Deck 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie

Question 1

What did Napoleon III commission Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to do?

A) modernize Paris
B) centralize trade relations with Egypt
C) prevent an urban uprising
D) establish standards for "art politics"

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who painted The Stonebreakers?

A) Honoré Daumier
B) Édouard Manet
C) Jean-François Millet
D) Gustave Courbet

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Who wrote an autobiography that provides a compelling account of life under slavery?

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Mark Twain

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Who composed Rigoletto and believed that opera should be dramatically realistic?

A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Jacques Offenbach
C) Richard Wagner
D) Edwin P. Christy

Question 5

Who was interested in color theory and painted Red Roofs,which the author describes as a "random patchwork of red and green,orange and blue [that] appears through a veil of tree branches that interrupt the viewer's vision"?

A) Claude Monet
B) Camille Pissarro
C) Mary Cassatt
D) Berthe Morisot

Question 6

From Uncle Tom's Cabin,what type of character is Simon Legree?

A) an evil slave owner
B) a benevolent abolitionist
C) a youthful freedman
D) a Northern businessman

Question 7

Who painted Memory of Civil War,based on his experience as a captain of the Republican Guard defending the Hôtel de Ville in the June Days?

A) Ernest Meissonier
B) Claude Monet
C) Alfred Stevens
D) Édouard Manet

Question 8

Which of the following literary works is a fictionalized account of the life of Delphine Delamare,the adulterous wife of a country doctor who died of grief after deceiving and ruining him?

A) Father Goriot
B) Hard Times
C) Madame Bovary
D) Eugénie Grandet

Question 9

Who shot the photograph A Harvest of Death,Gettysburg,Pa.,considered by some as "the most famous photograph" to come out of the American Civil War?

A) Mathew Brady
B) Timothy O'Sullivan
C) Alexander Gardner
D) Winslow Homer

Question 10

Which writer solidified the use of the term "Impressionist" by using it in an essay he published in 1876?

A) Mallarmé
B) Baudelaire
C) Rimbaud
D) Hugo

Question 11

Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Mark Twain

Question 12

Who issued a scathing indictment of industrial life in Condition of the Working Class in England?

A) Alphonse de Lamartine
B) Karl Marx
C) Friedrich Engels
D) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Question 13

What was Édouard Manet's motivation in creating large-scale,controversial works?

A) He was considered a flâneur, someone determined to shock a bourgeois audience.
B) He wanted to support his political views through art.
C) He wanted the Academy to take notice of his influential work.
D) He wanted to demonstrate the relationship between his subjects and nature.

Question 14

Who is the author of Nature,which became the "intellectual beacon" for the "Transcendental Club"?

A) Friedrich Schelling
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Henry David Thoreau
D) Herman Melville

Question 15

Who is known for paintings that demonstrate his interest in the daily lives of working people,as in Rue Trasnonain?

A) Honoré Daumier
B) Édouard Manet
C) Jean-François Millet
D) Gustave Courbet

Question 16

What is the French phrase for painting done out of doors?

A) en plein air
B) ennui
C) raison d'être
D) vis-à-vis

Question 17

Which of the following describes Karl Marx's Das Kapital?

A) It offered a view of the conditions of the proletariat and an interpretation of capitalism.
B) It served as an exploration into the new concept of human rights in the workplace.
C) It offered an in-depth look at the political impact of industrialization. d It explored the Utopian view of changing industrialization.
D It explored the Utopian view of changing industrialization.

Question 18

Who painted Impression: Sunrise,which played a significant role in giving Impressionism its name?

A) Berthe Morisot
B) Claude Monet
C) Édouard Manet
D) Mary Cassatt

Question 19

Which of the following works includes this line: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"?

A) Walden, or Life in the Woods
B) "Civil Disobedience"
C) Nature
D) "Self-Reliance"

Question 20

Who composed Tannhäuser and faced a negative reaction from members of the Jockey Club?

A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Jacques Offenbach
C) Richard Wagner
D) Edwin P. Christy

Question 21

What name do the Japanese use to refer to the art of woodblock printing?

A) mitate
B) edo
C) meiji
D) ukiyo-e

Question 22

Who created the series of woodblock prints known as Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,including the best-known print,The Great Wave?

A)   Katsushika Hokusai
B)   Kitagawa Utamaro
C)   Eiichi Shibusawa
D)   Matthew Perry 

Question 23

Discuss several ways in which Henry David Thoreau proved himself a nonconformist.

Question 24

The structure of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party is intended to

A) showcase Renoir's skill in color-field technique.
B) serve as a forerunner to the subsequent work of Paul Cézanne.
C) establish visual relationships that match conversational relationships within the painting.
D) capture the "human" element of the middle class.

Question 25

Remember that Édouard Manet considered himself a flâneur.Knowing that about him,what do you think were his intentions in presenting Le Déjuner sur l'herbe to the jury for the Salon of 1863?

Question 26

Walden,or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau was dedicated to

A) teaching the virtues of living in communion with nature.
B) showing the evils of industrialization.
C) upholding the morality in conservation movements.
D) justifying the agenda of the pro-industrial candidate.

Question 27

Discuss European involvement in Egypt.

Question 28

What is the impression or attitude of Robert Koehler's The Strike?

A) It captures the mood of the workers and their bosses.
B) It implies a morality with poverty.
C) It depicts the virtues of industrialization.
D) It implies that the creative arts make way for the modern age of industrialization.

Question 29

Explain how Luncheon of the Boating Party can be seen as a response to Émile Zola's claim that the Impressionists were selling "sketches that are hardly dry."

Question 30

Discuss the Jockey Club's powerful influence over French opera.