Deck 12: The Age of Revolution

Question 1

The Constitutional Convention instituted many reforms,including the prohibition of slavery,the "de-Christianization of France," and

A) the elimination of the king and queen from decks of playing cards.
B) the rule that members of the French monarchy were no longer considered ordained by the Church with a Divine Right to lead.
C) taxation on imported food.
D) an assertion that the nobility had the right to legislate civil procedures.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What was the purpose or intent of David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard?

A) It served as political propaganda.
B) It showed Napleon as a strong ally of the Church.
C) It appealed to the Church commission on politically charged subject matter.
D) It was, in-part, a self-portrait of David.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

"Tintern Abbey" is understood as the most eloquent statement of

A) the Romantic imagination.
B) the Enlightenment spirit.
C) the French Revolution sentiment.
D) the Neoclassical spirit.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

"Landscape" derives from a similar word in which language?

A) German
B) Dutch
C) Finnish
D) Romanian

Question 5

When the Third Estate withdrew from the Estates General on June 17,1789,and King Louis XVI banned its members from their usual meeting place,what did they select as their next meeting place?

A) a theater
B) a tennis court
C) a church
D) a university

Question 6

Who was considered the chief drafter of the American Declaration of Independence and chairman of the committee that prepared the document?

A) Thomas Paine
B) George Mason
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) John Adams

Question 7

About whose music did Emperor Joseph II comment,"Too many notes!"?

A) John Gay
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Johann Stamitz
D) Joseph Haydn

Question 8

Adam Smith,author of The Wealth of Nations,asserted that a laissez-faire economic policy was best.What was Smith's other,related,assertion?

A) Slavery is justified, because it is inexpensive labor.
B) Importation of raw goods back to England should be prohibited.
C) The emerging tobacco industry was exhausting the soil.
D) Independence from England would cause catastrophic effects on the stability of the colonies.

Question 9

Why did Haydn include the strong percussive stroke on a weak beat in the second movement of his "Surprise" Symphony?

A) to accentuate the downbeat
B) to develop the folk rhythms of the piece
C) to wake the sleeping audience
D) to finish on a dramatic note

Question 10

Which of the following was commissioned by Napoleon to redesign a church as a new Temple of the Glory of the Grand Army,now known as La Madeleine?

A) Antonio Canova
B) Pierre-Alexandre Vignon
C) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
D) Théodore Géricault

Question 11

Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?

A) John Keats
B) John Constable
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) William Wordsworth

Question 12

For which of the following paintings did J.M.W.Turner reportedly have sailors "lash [him] to the mast to observe" the scene?

A) The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach
B) The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons
C) Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
D) Monk by the Sea

Question 13

Who was hired to rebuild the Capitol Building in Washington,D.C.,after the British burned it during the War of 1812?

A) Andrea Palladio
B) Robert Adam
C) John Flaxman
D) Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Question 14

How was David's The Oath of the Horatii relevant to his day?

A) The story is a parable of loyal devotion to the state.
B) The subject only demonstrates the strength of the male figures.
C) The central figures are wealthy young men, pledging allegiance to the Protestant uprising.
D) The work is rebellious political progaganda, paid for secretly by a few nobles.

Question 15

Who is specifically mentioned as being among those killed during the event captured in the engraving known as The Bloody Massacre?

A) Thomas Paine
B) George Mason
C) Crispus Attucks
D) Paul Revere

Question 16

Who argued for and became a member of the "Republic of Virtue," a dictatorship led by a twelve-person Committee for Public Safety?

A) Georges-Jacques Danton
B) Maximilien Robespierre
C) Louis Capet
D) Jean-Paul Marat

Question 17

Who is the silversmith that engraved The Bloody Massacre?

A) Thomas Paine
B) George Mason
C) Crispus Attucks
D) Paul Revere

Question 18

Which of the following works features a lone man with windblown hair positioned directly in front of the viewer on a rocky promontory?

A) Monk by the Sea
B) The Wanderer above the Mists
C) The Oxbow
D) Twilight in the Wilderness

Question 19

In the lower left corner of Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard,the artist included the names of influential figures from history,such as Napoleon,Hannibal,and

A) Karolus Magnus.
B) Attila.
C) Alexander.
D) Pompey.

Question 20

The Stamp Act of 1765 imposed tax on many common items,including calendars,playing cards,and

A) newspapers.
B) wagon wheels.
C) excess grain per growing season.
D) textiles, especially linen.

Question 21

Which of the following served in the Royal Musketeers and was assigned to protect the future Louis XVIII from Napoleon?

A) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
B) Eugène Delacroix
C) Francisco Goya
D) Théodore Géricault

Question 22

Summarize Haydn's contributions to music.

Question 23

Beethoven's Third Symphony,Eroica,is known for its elongated melody and

A) Promethean mood.
B) traditionally Classical meter.
C) dedication to the ideals of allegiance.
D) similarity to Bach's much earlier Operetta.

Question 24

Discuss the significance and meaning of The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David.

Question 25

Which of the following musical compositions by Felix Mendelssohn is also known as Fingal's Cave?

A) the Italian Symphony
B) the Scottish Symphony
C) the Hebrides concert overture
D) Concerto in E minor for Violin and Orchestra

Question 26

Explain why the American colonists were infuriated by the passage of the Stamp Act of 1765.

Question 27

Which of Frédéric Chopin's compositions were known as "studies," which addressed particular technical challenges on the piano?

A) études
B) polonaises
C) nocturnes
D) ballades

Question 28

What is one of the principal afflictions of the Romantic hero?

A) bad faith
B) ennui
C) Je ne sais quoi
D) raison d'être

Question 29

Summarize the actual events that motivated Théodore Géricault to paint The Raft of the "Medusa."

Question 30

Distinguish between the "scale" of the vision of both John Constable and J.M.W.Turner.

Question 31

Which of the following works includes a character named Mephistopheles?

A) The Sorrows of Young Werther
B) Frankenstein
C) Faust
D) Prometheus Unbound