Cultural History Since 1500 Practice Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the development and transformation of cultures around the world from 1500 to the present. It examines major historical events, intellectual movements, religious shifts, and artistic expressions that have shaped societies across continents. Students will investigate how cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions responded to and influenced processes such as colonialism, revolution, industrialization, and globalization. Through analysis of primary sources, literature, art, and historical scholarship, the course aims to deepen understanding of the dynamic interactions between cultures and the enduring legacies of cultural exchange in the modern era.
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The Humanistic Tradition The Early Modern World to the Present 7th Edition Volume II by Gloria K.
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Chapter 20: The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style
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Q1) The baroque style brought about new levels of naturalism and emotionalism to Western art.Which of the following does NOT describe the baroque style?
A)an expanded sense of space
B)the theatrical staging of the subject matter
C)restrained and relaxing
D)dynamic contrasts of light and dark
Q2) Discuss the Jesuits and their role in the Catholic Church of this era.
Q3) ________ polyphonic masses and motets emphasized clarity of text and calm sublimity.
A)Michelangelo's
B)Bernini's
C)Gabrieli's
D)Palestrina's
Q4) ________ anticipated the baroque style by its figural distortions,irrational space,bizarre colors,and general disregard for the "rules" of Renaissance painting.
A)Mannerism
B)Impressionism
C)Dadaism
D)Romanticism
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Chapter 21: Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style
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Q1) To provide musical entertainments for state dinners,balls,and operatic performances,Louis established a
A)permanent orchestrA.
B)national chorus.
C)guild of musicians.
D)new system of arranging written music.
Q2) Of lasting significance was Louis' contribution to the birth of ________ and its transformation into an independent art form.
A)gold leafing
B)professional dance
C)portrait painting
D)baroque architecture
Q3) Compare the aristocratic styles in Europe and China,as illustrated in Versailles and the Forbidden City.
Q4) Describe Louis XIV's Versailles in terms of a symbol of royal absolutism and an expression of the Classical baroque style.
Q5) Discuss how the aristocratic style manifested itself in areas beyond the West: in Ottoman Turkey,Safavid Persia,and Mogul India.
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Chapter 22: The Baroque in the Protestant North
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Q1) Rembrandt's artistic medium of choice was invariably which of the following?
A)egg tempura
B)intaglio etching
C)layers of linseed-oil paint
D)fresh plaster
Q2) Which of the following was the official religion of the emerging Dutch Republic?
A)Anabaptist
B)Lutheran
C)Calvinism
D)Roman Catholic
Q3) Describe the unique characteristics of Protestant devotionalism as reflected in the art of Rembrandt.
Q4) The Northern baroque style emphasized which of the following?
A)personal piety
B)private devotion
C)minimal ornamentation
D)All these answers are correct.
Q5) Discuss the role of the Bible in the arts of the seventeenth century.
Q6) Give examples of the religious compositions of Handel and Bach.
Q7) Highlight the literary achievements of both Donne and Milton.
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Chapter 23: The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning
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Q1) Discuss deism and how it formed a bridge of faith between religion and science in this age.
Q2) The "father of modern Western philosophy," ________ gave priority to deductive reasoning and mathematical analysis in his Discourse on Method.
A)René Descartes
B)John Locke
C)Francis Bacon
D)Galileo
Q3) Which of the following was the Hellenistic astronomer whose geocentric model of the cosmos was put in danger by the Scientific Revolution?
A)Andreas Vesalius
B)Philippus Ambrosius Paracelsus
C)Claudius Ptolemy
D)Johannes Kepler
Q4) Explain the fundamental ideas of Bacon,Descartes,and Locke.
Q5) List the central figures of the Scientific Revolution and their contributions.
Q6) Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning.
Q7) Discuss the impact of the Scientific Revolution on European art and music.
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Chapter 24: The Enlightenment
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Q1) ________,which provided an expanding reading public with true-to-life characters drawn from everyday life,was the most important new form of literary entertainment.
A)The encyclopedia
B)The novel
C)The journalistic essay
D)The travelogue
Q2) ________,a new literary genre,provided penetrating commentary on current events and social behavior,as popularized in the newspapers and periodicals of the day.
A)The encyclopedia
B)The novel
C)The journalistic essay
D)The travelogue
Q3) The producing editor of the Encyclopédie was which of the following?
A)John Locke
B)Thomas Hobbes
C)Adam Smith
D)Diderot
Q4) Outline the development of the novel form of literature.
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Chapter 25: The Limits of Reason
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Q1) Which of the following was one of the Enlightenment's most outspoken critics?
