Deck 34: Total War,Totalitarianism,and the Arts

Question 1

Which of the following writers immortalized the WWI Allied offensive in Italy in A Farewell to Arms?

A)Twain
B)Hemingway
C)Remarque
D)Eliot

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following WWI poets produced The Waste Land,which became the single most influential poem in early modern literature?

A)Yeats
B)Eliot
C)Owens
D)Twain

Answer 2

B

Question 3

World War I (WWI)was the first ________ war in world history.

A)European
B)total
C)civil
D)multinational

Answer 3

B

Question 4

One of the last of the European powers to become industrialized,Russia entered World War I in 1914 under the leadership of

A)Lenin.
B)Nicholas II.
C)Marx.
D)Catherine the Great.

Question 5

Describe totalitarianism as exercised in Nazi Germany,Russia,and China.

Question 6

The famous Depression-era photographer whose images of the downtrodden,such as Migrant Mother,remain icons of this period of history is named

A)Joseph Heller.
B)James Jones.
C)Dorothea Lange.
D)Lee Miller.

Question 7

A full 80 percent of the casualties of WWI were from which of the following technological developments?

A)the land mine
B)the canon
C)mustard gas
D)the automatic machine gun

Question 8

Explain the impact of totalitarianism on literature,painting,photography,and music.

Question 9

According to ________,in the first phase of communist society (generally called socialism),private property would be converted into property held in common,and the means of production and distribution would belong to the whole of society.

A)Lenin
B)Nicholas II
C)Marx
D)Catherine the Great

Question 10

The Central Powers alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following?

A)Austria-Hungary
B)Germany
C)the Ottoman Empire
D)Serbia

Question 11

Which of the following artists portrayed gas-masked machine-like monsters in his collage,Two Ambitious Figures,by combining the images of equipment in a scientist's laboratory?

A)Ernst
B)Grosz
C)Léger
D)Remarque

Question 12

The underlying cause of both world wars was

A)slavery.
B)rivalry between European powers.
C)too many years of preceding peace.
D)industrialization.

Question 13

Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War II.

Question 14

John Steinbeck's classic Depression-era novel of migrant farmers en route to California is called which of the following?

A)Of Mice and Men
B)The Sound and the Fury
C)Ironweed
D)The Grapes of Wrath

Question 15

The French artist who,after four years at the front,adopted a "mechanical" aesthetic,visible in his painting Three Women.Robust and robotic,the near identical nudes (and their cat)share a common,austere geometry.

A)Ernst
B)Grosz
C)Léger
D)Remarque

Question 16

Give specific examples of the impact of World Wars I and II on literature,the visual arts,and music.

Question 17

The Allied forces alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following?

A)Great Britain
B)the Ottoman Empire
C)France
D)Belgium

Question 18

Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War I.

Question 19

In his biting cartoons,________ mocked the German military and its corrupt and mindless bureaucracy in sketchy,brittle compositions filled with pungent caricatures.

A)Ernst
B)Grosz
C)Léger
D)Remarque

Question 20

Wounded in combat several times,which of the following writers brought first-hand experience of World War I to his book All Quiet on the Western Front?

A)Twain
B)Hemingway
C)Remarque
D)Eliot