Quiz II 1 According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, why did people lose the natural goodness with which they were

born? Answer Man's inherent nature is to sin Society and civilization corrupted them Formal education crushed imagination Organized religion taught false values 2 points Question 2

With what were the eighteenth-century French philosophes concerned? Answer Manners and tradition Metaphysical matters Secular and social concerns Theater and painting 2 points Question 3

What does Yu the Great Taming the Waters, carved onto a massive piece of jade, represent? Answer China being saved by a miracle China's version of the Noah story

Quiz II 2 The might of the Chinese army Hard work and service to the ruler 2 points Question 4

Why did the philosophes alienate themselves from the Church? Answer Disbelief in God Intolerant of hierarchy and ritual Disagreement with Church doctrine Dislike for church ornamentation 2 points Question 5

Why is the music that arose in reaction to the Rococo called "classical"? Answer Its symmetry, proportion, unity, and clarity Its reliance upon a small number of instruments Its predictability of form and movements Its use of Greek and Roman mythological themes 2 points Question 6

Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's ftes galantes become so popular?

Quiz II 3 Answer Their mythological allusions Their symmetry and perspective Their erotic overtones Their realistic portrayal of society 2 points Question 7

What was the overarching purpose of the Encyclopdie? Answer To accumulate and preserve human knowledge To record the findings of the French Academy To give a voice to the French philosophes To standardize the French language and spelling 2 points Question 8

Why were the philosophes attracted to China? Answer Its republican government Its Buddhist beliefs Its high level of advancement Its simplified lifestyle

Quiz II 4 2 points Question 9

Who introduced Western art techniques to the Chinese? Answer The Portuguese The Jesuits The French The Manchurians 2 points Question 10

Why did the eighteenth-century Parisian courtiers lose interest in portraits? Answer They desired paintings that entertained Portraiture limited artists' creativity They were bored with the realism Louis XV disliked portraits 2 points Question 11

In France, what triggered the events leading to revolution? Answer

Quiz II 5 Loss of the Seven Years' War Grain and flour shortage Murder of Jean Paul-Marat The national debt 2 points Question 12

Why did Napoleon launch a massive rebuilding program in Paris? Answer To restore Paris to its Baroque grandeur To impress his empire with his new palace To make Paris the new Rome To expand the churches to glorify God 2 points Question 13

How is David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard historically inaccurate? Answer Napoleon was much shorter than David painted him Napoleon did not cross the Alps with his army Napoleon wears a crown even though he was not emperor Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule, not a white horse 2 points

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On whose design did Thomas Jefferson model Monticello? Answer Andrea Palladio Giovanni Bon Charles Le Brun Christopher Wren 2 points Question 15

Why was Wedgwood's Neoclassical-ornamented jasperware so popular in the United States? Answer It was colored It was mass produced It was rare It was expensive 2 points Question 16

Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop? Answer Charlottesville, Virginia, is surrounded by hills

Quiz II 7 It would be safe from the floods common to that area Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples It provided the best view of the Virginia countryside 2 points Question 17

Why did John Adams defend the British soldiers who in 1770 had killed five protesters at the Boston Customs House? Answer They had fired in self-defense The protesters were slaves They were following King George III's orders The protesters opened fire first 2 points Question 18

Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography of his years as a slave? Answer His description of the slave ship does not match historical records He likely was born in the United States, not Africa as he claimed The English did not buy slaves from Benin, where he said he was born He describes treatment that would not have been given valuable commodities 2 points Question 19

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As described in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why does Antoine Jean Gros's painting of Napoleon and his army battling the Russians make odd propaganda? Answer The Russians defeated Napoleon's army Napoleon's army never fought the Russians Most of Napoleon's men died in that campaign Napoleon did not lead his army against the Russians 2 points Question 20

According to German philosopher Immanuel Kant, what was the Enlightenment's precondition? Answer Revolution Freedom Courage Education 2 points Question 21

What view of the world did the Romantics value? Answer Empirical observation Divinely revealed truth

Quiz II 9 Objective reality Subjective experience 2 points Question 22

What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies? Answer Scherzo Fortissimo Ide fixe tude 2 points Question 23

Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject? Answer Its absence of complexity and pretension Its availability to everyone no matter what social class Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination Its distraction from everyday problems 2 points Question 24

Why did the Romantics revere Prometheus?

Quiz II 10 Answer For being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom For being the Greek god of wisdom and creativity For refusing to obey the laws of the Titans For his ability to be restored after suffering cruel treatment 2 points Question 25

In Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, why does the hero commit suicide? Answer For being ostracized from the city society For making a pact with the devil For killing his pregnant mistress For falling in love with a married woman 2 points Question 26

Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America as having so much potential? Answer Its native American population Its freedom of worship Its pristine rivers and lakes Its vast tracts of wilderness

Quiz II 11 2 points Question 27

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, why does the creature embark on a quest for revenge against Dr. Frankenstein? Answer For creating him from dead body parts For abandoning him to fend for himself For not giving him a soul For leaving him in the Arctic 2 points Question 28

Who was Wordsworth's co-writer for Lyrical Ballads? Answer Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dorothy Wordsworth Ralph Waldo Emerson John Keats 2 points Question 29

In Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what does the Mariner's killing of the albatross represent? Answer

Quiz II 12 Coleridge overcoming opium addiction An attack on nature Salvation for his shipmates Christ's crucifixion 2 points Question 30

In "Tintern Abbey," why does Wordsworth believe he looks at the world differently than he did five years previously? Answer The losses he endured has made him more sensitive He now sees the connection between all things His memory becomes sharper as he matures He has a closer relationship with his sister 2 points Question 31

What was a central mission of the abolitionist movement? Answer To return the Africans to their homeland To redistribute the Southerners' wealth To Christianize the African slaves To feel self-righteous by helping the slaves 2 points

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Why did Charles Darwin sail on the H.M.S. Beagle in 1831? Answer To serve as the ship's physician To find evidence for human evolution To photograph South America To serve as the ship's naturalist 2 points Question 33

Why did Neoclassically-trained Thodore Gricault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of the Medusa? Answer To protest aristocratic privilege To call attention to the plight of slaves To expose the French government's cover-up To shock the French into another revolution 2 points Question 34

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

Quiz II 14 Music Setting Speech 2 points Question 35

What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype? Answer "Painting is dead!" "The world is black and white!" "This is not art!" "Realism is here!" 2 points Question 36

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why possibly did Roger Fenton exclude the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs? Answer British government forbade it He wasn't allowed on the battlefield The families requested him to do so Newspapers would not print them 2 points Question 37

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Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway slave Jim in for a reward? Answer Huck would be arrested for property theft Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage 2 points Question 38

Why did Maxine Du Camp almost always include a human figure in his photographs? Answer To prove their realism To indicate scale To make them more marketable To provide a focal point 2 points Question 39

Why did architect A. W. N. Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones? Answer They were guided by Christian principles They were inside the abbey, not separate

Quiz II 16 They were smaller than the nineteenth-century ones They were located in rural, not urban, areas 2 points Question 40

What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers? Answer Established a minimum daily wage Banned employment of children under age nine Displaced women from the workforce Required factories to provide decent housing