A)Kant
B)Voltaire
C)Rousseau
D)Hogarth
Q2) Explain the reasons for and consequences of the revolutions in America and in France.
Q3) The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century gave way to the ________,which would continue for the next two hundred years.
A)Age of Reason
B)Enlightenment
C)Industrial Revolution
D)Protestant Reformation
Q4) American Eli Whitney invented which of the following in 1792?
A)the power loom
B)the steam engine
C)the cotton gin
D)the Bessemer process
Q5) Discuss the original purpose and the nature of transatlantic slave trade.
Q6) Explain the role of satire as a literary instrument for attacking false values.
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Chapter 26: Eighteenth-Century Art,music,and Society
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Q1) Classical music was characterized by ________,features similar to those admired by Neoclassical writers,painters,sculptors,and architects.
A)order
B)symmetry
C)intellectual control
D)All these answers are correct.
Q2) Which of the following painting masters began his or her career painting theatrical backdrops?
A)Watteau
B)Clodion
C)Vigée-Lebrun
D)Fragonard
Q3) Flutes,clarinets,and oboes belong to which of the following orchestral groups?
A)strings
B)percussion
C)brass
D)woodwinds
Q4) Describe Neoclassicism as a vehicle for noble idealism and authority in Western art.
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Chapter 27: The Romantic View of Nature
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Q1) While the theory of ________ displaced human beings from their elevated place in the hierarchy of living creatures,it advanced the idea of the unity of nature and humankind.
A)natural selection
B)deism
C)divine creation
D)parallel development
Q2) Chronicle the rise of the Romantic landscape in Western art.
Q3) Discuss transcendentalism and other views of nature in nineteenth-century America.
Q4) Increased production of ________ encouraged expansion of industry and commerce in the European West.
A)coal
B)iron
C)steel
D)All these answers are correct.
Q5) Detail the intellectual contributions of Hegel and Darwin.
Q6) Examine attitudes toward nature in Asian culture and Native American culture.
Q7) Define the European Romantic poets and explain their attitudes towards nature.
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Chapter 28: The Romantic Hero
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Q1) The romantic opera Tristan and Isolde was written in 1859 by which of the following?
A)Gilbert and Sullivan
B)Puccini
C)Wagner
D)Mozart
Q2) Which of the following was the final exile location for Napoleon I?
A)St.Helena
B)Devil's Island
C)Elba
D)Madagascar
Q3) ________,a Greek deity who selflessly imparted wisdom to humanity,influenced the Romantics as a symbol of heroic freedom.
A)Prometheus
B)Juno
C)Poseidon
D)Athena
Q4) Examine the concept of the heroic personality as manifested in the fictional figures of Prometheus,Frankenstein,and Faust.
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Chapter 29: The Romantic Style in Art and Music
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Q1) List the major trends in nineteenth-century architecture.
Q2) Rumored by contemporaries that he had made a pact with the Devil for his musical abilities,________ refused to publish his own work,which he alone would perform.
A)Beethoven
B)Mozart
C)Paganini
D)Chopin
Q3) ________ generally elevated the heart over the mind and the emotions over the intellect.
A)Romantic architects
B)Romantic writers
C)Romantic artists
D)All these answers are correct.
Q4) The artists of the late seventeenth century favored heroic themes and personalities,especially those illustrating
A)the struggle for political independence.
B)the realities of peasant life.
C)the open vistas of the American plains.
D)the majesty of European monarchs.
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Chapter 30: Industry,Empire,and the Realist Style
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Q1) Which of the following was the Norwegian dramatist who shocked his contemporary audiences with such subject matters as incest,insanity,and venereal disease?
A)Ibsen
B)Zola
C)Flaubert
D)Dickens
Q2) The leading proponent of liberalism,________,defended the exercise of individual liberty as protected by the state.
A)Flaubert
B)Marx
C)Mill
D)Ibsen
Q3) During the second half of the nineteenth century,as Western industrialization accelerated,________ came to rival Romanticism both as a style and as an attitude of mind.
A)modernism
B)realism
C)cubism
D)abstraction
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Chapter 31: The Move Toward Modernism
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Q1) List some of the major figures of late nineteenth-century philosophy and literature,and their importance.
Q2) Which of the following was famous for his posters of Parisian nightlife?
A)Cassatt
B)Toulouse-Lautrec
C)Renoir
D)Degas
Q3) The ________ tried to record an instantaneous vision of their world,sacrificing the details of perceived objects in order to capture the effects of light and atmosphere.
