Exam 10: The Enlightenment

What best describes the achievement of Jonathan Swift?

Which of these is a pictorial example of satire-the effort to improve society by humorous criticism of its folly and foibles?

Which statement best describes the aim of the Enlightenment philosophes?

In Rousseau's Social Contract, what was the term for the collective desire of citizens as guided by public virtue?

Choose three works of contrasting mood from the art, literature, and music of the eighteenth century. Discuss each work in light of the feeling it creates in the viewer, listener, or reader, noting the particular artistic choices and methods that contribute to this mood.

Which movement or style employed shell-like decoration and themes of playful sexuality or seduction?

Summarize the program of the Enlightenment philosophes.

Explain the structure of the neoclassical symphony.

Which of these works best illustrates the fashion of sensibilité by its appeal to moralizing sentiment?

Which most directly expresses the neoclassical desire for simplicity and classical decoration?

J.-J. Rousseau's novel titled Émile would today be most influential in what field of study?

What best states the hero's thoughts at the end of Voltaire's tale Candide?

What term describes the idea, popularized by J.-J. Rousseau, that human society originated in an agreement among naturally free individuals to establish the rule of law and civil society?

In which of these works might one expect to read the impassioned letters of a virtuous servant?

How is the hanamichi best described?

Which of these works might have been most influenced by Palladio's book of classical designs, an important document in eighteenth-century neoclassicism?

François Boucher's The Toilet of Venus most clearly illustrates what idea or topic?

What term or phrase is best applied to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's painting Boy Spinning Top?

Who created romanticized portraits that he called "fancy pictures" that appealed to the wealthy classes of eighteenth-century Britain?

Which artist best depicted the urbane and somewhat melancholy revelries of the eighteenth-century European aristocracy?