Question 1

Who wrote &#34;Dulce et Decorum Est&#34; and was killed in combat just a week before the armistice ending World War I was signed in 1918?&#10;A) Erich Maria Remarque&#10;B) Wilfred Owen&#10;C) William Butler Yeats&#10;D) T. S. Eliot

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"Dulce et Decorum Est" was written by Wilfred Owen, a British poet and soldier who tragically died in combat just one week before the armistice ending World War I was signed in 1918.

Question 2

Who painted the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase and also created &#34;ready-mades&#34;?&#10;A) Tristan Tzara&#10;B) Hugo Ball&#10;C) William Butler Yeats&#10;D) Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp painted the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase and is also known for creating "ready-mades", which are everyday objects transformed into art through his selection and presentation of them.

Question 3

The Dada Manifesto is&#10;A) a response to the chaos and irrationality of World War I.&#10;B) a statement about the conditions of the working class in Europe during World War I.&#10;C) a collection of letters from political activists regarding World War I.&#10;D) a treatise on the artist's view of destruction resulting from World War I.

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The Dada Manifesto was created in response to the chaos and irrationality of World War I, and rejected traditional values and art forms in favor of embracing a more nonsensical and absurd style.

Question 4

With whom did Pablo Picasso develop Cubism?&#10;A) Henri Matisse&#10;B) Carlo Carr&#224;&#10;C) Giacomo Balla&#10;D) Georges Braque

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Pablo Picasso developed Cubism with Georges Braque. Together, they started the movement around 1907-1908, experimenting with geometric shapes and fragmentation in their artwork.

Question 5

Which of the following paintings might be considered a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?&#10;A) Dance&#10;B) Joy of Life&#10;C) Houses at l'Estaque&#10;D) Violin and Palette

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Henri Matisse's "Dance" is often considered a response to Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon" as both artists were exploring new forms of expression and challenging traditional representations of the human figure.

Question 6

Who painted Houses at l'Estaque,which includes &#34;spatial ambiguity and cube-like shapes&#34;?&#10;A) Henri Matisse&#10;B) Carlo Carr&#224;&#10;C) Georges Braque&#10;D) Pablo Picasso

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Houses at l'Estaque is a painting by Georges Braque, a French artist and pioneer of Cubism. The painting is known for its use of spatial ambiguity and cube-like shapes, which were characteristic of the Cubist movement.

Question 7

Among the following,who was a trumpeter that formed two studio bands,The Hot Five and The Hot Seven,and recorded Hotter Than That,which features &#34;scat&#34;?&#10;A) Bessie Smith&#10;B) Zora Neale Hurston&#10;C) Louis Armstrong&#10;D) Duke Ellington

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Louis Armstrong was a trumpeter who formed two studio bands, The Hot Five and The Hot Seven, and recorded "Hotter Than That," which features "scat" singing.

Question 8

Which of the following musicians is most closely associated with Sprechstimme?&#10;A) Igor Stravinsky&#10;B) Giacomo Puccini&#10;C) Richard Wagner&#10;D) Arnold Schoenberg

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Sprechstimme, meaning "spoken voice," is a vocal technique used in 20th century classical music where the singer speaks in a tone that is halfway between speaking and singing. Arnold Schoenberg was one of the pioneers of this technique and incorporated it in many of his works, making him most closely associated with Sprechstimme.

Question 9

In which style is Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?&#10;A) Futurism&#10;B) Cubism&#10;C) Surrealism&#10;D) Dada

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Umberto Boccioni was an Italian artist and a leading figure in the Futurist movement in the early 20th century. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is considered one of the masterpieces of the Futurist movement and is characterized by its representation of a fluid, dynamic figure in motion.

Question 10

Filippo Marinetti,Umberto Boccioni,and Giacomo Balla were among the artists who collectively developed a new style known as&#10;A) Futurism.&#10;B) Dada.&#10;C) Surrealism.&#10;D) Cubism.

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Filippo Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Giacomo Balla were all part of the Futurist Movement, which was founded in Italy in the early 20th century. Futurism emphasized technology, speed, and modernity, and sought to break with traditional artistic conventions. Therefore, the best choice is A) Futurism.

Question 11

Who wrote &#34;Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret,&#34; one of many poems collected in Weary Blues and published in 1926?&#10;A) Claude McKay&#10;B) W. E. B. DuBois&#10;C) Countee Cullen&#10;D) Langston Hughes

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Question 12

Who wrote the General Principles of Relativity?&#10;A) Max Planck&#10;B) Niels Bohr&#10;C) Albert Einstein&#10;D) Ernest Rutherford

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Question 13

In which style did Georges Seurat paint A Sunday on La Grand Jatte?&#10;A) pointillism&#10;B) Impressionism&#10;C) primitivism&#10;D) Cubism

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Question 14

Which of the following painters was greatly influenced by travels to Tahiti?&#10;A) Paul Gauguin&#10;B) Paul C&#233;zanne&#10;C) Georges Seurat&#10;D) Camille Pissarro

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Question 15

Which of the following paintings is set in Tahiti?&#10;A) Les Poseuses&#10;B) The Scream&#10;C) Mahana no atua&#10;D) The Vision after the Sermon

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Question 16

Who painted The Cardiff Team,a painting that represents in part the internationalization of sports?&#10;A) Robert Delaunay&#10;B) Emanuel Leutze&#10;C) George Catlin&#10;D) Albert Bierstadt

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Question 17

Which of Der Blaue Reiter artists created The Large Blue Horses?&#10;A) Auguste Macke&#10;B) Gabriele M&#252;nter&#10;C) Franz Marc&#10;D) Wassily Kandinsky

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Question 18

Lev Kuleshov,a founder of the Film School in Moscow,is given credit for developing a theory of&#10;A) montage.&#10;B) collage.&#10;C) foreshortening.&#10;D) time-lapse process.

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Question 19

Who directed the Ballet Russes during the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring?&#10;A) Wassily Kandinsky&#10;B) Vaslav Nijinsky&#10;C) Sergei Diaghilev&#10;D) Igor Stravinsky

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Question 20

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was notoriously known as&#10;A) an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been understood.&#10;B) the scandalous painting that abstracted the female nude.&#10;C) an early demonstration of Futurist influence in painting.&#10;D) the work of a &#34;madman&#34; abstracting forms to make a statement regarding women.

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Question 21

Discuss the roles of the id,the ego,and the superego in the human psyche,according to Sigmund Freud.

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Question 22

Which of the following is most closely associated with The Battleship Potemkin,a film about a 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian naval vessel?&#10;A) Sergei Eisenstein&#10;B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin&#10;C) Lazar Lissitzsky&#10;D) Kasimir Malevich

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Question 23

Discuss the tenets of Futurism.

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Question 24

Who is the author of the Surrealist Manifesto?&#10;A) Ezra Pound&#10;B) Max Ernst&#10;C) Salvador Dal&#237;&#10;D) Andr&#233; Breton

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Question 25

With which of the following are the terms &#34;id,&#34; &#34;ego,&#34; and &#34;superego&#34; most closely associated?&#10;A) Carl Jung&#10;B) Sigmund Freud&#10;C) Andr&#233; Breton&#10;D) Giorgio de Chirico

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Question 26

Which of the following figures led the Bolsheviks,the most radical of Russian post-revolutionary groups?&#10;A) Sergei Eisenstein&#10;B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin&#10;C) Lazar Lissitzsky&#10;D) Kasimir Malevich

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Question 27

Who created Persistence of Memory?&#10;A) Max Ernst&#10;B) Salvador Dal&#237;&#10;C) Alberto Giacometti&#10;D) Joan Mir&#243;

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Question 28

Summarize the differences in development of a &#34;montage&#34; by Kuleshov and Eisenstein.

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Question 29

Among the following,who enjoyed a five-year engagement at Harlem's Cotton Club and performed It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing),introducing the term &#34;swing&#34; to jazz culture?&#10;A) Bessie Smith&#10;B) Zora Neale Hurston&#10;C) Louis Armstrong&#10;D) Duke Ellington

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Question 30

Discuss the characteristics of Surrealist art.

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Question 31

Summarize the significant elements of Alain Leroy Locke's The New Negro.

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Deck 14: The Modernist World