Question 1

On what work did Stépane Mallarmé base his Symbolist "L'Aprés-midi d'un faune"?

Accepted Answer

A) Homer's Odyssey 
B) Balzac's Germinal 
C) Ovid's Metamorphoses 
D) Dante's Inferno 
A) Homer's Odyssey 
B) Balzac's Germinal 
C) Ovid's Metamorphoses 
D) Dante's Inferno C

Question 2

Why did the Society of Men of Letters refuse to accept Rodin's Monument to Balzac,forcing him to return the advance payments?

Accepted Answer

A) Too large for the designated site 
B) Portrayed Balzac erotically 
C) Presented Balzac nude 
D) Not a realistic portrayal 
A) Too large for the designated site 
B) Portrayed Balzac erotically 
C) Presented Balzac nude 
D) Not a realistic portrayal D

Question 3

By the end of the century,what did the Eiffel Tower come to symbolize?

Accepted Answer

A) Progress 
B) Modernity 
C) Beauty 
D) Technology 
A) Progress 
B) Modernity 
C) Beauty 
D) Technology B

Question 4

List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Accepted Answer

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philoso

Question 5

What anniversary did Paris's Exposition Universelle of 1889 mark?

Accepted Answer

A) Crowning of Napoleon I as emperor 
B) End of the French-Prussian War 
C) First U.S.presidential election 
D) Beginning of the French Revolution 
A) Crowning of Napoleon I as emperor 
B) End of the French-Prussian War 
C) First U.S.presidential election 
D) Beginning of the French Revolution

Question 6

What twentieth-century leader justified his actions with Nietzsche's ideas?

Accepted Answer

A) Winston Churchill 
B) Franklin D.Roosevelt 
C) Richard Nixon 
D) Adolph Hitler 
A) Winston Churchill 
B) Franklin D.Roosevelt 
C) Richard Nixon 
D) Adolph Hitler

Question 7

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Freud place so much emphasis on interpreting a person's dreams?

Accepted Answer

A) They revealed suppressed desires 
B) They were more logical than reality 
C) They returned the dreamer to childhood 
D) They exposed sexual inadequacies 
A) They revealed suppressed desires 
B) They were more logical than reality 
C) They returned the dreamer to childhood 
D) They exposed sexual inadequacies

Question 8

What is the literal definition of fin de siècle?

Accepted Answer

A) End of the century 
B) Beginning of the cycle 
C) Period of hope 
D) Time of change 
A) End of the century 
B) Beginning of the cycle 
C) Period of hope 
D) Time of change

Question 9

Why did some French complain about the Eiffel Tower?

Accepted Answer

A) Feared collapse 
B) Too tall 
C) Annoying beacon light 
D) Violation of Paris's beauty 
A) Feared collapse 
B) Too tall 
C) Annoying beacon light 
D) Violation of Paris's beauty

Question 10

Describe Auguste Rodin's research for his Monument to Balzac,and analyze his reasons for presenting Balzac in a non-realistic manner.

Accepted Answer

Auguste Rodin's research for his Monumen

Question 11

Why was Auguste Rodin's The Kiss considered too scandalous for U.S.public display?

Accepted Answer

A) American sensibility shunned nudity 
B) It celebrates an adulterous relationship 
C) The woman is an active participant 
D) The figures' sexual organs are exaggerated 
A) American sensibility shunned nudity 
B) It celebrates an adulterous relationship 
C) The woman is an active participant 
D) The figures' sexual organs are exaggerated

Question 12

What did Edvard Munch originally title The Scream?

Accepted Answer

A) Modern Life 
B) Death 
C) Despair 
D) Fever Pitch 
A) Modern Life 
B) Death 
C) Despair 
D) Fever Pitch

Question 13

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the meaning of Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Accepted Answer

Edvard Munch's The Scream is a famous pa

Question 14

Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?

Accepted Answer

A) To add movement and depth to his figures 
B) To convey emotions through color combinations 
C) To compensate for the subtractive process of mixing 
D) To exaggerate the rigidity of the figures he portrayed 
A) To add movement and depth to his figures 
B) To convey emotions through color combinations 
C) To compensate for the subtractive process of mixing 
D) To exaggerate the rigidity of the figures he portrayed

Question 15

Why was Gustave Eiffel's tower so unique for the time?

