Deck 16: The Eighteenth Century

Question 1

Who composed the Symphonie fantastique?

A)Wagner
B)Chopin
C)Beethoven
D)Berlioz

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which French Romantic painter is remembered for The Massacre at Chios?

A)Girodet-Trioson
B)Delacroix
C)Honoré Daumier
D)Gustave Courbet

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which French Realist novelist wrote over 90 novels and stories, in which he uses many of the same characters?

A)Balzac
B)Flaubert
C)Hugo
D)Tolstoy

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How did Arthur Schopenhauer view humanity?

A)As the manifestation of God on Earth
B)As naturally creative and altruistic
C)As inherently selfish and irrational
D)As a bridge between the material world and the world of ideas

Question 5

Which opera composer of the nineteenth century was most closely associated with the nationalist movement in Italy?

A)Verdi
B)Monteverdi
C)Puccini
D)Palestrina

Question 6

What of the following were parts of the basis for the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang?

A)The rejection of the ideals of the French Romantic literary movement
B)The inspiration of German society with a sense of unity and nationalism
C)The rejection of the neoclassical ideas of reason, order, and balance
D)The compilation of German folklore and mythology

Question 7

Which French painter was the creator of Raft of the Medusa 1818)?

A)Gustave Courbet
B)Girodet-Trioson
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix

Question 8

Which of these nineteenth-century artists were known especially for their scenes depicting nature?

A)Constable and Turner
B)Daumier and Goya
C)Delacroix and Caspar Friedrich
E)David and Géricault

Question 9

Who were the great musical virtuosos of the nineteenth century?

A)Chopin, Berlioz, and Scarlatti
B)Liszt, Chopin, and Paganini
C)Beethoven, Haydn, Liszt
D)Mussorgsky, Smetana, and Paganini

Question 10

What did Chopin, Mussorgsky, and Smetana have in common?

A)They were Polish.
B)They incorporated traditional folk tunes into their compositions.
C)They were Russian expatriates living in Paris.
D)They composed exclusively for violin and orchestra.

Question 11

What is the title of Richard Wagner's most monumental operatic work?

A)Aida
B)The Ring of the Nibelung
C)Norma
D)The Sorrows of Young Werther

Question 12

What 1853 work broke new ground in the history of opera by dealing with contemporary life rather than a historical or mythological subject?

A)Nabucco
B)Luisa Miller
C)Rigoletto
D)La Traviata

Question 13

Who are two early developers of photography?

A)Niépce and Daguerre
B)Constable and Copley
C)Friedrich and Heade
D)Hawthorn and Melville

Question 14

Which art style came after Romanticism?

A)Transcendentalism
B)Luminism
C)Nationalism
D)Realism

Question 15

Which Romantic artist used his paintings to criticize the Spanish court and to explore the darker side of life, including his own suffering?

A)Ingres
B)Velázquez
C)Goya
D)Chateaubriand

Question 16

What were common themes of the novels of George Sand?

A)The opportunities and recognition enjoyed by women in French society
B)The inequities and injustices faced by women in French society
C)The inequities and injustices faced by women in English society
D)The opportunities and recognition enjoyed by women in English society

Question 17

What did Richard Wagner mean by Gesamtkunstwerk?

A)The Higher Realm
B)Super Consciousness
C)Complete Art Work
D)Total Immersion

Question 18

Who, with Coleridge, was the co-founder of the Romantic movement in English poetry?

A)Charles Dickens
B)William Wordsworth
C)Percy Shelly
D)Emily Dickinson

Question 19

Who is usually regarded as the pioneer of musical romanticism?

A)Brahms
B)Beethoven
C)Haydn
D)Chopin

Question 20

What important French Realist novelist described the banal life of bourgeois middle-class)Emma Bovary?

A)Flaubert
B)Balzac
C)Hugo
D)Tolstoy

Question 21

_______________________ German literary movement that rebelled against Neoclassicism's structure and order

Question 22

What was the subject of Henry David Thoreau's Walden?

A)The redefinition of men and women's roles in the nineteenth century
B)The intersection of the spiritual and the material world
C)Political justice and equality
D)The nature of human existence and of nature

Question 23

What was Karl Marx's view of the inevitability of history? In what 1848 work was this thought powerfully expressed? According to Marx, what forces inevitably shaped history? What type of art did Marx prefer, realism or romanticism? Why?

Question 24

_______________________ Lighthearted musical genre used by Beethoven in the third movement of his "Eroica" symphony

Question 25

What are the principal characteristics of Romanticism?

Question 26

What is the story of Faust?

Question 27

_______________________ Nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist who cultivated a diabolical image

Question 28

_______________________ Traditional Polish dances used by Chopin in his piano compositions.

Question 29

Which 19^th-century Russian author produced two huge novels that combined fictional characters with real people and events from history?

A)Jean Ingres
B)Modest Mussorgsky
C)Leo Tolstoy
D)Herman Melville

Question 30

What contributed to the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century?

Question 31

Which of Charles Dickens' novels criticized the treatment of the poor in workhouses?

A)Pride and Prejudice
B)Oliver Twist
C)Of Mice and Men
D)A Tale of Two Cities

Question 32

_______________________ German term for a musical theme assigned to a specific character, idea or object

Question 33

What is Walt Whitman's most important work?

A)The Scarlet Letter
B)Leaves of Grass
C)Moby Dick
D)Ode to a Nightingale
3 points each)

Question 34

What is a bel canto opera? Which great opera singer brought this form back into the modern operatic repertoire?

Question 35

_______________________ Short melancholic piano piece in a form used extensively by Chopin

Question 36

_______________________ Source of inspiration for the stories in Richard Wagner's operas

Question 37

Who were the Transcendentalists?

A)A group of French poets whose work dealt with spiritual themes
B)A group of American writers inspired by the natural world
C)A group of English painters whose works portrayed nature
D)A group of French composers who sought to convey images through music

Question 38

_______________________ Short art songs with piano accompaniment, such as the 600 composed by Schubert

Question 39

_______________________ Theory of Charles Darwin about the origin of species

Question 40

_______________________ Quiet movement in a movement in a symphony; means "interlude"