Deck 13: Materialism: the Industrial Era and the Urban Scene

Question 1

The most important new medium in mid-nineteenth-century architecture was

A) glass.
B) cement.
C) cast iron.
D) brick.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

For their subject matter, the Impressionist painters drew largely on

A) the urban scene.
B) religious themes.
C) historical events.
D) aristocratic commissions.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The music of Debussy

A) was heavily influenced by the Symbolists and Impressionists.
B) was deeply inspired by Beethoven's symphonies.
C) imitates the clarity of the classical sonata form.
D) is essentially program music.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels prophesized that a revolution would make the ________ the new ruling class.

A) proletariat
B) bourgeoisie
C) capitalists
D) entrepreneurs

Question 5

The artist who became infatuated with unspoiled nature, especially as it existed in Tahiti (where he relocated after abandoning his job and family), was

A) Van Gogh.
B) Gauguin.
C) Seurat.
D) Toulouse-Lautrec.

Question 6

The names Matthew Brady and Eadweard Muybridge are associated with

A) lithography.
B) literary Realism.
C) photography.
D) Impressionism.

Question 7

Japanese prints had the greatest influence on late-nineteenth-century European

A) Realism.
B) Impressionism.
C) photography.
D) Postimpressionism.

Question 8

The movement known as Impressionism took its title from a painting by

A) Manet.
B) Monet.
C) Renoir.
D) Degas.

Question 9

The turn from Romanticism to literary Realism is evident in the novels of

A) Ibsen.
B) Flaubert.
C) Zola.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 10

The Social Realist who is primarily associated with the medium of lithography is

A) Courbet.
B) Degas.
C) Brady.
D) Daumier.

Question 11

The Naturalistic novels of Zola were grounded in his belief that human beings were

A) in full control of their destinies.
B) happiest in natural surroundings.
C) equal, whether male or female.
D) products of their environment and their heredity.

Question 12

Which of the following items was NOT an innovation of the nineteenth century?

A) Photography
B) Telegraphy
C) The novel
D) Skyscrapers

Question 13

Nietzsche called for a new morality that

A) reinforced the social contract.
B) privileged the "superman."
C) rejected colonialism.
D) advanced Christian ideals.

Question 14

Characteristic of the music of Debussy is

A) the use of shifting harmonies.
B) the fixed tonal center.
C) dramatic contrasts of loud and soft.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 15

Which author offered realistic (and sentimental) depictions of nineteenth-century society in works such as David Copperfield?

A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Charles Dickens
D) Mark Twain

Question 16

Late nineteenth-century colonialism had as its primary motivating force the need

A) for materials and markets.
B) for lands to settle.
C) for peoples to incorporate.
D) to halt the expansion of non-Western empires.

Question 17

The artist who wished to "redo nature after Poussin," and whose later work anticipated twentieth-century abstract art, was

A) Cézanne.
B) Gauguin.
C) Van Gogh.
D) Manet.

Question 18

Puccini's verismo operas

A) drew inspiration primarily from the music-dramas of Wagner.
B) brought a new level of realism into opera.
C) depended largely on themes from Chinese opera.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 19

Which of the following authors was credited with inventing the modern novel with his Madame Bovary?

A) Dickens
B) Flaubert
C) Tolstoy
D) Zola

Question 20

The artist-whose subject matter was individuals in ordinary settings-who challenged, "Show me an angel and I'll paint one" was

A) Manet.
B) Daumier.
C) Courbet.
D) Degas.

Question 21

A major factor in bringing non-Western cultures to the attention of Europeans was

A) advancing colonialism.
B) the World's Fairs.
C) documentary photography.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 22

"Oceania" refers to the

A) islands off the coast of Greece.
B) islands of the South and Central Pacific Ocean.
C) Canary Islands.
D) islands of the Caribbean.

Question 23

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ________ emerged as the center of Western artistic productivity.

A) London
B) New York
C) Paris
D) Moscow

Question 24

Which landmarks would you consider most representative of late nineteenth-century Western culture, the so-called, "Age of Materialism"?

Question 25

How did advancing technology affect the arts of the late nineteenth century?

Question 26

What were the principal subjects and themes of nineteenth-century Realists? Were these shared by both writers and visual artists? How did these subjects and themes differ from those favored by the Impressionists and Postimpressionists?