Deck 22: The World at War 1914 1945

Question 1

In what novel did Sinclair Lewis criticize American materialism?

A) Brave New World
B) Babbit
C) Remembrance of Things Past
D) Ulysses

Answer 1

B

Question 2

James Joyce's Ulysses makes notable use of which literary technique?

A) modulation
B) propaganda
C) stream of consciousness
D) epiphany

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What subjects did Georgia O'Keefe include in her paintings?

A) flowers and animal skulls
B) trains and airplanes
C) grid-like lines and blocks of color
D) scenes from American history

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What African-American movement emerged in New York City in the 1920s?

A) the rise of the speakeasy
B) the Harlem Renaissance
C) the Black Power Movement
D) the Civil Rights Movement

Question 5

In which novel did Aldous Huxley paint a bleak picture of the distant future of Western society?

A) The Waste Land
B) Brave New World
C) 1984
D) A Moveable Feast

Question 6

What movement used art to destroy art?

A) Illusionistic Surrealism
B) Expressionism
C) Dadaism
D) Cubism

Question 7

What is the subject of many of Frida Kahlo's paintings?

A) herself
B) animals
C) flowers
D) Inkan mythology

Question 8

Which 20^th-century American poet wrote a poem that responds to Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"?

A) T.S. Eliot
B) Ezra Pound
C) Countee Cullen
D) Langston Hughes

Question 9

Which of the following did Duchamp present as a work of art?

A) a telephone
B) a urinal
C) a piece of paper
D) a raw block of marble

Question 10

Which German-speaking, Czech author wrote The Trial and The Castle ?

A) Tolstoy
B) Eisenstein
C) Dostoyevsky
D) Kafka

Question 11

Which two writers were part of the Lost Generation ?

A) Eliot and Hemingway
B) Hughes and Yeats
C) Stein and Lewis
D) Kafka and Freud

Question 12

According to Virginia Woolf, why have there not been more great women writers?

A) the Catholic Church forbade women to write
B) the lack of social and economic support
C) the lack of women in political positions
D) the insufficient number of women's universities

Question 13

Salvador Dalí is famous for his paintings in which style?

A) De Stijl
B) montage
C) realism
D) surrealism

Question 14

Which Spanish painter created The Persistence of Memory , which features a melting clock?

A) Buñuel
B) Goya
C) Chagall
D) Dalí

Question 15

The phrase "a war to end all wars" was used by a state leader in reference to which war?

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) the Russo-Japanese War
D) the Franco-Prussian War

Question 16

What painting by Picasso protested the bombing of a Spanish town?

A) Three Musicians
B) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
C) Guernica
D) L.H.O.O.Q.

Question 17

What subject did American painter Grant Wood focus on in his most famous painting?

A) abstract shapes and lines
B) ancient Greece
C) rural America
D) himself

Question 18

Which artistic characteristic is emphasized in Brancusi's sculptures?

A) brilliant color
B) rugged texture
C) extreme simplification
D) complex oramentation

Question 19

What form of music was a distinctively American contribution to Western culture?

A) polka
B) jazz
C) tango
D) twelve-tone

Question 20

Which Depression-era photographer recorded the livestyles of the rural poor?

A) Margaret Bourke-White
B) Leni Riefenstahl
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Alfred Eisenstaedt

Question 21

What ballet was produced by Diaghilev, had music composed by Erik Satie, was written by Jean Cocteau, and had sets designed by Pablo Picasso?

A) Petroushka
B) Antigone
C) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
D) Parade

Question 22

What are two important examples of film as propaganda?

A) Olympia and Peter Grimes
B) Peter Grimes and Ivan The Terrible
C) Potemkin and Triumph of the Will
D) Ivan the Terrible and War Requiem

Question 23

What were the objectives behind the founding of the Bauhaus? What were its fundamental principles and to what spectrum of objects were they applied?

Question 24

What was the goal of the fictionalized society portrayed by Huxley in Brave New World ? What warning does Huxley convey to his readers?

Question 25

Which Modernist writer is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , a thinly disguised autobiography?

A) Sinclair Lewis
B) James Joyce
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Langston Hughes

Question 26

American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House (in Pennsylvania) also became known by what name?

A) Fallingwater
B) Forest Escape
C) Noah's Ark
D) American Gothic

Question 27

What Viennese physician developed psychoanalysis?

A) Beckmann
B) Freud
C) Bismarck
D) Riefenstahl

Question 28

Who wrote "The Waste Land" and Four Quartets , which show the author's shift from cultural despair to a sense of stability?

A) T. S. Eliot
B) Sinclair Lewis
C) Langston Hughes
D) Ernest Hemingway

Question 29

Who came to power in Russia as a result of the October Revolution (1917)?

A) the National Socialists
B) the new Tsar
C) the Allies
D) the Bolsheviks

Question 30

In filmmaking, the sharp juxtaposition of shots by cutting and editing is called _________.

A) automatist surrealism
B) futurism
C) modulation
D) montage

Question 31

What art style-dedicated to pure abstraction and a focus solely on line and color-  was also called Neo-Plasticism?

A) Bauhaus
B) Social Realism
C) De Stijl
D) Surrealism

Question 32

What impact did World War I have on European society?

Question 33

What leading American composer and bandleader gained his fame at the Cotton Club in the 1920's?

A) Count Basie
B) Tommy Dorsey
C) Lionel Hampton
D) Duke Ellington

Question 34

Who was the driving force behind ballet in Paris in the 1920s?

A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Serge Diaghilev
C) Vaslav Nijinsky
D) Anna Pavlova

Question 35

Where did the blues originate?

A) Paris
B) the American South
C) New York
D) California

Question 36

What are some of the characteristics of the "modernist temper" in literature?

Question 37

Which American opera, set in Catfish Row, blends jazz and classical music?

A) Porgy and Bess
B) Rhapsody in Blue
C) The Threepenny Opera
D) Desire Under the Elms

Question 38

Who was Josephine Baker? What does her career illustrate?

Question 39

What school/style of architecture did Walter Gropius establish?

A) Bauhaus
B) Neue Sachlichkeit
C) Naturalism
D) Futurism

Question 40

What type of singing does Louis Armstrong notably use in "West End Blues"?

A) modulation
B) ragtime
C) scatting
D) bel canto