Question 1

How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?

Accepted Answer

A) Inks on prints did not bleed 
B) Artists could draw more detail 
C) Prints became quick and cheap 
D) Prints could be made in color 
A) Inks on prints did not bleed 
B) Artists could draw more detail 
C) Prints became quick and cheap 
D) Prints could be made in color

Question 2

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why possibly did Roger Fenton not include the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs?

Accepted Answer

A) British government forbade it 
B) He wasn't allowed on the battlefield 
C) The families requested him not to do so 
D) Newspapers would not print them 
A) British government forbade it 
B) He wasn't allowed on the battlefield 
C) The families requested him not to do so 
D) Newspapers would not print them

Question 3

What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?

Accepted Answer

A) "Painting is dead!" 
B) "The world is black and white!" 
C) "This is not art!" 
D) "Realism is here!" 
A) "Painting is dead!" 
B) "The world is black and white!" 
C) "This is not art!" 
D) "Realism is here!"

Question 4

What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Accepted Answer

A) Clothing 
B) Music 
C) Setting 
D) Speech 
A) Clothing 
B) Music 
C) Setting 
D) Speech

Question 5

Why did Dickens write Hard Times?

Accepted Answer

A) To show the greed of London lawyers 
B) To satirize the Utilitarian industrialists 
C) To expose the London poorhouse conditions 
D) To show the brutality of London's orphanages 
A) To show the greed of London lawyers 
B) To satirize the Utilitarian industrialists 
C) To expose the London poorhouse conditions 
D) To show the brutality of London's orphanages

Question 6

Why did the French public and critics object to Gustave Courbet's paintings?

Accepted Answer

A) His use of contemporary people in historical scenes 
B) His political symbolism in landscape scenes 
C) His wild,energetic brushstrokes and blurry details 
D) His depiction of commoners in grand size 
A) His use of contemporary people in historical scenes 
B) His political symbolism in landscape scenes 
C) His wild,energetic brushstrokes and blurry details 
D) His depiction of commoners in grand size

Question 7

Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway slave Jim in for a reward?

Accepted Answer

A) Huck would be arrested for property theft 
B) Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in 
C) Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity 
D) Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage 
A) Huck would be arrested for property theft 
B) Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in 
C) Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity 
D) Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage

Question 8

Why did architect A.W.N.Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones?

Accepted Answer

A) They were guided by Christian principles 
B) They were inside the abbey,not separate 
C) They were smaller than the nineteenth-century ones 
D) They were located in rural,not urban,areas 
A) They were guided by Christian principles 
B) They were inside the abbey,not separate 
C) They were smaller than the nineteenth-century ones 
D) They were located in rural,not urban,areas

Question 9

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Accepted Answer

30-j,31-d,

Question 10

What Western male belief do the French odalisque (concubine)paintings show?

Accepted Answer

A) Beauty of the female body 
B) Western superiority to Orient 
C) Male need for pornography 
D) Male dominance of women 
A) Beauty of the female body 
B) Western superiority to Orient 
C) Male need for pornography 
D) Male dominance of women

Question 11

What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell in 1815?

Accepted Answer

A) Republic 
B) Monarchy 
C) Anarchy 
D) Democracy 
A) Republic 
B) Monarchy 
C) Anarchy 
D) Democracy

Question 12

Define literary realism,and list two examples by different authors.

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

What theme is at the heart of Dickens' socially realistic writings?

Accepted Answer

A) Entertaining middle-class readers 
B) Showing the evils of wealth 
C) Advocating reform for the poor 
D) Satirizing the Romantic sensibility 
A) Entertaining middle-class readers 
B) Showing the evils of wealth 
C) Advocating reform for the poor 
D) Satirizing the Romantic sensibility

Question 14

Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and 1880?

Accepted Answer

A) To take advantage of better schools for their children 
B) To escape their hard lives as tenant farmers 
C) To afford the cheaper housing the city offered 
D) To be near their jobs in the factories 
A) To take advantage of better schools for their children 
B) To escape their hard lives as tenant farmers 
C) To afford the cheaper housing the city offered 
D) To be near their jobs in the factories

Question 15

Why did Neoclassically-trained Théodore Géricault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of the Medusa?

Accepted Answer

A) To protest aristocratic privilege 
B) To call attention to the plight of slaves 
C) To expose the French government's cover-up 
D) To shock the French into another revolution 
A) To protest aristocratic privilege 
B) To call attention to the plight of slaves 
C) To expose the French government's cover-up 
D) To shock the French into another revolution

Question 16

By how much did London's population increase between 1800 and 1880?

Accepted Answer

A) Double 
B) Triple 
C) Quadruple 
D) Quintuple 
A) Double 
B) Triple 
C) Quadruple 
D) Quintuple

Question 17

Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young women and widows?

Accepted Answer

A) They worked for lower wages than men 
B) In London women outnumbered men 
C) They were more dependable than men 
D) Their children would work as assistants 
A) They worked for lower wages than men 
B) In London women outnumbered men 
C) They were more dependable than men 
D) Their children would work as assistants

Question 18

Why did Robert Owen's New Harmony,Indiana,utopian experiment fail?

Accepted Answer

A) Not enough people applied for its 800 spaces 
B) The people it attracted lacked skills to contribute 
C) Owen declared bankruptcy soon after buying the town 
D) Americans did not approve of his sexual freedom ideas 
A) Not enough people applied for its 800 spaces 
B) The people it attracted lacked skills to contribute 
C) Owen declared bankruptcy soon after buying the town 
D) Americans did not approve of his sexual freedom ideas

Question 19

What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers?

Accepted Answer

A) Established a minimum daily wage 
B) Banned employment of children under age nine 
C) Displaced women from the workforce 
D) Required factories to provide decent housing 
A) Established a minimum daily wage 
B) Banned employment of children under age nine 
C) Displaced women from the workforce 
D) Required factories to provide decent housing

How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why possibly did Roger Fenton not include the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs?

What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?

What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Why did Dickens write Hard Times?

Why did the French public and critics object to Gustave Courbet's paintings?

Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway slave Jim in for a reward?

Why did architect A.W.N.Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones?

Matching

What Western male belief do the French odalisque (concubine)paintings show?

What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell in 1815?

Define literary realism,and list two examples by different authors.

What theme is at the heart of Dickens' socially realistic writings?

Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and 1880?

Why did Neoclassically-trained Théodore Géricault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of the Medusa?

By how much did London's population increase between 1800 and 1880?

Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young women and widows?

Why did Robert Owen's New Harmony,Indiana,utopian experiment fail?

What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers?

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Exam 27: Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why possibly did Roger Fenton not include the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs?

What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?

What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Why did Dickens write Hard Times?

Why did the French public and critics object to Gustave Courbet's paintings?

Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway slave Jim in for a reward?

Why did architect A.W.N.Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones?

Matching

What Western male belief do the French odalisque (concubine)paintings show?

What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell in 1815?

Define literary realism,and list two examples by different authors.

What theme is at the heart of Dickens' socially realistic writings?

Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and 1880?

Why did Neoclassically-trained Théodore Géricault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of the Medusa?

By how much did London's population increase between 1800 and 1880?

Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young women and widows?

Why did Robert Owen's New Harmony,Indiana,utopian experiment fail?

What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers?

The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal

The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation

The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage

The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason

The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason

The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature and the Nature of Self

Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity

In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s

The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World

The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

New York skyscraper Culture and the Jazz Age: Making It New

The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression holocaust and Bomb

After the War: Existential Doubt, artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption

Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s

Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World

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