Deck 37: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, holocaust and Bomb

Question 1

Le Corbusier designed his buildings without supporting walls to

A) provide interior-space flexibility.
B) conserve concrete and steel
C) make the rooms seem larger
D) adhere to the principles of Zen

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Among Europe's despotic leaders,the most supportive of modernist architecture was

A) Benito Mussolini.
B) Joseph Stalin.
C) Francisco Franco.
D) Adolph Hitler.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Germans leveled the Basque town of Guernica in 1937 to

A) show the world their air power.
B) destroy a French outpost in the town.
C) take out a bridge used by Spanish rebels.
D) frighten the Spanish into siding with them.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Following passage of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935,German Jews were prohibited from all of the following EXCEPT

A) teaching.
B) selling books.
C) making art.
D) designing buildings.

Question 5

Bourgeois German youth flocked to the Wandervogel movement to

A) defy their conservative parents.
B) discuss plans for a revolt
C) to recapture a pre-modern past
D) to train in secret for military duty

Question 6

Why did the Nazis dislike the Bauhaus style?

A) The designs were not functional for the working class.
B) Bauhaus artists rejected traditional German values.
C) Walter Gropius was a known communist.
D) Its openness lacked adequate privacy.

Question 7

Frida Kahlo's self-portraits document

A) the Mexican Revolution.
B) New York society.
C) her Surrealist dreams.
D) her personal tragedy.

Question 8

Pablo Picasso allowed that Guernica could be on permanent display in a museum in his native Spain when

A) Picasso himself was dead.
B) the Spanish people regain civil liberties.
C) Francisco Franco was dead.
D) Spain became a republic.

Question 9

Nelson A.Rockefeller had Diego Rivera's fresco Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to a New and Better Future destroyed,because it

A) portrayed workers in communist red scarves.
B) included a portrait of Vladimir Lenin.
C) celebrated the Mexican revolution.
D) showed Rockefeller enjoying a cocktail.

Question 10

Adolph Hitler claimed that intellectuals,particularly Jews,were to blame for what he perceived as Germany's post-World War I moral decline,because of their

A) involvement in the art scene.
B) association with communism.
C) sympathy for the French.
D) control of most lending banks.

Question 11

What three major divisions of German society does Georg Grosz parody in his painting The Pillars of Society?

A) upper, middle, and lower classes
B) artists, entertainers, and merchants
C) military, clergy, and middle class
D) intellectuals, workers, and politicians

Question 12

Most likely,composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote the simplistic symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf to

A) encourage Russian children to appreciate classical music.
B) satisfy Soviet authorities who called his music too complicated.
C) symbolize Soviet ability to triumph over other countries.
D) celebrate the spirit and capability of the Russian peasants.

Question 13

Joseph Stalin killed up to 10 million kulaks (peasant farmers)and sent millions of others to labor camps between 1929 and 1933 for

A) refusing to collectivize.
B) causing a meat shortage.
C) leaving their farms for factory jobs.
D) exporting grain to Germany.

Question 14

By alienating audiences with his epic theater,Bertolt Brecht aimed to

A) expose the excesses of a capitalistic society.
B) make them view the characters critically.
C) shock them into turning to Marxism.
D) force them to identify with the main character.

Question 15

During America's Great Depression,approximately how much of the national workforce was unemployed?

A) one-tenth
B) one-fourth
C) one-third
D) one-half

Question 16

In Franz Kafka's The Trial,the protagonist Josef K.is arrested and tried for

A) being a communist.
B) being Jewish.
C) murder.
D) an unknown reason.

Question 17

In 1936,Adolf Hitler inaugurated the tradition of carrying the Olympic torch from Athens to the Olympic venue to

A) show off the Germans' athletic abilities.
B) demonstrate Germany's openness to other cultures.
C) suggest that Germany was the new classical Greece.
D) postpone the games by a week.

Question 18

Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius equated his architecture with

A) politics.
B) romance.
C) nationalism.
D) religion.

Question 19

In his painting Guernica,Pablo Picasso links the tragedy of Guernica to

A) Roman defeat of the Jews at Masada.
B) Crucifixion of Jesus.
C) the assassination of Pancho Villa.
D) ritualized Spanish bullfighting.

Question 20

Pier Mondrian believed the grid to represent the "cosmic interaction" between

A) birth and death.
B) planetary orbits.
C) the masculine and the feminine.
D) the divine and the human.

Question 21

Describe and analyze the ritualized bullfighting metaphor that Pablo Picasso uses in his Guernica.

Question 22

Define Bertolt Brecht's concept of epic theater,and list the four ways his plays aimed to achieve his desired effect.

Question 23

The first feature-length talkie was

A) The Blue Angel.
B) The Wizard of Oz.
C) The Black Pirate.
D) The Jazz Singer.

Question 24

Identify and explain three ways the Great Depression recovery Work Projects Administration (WPA)aided the arts,listing a specific example of each way.

Question 25

Orson Welles's Citizen Kane is considered one of the most cinematographically inventive films of the postwar era because of its

A) unorthodox structure.
B) use of Technicolor.
C) use of storyboards.
D) panoramic overviews.

Question 26

A campaign of nonviolence was key in the liberation of

A) Vietnam from France.
B) Nigeria from Britain.
C) Algeria from France.
D) India from Britain.

Question 27

World War II had a positive effect in that it instigated the movement toward worldwide decolonialization.Identify two countries in which this effect was felt,and explain their steps toward independence.

Question 28

The WPA mural project was led by

A) Diego Rivera.
B) Thomas Hart Benson.
C) Aaron Copland.
D) Margaret Bourke-White.

Question 29

John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath brought attention to injustice against

A) Mexican refugees.
B) European Jews.
C) migrant workers.
D) blacks in the American South.

Question 30

Identify two motion pictures released in 1939,Hollywood's "Great Year," and explain why they appealed to the audience of that time as well as contemporary audiences.

Question 31

Why can the film Gojira (Godzilla)be viewed as a commentary about the American bombing of Japan?

A) An American-created Godzilla destroys New York.
B) The Japanese conquer the monster with technology.
C) A radiation-breathing Godzilla destroys Tokyo.
D) An atomic-bomb test awakens the Japanese monster.

Question 32

Night is a memoir about

A) the Holocaust.
B) the Great Depression.
C) the Mexican Revolution.
D) the bombing of Nagasaki.

Question 33

Throughout the Great Depression,America's favorite leisure activity was

A) going to the movies.
B) listening to the radio.
C) playing sports.
D) dancing.

Question 34

The first feature film in full color was

A) The Blue Angel.
B) The Wizard of Oz
C) The Black Pirate
D) The Jazz Singer

Question 35

Identify and analyze two events that aided Hitler's rise to power in Germany.

Question 36

Compare the portraits of women in Frida Kahlo's The Broken Column and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother.

Question 37

In total,the final death toll of World War II was

A) 10 million.
B) 20 million.
C) 40 million.
D) 50 million.

Question 38

Focusing on one work of literature and one film discussed in the chapter,analyze the artistic response to the horrors of World War II.

Question 39

Describe a Le Corbusier building according to his "Five Points of a New Architecture."

Question 40

Explain two reasons Orson Welles's Citizen Kane differed from its motion picture predecessors.Then name two contemporary films that utilize Welles's techniques.