Deck 31: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

Question 1

With what did Native American tribes believe artistic skill coexisted?

A)Hunting magic
B)Divine powers
C)Fertility
D)Beauty and virtue

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In The Life Line,how does Winslow Homer present the female?

A)Totally dependent on the strong male
B)Bathed in a soft,gauzy light
C)Vulnerable to the forces of Nature
D)With a rose symbolizing fallen virtue

Answer 2

A

Question 3

How many Native Americans died on the Trail of Tears?

A)Over 1,000
B)Over 2,000
C)Over 4,000
D)Over 10,000

Answer 3

C

Question 4

How were women almost always portrayed in late nineteenth-century American visual art?

A)As maternal
B)As erotic objects
C)As professionals
D)As passive

Question 5

How does Emily Dickinson's poetry resemble Walt Whitman's?

A)Focus on life in the city
B)Unconventional verse
C)Celebration of individual
D)Unorthodox themes

Question 6

Why did one reviewer call Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass "a mass of rotten filth"?

A)Anti-slavery sentiments
B)Native American support
C)Celebrations of sexuality
D)Free verse writing style

Question 7

How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and white relations?

A)She lived peacefully with Native Americans
B)Native Americans captured,killed,and scalped her
C)Native Americans taught her their Ghost Dance
D)She led the Trail of Tears into Oklahoma

Question 8

By how much did Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase increase the United States' size?

A)Doubled
B)Tripled
C)Quadrupled
D)Quintupled

Question 9

What caused the "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression"?

A)Speculation in cotton futures
B)Political graft in New York City
C)Failure of a Philadelphia banking firm
D)A strike by Pennsylvania railroad workers

Question 10

In The Rocky Mountains,Lander's Peak,why did Albert Bierstadt paint a mountain from the Swiss Alps,not the actual Lander's Peak?

A)The Swiss mountain is more picturesque
B)He had never been to the Rocky Mountains
C)There is no Lander's Peak in the Rocky Mountains
D)His audience expected that familiar view

Question 11

What was the title of the preparatory sketch for George Bellows' Cliff Dwellers?

A)"Your Tired,Your Poor,Your Huddled Masses"
B)"Why Don't They All Go to the Country for a Vacation?"
C)"I Sing the Body Electric,the Armies of Those I Love"
D)"The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shores"

Question 12

Why did suffragette Lillie Devereux Blake declare the Statue of Liberty to be an oxymoron?

A)Native Americans were treated as slaves
B)U.S.women had no political liberty
C)Lady Liberty's foot rests on a chain
D)African Americans had lost their rights

Question 13

Why did the Lakota and the Kiowa tribes keep a "winter count"?

A)To determine optimal planting times
B)To mark the buffalo herds' migrations
C)To keep track of the tribes' populations
D)To record family or tribe history

Question 14

Why was the Tammany Society originally founded?

A)Immigrant assistance
B)Political purposes
C)Women's suffrage
D)Social purposes

Question 15

In 1892,what percent of all millionaires in the United States lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn?

A)Ten
B)Thirty
C)Fifty
D)Seventy

Question 16

Which earlier artist seems to have influenced Eakins in The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic?

A)Vermeer
B)Rembrandt
C)Van Eyck
D)Rubens

Question 17

Why were Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic not well received by the American public?

A)Clinical portrayal of nudity
B)Inclusion of female figures
C)Inappropriate subject for art
D)Impressionistic techniques

Question 18

In The Agnew Clinic,why does Eakins show no blood on the patient or Dr.Agnew?

A)Dr.Agnew requested this
B)Blood would distract viewers
C)Women are in the painting
D)Eakins' wife,Susan,requested this

Question 19

Why did the Plains tribes begin performing the Ghost Dance in 1889?

A)To make the white people disappear
B)To prepare for battle at Wounded Knee
C)To bring about peace with the white people
D)To honor those who died from smallpox

Question 20

Why did Congress pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

A)To quarantine smallpox-infected Native Americans
B)To protect them from the white settlers
C)To seize their lands east of the Mississippi
D)To decrease conflicts among various tribes

Question 21

Describe and analyze the role and importance of art-both visual and performance-for the Plains tribes.

Question 22

Why did John Ruskin criticize James Whistler's Impressionistic Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket?

A)For copying the French style
B)For selling for 200 pounds
C)For looking like flung paint
D)For altering objective truth

Question 23

Using works by two different artists as examples,discuss American visual arts' curious blend of Realism and Impressionism.

Question 24

According to architect Louis H.Sullivan,what determined a building's identity?

A)Framework
B)Design
C)Height
D)Ornamentation

Question 25

How did Frederick Law Olmstead's general plan for Riverside,Illinois,reinvent American living conditions?

A)He established farms within cities
B)He opened up acres of parkland
C)He developed a commuter suburb
D)He established neighborhood grids

Question 26

Matching

Question 27

Describe the events that led up to and resulted from Wounded Knee,South Dakota,on December 29,1890.

Question 28

Why did the U.S.Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?

A)Location at center of the U.S.
B)Majority of citizens foreign-born
C)Lakes providing efficient transport
D)Rural areas for hall construction

Question 29

How is Mary Cassatt's Gathering Fruit mural a positive reinterpretation of the Eve theme?

A)The women share the fruit among generations
B)The women avoid temptation to eat the fruit
C)The women warn children to avoid the fruit
D)The women cut down the Tree of Knowledge

Question 30

Compare the views of Americans abroad as presented by Henry James in his novels and by John Sargent Singer in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.

Question 31

Identify and analyze two meanings of swimming as a metaphor in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

Question 32

Identify and define three of the four factors that contributed to what became to be known as the Chicago School of Architecture.

Question 33

Why was ragtime music poorly received by many Americans?

A)Disharmonic blending of classical and popular
B)Association with African American roots
C)Loose rhythms suggested loose morals
D)Association with New Orleans' funerals

Question 34

Not exactly well received during his time,Walt Whitman and his works continue to influence writers today.Identify and describe at least two ways Whitman changed American literature.

Question 35

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,what had the frontier produced for Americans?

A)Unprecedented wealth
B)Dominant individualism
C)Capitalistic economy
D)Cultural exchange

Question 36

Compare the Native Americans' and the settlers' views on land,focusing on the ways the differences in views inevitably produced conflict.

Question 37

How does Kate Chopin's The Awakening resemble Walt Whitman's work?

A)Abolitionist theme
B)Celebration of city life
C)Cultural diversity of characters
D)Celebration of sensuality

Question 38

Define and show with at least three specific examples the ways artists in the latter part of the nineteenth-century viewed women.

Question 39

Identify and describe Frederick Law Olmsted's contributions to the American landscape.Considering your hometown,can you see any of Olmsted's influences?