Satirical exposure of religious corruption and prejudice

Assignment Help Science
Reference no: EM13957996

1. The terms capella and imitation would most likely be used in a discussion of what artist?

a. Josquin des Préz

b. Raphael Sanzio

c. Michelangelo

d. Marsilio Ficino

2) Machiavelli wrote in The Prince that a "prince must not keep faith when by doing so it would be against his self-interest." What would a ruler following this precept most likely do?

a. ruthlessly betray his friends to remain in power

b. carefully weigh the common good against his personal ambitions

c. consult his priest before making important decisions

d. recognize the inherent rights of citizens to life and liberty15 Final Examination

3) Which of these was an important factor in the Low Countries' "commercial revolution"?

a. King Henry VIII's split with the Catholic church

b. the invention of linear and atmospheric perspective

c. destruction of churches and religious art during peasant revolts

d. accumulation of wealth in the hands of a merchant class

4) One would likely hear the term madrigal in a discussion of what topic?

a. music in Renaissance England

b. the Lutheran Bible

c. Palestrina's harmonies

d. Palladio's classical designs

5) What northern Renaissance writer's greatest work is devoted to a satirical exposure of religious corruption and prejudice?

a. Pico della Mirandola

b. Machiavelli

c. Thomas More

d. Desiderius Erasmus

6) What northern Renaissance humanist writer expressed his philosophical skepticism in the form of personal essays?

a. Michel de Montaigne

b. William Shakespeare

c. Thomas More

d. Desiderius Erasmus

7) Which is the best example of the vivid and precise realism of Northern Renaissance painting?

a. Van Eyck's Marriage of Arnolfini

b. Tintoretto's Last Supper

c. Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck

d. Bruegel's The Hunters' Return

8) The Teatro Olimpico illustrates the influence of what Renaissance technique, borrowed from painting?

a. blank verse

b. chiaroscuro

c. linear perspective

d. commedia dell'arte

9) In carrying the technique of chiaroscuro (dramatic light and shadow) to the cities of Florence and Naples, Artemisia Gentileschi spread the influence of what artist?

a. Nicolas Poussin

b. Gianlorenzo Bernini

c. Caravaggio

d. Johannes Vermeer

10) In what regard is Velazquez's masterpiece The Maids of Honor (Las Meni- ñas), a scene in the artist's royal studio, most remarkable?

a. its complex arrangement of space

b. a brilliant use of red, blue, and gold

c. its mood of gaiety and self-indulgence

d. the novel treatment of a religious theme

11) What would the Academy, as established under the rule of Louis XIV, most likely do?

a. ensure a religious content in pictures

b. oversee the Dutch market in paintings

c. encourage innovative styles of painting

d. impose absolutist neoclassical rules on artists

12) Which statement best describes the works of Molière?

a. attracted a diverse audience to public theaters

b. essential in the popularization of modern science

c. showed the clear influence of Shakespeare

d. developed under the patronage of Louis XIV

13) What best describes the cantatas of J. S. Bach?

a. marked the origin of baroque opera in Germany

b. adopted the musical form of concerto grosso

c. served as an important part of Lutheran church worship

d. were usually performed in the courts of German nobles

14) Which of these figures is associated with the heliocentric theory of the universe, an important advance in the Scientific Revolution?

a. René Descartes

b. John Locke

c. Nicolaus Copernicus

d. Antonio Vivaldi

15) Who created romanticized portraits that he called "fancy pictures" that appealed to the wealthy classes of eighteenth-century Britain?

a. William Hogarth

b. Thomas Gainsborough

c. Balthasar Neumann

d. Antoine Watteau

16) Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel titled Émile would today be most influential in what field of study?

a. the nature of religious experience

b. the philosophy of education

c. the philosophical basis of modern science

d. the economic study of free markets

17) Which of these works might have been most influenced by Palladio's book of classical designs, an important document in eighteenth-century neoclassicism?

a. Boffrand's Hôtel de Soubise

b. Haydn's London symphonies

c. Noverre's ballet d'action

d. Jefferson's Monticello

18) Which of these would one expect to hear in the sonata allegro movement of a Classical symphony?

a. the development

b. Storm and Stress

c. a recitative

d. the libretto

19) Which movement or style aimed to free Germany from artificial imitations of French culture?

a. neoclassicism

b. the sentimental drama

c. the Encyclopedists

d. cult of sensibilité

20) How did Ludwig van Beethoven substantially alter the Classical symphony form of Haydn and Mozart?

a. used the motif to expand and unify the symphony structure

b. emphasized the classical simplicity of his mentors' style

c. eliminated the symphony's fourth movement

d. selectively reduced the number of instruments in the orchestra

21) Which of these works celebrated the romantic belief in political freedom and social unity?

a. J. M. W. Turner's Slave Ship

b. Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People

c. Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada

d. Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Mist

22) For what reason would Turner's The Slave Ship have been criticized by tradi- tional art critics?

a. depicted mythological creatures and fantastic scenes

b. depicted a commonplace scene from ordinary life

c. disregarded precise detail in favor of atmospheric color and light

d. incorporated classical sculpture and architecture

23) In what kind of work would one most likely expect to encounter the tech-nique of the idée fixe?

a. a building by A. N. Pugin

b. a drama by Goethe

c. a symphony by Hector Berlioz

d. a painting by Francisco Goya

24) Which of these was famed as a virtuoso pianist and composer of romanticnocturnes and preludes?

a. Frédéric Chopin

b. William Blake

c. Robert Schumann

d. Hector Berlioz

25) What statement best expresses the utilitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill?

a. the strong must be free to create their own value system

b. all ideas come from God and deserve to be heard

c. actions are right insofar as they promote happiness

d. all species, including humans, are engaged in the struggle to survive

26) What made Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace notable?

a. Art Nouveau-style decoration

b. Gothic gloominess and mystery

c. iron-and-glass construction

d. use of neoclassical motifs

27) The literary names of Gustave Flaubert and Henrik Ibsen are closely associated with what "-ism"?

a. symbolism

b. impressionism

c. realism

d. socialism

28) Why would the artistic public of the 1860s most likely have rejected Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass?

a. the work seemed to call for violent uprisings of urban workers

b. the work's sketchy brush strokes seemed amateurish

c. the work depicted exotic tropical scenes in garish colors

d. the picture placed a bold nude woman in a contemporary setting

29) What pair of painters best defines the pure impressionist style of brilliant color and vibrant brushwork?

a. Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat

b. Gustave Courbet and Honoré Daumier

c. Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir

d. Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas

30) What work is associated with Die Brücke, a movement of German expressionist artists of the 1920s?

a. Kafka's The Metamorphosis

b. Nolde's Dance Around the Golden Calf

c. Picasso's Three Musicians

d. Copland's Appalachian Spring

31) "Roped together like two mountain-climbers," as one said, what two artists invented the analytic and synthetic methods of cubist painting?

a. Marcel Duchamp and Henri Matisse

b. Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso

c. Salvador Dali and Joan Miró

d. Paul Klee and Walter Gropius

31) Which statement best describes Duke Ellington?

a. author of the jazz-influenced work Threepenny Opera

b. strongly influenced by the atonal methods of Schoenberg

c. successfully collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev

d. composed his works principally for jazz ensembles

32) Who fashioned a system of teaching modern dance that made it as rigorous as classical ballet?

a. Martha Graham

b. Willa Cather

c. Georgia O'Keeffe

d. Isadora Duncan

33) Which statement best describes the architect Frank Lloyd Wright?

a. believed a building should connect its occupants and surroundings

b. was a central figure of the Bauhaus movement in Germany

c. was the inventor of architectural modernism in the U.S.

d. envisioned "radiant cities" of skyscrapers and super-highways

34) Which term is best associated with the international political situation of the 1950s, in the aftermath of World War II and the defeat of fascism?

a. post-modernism

b. Cold War

c. global terror

d. the Great Depression

35) Which statement best describes the work of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath?

a. was strongly influenced by the Beatles and other groups of 1960s rock- and-roll

b. composed poetry in a "confessional" vein, with graphic images of female sexuality

c. wrote self-consciously metaphysical stories about labyrinthine fictional worlds

d. dealt principally with African-American characters and social life

36) Which structure best illustrates the architectural principles of the International Style-glass-and-steel towers of unadorned purity?

a. Michael Graves' Portland Public Services Building

b. Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building

c. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

d. Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia

37) The fiction of Gabriel García Márquez, notably his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, is best described by which term?

a. organic

b. beat

c. existentialist

d. magic realism

38) What best describes Judy Chicago's most famous work, the Dinner Party?

a. a cycle of dramas depicting African-American characters and social life

b. a set of intensely personal poems about her experience as mother and housewife

c. a controversial art installation commemorating women heroes

d. an acclaimed dance performance with the American Dance Theater

Reference no: EM13957996

Questions Cloud

Practice nurse at a community health clinic : In recent years, hormone replacement therapy has become a controversial issue. When prescribing therapies, advanced practice nurses must weigh the strengths and limitations of the prescribed supplemental hormones.
Solve the helmholtz equation : a) Solve the Helmholtz equation when u is a function of r only in 2-D. b) Solve the Helmholtz equation when u is a function of r only in 3-D.
Find also the chance the game reaches 3-3 ("deuce") : Suppose buses arrive at random, at average rate , so that the time to wait follows an Exponential distribution. Show that, conditional on you having already waited time T, without a bus, the remaining time you have to wait is independent o..
What is the process for casting impressions : What is the process for casting impressions and creating molds for footwear and tiretread impressions outside of a warehouse. Describe and explain in detail using a step-by-step process
Satirical exposure of religious corruption and prejudice : Machiavelli wrote in The Prince that a "prince must not keep faith when by doing so it would be against his self-interest." What would a ruler following this precept most likely do?
Find the expected number of games that are played : Consider problem 1 with i = 2. Find the variance of the number of games played and show that this number is maximized when p = ½.
The controller of a company that sells inventory : Suppose you are the controller of a company that sells inventory. Also, suppose the economy currently enters a period of high inflation. Although profits are higher this year than last year, you realize that the cost to replace inventory is also high..
Create a new product which would appeal to your market : Choose the target market for your product, and describe your target market in detail. Create a new product which would appeal to your market.
Find the probability that jury renders a correct decision : Suppose that it takes at least 9 votes from a 12-member jury to convict a defendant. Suppose the probability that a juror votes a guilty person innocent is 0.2.

Reviews

Write a Review

 

Science Questions & Answers

  Safety significance of the professional engineering

Your company is building a new medical office building using the lift slab process. Using the OSHA website, describe four key elements with this process and the safety significance of the professional engineering. 200 word minimum with references/..

  The united states where this might actually occur

Explain why the surface air on the downwind side of a mountain can be drier than the surface air on the upwind side. What is this effect called? Can you think of a location in the United States where this might actually occur?

  Gains of using nuclear power over other systems

What factors need to be considered before building and operating a nuclear power plant.

  Estimate the difference between the yearly incomes

In order to estimate the difference between the yearly incomes of marketing managers in the east and the west, the following information was gathered:

  The temperature and heat terms

Describe the fundamental differences and similarities between temperature and heat.

  Mahatma gandhi''s role in the national movement

2.Comment on Mahatma Gandhi's role in the national movement. 3. What do you understand by the term 'social structure'? Discuss.

  Compare and contrast species richness and species evenness

List the classification system from the most broad to the most specific. Speciation is an example of microevolution or macroevolution? Explain. Explain 2 ways mutations may occur. Are they good or bad? Explain.

  Values conflict or constitute an ethical dilemma

Many situations can raise ethical concerns, particularly in the face of disagreement and conflict between parties. However, not all situations of an ethical nature result in values conflict or constitute an ethical dilemma. Explain the characteristic..

  Problems based on economics of heathcare

Do you agree with this statement? If not, what other approaches do you think will resolve the current inequities in the system?

  Fertility phases of the demographic transition

Describe the 4 phases of demographic transition, including if the population is stable, growing, or declining in each.

  Assignment 1 discussion assignmentnbspthe discussion

assignment 1 discussion assignmentnbspthe discussion assignment provides a forum to discuss the relevant topics for

  Describe the changes in environment and in the industrys or

provide an example of an industry or company that has changed its strategy over time as environmental factors such as

Free Assignment Quote

Assured A++ Grade

Get guaranteed satisfaction & time on delivery in every assignment order you paid with us! We ensure premium quality solution document along with free turntin report!

All rights reserved! Copyrights ©2019-2020 ExpertsMind IT Educational Pvt Ltd