A)Romantics
B)Realists
C)Impressionists
D)Mannerists
Q4) What are some of the influences of non-Western cultures (Oceania,Africa,and Japan)on Western art and design?
Q5) Discuss the impact of science and technology on late nineteenth-century culture.
Q6) Explain how postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's-sake spirit.
Q7) Describe Symbolism and Impressionism as styles in the arts of the West.
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Chapter 32: The Modernist Assault
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Q1) Trace the impact of technology and the new physics on the arts.
Q2) Describe the imagist movement in early twentieth-century poetry.
Q3) Picasso's bold,new style of painting was shaped by two forces: the arts of Africa,Iberia,and Oceana;and the paintings of A)Delacroix.
B)Cézanne.
C)Capote.
D)Rockwell.
Q4) The leaders in the search for a more concentrated style of poetic expression were a group of poets who called themselves A)verbalists.
B)distillers.
C)imagists.
D)deconstructuralists.
Q5) Picasso's new "language" of painting was called A)bluism.
B)cubism.
C)paintism.
D)retractable art.
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Chapter 33: The Freudian Revolution
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Q1) Jung's idea of a shared layer of human psyche,a layer all humans are tied to,is called
A)the collective unconscious.
B)the force layer.
C)the veil.
D)social contract theory.
Q2) One of modernism's most distinctive movements,________ was devoted to giving physical expression to the workings of the unconscious mind.
A)surrealism
B)realistic Fantasia
C)performance art
D)assemblage
Q3) Explain the basic theories of Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis.
Q4) Which of the following was a virtual shut-in who,from his cork-lined room in France,pursued a life of introspection and literary achievement?
A)Proust
B)Kafka
C)Joyce
D)Cummings
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Chapter 34: Total War,Totalitarianism,and the Arts
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War II.
Q4) Explain the impact of totalitarianism on literature,painting,photography,and music.
Q5) Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War I.
Q6) Describe totalitarianism as exercised in Nazi Germany,Russia,and China.
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Chapter 35: The Quest for Meaning
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Q1) Among the most daring of the International style proponents and last director of the Bauhaus was the Dutch architect
A)Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
B)Richard Buckminster Fuller.
C)Frank Lloyd Wright.
D)Philip Johnson.
Q2) ________,the leading philosopher of the twentieth century,made significant contributions as a playwright,novelist,journalist,and literary critic.
A)Hobbs
B)Sartre
C)Kant
D)Handel
Q3) The first "hot war" of the cold war era was fought in which of the following countries?
A)Korea
B)Germany
C)Spain
D)Vietnam
Q4) Define theater of the absurd and its goals as a performance medium.
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Chapter 36: Liberation and Equality
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Q1) One of the earliest revolts against colonial rule took place against the British Empire in
A)IndiA.
B)Pakistan.
C)Bangladesh.
D)Australia.
Q2) Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music.
Q3) The ________ took the first Africans to America in 1619,and during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,thousands of slaves were imported to the American colonies,especially those in the South.
A)Portuguese
B)Spanish
C)French
D)Dutch
Q4) Discuss the quest for gender equality as reflected in feminist literature and art.
Q5) Chronicle the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity in the arts.
Q6) Explain the quest for liberation in colonial Latin America.
Q7) Discuss the quest for racial equality and its proponents in the arts.
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Chapter 37: The Information Age
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Q1) A classic kind of total art,________,was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006).Kaprow,who coined the name for this conceptual genre,called it "a performance that occurs in a given time and space."
A)the Happening
B)the Be-in
C)performance art
D)total art
Q2) Arthur C.Clarke,H.
A)nonfiction
B)suspense
C)science fiction
D)poetry
Q3) ________ is a literary genre that gives an original (and fictionalized)narrative context to contemporary events and situations.
A)"Old" media
B)Subjectivism
C)Docufiction
D)All these answers are correct.
Q4) Explain the basic features of postmodern literature and magic realism.
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Chapter 38: Globalism
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Q1) The Swiss Re building is called "the Gherkin" by Londoners and is famous for which of the following reasons?
A)It is a solid green color.
B)It is environmentally sustainable.
C)It is independently nuclear-powered.
D)It is essentially a tent shaped like a gigantic dome.
Q2) Probably the greatest single threat to the global community is ________,the deliberate and systematic use of violence against civilians in order to achieve political,religious,or ideological goals.
A)terrorism
B)pacification
C)sabotage
D)exploitation
Q3) An ongoing counterpoint to globalism is the recurring emphasis in the arts regarding which of the following?
A)nationalism
B)ethnicity
C)religiosity
D)anarchy
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