Rauschenberg?
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comic book art
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Roy Lichtenstein's art resembles
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op art
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What artistic style is associated with Victor Vasarely?
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chuck close
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Identify a new realist artist
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Duane Hanson
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Which artist is associated with "living dead" sculptures?
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Leon Golub
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Which artist depicted brutality and violence?
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Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Wo depicted headless sculptures crafted from sisal, jute, and resin?
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Happening
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What type of performance was popularized by Allan Kaprow?
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Christo
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Which artist created Running Fence using nylon cloth along 24.5 miles of California coast?
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I.M. Pei
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Which of the following is a postmodern minimalist architect?
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Walt Disney Concert Hall
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Frank Gehry is the architect of ___________________________
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Musique Concrete
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What type of music blends environmental noise such as bird calls, train whistles, and thunder?
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syntehsizer
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What musical invention contributed to the production of electronic music?
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Gyrogy Ligeti
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Who is the composer who created aural effects and textures using microtonality?
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rock
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What type of music is associated with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplaine, and The Who?
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Rennnie Harris
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Who choreographed performances that combined break-dancing and hip-hop?
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Frank Stella
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Which artist produced geometric abstract art?
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