Deck 5: Romanticism and Realism

Question 1

Virtuosity is to Renaissance as originality is to __________.

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

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Francisco Goya's __________ style was employed to chronicle of France's war with Spain.

A) Romantic
B) Realistic
C) Renaissance
D) Surrealistic
E) Neoclassical

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Beethoven's Symphony No.6 ("The Pastoral") is an example of __________.

A) an aria
B) absolute music
C) program music
D) a capella music
E) both A and B

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Realist art portrays the lives of __________ people.

A) aristocratic
B) working class
C) old
D) beautiful
E) young

Question 5

William Blake's poetry focuses on __________ that are said to be contradictory states of the soul.

A) good and evil
B) hope and despair
C) innocence and experience
D) essence and nothingness
E) body and spirit

Question 6

The British Houses of Parliament in London are a model of the __________ style.

A) Gothic Revival
B) Realistic
C) Neoclassical
D) Romantic
E) Renaissance

Question 7

The novel __________ by Robert Louis Stevenson embodies the conflict between the classical mind and the new Romantic mind.

A) Walden
B) Moby Dick
C) Treasure Island
D) The Scarlet Letter
E) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Question 8

Ralph Waldo Emerson called himself a(n) __________.

A) Realist
B) Renaissance man
C) Transcendentalist
D) Impressionist
E) Neoclassicist

Question 9

__________wrote Wuthering Heights which is a perfect encapsulation of the Romantic sensibility in the "violence of its scenes and the extravagance of its style."

A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) John Keats
E) Emily Dickinson

Question 10

All of the following were English Realist novelists except __________.

A) Charles Dickens
B) Emily Brontë
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) George Eliot
E) Anthony Trollope

Question 11

Goethe's play, Faust, has been described as a defining work of __________.

A) Transcendentalism
B) European Romanticism
C) European Neoclassicsm
D) European Realism
E) American Impressionism

Question 12

Kant called the two basic substances, "those that we receive through impressions, and those that our faculty of knowledge supplies from itself" __________ respectively.

A) senses and matters
B) sensations and perceptions
C) phenomena and noumena
D) feeling and knowing
E) conscious and unconscious

Question 13

Romantic artists were not interested in the __________.

A) fantastic world of dreams
B) exotic world of the Orient
C) beauty of nature, often seen in its wilder aspects
D) symmetry of machine-made products
E) life in the women's quarters of harems

Question 14

St.Augustine's Confessions is to the honor and glory of God as Rousseau's Confessions is to the honor and glory of __________.

A) nature
B) the self
C) altruism
D) patriotism
E) social contracts

Question 15

Both Goya's The Third of May and Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa could be said to express the theme of __________.

A) "all's fair in love and war"
B) "love conquers all"
C) "humanity's inhumanity"
D) "all's well that ends well"
E) none of the above

Question 16

__________wrote Walden in 1854 because he believed that living close to nature was humankind's strength.

A) Thoreau
B) Emerson
C) Wollstonecraft
D) Rousseau
E) Wordsworth

Question 17

__________ was the subject of Goya's series of eighty-two prints produced between 1810 and 1823.

A) War
B) Nature
C) Love
D) The working class
E) Dance

Question 18

All the following are considered Romantic music, except __________

A) Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony No. 45
B) Brahms's "Lullaby"
C) Wagner's Ring of the Niebelung
D) Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
E) Chopin's Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat

Question 19

The Lied was a type of art song set to an accompaniment that suited the tone, mood, and details of a(n) __________.

A) poem
B) opera
C) ballad
D) madrigal
E) novel

Question 20

The theme of a large portion of nineteenth-century literature is __________.

A) good manners
B) our ignorance of things
C) patriotism
D) survival
E) family values

Question 21

Berlioz is to the orchestra as Chopin is to the __________.

A) violin
B) trumpet
C) flute
D) oboe
E) piano

Question 22

Gertrude Käsebier worked in the photographic style of Pictorialism in which the image's surface is somewhat indistinct with softened lines.

Question 23

A leitmotif is a long musical passage popularized by Richard Wagner.

Question 24

How do Francisco Goya and Théodore Géricault compare as Romantic artists?

Question 25

Summarize the primary ideas expressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions.

Question 26

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were two proponents of the factory system.

Question 27

How did Americans view of the landscape translate into the establishment of the national park system during the nineteenth-century?

Question 28

Why does London's Houses of Parliament use a style based on that of the Gothic period (that is, why was this style considered appropriate for a government building)?

Question 29

The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a favorite of the czarist regime.

Question 30

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther is his contribution to the Sturm und Drang movement that espoused Enlightenment objectivity, rationality, and restraint.

Question 31

Why is music considered the most "romantic of art forms"? Use examples from Benton and DiYanni as the basis of discussion.

Question 32

Giuseppe Verdi was Italy's most important Romantic composer.

Question 33

List as many interests of the Romantics as possible and provide examples of each from art,
music, or literature.

Question 34

John Constable was an English landscape painter whose work conveyed a sense of "the enduring attachment to place so fundamental to rural life."

Question 35

The Odalisque by Eugène Delacroix is a rubéniste work that represents a woman
from a harem.

Question 36

The American painter __________, who was greatly influenced by photography, was dedicated to the accurate presentation of the human body in motion.

A) Edward Hopper
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Winslow Homer
D) Thomas Cole
E) Alfred Stieglitz

Question 37

Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary as a comprehensive attack on Romantic sensibility.

Question 38

Eadweard Muybridge's sequence studies led to the invention of the __________.

A) automobile
B) motion picture
C) phonograph
D) morse code
E) radio

Question 39

What was Wagner's contribution to music of the nineteenth-century?

Question 40

Select a text by either Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau to explain the Transcendentalist view of nature.

Question 41

How are Ingres' Odalisque and Eakins' The Swimming Hole models of Romanticism and Realism in visual art respectively?

Question 42

Trace the role of photography in the development of Realism.

Question 43

How is one's understanding of nineteenth-century sexual politics enhanced by applying feminist theories to Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass?
Essay

Question 44

Compare at least three works to explore how did political unrest during the nineteenth-century affect the art of Europe and the United States.