Question 1

Postmodern music challenges the concept of:

Accepted Answer

A)  chance music 
B)  traditional Western concert music 
C)  dissonant harmonies 
D)  rhythmic complexity

Question 2

Postmodernism disdained:

Accepted Answer

A)  a skeptical viewpoint 
B)  concern with purity of form 
C)  a variety of perspectives 
D)  aesthetic and artistic styles

Question 3

Langston Hughes's poems and his novel Not Without Laughter,create brilliant portrayals of:

Accepted Answer

A)  the politics of the Civil War 
B)  negative stereotypes of African Americans 
C)  the African American experience 
D)  traditions of African folklore

Question 4

"New media" art focuses on society's involvement with:

Accepted Answer

A)  globalization 
B)  political ideology 
C)  technology 
D)  psychological drama

Question 5

What art movement denied the notion that Western culture reached its peak in ancient Greece and Rome?

Accepted Answer

A)  Modernism 
B)  Futurism 
C)  Cubism 
D)  Postmodernism

Question 6

Artists of this movement considered the area around an object an extension of the object itself.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cubism 
B)  Impressionism 
C)  Realism 
D)  Surrealism

Question 7

In Expressionist films the sets reflected:

Accepted Answer

A)  masterful designs 
B)  realistic backdrops 
C)  contrast and drama 
D)  a state of mind rather than a place

Question 8

In Western culture,which one of the following describes the tendencies of Modernism?

Accepted Answer

A)  rejection of innovation 
B)  rejection of experimentation 
C)  rejection of traditional conventions 
D)  rejection of the new

Question 9

Which artist influenced the visual arts of the twentieth century more than any other individual?

Accepted Answer

A)  Henri Matisse 
B)  Marcel Duchamp 
C)  Pablo Picasso 
D)  Jackson Pollock

Question 10

Judy Chicago's,The Dinner Party,provides a good example of

Accepted Answer

A)  feminist art 
B)  ephemeral art 
C)  pop art 
D)  environmental art

Exam 13: The Arts in a Modern, Postmodern, and Pluralistic World