Deck 18: Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914

Question 1

Which Spanish surrealist created The Persistence of Memory?

A)Duchamp
B)Goya
C)Chagall
D)Dalí

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Who is the author of "The Second Coming"?

A)Wordsworth
B)Yeats
C)Keats
D)Blake

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which Depression-era photographer recorded the livestyles of the rural poor?

A)Margaret Bourke-White
B)Leni Riefenstahl
C)Dorothea Lange
D)Alfred Eisenstaedt

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which artistic characteristic is emphasized in Brancusi's sculptures?

A)Brilliant color
B)Rugged texture
C)Extreme simplification
D)Complex oramentation

Question 5

What is the subject of many of Frida Kahlo's paintings?

A)herself
B)animals
C)flowers
D)children

Question 6

What movement used art to destroy art?

A)Realism
B)Expressionism
C)Dadaism
D)Cubism

Question 7

What subjects did Georgia O'Keefe include in her paintings?

A)Flowers and animal skulls
B)Trains and airplanes
C)Grid-like lines and blocks of color
D)Scenes from American history

Question 8

What span of time does James Joyce's Ulysses cover?

A)1904-1905
B)1914-1918
C)One day
D)One hour

Question 9

Which of the following poets were part of the Lost Generation?

A)Brooke and Rosenberg
B)Eliot and Yeats
C)Joyce and Woolf
D)Kafka and Huxley

Question 10

What African-American movement emerged in New York City in the 1920s?

A)The rise of the speakeasy
B)The Harlem Renaissance
C)The Black Power Movement
D)The Civil Rights Movement

Question 11

Which of Picasso's paintings protested the bombing of a Spanish town?

A)Three Musicians
B)Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
C)Guernica
D)L)H.O.O.Q.

Question 12

In Picasso's Guernica, what image is used as a symbol for the country of Spain?

A)an angel
B)a bull
C)the Pietà
D)a horse

Question 13

In which novel did Aldous Huxley paint a bleak picture of the distant future of Western society?

A)The Trial
B)Brave New World
C)Babbitt
D)A Room of One's Own

Question 14

Which of the following did Duchamp present as one of his artistic creations?

A)A telephone
B)A urinal
C)A Greek statue
D)A melted clock

Question 15

In what novel did Sinclair Lewis criticize American materialism?

A)Brave New World
B)Babbit
C)Remembrance of Things Past
D)Ulysses

Question 16

Which artist's paintings combine images from his Jewish heritage with Cubist techniques?

A)Theo Van Doesburg
B)Marc Chagall
C)Charles Demuth
D)Constantin Brancusi

Question 17

What subject did Grant Wood focus on in his paintings?

A)Abstract shapes and lines
B)Biblical stories
C)Rural American scenes
D)Himself

Question 18

Which Czech author wrote The Trial and The Castle?

A)Tolstoy
B)Proust
C)Dostoyevsky
D)Kafka

Question 19

What form of music was a distinctively American contribution to Western culture?

A)polka
B)jazz
C)tango
D)twelve-tone

Question 20

According to Virginia Woolf, why have there not been more great women writers?

A)The expectations of family members
B)The lack of social and economic support
C)The lack of women in political positions
D)The insufficient number of women's universities

Question 21

What was the goal of the fictionalized society portrayed by Huxley in Brave New World? What warning does Huxley convey to his readers?

Question 22

_______________________ Style of painting that draws its content from unconscious, irrational sources

Question 23

_______________________ School of design founded by Walter Gropius

Question 24

_______________________ Picasso's allegorical painting of the bombing of a Basque town

Question 25

What are two important examples of film as propaganda?

A)Olympia and Peter Grimes
B)Peter Grimes and Ivan The Terrible
C)Potemkin and Triumph of the Will
D)Ivan the Terrible and War Requiem
3 points each)

Question 26

_______________________ Musical form used in "King" Oliver's "West End Blues"

Question 27

_______________________ Shift to a new key in music

Question 28

_______________________ Technique of sharp juxtaposition of film shots

Question 29

What impact did the "Great War" of 1914-1918 have on European society?

Question 30

_______________________ Viennese physician and pioneer of modern psychology

Question 31

_______________________ Film director of Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky

Question 32

Where did the blues originate?

A)Paris
B)America's deep south
C)New York
D)The American midwest

Question 33

Who was the driving force behind ballet in Paris in the 1920s?

A)Sergei Eisenstein
B)Serge Diaghilev
C)Vaslav Nijinsky
D)Anna Pavlova

Question 34

What are some of the characteristics of the modernist temper in literature?

Question 35

What were the objectives behind the founding of the Bauhaus? What were its fundamental principles and to what spectrum of objects were they applied?

Question 36

Which American opera, set in Catfish Row, blends jazz and classical music?

A)Porgy and Bess
B)Rhapsody in Blue
C)The Threepenny Opera
D)Desire Under the Elms

Question 37

What leading American composer and bandleader gained his fame at the Cotton Club in the 1920's?

A)Chet Baker
B)Tommy Dorsey
C)Lionel Hampton
D)Duke Ellington

Question 38

What were the subjects of Sergei Eisenstein's films? What innovations did Eisenstein introduce through his filmmaking?

Question 39

_______________________ Improvisational technique in jazz using vocalizations of nonsense syllables.

Question 40

_______________________ Overthrow of the Tsars and the emergence of Marxist government in Russia