Deck 32: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

Question 1

In A Doll's House,what does the doll's house symbolize for Nora?

A)Her happy marriage
B)Her rise from poverty
C)Her restricted life
D)Her child-like nature

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Why did some French complain about the Eiffel Tower?

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

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In The Night Café,how does Vincent van Gogh express "the terrible passions of humanity"?

A)Emphasizing the glare of gas lights
B)Portraying the patrons as asleep
C)Blurring features with thick brushstrokes
D)Garishly contrasting reds and green

Answer 3

D

Question 4

How did the Symbolists present the human experience?

A)Describing the reality of human behavior
B)Suggesting instead of quantifying meaning
C)Using simple,ordinary themes and motifs
D)Showing the sexuality and human behavior

Question 5

What is the literal definition of fin de siècle?

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

Question 6

How did Louis Comfort Tiffany create his Art Nouveau stained glass?

A)Adding ground gemstones to the molten glass
B)Dusting it with gold and silver powder
C)Mixing different colors of glass together while hot
D)Placing small dots of two colors very near each other

Question 7

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

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 8

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

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

Question 9

Why did European audiences find the character Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House scandalous?

A)For leaving her husband and children
B)For cheating on her husband
C)For preferring not to marry
D)For murdering her abusive husband

Question 10

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

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

Question 11

In Still Life with Plaster Cast,what does Paul Cézanne seem to be suggesting by the two viewpoints?

A)One's point of view determines perception of an object's size
B)Like color,perspective can be symbolic,charged with feelings
C)People do not view the world from a single point of view
D)The human eye can be tricked into focusing on certain details

Question 12

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

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

Question 13

What effects characterize Art Nouveau?

A)Abstract geometric patterns
B)Flowing designs from nature
C)Vibrant color applied randomly
D)Simple medieval designs

Question 14

Why did Friedrich Nietzsche reject organized religion,going so far as to declare that "God is dead"?

A)For producing morality based on fear of punishment
B)For suppressing people's creative thoughts
C)For demanding conformity among its members
D)For denying that people could be heroes

Question 15

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

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

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

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 17

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

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 18

Why did Paul Gauguin leave France for Tahiti in 1891?

A)To avoid being arrested for murdering his wife's lover
B)To get far away from the European capitalism
C)To earn money by working on a merchant ship
D)To escape his obligations to his five children

Question 19

How did Claude Debussy create a sense of aimless wandering in his Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune?

A)Chromatic scales
B)Whole tone scales
C)Diatonic scales
D)Diminished scales

Question 20

Why does Seurat portray almost all the people in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte as looking either straight or downward?

A)To emphasize their rigidity
B)To impart a cheerful tone
C)To create a sense of depth
D)To evoke sadness

Question 21

How did Gustav Mahler create a jarring sense of conflict and tension in his Symphony No.1?

A)Using brass instruments only
B)Mixing classical and folk music
C)Ending each movement abruptly
D)Ignoring the principles of tonality

Question 22

What did Edvard Munch originally title The Scream?

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

Identify and explain at least two reasons for Paris's position as the fin de siècle's center for artistic and literary change.

Question 25

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

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 26

Compare Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House to the female in Rodin's The Kiss,explaining why audiences found both females to be scandalous.

Question 27

What did Joseph Conrad aim to show in Heart of Darkness?

A)The brutality of African natives
B)The dehumanizing effects of colonialism
C)The greed of the Belgians in Africa
D)The dangers of working in a diamond mine

Question 28

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

Question 29

Define Pointillism,and explain Georges Seurat's use of points of color to reflect and to create mood.

Question 30

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

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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.

Question 33

Why did the southern Africans submit themselves to the prison-like conditions of working in the diamond mines?

A)To escape the poverty of their tribes
B)To earn money to buy Western weapons
C)To smuggle out some of the diamonds they found
D)To avoid being enslaved by warring tribes

Question 34

As described in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,what method did Sigmund Freud use to encourage his patients to talk freely?

A)Hypnosis
B)Group therapy
C)Journaling
D)Free association

Question 35

Why at the beginning of the twentieth century were Western powers vying to dominate Africa?

A)To control the natural resources and trade routes
B)To continue "civilizing" the natives through Christianity
C)To import cheap labor for their Caribbean plantations
D)To establish colonies for their over-populated countries

Question 36

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

Question 37

List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Question 38

List and describe three ways the European colonialism of Africa affected the African people.

Question 39

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

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 40

Matching

Question 41

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