Deck 28: Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity

Question 1

Why were Timothy O'Sullivan's and Alexander Gardener's photographs of the Gettysburg battlefield so disturbing?

A)They removed the dead soldiers' shoes and turned out their pockets
B)No American battlefield had ever before been photographed with dead on it
C)They stacked the bodies into a pile to emphasize the number of dead
D)Their clarity enabled people to identify their dead family members

Answer 1

B

Question 2

How did the American Civil War change the nature of warfare?

A)It allowed the different races to fight together
B)It was American fighting against American
C)Its battlefields were on civilians' properties
D)It was mechanized and impersonal,with no pageantry

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Due to the 1848 revolutions across Europe,which previously oppressed group gained some rights?

A)Serbs
B)Croats
C)Jews
D)Russians

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In short,for what did Marx's Communist Manifesto call?

A)Revolution by the workers
B)Stronger government control
C)A welfare system
D)Closing of the factories

Question 5

Why did the Parisian workers revolt in June 1848?

A)Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself emperor
B)Bread shortages had led to massive inflation
C)The government shut down the National Workshops
D)The military seized control of the factories

Question 6

What was one of the effects of Stephen Foster's plantation melodies?

A)To humanize the blacks
B)To romanticize the South
C)To capture the African beats
D)To make fun of the black dialect

Question 7

In his Haussmannization of Paris,why did Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann widen Paris's streets?

A)To enable more shops to be built along them
B)To make it harder for mobs to barricade them
C)To allow for more factories to be built in the city
D)To make it more difficult for snipers to aim at people

Question 8

Why did Britain and France not support the South during the Civil War?

A)Fear of retaliation from the North
B)Discomfort with the slavery issue
C)Depleted militaries due to their own wars
D)Potential to reap financial gain if the South lost

Question 9

Why in 1877 did Southern African Americans lose many of the freedoms they had gained from the Civil War?

A)Jim Crow organized the Ku Klux Klan
B)Newly-elected President Hayes was a Southerner
C)The Supreme Court struck down the Emancipation Act
D)Union troops withdrew from the South

Question 10

How did the East India Company recoup the money it spent buying Chinese products for import?

A)Indenturing the Chinese for cheap labor
B)Opening gold and silver mines in India
C)Taxing the goods destined for America
D)Selling opium to the Chinese

Question 11

By how much did Haussmann's plan increase land dedicated to public parks in Paris?

A)Ten times
B)Twenty-five times
C)Fifty times
D)A hundred times

Question 12

On what values was nationalism based?

A)Equality and freedom
B)Regional autonomy
C)Monarchial control
D)Working class reform

Question 13

How does Winslow Homer create a sense of optimism in The Veteran in a New Field?

A)Showing the army jacket thrown to the ground
B)Portraying the farmer turning his back on war
C)Bathing the scene with glowing golden light
D)Symbolizing a bright future with multiple generations

Question 14

Why did both Britain and France side with the South prior to the Civil War?

A)The South was home to many of British and French descent
B)They associated the North with nationalist ideology
C)Their economies depended on Southern cotton
D)They maintained important seaports in the South

Question 15

Why did Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx believe capitalism should be eliminated?

A)It supported government
B)It failed to generate profits
C)It exploited women and slaves
D)It was inherently unfair

Question 16

On what values was liberalism based?

A)Equality and freedom
B)Regional autonomy
C)Monarchial control
D)Working class reform

Question 17

Why did Haussmann's redesign cause the working class to move outside the city?

A)Their neighborhoods were destroyed
B)Schools were located outside the city
C)Factories replaced their tenement housing
D)The government built them new houses there

Question 18

In A Visit from the Old Mistress,why does Homer portray the old mistress dressed in black and the former slaves in white?

A)To celebrate the new equality of the races
B)To heighten the tension of the scene
C)To show the disparity in wealth between them
D)To balance the colors of his composition

Question 19

Why were so many Chinese attracted to America after their economy collapsed?

A)To receive free land
B)To escape indenturing
C)To work in the mines
D)To avoid imprisonment

Question 20

Which of the following contributed to 1848 Paris's abysmal conditions?

A)Excessive taxation
B)Influx of Irish immigrants
C)Poor sanitation
D)Bubonic plague outbreak

Question 21

List,describe,and illustrate two ways photography changed Americans' views on war.

Question 22

List three ways Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann redesigned Paris,describing the rationale for these changes.

Question 23

Why did the United States outlaw Chinese immigration in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act?

A)The Chinese were forming violent gangs in California
B)The Chinese were taking jobs from Americans
C)The Chinese were trafficking in opium
D)The Chinese were creating slums in western cities

Question 24

What is Japonisme?

A)Imitation of Japanese art
B)Prints colored in flat areas
C)Japanese woodblock prints
D)Japanese wrapping paper

Question 25

In Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave,what does the distant Mount Fuji represent?

A)A haven for the boats beneath the wave
B)The immortality of the natural world
C)The residence of the ancestors
D)The harmonious opposite of the water

Question 26

Why does Suzuki Harunobu in both Two Courtesans.Inside and Outside the Display Window and Visiting (Kayoi)portray one woman sitting and the other standing?

A)To show one (sitting)as virtuous and one (standing)as immoral
B)To represent a phallus with the standing woman
C)To reflect the Taoist principle of harmonious opposites
D)To balance the figures within his grid structure

Question 27

Why did the Japanese nishiki-e calendar painters have to disguise the symbols for months in their works?

A)The government forbade printing of calendars
B)The Japanese disliked the Western use of calendars
C)The Japanese symbols for months were too erotic
D)The government held a monopoly on calendar printing

Question 28

Which nineteenth-century artist was most enthusiastic about the Japanese prints?

A)Édouard Manet
B)Paul Gauguin
C)Paul Cézanne
D)Vincent van Gogh

Question 29

Describe the role cotton played in Europe's subjugation of at least three non-European countries.

Question 30

Matching

Question 31

Why did Mehmet Ali present France with an obelisk from Luxor Temple?

A)For the French's help in industrializing Egypt
B)In gratitude for helping him become Egypt's viceroy
C)For France's military support in his invasion of Turkey
D)As payment for the money Egypt borrowed from France

Question 32

Describe the American minstrel show,and show how it fostered stereotypes of the southern African American.

Question 33

Explain the differences between liberalism and nationalism,and show how these two ideologies figured into two of the conflicts that defined the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Question 34

Identify and describe the arguments Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels made against a capitalistic system.

Question 35

Describe Winslow Homer's A Visit from the Old Mistress,identifying and explaining the details that emphasize the divide between the Old and the New South.

Question 36

Why was Egyptian cotton so prized by European markets?

A)Held dye better
B)Exceptionally soft
C)Long ,strong fibers
D)Cheaper than American

Question 37

Compare the compositional elements of Suzuki Harunobu's Two Courtesans,Inside and Outside the Display Window and Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave,showing how each artist uses the Taoist principle of unity within diversity.