Deck 4: The Eighteenth Century

Question 1

The French Committee's Reign of Terror had all of these goals, except to __________.

A) win the war with Austria and Prussia
B) suppress all its enemies
C) restore rights to individual citizens
D) establish a "Republic of Virtue"
E) none of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The __________ style is marked by a shift in court taste from the poussiniste style to a more rubéniste one.

A) Rococo
B) Mannerism
C) Baroque
D) Neoclassicism
E) Romanticism

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Franz Joseph Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony no.45 was conceived as an explicit protest at the living conditions at the __________ palace.

A) Vienna
B) Basel
C) Berlin
D) Eisenstadt
E) Versailles

Answer 3

D

Question 4

__________ composed the famous opera Don Giovanni.

A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) Antonio Vivaldi
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Ludgwig von Beethoven
E) Johannes Brahms

Question 5

A symphony consists of __________ movements.

A) one
B) three
C) seven
D) eight
E) four

Question 6

The Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris is an example of architecture in the __________ style.

A) Romantic
B) Rococo
C) Neoclassical
D) Baroque
E) Renaissance

Question 7

__________ is a style that emerged as artists turned away from the Rococo and back toward ancient classical ideals.

A) Neoclassicism
B) Mannerism
C) Baroque
D) Renaissance
E) Post-Impressionist

Question 8

Adam Smith was an ardent opponent of the Industrial Revolution.

Question 9

Rococo is to frivolity as Neoclassical art is to __________.

A) moral virtue
B) violence
C) emotion
D) mythology
E) genre

Question 10

__________ art was most closely associated with the French Revolution.

A) Jean-Antoine Watteau's
B) Jacques-Louis David's
C) Jean-Honoré Fragonard's
D) François Boucher's
E) Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Question 11

The English artist __________ produced picture series that were equivalent to chapters in a novel.An example is Marriage à la Mode that sought to teach by example, and he referred to his narratives as "modern moral subjects."

A) William Hogarth
B) Sir Joshua Reynolds
C) Thomas Gainsborough
D) John Constable
E) Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Question 12

Jane Austen's novels are classified as __________.

A) social comedies
B) satiric comedies
C) histories
D) revenge tragedies
E) mysteries

Question 13

The Chiswick House is an excellent example of the __________ style.

A) Rococo
B) Baroque
C) Neoclassical
D) Mannerist
E) Romantic

Question 14

The composer __________ began in the Classical vein and later became known for his Romantic style.

A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) Antonio Vivaldi
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Ludgwig von Beethoven
E) Thomas Gainsborough

Question 15

All of the following were painters of the Rococo except __________.

A) Jean-Antoine Watteau
B) Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
C) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
D) François Boucher
E) Eugène Delacroix

Question 16

Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington .symbolized the states by __________.

A) the number "13" in the corner of the of the work
B) thirteen fasces bound together
C) thirteen colonists standing together
D) thirteen canons
E) thirteen swords

Question 17

__________ occurred during the Enlightenment.

A) Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity
B) Leeuwenhoek's development of the microscope
C) Galileo's invention of the telescope
D) Kepler's description of the functioning of the eye
E) all of the above

Question 18

Jacques-Louis David's theme in The Oath of the Horatii is __________.

A) Roman heroic stoicism and high principles
B) the pledging of eternal love
C) the swearing in of Napoleon
D) none of the above
E) both A and C

Question 19

__________ aptly captures the spirit of London's Grub Street.

A) Voltaire's Candide
B) Pope's Dunciad
C) Paine's Age of Reason
D) Austen's Pride and Prejudice
E) Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Question 20

__________, an artist of the Parisian Rococo is noted for his rapid brushwork, painting an entire work inside of an hour.

A) Jean-Antoine Watteau
B) Eugène Delacroix
C) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
D) Jacques-Louis David
E) François Boucher

Question 21

What are the elements of Enlightenment thought and how did they manifest themselves in artistic, musical, and literary works?

Question 22

Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock set the standard for serious poetry.

Question 23

How does the Neoclassical garden compare to the gardens of the Baroque era?

Question 24

Angelica Kauffmann's Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures is a model of Rococo style and technique.

Question 25

The George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon stands in the contrapposto pose derived from antiquity.

Question 26

How was the Neoclassical style used to promote the ideals of the French Revolution?

Question 27

Outline the key events that characterize the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and examine how Adam Smith justified the practices of the factory owners.

Question 28

Trace the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.

Question 29

There was a rise in public concerts during the Neoclassical era.Provide an example to delineate the changes that occurred due to a new audience made up primarily of the middle-class.
Essay

Question 30

Using a single building, painting, or musical composition explain why Rococo style appealed to the upper classes.

Question 31

Give an example of a mock epic.

Question 32

The Enlightenment was a period in which a group of intellectuals called philosophes believed that through reason, humanity could achieve a perfect society.

Question 33

What is "rational humanism"? Select a work of art, a piece of music, and a text and delineate how each relates to this concept.

Question 34

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication on the Rights of Woman is an anti-revolutionary tract.

Question 35

Ludwig van Beethoven's body of music moves one from an era of heavy reliance on the classical to a more romantic mood.

Question 36

What does the term "Enlightenment" refer to?

Question 37

François Boucher was a favorite of the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.

Question 38

Carolus Linnaeus developed the biological classification system used to identify species that is still in use today.

Question 39

What do Jane Austen's novels advocate?

Question 40

The National Assembly of 1789 France was made up of "The Third Estate" and their aristocratic sympathizers.

Question 41

Give an example of a work in which the choice of style, either Rococo or Neoclassical, was determined by the message that the artist, musician, or writer was trying to convey.

Question 42

Explain the role of satire in the art and literature of the eighteenth century by analysis of at least
three works.