Deck 20: Europe and America 1800 1870

Question 1

What important French Realist novelist described the banal life of bourgeois (middle-class) Emma Bovary?

A) Flaubert
B) Balzac
C) Hugo
D) Sand

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who composed the Symphonie fantastique ?

A) Wagner
B) Chopin
C) Beethoven
D) Berlioz

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which style of art emerged during the 19^th century after Romanticism?

A) Transcendentalism
B) Luminism
C) Nationalism
D) Realism

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of these 19^th-century artists were known especially for their scenes depicting nature?

A) Constable and Turner
B) Daumier and Goya
C) Delacroix and Caspar Friedrich
D) David and Géricault

Question 5

Who are two early developers of photography?

A) Niépce and Daguerre
B) Constable and Copley
C) Friedrich and Heade
D) Hawthorn and Melville

Question 6

Which of the following were parts of the basis for the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang ?

A) the rejection of the ideals of the French Romantic literary movement
B) the inspiration of German society with a sense of unity and nationalism
C) the rejection of the Neo-Classical ideas of reason, order, and balance
D) the compilation of German folklore and mythology

Question 7

Which 19^th-century opera composer was most closely associated with the nationalist movement in Italy?

A) Verdi
B) Donizetti
C) Puccini
D) Rossini

Question 8

Which group of three were great musical virtuosos of the 19^th century ?

A) Chopin, Berlioz, and Scarlatti
B)  Liszt, Chopin, and Paganini
C) Beethoven, Haydn, Liszt
D) Mussorgsky, Smetana, and Paganini

Question 9

Which French Realist novelist wrote over 90 novels and stories, in which he uses many of the same characters?

A) Balzac
B) Courbet
C) Hugo
D) Tolstoy

Question 10

Which French painter was the creator of Raft of the Medusa (1818)?

A) Gustave Courbet
B) Girodet-Trioson
C) Géricault
D) Delacroix

Question 11

How did Arthur Schopenhauer view humanity?

A) as the manifestation of God on Earth
B) as naturally creative and altruistic
C) as inherently selfish and irrational
D) as a bridge between the material world and the world of ideas

Question 12

What did Richard Wagner mean by Gesamtkunstwerk ?

A) the higher realm
B) super consciousness
C) total art work
D)  total immersion

Question 13

What were common themes of the novels of George Sand?

A) the opportunities and recognition enjoyed by women in French society
B) the inequities and injustices faced by women in French society
C) the inequities and injustices faced by women in English society
D) the opportunities and recognition enjoyed by women in English society

Question 14

What 1853 work broke new ground in the history of opera by dealing with contemporary life rather than a historical or mythological subject?

A) Nabucco
B) Luisa Miller
C) Rigoletto
D) La Traviata

Question 15

What is the title of Richard Wagner's most monumental operatic work? 

A) Aida
B) The Ring of the Nibelung
C) Norma
D) The Sorrows of Young Werther

Question 16

Who, with Coleridge, was the co-founder of the Romantic movement in English poetry?

A) Charles Dickens
B) William Wordsworth
C) Percy Shelly
D) Emily Dickinson

Question 17

What did Chopin, Mussorgsky, and Smetana have in common?

A) They were Polish.
B) They incorporated folk tunes into their compositions.
C) They were Russian expatriates living in Paris.
D) They composed exclusively for violin and orchestra.

Question 18

Which French Romantic painter is remembered for The Massacre at Chios ?

A) Girodet-Trioson
B) Delacroix
C) Honoré Daumier
D) Gustave Courbet

Question 19

Who is usually regarded as the pioneer of musical romanticism?

A) Brahms
B) Beethoven
C) Haydn
D) Chopin

Question 20

Which Romantic artist used his paintings to criticize the Spanish court and to explore the darker side of life, including his own suffering?

A) Ingres
B) Velázquez
C) Goya
D) Chateaubriand

Question 21

___________, a novel by Hawthorne, tells the story of a young woman's expulsion from society because of her adulterous affair with a clergyman.

A) Anna Karenina
B) Moby-Dick
C) The Scarlet Letter
D) Hard Times

Question 22

What are the main characteristics of bel canto opera?

Question 23

What was the subject of Henry David Thoreau's Walden ?

A) the redefinition of men and women's roles in the 19^th century
B) the intersection of the spiritual and the material world
C) political justice and equality
D) the nature of human existence and of nature

Question 24

What is Walt Whitman's most important work?

A) The Scarlet Letter
B) Leaves of Grass
C) Moby Dick
D) Ode to a Nightingale

Question 25

What painting by Turner uses light, color, and movement to create a seamless blending of earth, sky, fire, and water?

A) Black Slave on Gallows
B) The Death of Sardanapalus
C) La Grande Odalisque
D) The Slave Ship

Question 26

In what 1848 work was Karl Marx's view of history expressed? According to Marx, what forces inevitably shaped history? What type of art did Marx prefer: realism or romanticism? Why?

Question 27

Who were the Transcendentalists?

A) a group of French poets whose work dealt with spiritual themes
B) a group of American writers who sought the divine in nature
C) a group of English painters whose works portrayed nature
D) a group of French composers who sought to convey images through music

Question 28

What 19^th -century composer revered Beethoven and was so intimidated by Beethoven's example that he waited until he was 44 to attempt his first symphony?

A) Brahms
B) Liszt
C) Smetana
D) Rimsky-Korsakov

Question 29

Cite at least two ways that Goethe's Faust exemplifies Romanticism?

Question 30

What is the German term for a musical theme assigned to a specific character, idea, or object?

A) dies irae
B) mazurka
C) liebestod
D) leitmotiv

Question 31

What are the principal characteristics of Romanticism?

Question 32

In which of the following musical forms did Chopin NOT compose any music?

A) nocturne
B) opera
C) prelude
D) polonaise

Question 33

Niccolò Paganini was a great virtuoso on what instrument?

A) piano
B) guitar
C) trumpet
D) violin

Question 34

What contributed to the rise of the novel in the 19^th century?

Question 35

What is the title of Victor Hugo's expansive novel describing the plight of the victims of social injustices?

A) Les Misérables
B) Le Père Goriot
C) La Traviata
D) Pride and Prejudice

Question 36

What early form of photography used sheets of silver-plated copper to create photographic images, and became a popular way of making family portraits?

A) heliography
B) daguerreotype
C) negative
D) simile

Question 37

Which Charles Dickens novel criticized the treatment of the poor in workhouses?

A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Oliver Twist
C) Of Mice and Men
D) A Tale of Two Cities

Question 38

What is the literal English translation of the Italian word scherzo ?

A) dance
B) interlude
C) joke
D) slow

Question 39

Which 19^th-century Russian author produced two huge novels that combined fictional characters with real people and events from history?

A) Dostoyevsky
B) Mussorgsky
C) Tolstoy
D) Pushkin

Question 40

What is the name for short art songs with piano accompaniment, of which Schubert composed over 600?

A) lieder
B) intermezzo
C) nocturne
D) aria