Cultural Studies Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Cultural Studies explores the ways in which culture shapes and is shaped by social, political, and economic forces within societies. This interdisciplinary course examines key concepts such as ideology, identity, representation, power, and globalization, drawing on theories from fields like anthropology, sociology, literature, and media studies. Students will analyze a variety of cultural texts including film, music, literature, and social media to understand how meanings are produced and contested in everyday life. Through critical readings and discussions, the course encourages students to interrogate cultural norms, question assumptions, and appreciate diversity in a rapidly changing world.
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Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) In The Last Supper , Leonardo da Vinci found __________ the most difficult to paint.
A) John and Peter
B) Judas and Jesus
C) the table
D) the arrangement of the five segments
E) the windows in the background
Answer: B
Q2) __________ wrote the Book of the Courtier.
A) Petrarch
B) Benvenuto Cellini
C) Niccolò Macchiavelli
D) Baldassare Castiglione
E) Vittoria da Colonna
Answer: D
Q3) Properzia de' Rossi was from Cremona.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) The development of the printing press greatly facilitated the spread of the Reformation during this era.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Flemish painter, __________ is best known for his half-man, half-animal creatures.
A) Robert Campin
B) Jan van Eyck
C) Hieronymus Bosch
D) Peter Bruegel the Elder
E) Peter Paul Rubens
Answer: C
Q3) A madrigal is a vocal composition for a small group of singers, usually without accompaniment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________ invented the concerto.
A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Arcangelo Corelli
D) Antonio Vivaldi
E) Henry Purcell
Answer: C
Q2) __________ composed The Four Seasons.
A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Arcangelo Corelli
D) Antonio Vivaldi
E) Joseph Haydn
Answer: D
Q3) French theater eschewed the three unities of time, place, and action that were the basis of other Baroque countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Rococo is to frivolity as Neoclassical art is to __________.
A) moral virtue
B) violence
C) emotion
D) mythology
E) genre
Q2) François Boucher was a favorite of the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Give an example of a work in which the choice of style, either Rococo or Neoclassical, was determined by the message that the artist, musician, or writer was trying to convey.
Q4) __________ is a style that emerged as artists turned away from the Rococo and back toward ancient classical ideals.
A) Neoclassicism
B) Mannerism
C) Baroque
D) Renaissance
E) Post-Impressionist
Q5) Trace the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) __________wrote Wuthering Heights which is a perfect encapsulation of the Romantic sensibility in the "violence of its scenes and the extravagance of its style."
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) John Keats
E) Emily Dickinson
Q2) Why does London's Houses of Parliament use a style based on that of the Gothic period (that is, why was this style considered appropriate for a government building)?
Q3) Francisco Goya's __________ style was employed to chronicle of France's war with Spain.
A) Romantic
B) Realistic
C) Renaissance
D) Surrealistic
E) Neoclassical
Q4) Summarize the primary ideas expressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions.
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Chapter 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) The name "Impressionism" was derived from a painting by __________.
A) Édouard Manet
B) Claude Monet
C) Mary Cassatt
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
E) Berthe Morisot
Q2) The favorite subjects of Paul Cézanne were still life and landscape.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Baron Haussmann was responsible for the __________.
A) "grands boulevards" of Paris
B) Eiffel Tower in Paris
C) The Statue of Liberty
D) Art Nouveau presence in Paris
E) "Batignolles" group
Q4) What were the chief scientific and technological developments of the late nineteenth-century?
Q5) What "improvements" to Impressionism are seen in either George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte or Paul Gauguin's Manao Tupapau ?
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Q6) Explore Claude Debussy's "musical impressionism."
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) __________ is the dominant political system in contemporary China.
A) Democracy
B) Socialism
C) Communism
D) Monarchy
E) Oligarchy
Q2) Discuss the impact of the arrival of Jesuit Catholic missionaries, such as Matteo Ricci, into China during the Qing dynasty.
Q3) Due to its apt reflection of the political, religious, economic, and aesthetic element of mid-Qing elite life, The Dream of the Red Chamber is considered by some to be the most important Chinese literary text of the eighteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Summarize the primary beliefs of the Chinese and explain how these values have shaped specific works of art, music, and literature.
Q5) Examine how the Imperial Palace, Beijing was designed as a visual manifestation of the nexus between the rule of the emperor and order in the universe.
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Zazen is a form of music practiced in the rural areas of the country.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did Confucianism impact the organization of society during the Edo period?
Q3) __________ created Sudden Shower Over Atake , number 58 of One Hundred Views of Edo.
A) Katsushika Hokusai
B) Sesshu
C) Ando Hiroshige
D) Utamaro Kitagawa
E) Saikaku Ihara
Q4) The fiction of modern Japan reflects a strong concern with __________.
A) achievement
B) religion
C) cultural and individual identity
D) ancient tales
E) philosophy
Q5) Describe the tenets and major aspects of the religion of Shinto.
Q6) What happened after 1600 in terms of literature?
Q7) What is a koan and what is its purpose?
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) The meeting held from 1884 to 1885, which resulted in the division of the African continent among Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, was called the __________.
A) Division of Powers Colloquium
B) African War Act
C) Conference of Berlin
D) Bismarck Session
E) Benin Expedition
Q2) What two separate cultural and economic traditions make up Latin America?
Q3) The message, for the Mexican people, of Sigueiros' large-scale mural, Cuauhtémoc Against the Myth was that __________.
A) Mexicans need to control their population
B) indigenous people could regain power
C) cultures can co-exist in one nation
D) colonialism was not damaging
E) religious faith will be rewarded
Q4) What is the relationship between the music of Johannes Sebastian Bach and that of Heitor Villa-Lobos? Essay
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) __________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.
A) William Faulkner
B) James Joyce
C) Langston Hughes
D) Virginia Woolf
E) Ernest Hemingway
Q2) __________ by Henri Matisse perfectly encapsulates the tenets of Fauvism in its "raw contrasts of pure color in flat planes."
A) Woman with a Hat
B) Three Forms
C) Object (Le Déjeuner en Fourrure
D) Reclining Figure
E) The Fountain
Q3) Benton and DiYanni assert that abstraction takes three forms.What are they?
Q4) What does the term avant garde refer to in terms of art, music, or literature of the early twentieth-century? List three to five of the avant garde movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.
Q5) What did the Fauves believe about color?
Q6) What were the root causes of the Russian Revolution?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett portrays two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, and draws heavily on the farcical gestures of vaudeville performers and circus clowns.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Leonard Bernstein was successful at popularizing not only classical music, but also at classicizing popular music.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Less is more," the motto of __________ is a sentiment that is typical of the architects of mid twentieth-century International style.
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Walter Gropius
C) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
D) Gerritt Rietveld
E) Le Corbusier
Q4) Marisol Escobar's work is created in the Minimalist style.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) __________ is the chief practitioner of Poststructuralism.
A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
E) Simone de Beauvoir
Q2) The approach to culture called Structuralism was developed by __________.
A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Søren Kierkegaard
E) Emanuel Kant
Q3) What is meant by the term "Cyborg Surrealism," what artist do Benton and DiYanni associate the term with, and why?
Q4) Globalization refers to the tendency in contemporary societies toward an increasing pluralism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define "Deconstruction" and give an example of its use.
Q6) What is "Semiotics"?
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