Deck 15: The Romantic Age

Question 1

In a __________ play,each character tends to be either all good or all evil.

A) tragic
B) classical
C) comedic
D) melodramatic
E) Romantic

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Richard Strauss's compositions draw inspiration primarily from __________.

A) legends
B) political events
C) personal feeling
D) classical mythology
E) Lieder

Answer 2

A

Question 3

__________ was one of the first artists to complete paintings out-of-doors.

A) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
B) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
C) Francisco de Goya
D) Joseph Mallord William Turner
E) Théodore Géricault

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Das Kapital was written by __________.

A) Charles Darwin
B) Ludwig Feuerbach
C) Karl Marx
D) Friedrich Engels
E) Sir Charles Lyell

Question 5

__________ allowed workers to promote their own interests in the economic realm.

A) Committees
B) Elections
C) Parties
D) Newspapers
E) Unions

Question 6

In general,Romanticism emphasizes __________.

A) academic training
B) classical models
C) aristocratic self-cultivation
D) individual emotion
E) truth to life

Question 7

Romantic aesthetics are often described as __________.

A) classical
B) modernist
C) medieval
D) anti-classical
E) traditional

Question 8

The political philosophy of __________ was particularly attractive to the new middle class.

A) Marxism
B) socialism
C) liberalism
D) communism
E) colonialism

Question 9

Chopin's compositions embrace __________.

A) standard form
B) heroic drama
C) grand theatricality
D) unconventional form
E) flashy presentation

Question 10

Opera buffa is a type of __________ opera.

A) tragic
B) classical
C) grand
D) comic
E) Wagnerian

Question 11

The most famous example of Romantic architecture is the __________.

A) Crystal Palace
B) Eiffel Tower
C) Royal Pavillion
D) White House
E) Houses of Parliament

Question 12

Romantic ballet emphasized __________.

A) dramatic lighting
B) male dancers
C) ballerinas
D) improvisation
E) elaborate sets

Question 13

Rosa Bonheur is known for her paintings of __________.

A) stormy seas
B) animals
C) peasants
D) urban life
E) political events

Question 14

Kant believed the "real world" of human experience was actually a product of limited human understanding.His view is a form of __________.

A) historicism
B) popularism
C) empiricism
D) Platonism
E) idealism

Question 15

The Raft of the "Medusa" is a work by __________.

A) Georges Seurat
B) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
C) Francisco de Goya
D) Théodore Géricault
E) Joseph Mallord William Turner

Question 16

Brahms' A German Requiem is an example of __________.

A) symphony
B) program music
C) choral music
D) gesamtkunstwerk
E) symphonic poem

Question 17

Hegel considered __________ the most universal and spiritual of all arts.

A) theatre
B) poetry
C) literature
D) classical sculpture
E) painting

Question 18

The period from the 1830s to 1901 is frequently called the __________ Age.

A) Machine
B) Imperial
C) Democratic
D) Victorian
E) Progressive

Question 19

A basic tenet of Romanticism is __________.

A) relativism
B) traditionalism
C) classicism
D) individualism
E) rationalism

Question 20

Musical works built around a non-musical story are called __________.

A) narrative music
B) choral music
C) program music
D) Lieder
E) nocturnes

Question 21

A musical theme tied to a single idea,person,or object is called a __________.

A) Lieder
B) opera buffa
C) Gesamtkunstwerk
D) collage
E) Leitmotif

Question 22

Hegel believed that __________ art "reaches the highest level that sensuous,imaginative material can correctly express."

Question 23

Franz Schubert was the earliest composer of __________.

Question 24

Historical __________ became a standard for set design,costumes,and other aspects of theatre production in the Romantic age.

Question 25

The author of "Song of Myself" is __________.

A) Charles Baudelaire
B) Henry David Thoreau
C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D) Walt Whitman
E) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 26

Richard Wagner's idea of a comprehensive work of art combining music,poetry,and scenery under a single concept is called a __________.

A) collage
B) Lieder
C) Gesamtkunstwerk
D) opera buffa
E) Leitmotif

Question 27

The emergent middle-class favored a __________ economic policy,arguing "Let people do as they please" without interference from government.

Question 28

Melodrama combined theatre and __________.

A) dance
B) painting
C) poetry
D) sculpture
E) music

Question 29

The work of Géricault frequently emphasizes human struggles against the forces of __________.

Question 30

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is often described as a "Romantic __________."

Question 31

British and French philosophers in the nineteenth century developed the theories of materialism and __________.

Question 32

__________ wrote historical plays and was one of the first African-American playwrights to contribute to mainstream theatre.

A) Anna Hyers
B) J.A. Arneaux
C) Emma Hyers
D) Langston Hughes
E) William Edgar Easton

Question 33

__________ refers to "light entertainments" inserted into a ballet.

A) Comique
B) Anachronism
C) Giselle
D) Divertissements
E) Fouettés

Question 34

Marx argued that __________ would come after capitalism and before communism.

Question 35

The inventor of the historical novel is __________.

A) Kate Chopin
B) Sir Walter Scott
C) Edith Wharton
D) Lord Byron
E) Jane Austen

Question 36

The plays of William __________ became popular again in the nineteenth century.

Question 37

William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey describes the poet's love of __________.

A) ballet
B) painting
C) architecture
D) industry
E) nature

Question 38

A composition for solo voice with piano accompaniment and poetic text is called a __________.

A) prelude
B) nocturne
C) impromptu
D) Lied
E) bel canto

Question 39

Brahms replaced Latin liturgy with texts from the __________ in his A German Requiem.

Question 40

.The operas of Jacques Offenbach are best characterized as __________.

A) grand
B) satirical
C) tragic
D) lyrical
E) personal

Question 41

Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique employed an idée fixe.

Question 42

Balzac can be seen as a forerunner to realism in literature.

Question 43

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an important Romantic work by Lord Byron.

Question 44

Fillipo Taglioni's The Revolt in the Harem is probably the first ballet about the emancipation of __________.

Question 45

Music was relatively unimportant in the Romantic age.

Question 46

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem,called "__________," established the legend of Paul Revere in American culture.

Question 47

What did Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argue all history reflected?

Question 48

Francisco de Goya believed art should remain separate from politics.

Question 49

What did middle class morality emphasize?

Question 50

Which well-known poem brought Edgar Allan Poe into the spotlight?

Question 51

The paintings of J.M.W.Turner foreshadow aspects of twentieth-century painting.

Question 52

Walt Whitman's use of long __________ lines was a first in American poetry.

Question 53

The cycle of love poems called "Black Venus" was written by Edgar Allan Poe.

Question 54

Some Romantic artists tended toward the Gothic.

Question 55

Romantic architecture revived __________ motifs,as seen on the British Houses of Parliament.

Question 56

Some Japanese art of this period has striking similarities to European Romantic art.

Question 57

Richard Wagner drew heavily on __________ mythology.

Question 58

What innovative building was built in London for the 1851 Great Exhibition?

Question 59

What is the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous poem about a "Destroyer and Preserver"?

Question 60

Fragmentation is characteristic of Romanticism.

Question 61

Much Romantic art emphasized the greatness of a hero.How might the artist be seen as a kind of hero during this period? What qualities does the Romantic artist employ in their "heroic" stand against mainstream society,oppression,and tradition? Do you think contemporary artists,including popular musicians,are still influenced by this Romantic idea of the artist?

Question 62

Discuss how the philosophy of individual freedom and direct connection to the divine can be seen in Romantic works.Choose two works in any medium and compare and contrast how the idea of personal freedom is manifested.

Question 63

Choose a Romantic work in any medium.Discuss how it deals with the idea of revolution,either in the political sense or in the sense of a break with aesthetic tradition.