Deck 32: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

Question 1

The Lakota and the Kiowa tribes kept a "winter count" to

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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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) He regarded the Swiss mountain as 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.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Ragtime music was poorly received by many Americans because of its

A) disharmonic blending of the classical and the popular.
B) association with African-American roots.
C) loose rhythms suggesting loose morals.
D) association with funerals in New Orleans.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic were poorly received by the American public for

A) including nudity.
B) using too much black in the palette.
C) having inappropriate subject for art.
D) employing impressionistic techniques

Question 5

Thomas Dewing almost exclusively painted

A) animals.
B) war scenes.
C) cityscapes.
D) women.

Question 6

On the Trail of Tears,the Cherokee forcibly marched to their new home in

A) Mississippi.
B) Georgia.
C) Oklahoma.
D) Alabama.

Question 7

The "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression" were caused by

A) speculation in cotton futures.
B) political quarrels in New York City.
C) failure of a Philadelphia banking firm.
D) a strike by Pennsylvania railroad workers.

Question 8

Native American tribes believed that artistic skill coexisted with

A) hunting magic.
B) divine powers.
C) fertility.
D) virtue.

Question 9

Walt Whitman's feelings for America are best expressed in his feelings for

A) New Orleans.
B) New York City.
C) himself.
D) the Native Americans.

Question 10

Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 to

A) quarantine smallpox-infected Native Americans.
B) protect Native Americans from white settlers.
C) seize Native American lands east of the Mississippi River.
D) decrease conflicts among various Indian tribes.

Question 11

Emily Dickinson's poetry resembles Walt Whitman's in its

A) focus on life in the city.
B) unconventional verse.
C) celebration of the individual.
D) unorthodox subjects.

Question 12

One reviewer called Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass "a mass of rotten filth" because of its

A) anti-slavery sentiments.
B) statement of support for Native Americans
C) celebrations of sexuality.
D) free-verse writing style.

Question 13

In The Agnew Clinic,why does Thomas Eakins show no blood Dr.Agnew's patient?

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

Question 14

Walt Whitman's poetry contains all of the following EXCEPT

A) irregular rhythmic patterns.
B) assonance.
C) repetitive phrasing.
D) frequent rhymes.

Question 15

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 16

Kate Chopin's The Awakening resembles Walt Whitman's work in its

A) abolitionist theme.
B) celebration of city life.
C) cultural diversity of characters.
D) celebration of sensuality.

Question 17

With Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase,the United States' size

A) doubled.
B) tripled.
C) quadrupled.
D) quintupled.

Question 18

The Plains tribes began performing the Ghost Dance in 1889 to

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

Question 19

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 20

In The Life Line,Winslow Homer presents the woman as

A) totally dependent on the strong male.
B) bathed in a soft, gauzy light.
C) vulnerable to the forces of nature.
D) holding a rose, symbolizing fallen virtue.

Question 21

Henry James's novels commonly deal with

A) American experience confronting European experience.
B) marital infidelity.
C) the frustrations of nineteenth-century American women.
D) New York City's embodiment of the vast American possibilities.

Question 22

What innovation made international travel inviting for Americans?

A) airplane travel
B) standardized currency
C) hydraulic elevators
D) ocean liners

Question 23

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 24

John Singer Sargent specialized in portraits of

A) women in domestic and intimate settings.
B) the aristocracy and the wealthy.
C) women in passive situations.
D) impoverished people in America's cities.

Question 25

The frontier gave Americans

A) unprecedented wealth.
B) dominant individualism.
C) capitalistic economy.
D) cultural exchange.

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

According to architect Louis H.Sullivan,a building's identity was determined by its

A) framework.
B) design.
C) height.
D) ornamentation.

Question 30

The United States Congress selected Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition primarily because

A) it was located at center of the country.
B) the majority of its citizens were foreign-born.
C) its lakes provided efficient transport.
D) it boasted rural areas for hall construction.

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Mary Cassatt's Gathering Fruit can be seen as a positive reinterpretation of the Eve theme,because women

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

Frederick Law Olmstead's general plan for Riverside,Illinois reinvented American living conditions by

A) establishing farms within cities.
B) opening up acres of parkland.
C) developing a commuter suburb.
D) establishing neighborhood grids.

Question 37

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 38

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

Question 39

In reference to Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,John Ruskin criticized James Abbott McNeill Whistler for

A) copying the French style.
B) relying too heavily on green.
C) flinging paint.
D) altering objective truth.