Deck 38: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s

Question 1

What did the electronic synthesizer allow composers to create for the first time?

A)Stereo and surround sound
B)Music without performers
C)The sound of pure vibration
D)A natural echo chamber

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What was a main effect of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence?

A)Spirit of collaboration in its erection
B)Political statement that it offered
C)Extraordinary images of it from space
D)Reusability of the 24.5 miles of fabric

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Why did some artists such as Robert Smithson begin making site-specific "land art"?

A)Enable more people to see his work
B)Escape the gallery system
C)Produce more monumental works
D)Call attention to nature's beauty

Answer 3

B

Question 4

How did many U.S.artists manage to undermine museums and galleries that might have displayed their works?

A)Destroying their works soon after creating them
B)Selling their works to European museums and galleries
C)Making art that was unable to be displayed
D)Withdrawing their works from museums and galleries

Question 5

In his mural F-111,how does artist James Rosenquist equate the military with consumer culture?

A)Juxtaposes consumer products with the fighter plane
B)Paints product advertisements on the plane's body
C)Symbolizes the war with various product labels
D)Shows American consumers in awe of the bomber

Question 6

How does the narrator in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man end up living in an underground hole in Harlem?

A)Only living space he could afford
B)Accidentally fell into it during a riot
C)Driven there by three hostile white boys
D)Withdrew from society after a wrongful arrest

Question 7

Why was Martin Luther King,Jr. ,arrested and jailed in Birmingham in 1963?

A)Being a black minister
B)Organizing a Woolworth's sit-in
C)Publicly published his letter
D)Leading a protest march

Question 8

Why did Yale's architecture graduate students commission Claes Oldenburg to create Lipstick (Ascending)on Caterpillar Tracks?

A)Antiwar statement
B)Protest against women in military
C)Practical joke
D)Protest against women at Yale

Question 9

According to Jean-Paul Sartre in "Black Orpheus," what about black people confirmed their authenticity-defined them?

A)Skin color
B)History of enslavement
C)African diaspora
D)Music and religion

Question 10

Why did Smithson chose the inaccessible,inhospitable Utah location for Spiral Jetty?

A)The land for his project was inexpensive
B)Its barrenness symbolized the American Dream
C)The area was outside the U.S.parks system
D)Its entropy symbolized the fate of all things

Question 11

May 4,1970,why did the National Guard open fire on and kill four Kent State students?

A)For pelting the National Guard with rocks
B)For chanting antiwar slogans
C)For reasons still not fully known
D)For burning American flags

Question 12

Why did the government continue to fund building the F-111 fighter bomber even though it was declared obsolete?

A)Unbreakable contract with General Dynamics
B)F-111 would be the world's largest aircraft
C)Keep people employed and the company afloat
D)F-111 still could be used for transport

Question 13

How did Birmingham Police Chief Bull Conner respond to the April 1963 mass demonstration by children?

A)Ordered his men to open fire,killing 4 girls
B)Called in the National Guard to control them
C)Attacked them with dogs and fire hoses
D)Ignored them,hoping they would tire

Question 14

What did the college students involved in the 1960s antiwar movement want school administrations to do?

A)Prevent the students from being drafted
B)Allow antiwar rallies on campus
C)Remove ROTC from their campuses
D)Sanction antiwar fund-raising events

Question 15

Why did Smithson use the spiral shape for his land art?

A)Association with pagan religions
B)Symbolism of rebirth and renewal
C)Prevalence in nature and ornamentation
D)Reflection of the Great Salt Lake's shape

Question 16

As recreated in Jeff Wall's photographic illustration for Invisible Man,why does Ellison's narrator need light?

A)Keep away the nightmares
B)Brighten his dark existence
C)Keep the rats at bay
D)Confirm his reality

Question 17

In 1963,why did Birmingham,AL,officials stop distributing food to the city's needy?

A)To stop the segregation protests led by Martin Luther King,Jr.
B)In response to the black community's boycott of Birmingham stores
C)To force the poor black families to relocate to another city
D)In retaliation for the bombing of the 16^th Street Baptist Church

Question 18

According to composer Philip Glass,what made the score for Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach so difficult?

A)Many repeating patterns
B)Interweaving of text and music
C)Patterns that almost never repeat
D)53 brief thematic fragments

Question 19

Why beginning in the late 1960s did many U.S.artists begin protesting against museums?

A)They disliked having their works enclosed within four walls
B)The government funded the majority of museums
C)Museums were refusing to display their antiwar works
D)They associated the museums with supporters of the war

Question 20

Why did rap,or hip-hop,develop during the 1960s?

A)Perform during the Last Poets gatherings
B)Protest treatment of African Americans
C)Popularize works by African American poets
D)Protest the dominancy of white music

Question 21

Identify two works of land art discussed in the chapter,analyzing the statement made by their construction and their impact on the environment.

Question 22

How did television's An American Family star Lance Loud create controversy in the mid 1970s?

A)He was openly gay
B)He was divorced
C)He supported abortion
D)He posed nude for Andy Warhol

Question 23

List and analyze two reasons for the title of Ralph Ellison's novel-Invisible Man.

Question 24

Explain the image of the American male as presented by the Marlboro Man.Then analyze two ways that stereotype was challenged and possibly debunked by the feminist and gay pride movements of the 1970s.

Question 25

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,how much did Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Umbrellas cost to build?

A)$6 million
B)$16 million
C)$26 million
D)$46 million

Question 26

Why did Christo and Jeanne-Claude chose to erect their umbrellas in California and Japan?

A)Symbolize their interdependence in the electronic revolution
B)Honor California's large Japanese-American population
C)Commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the U .S.'s bombing of Japan
D)Show the dramatic difference in landscape between the two

Question 27

An overarching theme of the 1960s and the 1970s is the exploration and redefining of roles in American society.From African Americans to the youth culture to women to men,identify and discuss three traditional roles that were challenged and perhaps changed.

Question 28

Compare the statements made about "penis envy" in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus."

Question 29

Identify and describe two ways African Americans used passive resistance in their quest for civil rights during the 1960s.Then detail the immediate results of this protest technique.

Question 30

Matching

Question 31

Supporting your claims with specific works,show how two of the following female visual artists of the 1960s explored and aimed to redefine gender roles: Judy Chicago,Eleanor Antin,Cindy Sherman.

Question 32

According to Marshall McLuhan,what created the "global village"?

A)World War II
B)Electronic mass media
C)The Vietnam War
D)Affordable transportation

Question 33

How did performance-piece artist Eleanor Antin explore gender definitions and construction?

A)Photographing herself in Hollywood roles
B)Deepening her voice with a harmonizer
C)Casting herself as both genders in her plays
D)Adopting historical personae and disguises

Question 34

In The Feminist Mystique,why does Betty Friedan reject Freud's idea that women envy men?

A)Assumption that women are inferior to men
B)Too much emphasis to female sexuality
C)Denial of the chance for inequality to be eliminated
D)Acceptance that culture determines gender roles

Question 35

The chapters "Continuity and Change" section poses an intriguing question: does technology in fact threaten the idea of identity and "self"? Referencing your knowledge about and experience with specific media and technology,argue for or against that idea of identity losee.

Question 36

Summarize the role popular music played in the youth rebellion of the 1960s.

Question 37

What commonality of the 39 places of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party does the triangle-shaped table symbolize?

A)Christianity
B)Vagina
C)Creativity
D)Power