Accepted Answer

A) It was the first structure built entirely of wrought-iron 
B) It was the only exposition building to house a restaurant 
C) It was twice the height of any other building in the world 
D) It was the first building in the world to have electricity 
A) It was the first structure built entirely of wrought-iron 
B) It was the only exposition building to house a restaurant 
C) It was twice the height of any other building in the world 
D) It was the first building in the world to have electricity

Question 16

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the perspectival technique of Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Plaster Cast.

Accepted Answer

Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Plaster C

Question 17

Define social Darwinism,and then summarize Darwin's response to it as presented in his The Descent of Man.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

Why did Charles Darwin publish The Descent of Man in 1871?

Accepted Answer

A) To prove the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race 
B) To show modern man's moral deterioration 
C) To offer an ethical viewpoint of man's development 
D) To advocate selective breeding in humans 
A) To prove the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race 
B) To show modern man's moral deterioration 
C) To offer an ethical viewpoint of man's development 
D) To advocate selective breeding in humans

Question 19

Citing at least two artists as examples,explain the effect on their art of the Symbolists' need to retire from society in order to create works.

Accepted Answer

The Symbolists' need to retire from soci

Question 20

List and define three characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement,giving examples of each.

Accepted Answer

The Art Nouveau movement, which was popu

On what work did Stépane Mallarmé base his Symbolist "L'Aprés-midi d'un faune"?

Why did the Society of Men of Letters refuse to accept Rodin's Monument to Balzac,forcing him to return the advance payments?

By the end of the century,what did the Eiffel Tower come to symbolize?

List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.

What anniversary did Paris's Exposition Universelle of 1889 mark?

What twentieth-century leader justified his actions with Nietzsche's ideas?

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Freud place so much emphasis on interpreting a person's dreams?

What is the literal definition of fin de siècle?

Why did some French complain about the Eiffel Tower?

Describe Auguste Rodin's research for his Monument to Balzac,and analyze his reasons for presenting Balzac in a non-realistic manner.

Why was Auguste Rodin's The Kiss considered too scandalous for U.S.public display?

What did Edvard Munch originally title The Scream?

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the meaning of Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?

Why was Gustave Eiffel's tower so unique for the time?

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the perspectival technique of Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Plaster Cast.

Define social Darwinism,and then summarize Darwin's response to it as presented in his The Descent of Man.

Why did Charles Darwin publish The Descent of Man in 1871?

Citing at least two artists as examples,explain the effect on their art of the Symbolists' need to retire from society in order to create works.

List and define three characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement,giving examples of each.

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The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation

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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

Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

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 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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Exam 32: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

On what work did Stépane Mallarmé base his Symbolist "L'Aprés-midi d'un faune"?

Why did the Society of Men of Letters refuse to accept Rodin's Monument to Balzac,forcing him to return the advance payments?

By the end of the century,what did the Eiffel Tower come to symbolize?

List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.

What anniversary did Paris's Exposition Universelle of 1889 mark?

What twentieth-century leader justified his actions with Nietzsche's ideas?

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Freud place so much emphasis on interpreting a person's dreams?

What is the literal definition of fin de siècle?

Why did some French complain about the Eiffel Tower?

Describe Auguste Rodin's research for his Monument to Balzac,and analyze his reasons for presenting Balzac in a non-realistic manner.

Why was Auguste Rodin's The Kiss considered too scandalous for U.S.public display?

What did Edvard Munch originally title The Scream?

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the meaning of Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?

Why was Gustave Eiffel's tower so unique for the time?

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the perspectival technique of Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Plaster Cast.

Define social Darwinism,and then summarize Darwin's response to it as presented in his The Descent of Man.

Why did Charles Darwin publish The Descent of Man in 1871?

Citing at least two artists as examples,explain the effect on their art of the Symbolists' need to retire from society in order to create works.

List and define three characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement,giving examples of each.

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

Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

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 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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