Deck 19: The Eighteenth Century

Question 1

Which English painter of the Rococo period was best known for his portraits and landscapes?

A) Gainsborough
B) Watteau
C) Hogarth
D) David

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which style of art gradually replaced Rococo in Europe during the late 1700s?

A) Style Galant
B) Realism
C) Neo-Classicism
D) Romanesque

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What was the view of human nature held by Jonathan Swift?

A) that humans were both irrational and intelligent
B) that humans were essentially selfish and base
C) that humans were rational and innovative
D) that humans were fundamentally weak

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Who is considered to be the "Father of Archaeology"?

A) Jacques-Louis David
B) Heinrich Schütz
C) Balthazar Neumann
D) Johannes Winckelmann

Question 5

Who was the most important Neo-Classical sculptor from Italy?

A) Balthazar Neumann
B) Antonio Canova
C) Giovanni Tiepolo
D) Jacques-Louis David

Question 6

What appears to have been the purpose of Fragonard's paintings?

A)  to bolster the French monarchy
B) to foster French Nationalism
C) to critique the Bourgeoisie
D)  to entertain the eye

Question 7

Which Austrian musician is often considered the "Father of the Symphony"?

A) Haydn
B) Mozart
C) Beethoven
D) Bach

Question 8

What names have been applied to the 18^th century?

A)  the Proto-Baroque & the Age of Enlightenment
B)  the Rococo Period & the Age of Reformation
C)  the Enlightenment & the Age of Reason
D)  the Twilight Period & the Awakening

Question 9

What is sonata form?

A) a musical piece featuring a piano or violin
B) an organizational structure for a movement of a symphony
C) an orchestral device developed by Beethoven
D) a short minuet for a string ensemble

Question 10

Which English artist is best known for his satirical paintings of the English middle class?

A) Constable
B) Gainsborough
C) Hogarth
D) Reynolds

Question 11

Who wrote The Marriage of Figaro , a play interpreted as an attack on the lifestyle of the ruling classes and made into an opera?

A) Beaumarchais
B) Fragonard
C) Hogarth
D) Swift

Question 12

Who was the first great French Rococo painter (d. 1721)?

A) Boucher
B) Watteau
C) Fragonard
D) Hogarth

Question 13

What church near Bamberg, Germany exemplifies the Rococo style in architecture?

A) Saint Bartholomew's Church
B) Brunswick Cathedral
C) Weissmann Chapel
D)  Vierzehnheiligen Pilgrim Church

Question 14

Which English writer championed women's rights and challenged traditional ideas about education?

A) Wollstonecraft
B) Swift
C) Pope
D) Dryden

Question 15

Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro ?

A) Mozart
B) C.P.E. Bach
C) Couperin
D) Haydn

Question 16

Which painter's works best represent the official art style of the French Revolution?

A) Watteau
B) Gainsborough
C) David
D)  Hals

Question 17

What Italian painter of the Rococo period depicted religious subjects on a grand scale?

A) Carriera
B) Tiepolo
C) Borghese
D) Canova

Question 18

What two moods or emotions can be found in the painting Pilgrimage to Cythera?

A) romantic love and nostalgia
B) religious fervor and devotion
C) patriotism and dedication
D) intimacy and calm

Question 19

Who were "Enlightened Despots"?

A) poor citizens sent to public schools
B) monarchs wary of appearing to have absolute power
C) learned vagabonds
D) philosophers who espoused hedonism

Question 20

What archeological excavations influenced the artistic and intellectual culture of the late 1700s?

A) the excavations at Carthage
B) the excavations at Knossos
C) the excavations at Pompeii
D) the excavations at Alexandria

Question 21

Which writer conceived of the project of creating a vast encyclopedia of contemporary science, technology, and thought?

A) Diderot
B) Rousseau
C) Jefferson
D) Swift

Question 22

How was the Enlightenment an optimistic movement?

Question 23

According to Rousseau, what had corrupted the natural goodness of humans?

A) greed
B) religion
C) science
D) civilization

Question 24

Who declared himself emperor of France?

A) Louis XVI
B) David
C) Danton
D) Napoleon

Question 25

Who is the composer who used the isolation of his position in the Esterházy palace to experiment with musical forms, including operas, string quartets, piano sonatas, and symphonies?

A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) C. P. E. Bach
D) François Couperin

Question 26

Who wrote Candide ?

A) Voltaire
B) Montesquieu
C) Robespierre
D) Couperin

Question 27

What was Jonathan's Swift's best-known book? What two aspects of human nature are represented by Swift's Houyhnhnms and Yahoos?

Question 28

What are the characteristics of the Rococo style of art?

Question 29

Who was probably the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)?

A) Alexander Pope
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) John Stuart Mill

Question 30

How does Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii reference ancient Rome?

Question 31

Who was a major composer who wrote music in the style galant?

A) Couperin
B) Frederick
C) Beethoven
D) Scarlatti

Question 32

What is the so-called "infamous thing" that Voltaire refers to in his signature phrase, "Écrasez l'infâme"?

A) religion
B) superstition
C) monarchy
D) philosophy

Question 33

Which is the name of the 18^th-century English literary group who revered the literature of ancient Rome?

A) the Coliseum
B) the Augustans
C) the Metaphysicals
D) the Rationalists

Question 34

Which U.S. Founding Father wished government buildings to be constructed in the Neo-Classical style and had his own home, Monticello, built in this style?

A) Benjamin Franklin
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) George Washington
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 35

What was the purpose of the Encyclopédie?

A) to facilitate schoolchildren's research
B) to collect and classify contemporary knowledge
C) to codify religious and moral doctrine
D) to promote the monarchy of Louis XV

Question 36

What were the central characteristics of the classical symphony?

Question 37

Which English poet faced numerous challenges, such as his poor health and his Catholic faith in a Protestant country?

A) William Blake
B) Theodore Dryden
C) Alexander Pope
D) John Keats

Question 38

What French term, used in economics, means "let it be"?

A) "Après moi le deluge"
B) "fêtes galantes"
C) "laissez-faire"
D) "écrasez l'infâme"

Question 39

What was the purpose of Swift's A Modest Proposal ?

A) to propose a realistic solution to poverty
B) to expose man's inhumanity to man
C) to criticize the English welfare system
D) to reveal the hypocrisy of the church

Question 40

Who wrote An Essay on Man , which expresses a philosophical position that humans occupy a preeminent place in the divine scheme of life?

A) John Dryden
B) Denis Diderot
C) Alexander Pope
D) Charles-Louis Montesquieu