Deck 36: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression holocaust and Bomb

Question 1

What did Bertolt Brecht aim to accomplish by alienating audiences with his epic theater?

A)Expose the excesses of a capitalistic society
B)Make them view the characters critically
C)Shock them into turning to Marxism
D)Force them to identify with the main character

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Why did movie theaters thrive during the Great Depression?

A)Brief escape from reality
B)Prices relatively inexpensive
C)Subsidized by the WPA
D)Sources of current news

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Why did Stalin kill up to 10 million kulaks (peasant farmers)and send millions others to labor camps between 1929 and 1933?

A)For refusing to collectivize
B)For causing a meat shortage
C)For leaving farms for factory jobs
D)For importing grain to Germany

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Why did Nelson A.Rockefeller have Diego Rivera's fresco Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to a New and Better Future destroyed?

A)For portraying workers in Communist red scarves
B)For including a portrait of Lenin in it
C)For celebrating the Mexican revolution
D)For showing Rockefeller enjoying a cocktail

Question 5

Why did the Nazis dislike the Bauhaus style?

A)Designs not functional for working class
B)Rejected traditional German values
C)Gropius was a known communist
D)Openness lacked adequate privacy

Question 6

What "cosmic interaction" did Piet Mondrian believe the grid represented?

A)Birth and death cycles
B)Planetary orbits
C)Masculine and feminine
D)Divine and human

Question 7

Why most likely did composer Sergei Prokofiev write the simplistic symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf?

A)Encourage Russian children to appreciate classical music
B)Satisfy Soviet authorities who called his music too complicated
C)Symbolize the Soviet ability to triumph over other countries
D)Celebrate the spirit and capability of the Russian peasants

Question 8

In his painting to what event does Picasso link the tragedy of Guernica?

A)Roman defeat of the Masada Jews
B)Crucifixion of Christ
C)Assassination of Pancho Villa
D)Ritualized Spanish bullfighting

Question 9

On what condition would Picasso allow Guernica to be on permanent display in a museum in his native Spain?

A)Picasso himself was dead
B)Spanish people regain civil liberties
C)Francisco Franco was dead
D)Spain became a republic

Question 10

Why did the Nazis decry and later burn Expressionist still lifes?

A)For being created by Jewish artists
B)For being tainted with leftist politics
C)For not representing Nature realistically
D)For celebrating the rewards of capitalism

Question 11

With what did Bauhaus School founder Walter Gropius equate his architecture?

A)Politics
B)Romance
C)Nationalism
D)Religion

Question 12

Why did Adolph Hitler claim Jews were to blame for what he perceived as Germany's post-World War I moral decline?

A)Their involvement in the art scene
B)Their association with communism
C)Their sympathy with the French
D)Their control of most lending banks

Question 13

During America's Great Depression,approximately how much of the national workforce was unemployed?

A)One-tenth
B)One-fourth
C)One-third
D)One-half

Question 14

Why did Hitler begin the tradition of carrying the Olympic torch from Athens to the Olympic venue in 1936?

A)Show off the Germans' athletic abilities
B)Advertise Germany's openness to other cultures
C)Suggest that Germany was the new classical Greece
D)Imply Germany's position as civilization's center

Question 15

Why did the bourgeois German youth flock to the Wandervogel movement?

A)To defy their conservative parents
B)To discuss plans for a revolt
C)To recapture a premodern past
D)To train in secret for military duty

Question 16

In Franz Kafka's The Trial,why is protagonist Josef K.arrested and tried?

A)For being a communist
B)For being Jewish
C)For killing his mother
D)For an unknown reason

Question 17

Why did the Germans level the Basque town of Guernica in 1937?

A)Show the world their air power
B)Destroy the French outpost there
C)Take out a bridge used by Spanish rebels
D)Frighten the Spanish into siding with them

Question 18

Why did Le Corbusier design his buildings without supporting walls?

A)Provide interior-space flexibility
B)Conserve concrete and steel
C)Make the rooms seem larger
D)Adhere to the principles of Zen

Question 19

What three major divisions of German society does Georg Grosz parody in his painting The Pillars of Society?

A)Upper,middle,and lower classes
B)Artists,entertainers,and merchants
C)Military,clergy,and middle class
D)Intellectuals,workers,and politicians

Question 20

Why did Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate to the Social Democratic Party in 1919?

A)Appease the Spartikusbund uprising
B)Satisfy the terms of the Treaty of Versailles
C)Avoid imprisonment by invading Czechs
D)Support the new Weimer Republic government

Question 21

Describe and analyze the ritualized bullfighting metaphor that Pablo Picasso uses in his Guernica.

Question 22

Identify two motion pictures that were released in 1939,Hollywood's "Great Year," and explain why the two you identify appealed to the audience of that time as well as contemporary audiences.

Question 23

Focusing on one work of literature and one film discussed in the chapter,analyze the artistic response to the horrors of World War II.

Question 24

Describe a Le Corbusier building according to his "Five Points of a New Architecture."

Question 25

Identify and analyze two events that aided Adolph Hitler in his rise to power in Germany.

Question 26

What 1927 film was the first feature-length talkie?

A)The Blue Angel
B)The Wizard of Oz
C)The Black Pirate
D)The Jazz Singer

Question 27

World War II had a positive effect in that it instigated the movement towards worldwide decolonialization.Identify two countries in which this effect was felt,and explain their steps towards independence.

Question 28

Matching

Question 29

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,what economic factor distinguishes the Bauhaus-design Seagram Building in New York City?

A)The glass façade was less expensive than concrete
B)Movable interior walls make renovation less costly
C)The building occupies less land due to its height
D)Every vertical foot above ground is rentable

Question 30

How did Mohandas Gandhi convince the British to decolonize India in 1947?

A)Leading guerrilla resistance
B)Using passive resistance
C)Ceding Pakistan to Britain
D)Starting a civil war in India

Question 31

Explain two reasons Orson Welles's Citizen Kane differed from its motion picture predecessors.Then name two contemporary films that utilize Welles' techniques.

Question 32

In total,what was the final death toll of World War II?

A)10 million
B)Twenty million
C)Forty million
D)Fifty million

Question 33

How many Jews are estimated to have been exterminated at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

A)85,000
B)444,000
C)1-2.5 million
D)6 million

Question 34

Why can the film Gojira (Godzilla)be viewed as a commentary about the American bombing of Japan?

A)American-created Godzilla destroys New York
B)Japanese conquer the monster with technology
C)Radiation-breathing Godzilla destroys Tokyo
D)Atomic-bomb test awakens the Japanese monster

Question 35

Why in part did Elie Wiesel win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

A)For Night,his memoir about the Holocaust
B)For Night and Fog,his Holocaust documentary
C)For Maus,his graphic novel about the Holocaust
D)For If This Is a Man,his novel about an Auschwitz guard

Question 36

Define Bertolt Brecht's concept of epic theater,and list the four ways his plays aimed to achieve his desired effect.

Question 37

Identify and explain three ways the Great Depression recovery Work Projects Administration (WPA)aided the arts,listing a specific example of each way.

Question 38

Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany in September 1939?

A)For persecuting the German Jews
B)For invading Czechoslovakia and Poland
C)For launching a blitzkrieg against London
D)For positioning battleships off France's coast

Question 39

What 1926 film was the first feature in full color?

A)The Blue Angel
B)The Wizard of Oz
C)The Black Pirate
D)The Jazz Singer