Deck 25: The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

Question 1

On whose design did Thomas Jefferson model Monticello?

A)Andrea Palladio
B)Giovanni Bon
C)Charles Le Brun
D)Christopher Wren

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Why was Wedgwood's Neoclassical-ornamented jasperware so popular in the United States?

A)It was colored
B)It was mass produced
C)It was rare
D)It was expensive

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following European countries did not provide the colonists financial and naval support in their fight against British rule?

A)France
B)Germany
C)The Netherlands
D)Spain

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Who inspired Thomas Jefferson's argument for freedom in the Declaration of Independence?

A)Thomas Hobbes
B)Thomas Paine
C)John Locke
D)Voltaire

Question 5

Which of the following was not a reform instituted by the French Constitutional Congress?

A)Elimination of king and queen from card decks
B)Changing of calendar so year one was 1792
C)Providing each citizen two loaves of bread per week
D)Banning slavery in all the French colonies

Question 6

In France,what triggered the events leading to revolution?

A)Loss of the Seven Years' War
B)Grain and flour shortage
C)Murder of Jean Paul-Marat
D)The national debt

Question 7

Which of the following was not one of the three traditional French estates?

A)The military
B)The clergy
C)The nobility
D)The bourgeoisie and commoners

Question 8

Why did the French peasant and working-class women march on Versailles in 1789?

A)To kill Marie Antoinette
B)To demand bread
C)To protest taxes
D)To loot the palace

Question 9

Why do Jacques-Louis David's paintings have a frozen quality to them?

A)To draw attention to their high drama
B)To emphasize rationality
C)To create a clear focus
D)To preserve their formal balance

Question 10

Why did the French Tribunal order execution of Maximilien Robespierre,one of the leaders of the revolution and new government?

A)For being a member of the nobility
B)For ordering execution of an innocent girl
C)For declaring himself emperor of France
D)For ordering so many executions himself

Question 11

What is David's overarching theme in both The Oath of the Horatii and The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons?

A)Weakness of females
B)Memento mori (remember death)
C)Sacrifice for the state
D)Love of family

Question 12

Why was Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état of the French Directory in 1799 successful?

A)The French women were threatening an uprising
B)The Directory was not providing stability for France
C)The Directory was proposing a new monarchy
D)The had just entered another war with England

Question 13

Which of the following was taxed by the Stamp Act that Britain imposed on the American colonies?

A)Marriage licenses
B)Tea
C)Academic degrees
D)Postage stamps

Question 14

Why did Houdon position a plowshare beaten by a sword behind George Washington in his 1788 sculpture?

A)To signify his role as a warrior who brought peace to his people
B)To show the two aspects-farming and military-of the United States
C)To show that Washington was a farmer before becoming a general
D)To reference the Roman farmer-poet Virgil and Augustus Caesar

Question 15

Why did Neoclassicism become the preferred style in late eighteenth-century United States?

A)Adams and Jefferson were admirers of classical architecture
B)To reflect the new government,which was formed on classical ideas
C)The new United States copied the style of its ally,France
D)To emphasize the enduring potential of the new country

Question 16

Why did John Adams defend the British soldiers who in 1770 had killed five protesters at the Boston Customs House?

A)They had fired in self-defense
B)The protesters were slaves
C)They were following King George III's orders
D)The protesters opened fire first

Question 17

According to German philosopher Immanuel Kant,what was the Enlightenment's precondition?

A)Revolution
B)Freedom
C)Courage
D)Education

Question 18

Why did the British feel entitled to tax the colonists following the Seven Years' War?

A)They had opened up the Western frontier
B)They provided governors for the colonies
C)They controlled all of North America
D)They had saved the colonists from the French

Question 19

Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?

A)Charlottesville,Virginia,is surrounded by hills
B)It would be safe from the floods common to that area
C)Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples
D)It provided the best view of the Virginia countryside

Question 20

Why was Olympe de Gouges executed in 1793?

A)For arguing that popular vote should select government
B)For killing Jean Paul-Marat in his bathtub
C)For calling for more liberal divorce laws
D)For proposing that marriage be based on equality

Question 21

Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography of his years as a slave?

A)His description of the slave ship does not match historical records
B)He likely was born in the United States,not Africa as he claimed
C)The English did not buy slaves from Benin,where he said he was born
D)He describes treatment that would not have been given valuable commodities

Question 22

How is David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard historically inaccurate?

A)Napoleon was much shorter than David painted him
B)Napoleon did not cross the Alps with his army
C)Napoleon wears a crown even though he was not emperor
D)Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule,not a white horse

Question 23

As described in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why does Antoine Jean Gros's painting of Napoleon and his army battling the Russians make odd propaganda?

A)The Russians defeated Napoleon's army
B)Napoleon's army never fought the Russians
C)Most of Napoleon's men died in that campaign
D)Napoleon did not lead his army against the Russians

Question 24

What musical form did most of the African cultures share?

A)Chanting
B)Drums
C)Flutes
D)Horns

Question 25

Describe the conditions Africans endured during the African diaspora.

Question 26

Compare the British Neoclassical architecture of Robert Adam to that of the American Thomas Jefferson.

Question 27

Why in The Wealth of Nations did Adam Smith take a laissez-faire position on slavery?

A)He owned several slaves
B)Slaves could supply goods cheaper
C)Slavery was just another commodity
D)He believed blacks were inferior to the British

Question 28

Discuss the role of women in the French Revolution.

Question 29

Matching

Question 30

List and explain at least two reasons for post-revolution United States' and France's adoption of classical government and style?

Question 31

Why did North American slaveholders aim to gather Africans of differing backgrounds and languages?

A)To expand the slaves' gene pools
B)To prevent them from practicing Vodou
C)To determine which country had the strongest slaves
D)To reduce the chances of an uprising

Question 32

Why did Napoleon launch a massive rebuilding program in Paris?

A)To restore Paris to its Baroque grandeur
B)To impress his empire with his new palace
C)To make Paris the new Rome
D)To expand the churches to glorify God

Question 33

Why did Napoleon reject Canova's statue of him as Mars?

A)He needed to remove himself from a military image
B)He had ordered himself portrayed as Augustus,not Mars
C)He desired to be portrayed as taller,not his actual height
D)He thought displaying himself as a nude was inappropriate

Question 34

List and explain specific two ways Napoleon used art as propaganda.

Question 35

Compare the Americans' reasons for revolting against the British to the French's reasons for rising against the monarchy.

Question 36

Explain the meaning and importance of Jefferson's alteration of John Locke's argument for "life,liberty,and property" in Two Treatises on Government to "life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness."

Question 37

Describe the significance of Phyllis Wheatley's contribution to literature.

Question 38

Identify,describe,and cite specific examples of two ways Jean Louis-David's paintings define French Neoclassicism.

Question 39

What distinction does Phyllis Wheatley hold?

A)First black American to publish a book
B)First black woman to become a minister
C)First black woman to earn her living as a writer
D)First black woman to receive a portrait commission

Question 40

Compare Abigail Adams's views on gender equality to those of Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft.