Deck 15: The Seventeenth Century: the Baroque Era

Question 1

What names have been applied to the eighteenth century?

A)The Proto-Baroque & The Age of Enlightenment
B)The Rococo Period & The Age of Reformation
C)The Enlightenment & The Age of Reason
D)The Twilight Period & The Awakening

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Who were "Enlightened Despots"?

A)Poor citizens sent to public schools
B)Liberal-minded monarchs
C)Learned vagabonds
D)Philosophers who espoused hedonism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Whose play The Marriage of Figaro was interpreted as an attack on the lifestyle of the ruling classes?

A)Beaumarchais
B)Fragonard
C)Hogarth
D)Swift

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is sonata form?

A)A musical piece featuring a piano or violin
B)An organizational structure for a movement of a symphony
C)An orchestral device developed by Beethoven
D)A short minuet for a string ensemble

Question 5

Who was the first great French rococo painter d.1721)?

A)Boucher
B)Watteau
C)Fragonard
D)Hogarth

Question 6

What appears to have been the purpose of Fragonard's paintings?

A)To bolster the French monarchy
B)To foster French Nationalism
C)To critique the Bourgeoisie
D)To entertain the eye

Question 7

Which painter's works best represent the official art style of the French Revolution?

A)Watteau
B)Gainsborough
C)David
D)Hals

Question 8

What church near Bamberg, Germany exemplifies the Rococo style in architecture?

A)Saint Bartholomew's Church
B)Brunswick Cathedral
C)Weissmann Chapel
D)Vierzehnheiligen Pilgrim Church

Question 9

Which style of art gradually replaced Rococo in the late 1700s?

A)Style Galant
B)Realism
C)Neo-Classicism
D)Romanesque

Question 10

What was the view of human nature held by Jonathan Swift?

A)That humans were both irrational and intelligent
B)That humans were essentially selfish and base
C)That humans were rational and innovative
D)That humans were fundamentally weak

Question 11

Which English painter of the Rococo period was best known for his portraits and landscapes?

A)Gainsborough
B)Watteau
C)Hogarth
D)David

Question 12

What Italian painter of the Rococo period depicted religious subjects on a grand scale?

A)Carriera
B)Tiepolo
C)Borghese
D)Canova

Question 13

Who was the most important Neo-Classical sculptor from Italy?

A)Balthazar Neumann
B)Antonio Canova
C)Giovanni Tiepolo
D)Jacques-Louis David

Question 14

What two moods or emotions can be found in the painting Pilgrimage to Cythera?

A)Romantic love and nostalgia
B)Religious fervor and devotion
C)Patriotism and dedication
D)Intimacy and calm

Question 15

Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro?

A)Mozart
B)Monteverdi
C)Couperin
D)Haydn

Question 16

What archeological excavations influenced the artistic and intellectual culture of the late 1800s?

A)The excavations at Carthage
B)The excavations at Knossos
C)The excavations at Pompeii
D)The excavations at Alexandria

Question 17

Which musical figure is most associated with the transition from Classical to Romantic music?

A)Bach
B)Handel
C)Beethoven
D)Brahms

Question 18

Which English writer championed women's rights and challenged traditional ideas about education?

A)Wollstonecraft
B)Swift
C)Pope
D)Dryden

Question 19

Which Austrian musician is often considered the "Father of the Symphony"?

A)Haydn
B)Mozart
C)Beethoven
D)Bach

Question 20

Who is considered to be the "Father of Archeology"?

A)Jacques-Louis David
B)Heinrich Schütz
C)Balthazar Neumann
D)Johannes Winckelmann

Question 21

_______________________ Dry sticks of colored chalk

Question 22

What are the characteristics of the Rococo style of art?

Question 23

_______________________ Economic principle of letting the market determine prices

Question 24

_______________________ Italian word for "fast," used to indicate a lively musical tempo

Question 25

_______________________ Eighteenth-century English literary group who revered Rome

Question 26

_______________________ Artist of Marriage à la Mode series of paintings

Question 27

_______________________ Controversial author of Candide

Question 28

What was the purpose of the Encyclopédie?

A)To facilitate schoolchildren's research
B)To classify contemporary knowledge
C)To codify religious and moral doctrine
D)To promote the monarchy of Louis XV

Question 29

What were the central characteristics of the classical symphony?

Question 30

_______________________ Turbulent period in France from 1792-1795

Question 31

Why did Montesquieu favor establishing a system of "checks and balances" in government?

Question 32

What was Jonathan's Swift's best-known novel? What two aspects of human nature are represented by Swift's Houyhnhnms and Yahoos?

Question 33

According to Rousseau, what had corrupted the natural goodness of humans?

A)greed
B)religion
C)government
D)civilization

Question 34

What was the purpose of Swift's A Modest Proposal?

A)To propose a realistic solution to poverty
B)To expose man's inhumanity to man
C)To criticize the English welfare system
D)To reveal the hypocrisy of the church

Question 35

_______________________ Military leader who crowned himself Emperor of France

Question 36

_______________________ Musical form in three sections: Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation

Question 37

What are the central claims of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?

Question 38

_______________________ King who said "Après moi le déluge" After me, the flood)

Question 39

Who was probably the principal author of the Declaration of Independence 1776)?

A)Alexander Pope
B)Thomas Jefferson
C)Benjamin Franklin
D)John Stuart Mill

Question 40

Which English poet faced numerous challenges, such as his poor health and his Catholic faith in a Protestant country?

A)William Blake
B)Theodore Dryden
C)Alexander Pope
D)John Keats