Question 1

Who shot the photograph A Harvest of Death,Gettysburg,Pa.,considered by some as "the most famous photograph" to come out of the American Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A)   Mathew Brady
B)   Timothy O'Sullivan
C)   Alexander Gardner
D)   Winslow Homer B

Question 2

What was Édouard Manet's motivation in creating large-scale,controversial works?

Accepted Answer

A)   He was considered a flâneur, someone determined to shock a bourgeois audience.
B)   He wanted to support his political views through art.
C)   He wanted the Academy to take notice of his influential work.
D)   He wanted to demonstrate the relationship between his subjects and nature. A

Question 3

Who issued a scathing indictment of industrial life in Condition of the Working Class in England?

Accepted Answer

A)   Alphonse de Lamartine
B)   Karl Marx
C)   Friedrich Engels
D)   Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel C

Question 4

What is the impression or attitude of Robert Koehler's The Strike?

Accepted Answer

A)   It captures the mood of the workers and their bosses.
B)   It implies a morality with poverty.
C)   It depicts the virtues of industrialization.
D)   It implies that the creative arts make way for the modern age of industrialization.

Question 5

Discuss European involvement in Egypt.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Who composed Rigoletto and believed that opera should be dramatically realistic?

Accepted Answer

A)   Giuseppe Verdi
B)   Jacques Offenbach
C)   Richard Wagner
D)   Edwin P. Christy

Question 7

Who wrote an autobiography that provides a compelling account of life under slavery?

Accepted Answer

A)   Harriet Beecher Stowe
B)   Frederick Douglass
C)   Sojourner Truth
D)   Mark Twain

Question 8

Who was interested in color theory and painted Red Roofs,which the author describes as a "random patchwork of red and green,orange and blue [that] appears through a veil of tree branches that interrupt the viewer's vision"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Claude Monet
B)   Camille Pissarro
C)   Mary Cassatt
D)   Berthe Morisot

Question 9

Which of the following works includes this line: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Walden, or Life in the Woods
B)   "Civil Disobedience"
C)   Nature
D)   "Self-Reliance"

Question 10

Remember that Édouard Manet considered himself a flâneur.Knowing that about him,what do you think were his intentions in presenting Le Déjuner sur l'herbe to the jury for the Salon of 1863?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

Who created the series of woodblock prints known as Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,including the best-known print,The Great Wave?

Accepted Answer

A)     Katsushika Hokusai
B)     Kitagawa Utamaro
C)     Eiichi Shibusawa
D)     Matthew Perry

Question 12

Which of the following describes Karl Marx's Das Kapital?

Accepted Answer

A)   It offered a view of the conditions of the proletariat and an interpretation of capitalism.
B)   It served as an exploration into the new concept of human rights in the workplace.
C)   It offered an in-depth look at the political impact of industrialization. d	It explored the Utopian view of changing industrialization.D It explored the Utopian view of changing industrialization.

Question 13

Who painted Impression: Sunrise,which played a significant role in giving Impressionism its name?

Accepted Answer

A)   Berthe Morisot
B)   Claude Monet
C)   Édouard Manet
D)   Mary Cassatt

Question 14

From Uncle Tom's Cabin,what type of character is Simon Legree?

Accepted Answer

A)   an evil slave owner
B)   a benevolent abolitionist
C)   a youthful freedman
D)   a Northern businessman

Question 15

Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Accepted Answer

A)   Harriet Beecher Stowe
B)   Frederick Douglass
C)   Sojourner Truth
D)   Mark Twain

Question 16

Discuss the Jockey Club's powerful influence over French opera.

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

Which writer solidified the use of the term "Impressionist" by using it in an essay he published in 1876?

Accepted Answer

A)   Mallarmé
B)   Baudelaire
C)   Rimbaud
D)   Hugo

Question 18

What did Napoleon III commission Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to do?

Accepted Answer

A)   modernize Paris
B)   centralize trade relations with Egypt
C)   prevent an urban uprising
D)   establish standards for "art politics"

Question 19

Who painted Memory of Civil War,based on his experience as a captain of the Republican Guard defending the Hôtel de Ville in the June Days?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ernest Meissonier
B)   Claude Monet
C)   Alfred Stevens
D)   Édouard Manet

Question 20

Which of the following literary works is a fictionalized account of the life of Delphine Delamare,the adulterous wife of a country doctor who died of grief after deceiving and ruining him?

Accepted Answer

A)   Father Goriot
B)   Hard Times
C)   Madame Bovary
D)   Eugénie Grandet

Exam 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie