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Part 1:

Q1. By 1400, Europe had only _____________ percent of the population that it had had in 1300.
a. 20
b. 40
c. 60
d. 80

Q2. The scholarly endeavors of the humanists led them to do all of the following except
a. reject the Church.
b. gradually develop a sense of change and historicity.
c. study the Greek and Roman classics.
d. reject the medieval world view.

Q3. The massive decline in Europe's population in the fourteenth century is mainly attributed to
a. the falling-off of mercantile trade.
b. religious wars.
c. the Black Death.
d. a scarcity of precious metals.

Q4. Medieval society was essentially ________________.
a. agricultural.
b. urban.
c. mercantile.
d. secular.

Q5. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Italian art for the first time attempted to
a. use religious symbols.
b. accurately represent nature.
c. imitate Byzantine art.
d. add new, exciting colors to the palette.

Q6. The old city hall in Florence, the Palazzo Vecchio, reminds one of ______________ architecture.
a. Germanic
b. Gothic
c. Roman
d. Greek

Q7. The painter who may be said to have inaugurated Renaissance art through his creation of new formal conventions was
a. Masaccio.
b. Giotto.
c. Donatello.
d. Brunelleschi.

Q8. Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed in
a. the court of Elizabeth I.
b. the Swan Theater.
c. the Globe Theater.
d. Blackfriars.

Q9. Which statement about the political philosophy of Machiavelli is incorrect?
a. According to Machiavelli, the morality of the ruler must differ from that of the private citizen.
b. Machiavelli believed that a republican form of government was the best.
c. Machiavelli believed that, given the many threats to Florence's independence, a strong ruler was necessary.
d. To Machiavelli, obedience to God was the most important quality in a ruler.

Q10. The most important Spanish composer of the early sixteenth century was
a. Miguel Cervantes.
b. Cristobal de Morales.
c. Juan de Luna.
d. Philip of Toledo.

Q11. The view of the city of Florence is dominated by the
a. Church of San Lorenzo.
b. Palazzo Vechio.
c. Church of Santa Croce.
d. Duomo.

Q12. All of the following are works by Michelangelo except
a. David.
b. Dying Slave.
c. The Spearbearer.
d. The Last Judgment.

Q13. In his Latin treatise, On Architecture, Leon Battista Alberti maintains that buildings should be considered in the following hierarchy of significance:
a. housing, churches, civic and mercantile structures.
b. civic and mercantile structures, churches, housing.
c. churches, civic and mercantile structures, housing.
d. housing, churches, banks.

Q14. Alberti and Brunelleschi believed that the windows in a church should be placed high so that
a. maximum light could enter the building.
b. the stained glass would look as brilliant as possible.
c. worshippers would not be distracted by the outside world.
d. worshippers would be able to look up and contemplate heaven.

Q15. The reason that some leaders banned polyphonic music in Church services was that polyphony
a. was frequently used to set Hebrew and pagan poetry to music.
b. made it difficult to understand what the singers were saying.
c. was also used in secular music.
d. originally came from the New World.

Q16. The first of the Italian humanists is generally considered to be
a. Bruni.
b. Petrarch.
c. Cosimo de' Medici.
d. Pico dellaMirandola.

Q17. The Tempest begins with a
a. shipwreck.
b. street fight.
c. clandestine meeting.
d. meeting of two old friends.

Q18. The humanists encouraged scientific inquiry by providing accurate texts of ancient philosophers and by
a. encouraging the study of nature rather than humans.
b. providing a new vision of human creative capacities.
c. emphasizing the study of language and rhetoric.
d. reinterpreting the ancients in the light of Christian knowledge.

Q19. During the fourteenth century, which of the following schools of thought came under attack?
a. mysticism
b. scholasticism
c. monasticism
d. stoicism

Q20. In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico dellaMirandola stresses
a. personal destiny.
b. creative free will.
c. material wealth.
d. predestination.

Q21. The Italian fresco painter Giotto primarily
a. looked at nature for the source of his art.
b. painted ceremonial works.
c. copied the works of others.
d. painted interior scenes.

Q22. A major difference between humanism and scholasticism was to be found in the former's emphasis on
a. memorizing key Scriptures.
b. knowledge of correct theological doctrine.
c. salvation in the afterlife.
d. guiding human conduct in this world.

Q23. Raphael's work includes
a. The Grand Princess Sophia.
b. St. Francis in the Desert.
c. The Marriage of the Virgin.
d. St. Jerome in Agony.

Q24. A key concept in Machiavelli's The Prince is virtu,
a. the character of a wise man.
b. the ability to measure oneself.
c. the ability to tell right from wrong.
d. the craftiness to judge friend from foe.

Q25. To humanists, the capacity that distinguished humans from other animals was the ability to
a. reason.
b. express themselves in words.
c. walk upright.
d. distinguish between good and evil.

Q26. The works of Shakespeare mainly reflect ______________ culture.
a. Renaissance-Reformation
b. Protestant
c. classical
d. Judeo-Christian

Q27. The _________________ (1648) brought the Thirty Years' War to a close.
a. Peace of Augsburg
b. Concordat of Worms
c. Treaty of Paris
d. Peace of Westphalia

Q28. Leon Battista ____________ published On Painting in 1435.
a. Alberti
b. Donatello
c. Ghiberti
d. Masaccio

Q29. Copernicus's work on the revolution of heavenly bodies
a. was dedicated to the king.
b. denied the concept of a finite universe.
c. put the concept of an omnipotent deity in question.
d. better explained the observed motion of the heavens.

Q30. Leonardo regarded _____________ as the least of his skills.
a. architecture
b. botany
c. music
d. painting

Q31. Which of the following, as an elitist academic body, became the right arm of the pope in the Counter-Reformation?
a. Loyalians
b. Cavaliers
c. Jesuits
d. Calvinists

Q32. Raphael's paintings The Marriage of the Virgin and The School of Athens are alike in that both
a. compare Christianity and the philosophy of antiquity.
b. present a single figure against an idealized background.
c. rely on a classical presentation of the human nude form.
d. portray a group of figures in an idealized moment in time.

Q33. Newton's findings, published in his ______________, mark the high point of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution.
a. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
b. Leviathan
c. Discourse on Two New Sciences
d. New Organon

Q34. Raphael's The School of Athens symbolizes the Renaissance desire to reconcile Christianity and
a. antiquity.
b. politics.
c. art.
d. philosophy.

Q35. Erasmus believed that
a. faith alone led to salvation.
b. theological dogma was extremely important.
c. women could not benefit as much from learning as men could.
d. Christian belief should be reflected in one's conduct.

Q36. Michel de Montaigne was one of the first Europeans to understand and portray the ___________ that the new travels and discoveries made possible.
a. geography
b. dangerous trends
c. trade possibilities
d. cultural relativism

Q37. Raphael painted a masterful portrait of ______________ in 1517.
a. Cosimo de Medici
b. Henry VIII
c. Machiavelli
d. Pope Leo X

Q38. The Age of Absolutism refers to the absolute control of the
a. Church.
b. army under its generals.
c. nobility.
d. monarchs.

Q39. Petrarch grew up in _______________.
a. Florence.
b. France.
c. Milan.
d. England.

Q40. All of the following are works by Michelangelo except
a. David.
b. Captive Slave.
c. The Spearbearer.
d. The Last Judgment.

Q41. By the fourteenth century, Italy was different from northern Europe because of having a
a. larger proportion of clergy.
b. smaller number of people who were literate.
c. greater degree of urbanization.
d. lack of interest in politics among educated people.

Q42. Leon Battista Alberti believed that perfection in architecture was achieved by emulating the geometric form of
a. the square.
b. the circle.
c. the rectangle.
d. both the square and the circle.

Q43. The first monumental male nude since antiquity was Michelangelo's
a. Moses.
b. Captive Slave.
c. David.
d. Bound Slave.

Q44. The Renaissance of 1350 to 1500 was dominated by
a. Italy.
b. France.
c. Spain.
d. England.

Q45. Martin Luther's views differed from those of the Church on several issues. Which of the following statements reflects one of Luther's beliefs?
a. Through good works, one can earn a place in heaven.
b. No human can cooperate with God in his or her own salvation.
c. Religious truths can be established by reason alone.
d. Music should not be used in church services.

Q46. ________________ was one of the first European thinkers to show an awareness of cultural relativism in his writings.
a. Montaigne
b. Luther
c. Erasmus
d. Calvin

Q47. Niccolò Machiavelli's work deals with the problems central to any political thinker, the conflict between
a. liberty and trade.
b. church and state.
c. men and women.
d. liberty and order.

Q48. The theoretician Alberti believed that beauty resulted from the creation of
a. maximum ornamentation.
b. a harmonious whole.
c. imitations of medieval models.
d. a sense of space and height.

Q49. The principle goal of Jesuit educational systems was to
a. bring the believer to a higher state of religious awareness by disciplining the will.
b. teach the believer how to discover and discipline heretics.
c. convert Jews, Muslims, and pagans to Catholicism.
d. bring Protestants back into the Catholic Church by teaching them Catholic theology.

Q50. "The morality of the successful ruler is unlike that of the private citizen." Machiavelli would have
a. totally disagreed with the above statement.
b. wholly supported the above statement.
c. agreed with the above statement only with regard to ancient Rome.
d. exiled anyone who made such a statement.

Part 2:

Q1. Handel's Messiah is one of the greatest expressions of the
a. Protestant Renaissance.
b. Catholic baroque period.
c. Protestant baroque period.
d. Reformation.

Q2. __________________'s works include The Kitchenmaid and Women Holding a Balance.
a. Vermeer
b. Rembrandt
c. Rubens
d. Bruegal

16.) In his Sonnet 14, Donne says "Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,/Nor ever chaste except you ravish me." "You" refers here to

a. the Anglican Church.
b. his mistress.
c. his king.
*d. God.

Q3. A vocal style used to introduce ideas, persons, or information, and a musical device employed extensively in Handel's Messiah is
a. modal sonority.
b. timbre.
c. recitative.
d. counterpoint.

Q4. Most of the French neoclassical tragedies were based on
a. plots adapted from Shakespeare.
b. political and social events in contemporary French history.
c. Greek and Roman history and mythology.
d. original stories created by the geniuses of the time.

Q5. The delegates that met in Philadelphia in 1774 called their gathering
a. a continental congress.
b. the federal council
c. the continental federation
d. the revolutionary tribunal

Q6. In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ______________ prefigures many ideas of modern feminism.
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Mary Ann Evans
c. Germaine Necker
d. Mary Wollstonecraft

Q7. The belief that knowledge comes mainly from sense perception and experience is called
a. empiricism.
b. rationalism.
c. atomism.
d. ideology.

Q8. _____________ of Bach's works were published in his lifetime.
a. All
b. Most
c. Few
d. None

Q9. The most populous country in Europe in the seventeenth century was
a. France.
b. England.
c. Spain.
d. Austria.

Q10. Montesquieu's subject in the excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws reprinted in the text is
a. slavery.
b. nepotism.
c. religious tolerance.
d. penal reform.

Q11. Handel composed the Messiah in
a. twenty-four hours.
b. twenty-four days.
c. two months.
d. two years.

Q12. Painting in the Enlightenment reflected the new middle-class passion for
a. horses.
b. landscapes.
c. science and homemade experiments.
d. sensual nude males.

Q13. The first literary work to portray the story of Don Juan de Tenorio was
a. Don Quixote.
b. El Burlador de Sevilla.
c. Don Giovanni.
d. Byron's Don Juan.

Q14. Which statement about The Princess of Cleves is incorrect?
a. It was written by a woman and published anonymously.
b. It is a precursor of French classical comedy, particularly that of Molière.
c. It is concerned with universal human nature and relations between men and women.
d. Its heroine demonstrates self-sacrifice and moral strength.

Q15. The ceilings and walls of Louis XIV's palace were decorated with
a. allegorical paintings celebrating the deeds of Louis XIV.
b. paintings of philosophers of ancient Greece conferring with Louis XIV.
c. Louis XIV making love to famous goddesses such as Venus.
d. famous military heroes of the past such as Achilles, Roland, Joan of Arc, and others.

Q16. The great religious revival that swept through the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s was called the
a. New Beginning.
b. Great Rebirth.
c. New Bethlehem.
d. Great Awakening.

Q17. Most of the philosophes believed that
a. all religious doctrines should be respected.
b. the Church was the main source of ignorance and superstition.
c. the Church was the source of an enlightened despotism.
d. when reformed, the Church could enlighten the multitudes.

Q18. In Émile, Rousseau states that women are
a. intellectually superior to men.
b. biologically equal to men.
c. to be subservient to men.
d. to be socially equal to men.

Q19. The title character of Tartuffe is a
a. religious hypocrite.
b. simple and pious man.
c. a dandy, consumed by lust.
d. an aged and infirm king.

Q20. The ______________ was probably the most complicated mechanical instrument built before the Industrial Revolution.
a. harpsichord
b. aulos
c. organ
d. viola da gamba

Q21. Which statement about Thomas Jefferson is incorrect?
a. Jefferson believed that women should go to universities and take part in politics.
b. Jefferson believed that enlightenment, or education, was the key to liberty.
c. Jefferson's ideas about slavery were ambiguous and contradictory.
d. Jefferson's Declaration of Independence states a political philosophy based on Enlightenment thought.

Q22. Since French neoclassical tragedy follows the rule of verisimilitude, the action
a. takes places within twenty-four hours.
b. takes place in the distant past.
c. must be as close to real-life events as possible.
d. must be nonviolent.

Q23. The most famous part of Handel's Messiah is the
a. recitative.
b. aria.
c. accompagnato.
d. Hallelujah Chorus.

Q24. Which of the following art forms developed under Louis XIV?
a. ballet
b. fresco
c. tempura
d. satire

Q25. Although dedicated to universal enlightenment, the University of Virginia in fact excluded all of the following except
a. women.
b. rich white males.
c. blacks.
d. poor white males.

