Deck 27: Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

Question 1

How did the coming of the railroads transform inner-city London?

A)The Thames became more polluted
B)Cheap hotels replaced tenements
C)Prostitution and gin houses increased
D)Warehouses displaced the poor

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell in 1815?

A)Republic
B)Monarchy
C)Anarchy
D)Democracy

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What was a central mission of the abolitionist movement?

A)To return the Africans to their homeland
B)To redistribute the Southerners' wealth
C)To Christianize the African slaves
D)To feel self-righteous by helping the slaves

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to French philosopher Auguste Comte,society passes through what three stages on its quest for knowledge?

A)Rural,urban,and suburban
B)Theological,metaphysical,and positive
C)Mythological,religious,and scientific
D)Superstitious,religious,and enlightened

Question 5

Why did Dickens write Hard Times?

A)To show the greed of London lawyers
B)To satirize the Utilitarian industrialists
C)To expose the London poorhouse conditions
D)To show the brutality of London's orphanages

Question 6

What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers?

A)Established a minimum daily wage
B)Banned employment of children under age nine
C)Displaced women from the workforce
D)Required factories to provide decent housing

Question 7

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write was the inspiration for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

A)The slaves owned by her father,a judge
B)The death and burial of her young son
C)The public speeches of Frederick Douglass
D)The narrative told by Sojourner Truth

Question 8

Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway slave Jim in for a reward?

A)Huck would be arrested for property theft
B)Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in
C)Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity
D)Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage

Question 9

Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and 1880?

A)To take advantage of better schools for their children
B)To escape their hard lives as tenant farmers
C)To afford the cheaper housing the city offered
D)To be near their jobs in the factories

Question 10

By how much did London's population increase between 1800 and 1880?

A)Double
B)Triple
C)Quadruple
D)Quintuple

Question 11

What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

A)Clothing
B)Music
C)Setting
D)Speech

Question 12

Why did architect A.W.N.Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones?

A)They were guided by Christian principles
B)They were inside the abbey,not separate
C)They were smaller than the nineteenth-century ones
D)They were located in rural,not urban,areas

Question 13

What theme is at the heart of Dickens' socially realistic writings?

A)Entertaining middle-class readers
B)Showing the evils of wealth
C)Advocating reform for the poor
D)Satirizing the Romantic sensibility

Question 14

Why could Charles Dickens describe the suffering of London's poor so vividly and accurately?

A)He had interviewed the slum's residents
B)He had read stories of their plight
C)He had grown up in those conditions
D)He had seen them in his reporter job

Question 15

Why did Robert Owen's New Harmony,Indiana,utopian experiment fail?

A)Not enough people applied for its 800 spaces
B)The people it attracted lacked skills to contribute
C)Owen declared bankruptcy soon after buying the town
D)Americans did not approve of his sexual freedom ideas

Question 16

Why did Neoclassically-trained Théodore Géricault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of the Medusa?

A)To protest aristocratic privilege
B)To call attention to the plight of slaves
C)To expose the French government's cover-up
D)To shock the French into another revolution

Question 17

What theory did Harvard professor Louis Agassiz aim to prove in his study of South Carolina slaves?

A)The different races were equal
B)Slavery decreased brain size
C)Africans were inferior to whites
D)Africans and whites should not interbreed

Question 18

What Western male belief do the French odalisque (concubine)paintings show?

A)Beauty of the female body
B)Western superiority to Orient
C)Male need for pornography
D)Male dominance of women

Question 19

Why did Frederick Douglass eventually break away from the Anti-Slavery Society?

A)Concern that their doctrine would dissolve the Union
B)Disgust with their exploitation of him as an intelligent African
C)Concern that they were becoming too militant
D)Disillusionment with their talk but no action to help slaves

Question 20

Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young women and widows?

A)They worked for lower wages than men
B)In London women outnumbered men
C)They were more dependable than men
D)Their children would work as assistants

Question 21

Some modern readers find the racist language of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offensive.Basing your claim on at least two clearly defined and supported points,argue whether the book should be edited to exclude such language.

Question 22

Why did Maxine Du Camp almost always include a human figure in his photographs?

A)To prove their realism
B)To indicate scale
C)To make them more marketable
D)To provide a focal point

Question 23

Why did the French public and critics object to Gustave Courbet's paintings?

A)His use of contemporary people in historical scenes
B)His political symbolism in landscape scenes
C)His wild,energetic brushstrokes and blurry details
D)His depiction of commoners in grand size

Question 24

Compare the depiction of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin to that in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Question 25

Define literary realism,and list two examples by different authors.

Question 26

Explain Charles Darwin's argument of natural selection.

Question 27

Describe the living and working conditions of nineteenth-century London.

Question 28

Why did Charles Darwin sail on the H.M.S.Beagle in 1831?

A)To serve as the ship's physician
B)To find evidence for human evolution
C)To photograph South America
D)To serve as the ship's naturalist

Question 29

On what main point did Darwin's discoveries and theories draw criticism from Louis Agassiz and others?

A)Humans evolved from lower species
B)Extinction of species was not due to God
C)Adaptation was not controlled by God
D)Sexual instinct dictated human actions

Question 30

How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?

A)Inks on prints did not bleed
B)Artists could draw more detail
C)Prints became quick and cheap
D)Prints could be made in color

Question 31

Why did Louis XIII purchase and then store away Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People?

A)It included a nude Louis in it
B)It would insight the commoners to rebel
C)It was too large to display
D)It satirized Louis's claim to the throne

Question 32

What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?

A)"Painting is dead!"
B)"The world is black and white!"
C)"This is not art!"
D)"Realism is here!"

Question 33

Compare the subjects and themes of Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers and A Burial at Ornans,both of which drew criticism from French viewers.

Question 34

Matching

Question 35

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why possibly did Roger Fenton not include the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs?

A)British government forbade it
B)He wasn't allowed on the battlefield
C)The families requested him not to do so
D)Newspapers would not print them

Question 36

List and explain three ways industrialization changed the English working class people.

Question 37

Identify and provide examples of two ways French literary realism differed from British.

Question 38

Construct an argument for or against Paul Delaroche's claim that after the development of photography,"Painting is dead!"

Question 39

Explain the events that inspired the creation of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa.