Deck 14: The Modernist World

Question 1

Who wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" and was killed in combat just a week before the armistice ending World War I was signed in 1918?

A) Erich Maria Remarque
B) Wilfred Owen
C) William Butler Yeats
D) T. S. Eliot

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Who painted the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase and also created "ready-mades"?

A) Tristan Tzara
B) Hugo Ball
C) William Butler Yeats
D) Marcel Duchamp

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Dada Manifesto is

A) a response to the chaos and irrationality of World War I.
B) a statement about the conditions of the working class in Europe during World War I.
C) a collection of letters from political activists regarding World War I.
D) a treatise on the artist's view of destruction resulting from World War I.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

With whom did Pablo Picasso develop Cubism?

A) Henri Matisse
B) Carlo Carrà
C) Giacomo Balla
D) Georges Braque

Question 5

Which of the following paintings might be considered a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?

A) Dance
B) Joy of Life
C) Houses at l'Estaque
D) Violin and Palette

Question 6

Who painted Houses at l'Estaque,which includes "spatial ambiguity and cube-like shapes"?

A) Henri Matisse
B) Carlo Carrà
C) Georges Braque
D) Pablo Picasso

Question 7

Among the following,who was a trumpeter that formed two studio bands,The Hot Five and The Hot Seven,and recorded Hotter Than That,which features "scat"?

A) Bessie Smith
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Louis Armstrong
D) Duke Ellington

Question 8

Which of the following musicians is most closely associated with Sprechstimme?

A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Giacomo Puccini
C) Richard Wagner
D) Arnold Schoenberg

Question 9

In which style is Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?

A) Futurism
B) Cubism
C) Surrealism
D) Dada

Question 10

Filippo Marinetti,Umberto Boccioni,and Giacomo Balla were among the artists who collectively developed a new style known as

A) Futurism.
B) Dada.
C) Surrealism.
D) Cubism.

Question 11

Who wrote "Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret," one of many poems collected in Weary Blues and published in 1926?

A) Claude McKay
B) W. E. B. DuBois
C) Countee Cullen
D) Langston Hughes

Question 12

Who wrote the General Principles of Relativity?

A) Max Planck
B) Niels Bohr
C) Albert Einstein
D) Ernest Rutherford

Question 13

In which style did Georges Seurat paint A Sunday on La Grand Jatte?

A) pointillism
B) Impressionism
C) primitivism
D) Cubism

Question 14

Which of the following painters was greatly influenced by travels to Tahiti?

A) Paul Gauguin
B) Paul Cézanne
C) Georges Seurat
D) Camille Pissarro

Question 15

Which of the following paintings is set in Tahiti?

A) Les Poseuses
B) The Scream
C) Mahana no atua
D) The Vision after the Sermon

Question 16

Who painted The Cardiff Team,a painting that represents in part the internationalization of sports?

A) Robert Delaunay
B) Emanuel Leutze
C) George Catlin
D) Albert Bierstadt

Question 17

Which of Der Blaue Reiter artists created The Large Blue Horses?

A) Auguste Macke
B) Gabriele Münter
C) Franz Marc
D) Wassily Kandinsky

Question 18

Lev Kuleshov,a founder of the Film School in Moscow,is given credit for developing a theory of

A) montage.
B) collage.
C) foreshortening.
D) time-lapse process.

Question 19

Who directed the Ballet Russes during the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring?

A) Wassily Kandinsky
B) Vaslav Nijinsky
C) Sergei Diaghilev
D) Igor Stravinsky

Question 20

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was notoriously known as

A) an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been understood.
B) the scandalous painting that abstracted the female nude.
C) an early demonstration of Futurist influence in painting.
D) the work of a "madman" abstracting forms to make a statement regarding women.

Question 21

Discuss the roles of the id,the ego,and the superego in the human psyche,according to Sigmund Freud.

Question 22

Which of the following is most closely associated with The Battleship Potemkin,a film about a 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian naval vessel?

A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
C) Lazar Lissitzsky
D) Kasimir Malevich

Question 23

Discuss the tenets of Futurism.

Question 24

Who is the author of the Surrealist Manifesto?

A) Ezra Pound
B) Max Ernst
C) Salvador Dalí
D) André Breton

Question 25

With which of the following are the terms "id," "ego," and "superego" most closely associated?

A) Carl Jung
B) Sigmund Freud
C) André Breton
D) Giorgio de Chirico

Question 26

Which of the following figures led the Bolsheviks,the most radical of Russian post-revolutionary groups?

A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
C) Lazar Lissitzsky
D) Kasimir Malevich

Question 27

Who created Persistence of Memory?

A) Max Ernst
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Alberto Giacometti
D) Joan Miró

Question 28

Summarize the differences in development of a "montage" by Kuleshov and Eisenstein.

Question 29

Among the following,who enjoyed a five-year engagement at Harlem's Cotton Club and performed It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing),introducing the term "swing" to jazz culture?

A) Bessie Smith
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Louis Armstrong
D) Duke Ellington

Question 30

Discuss the characteristics of Surrealist art.

Question 31

Summarize the significant elements of Alain Leroy Locke's The New Negro.