Q26. The most important cultural force in prerevolutionary America was
a. Christianity
b. the Enlightenment
c. empiricism
d. rationalism

Q27. Montesquieu held the belief that human beings are primarily the product of
a. sense perception and experience.
b. the historical conditions under which they are born.
c. the general will.
d. nature.

Q28. Which statement about Handel's Messiah is incorrect?
a. The work includes both Biblical passages and contemporary poems.
b. It is structured into three large and symmetrical parts.
c. Most of the arias follow the ABA, or da capo, form.
d. The "Hallelujah" Chorus occurs at the end of Part II, not at the end of the work.

Q29. Why did the British impose new taxes on the American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s?
a. They needed to pay for defending the colonies in the Seven Years War.
b. They wanted to promote trade and manufacture in the colonies.
c. They wanted to weaken the colonists' ties to France.
d. They needed to pay the French for defending them against Prussia.

Q30. Which statement about Bach's life and work is incorrect?
a. Bach was famous in his own day as an organist, not as a composer.
b. Bach used many Lutheran chorales as the basis for his works.
c. Great composers who followed Bach admired his works.
d. Bach traveled across Europe as an organist and conductor.

Q31. Bach's Christmas Oratorio was intended to be performed over ______________ days.
a. two
b. three
c. five
d. six

Q32. Jonathan Edwards preached that
a. humans are saved by faith alone.
b. good works are necessary.
c. the institutionalized church was best.
d. humans had the power to ensure their own salvation.

Q33. An important result of the Great Awakening on American political life was the
a. strengthening of authority of traditional clergy.
b. establishment of new government-controlled churches.
c. increasing decentralization of churches.
d. religious conversion of rich people.

Q34. Madame du Deffand and Madame Geoffrin were famous for their
a. salons.
b. rigid piety.
c. loose morals.
d. beauty and sense of fashion.

Q35. A recitative is a musical form that has almost no ______________ interest.
a. melodic
b. rhythmic
c. vocal
d. contrapuntal

Q36. The spectacles with which Louis XIV entertained his court took place at
a. Marseilles.
b. Versailles.
c. Paris.
d. Orléans.

Q37. The father of modern comedy was
a. Racine.
b. Crashaw.
c. Molière.
d. Corneille.

Q38. American federalism was largely developed from
a. Rousseau's argument against elitist government.
b. Locke's theory of the social contract.
c. the necessity of the times.
d. Montesquieu's restrictions on power.

Q39. The Princess of Cleves is set
a. in a mythical woods.
b. in the court of Henry II.
c. a tiny, remote kingdom.
d. in a small town in northern France.

Q40. For the last twenty-seven years of his life, Bach was a
a. Lutheran church musician.
b. court composer.
c. famous composer of operas.
d. professional, touring organist.

Q41. Which statement about Versailles is incorrect?
a. It began as a small royal hunting lodge.
b. The architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart gave it its present appearance.
c. The gardens are designed to glorify nature in an artless and natural style.
d. Three enormous avenues converge and give importance to the east side of the chateau.

Q42. In Candide, Voltaire satirized the philosophy known as
a. optimism.
b. empiricism.
c. rationalism.
d. deism.

Q43. Which of the following monarchs is associated with absolutism?
a. Henry III
b. Gregory II
c. Louis XIV
d. Mary, Queen of Scots

Q44. The most characteristic feature of neoclassical drama is its emphasis on
a. fantasy and Greek myth.
b. the passionate and the sensuous.
c. the primacy of reason and order. (unity of time, place, and action; as well as unity of tone)
d. contemporary political events.

Q45. The baroque style in the visual arts can best be described as
a. religious in theme and subject.
b. employing strict rules of perspective.
c. depicting everyday objects and ordinary people.
d. energetic, bright, and highly decorated.

Q46. A quality that connects the baroque art of the continent with English metaphysical poetry is
a. a combination of the spiritual and the sensual.
b. realistic depiction of ordinary people's lives.
c. use of imagery derived from Catholic worship.
d. a combination of both autobiographical and fictional elements.

Q47. Bach stated that his goal was to create
a. a German national opera.
b. the greatest symphony.
c. a new form of choral music.
d. well-regulated church music.

Q48. Bach was a/an
a. Methodist.
b. Lutheran.
c. Catholic.
d. atheist.

Q49. The American Revolution grew out of resistance to taxation levied following
a. the Glorious Revolution
b. the Seven Yearsâ€^TM War
c. the War of the Spanish Succession
d. the War of Jenkinâ€^TMs Ear

Q50. Francois Boucher continued the trends evident in the ______________ school of painting.
a. rococo
b. neoclassical
c. classical
d. neo-baroque