Cultural Studies Exam Review
Course Introduction
Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations, and power structures. This course introduces key theories and concepts used to analyze various cultural forms such as media, art, literature, and popular practices while examining issues of identity, ideology, race, gender, class, and globalization. Students will engage with influential texts and case studies from multiple disciplines, learning how to critically assess the cultural forces that shape societies and their own roles as cultural participants and producers.
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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) List at least two poetic forms found in Petrarch's Canzoniere and explain what theme these poems espouse that became dominant in Renaissance lyric poetry.
Answer: Two poetic forms found in Petrarch's Canzoniere are the sonnet and the sestina. The sonnet is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, while the sestina is a 39-line poem with a complex pattern of repeating end words.
The dominant theme in Renaissance lyric poetry that is espoused in these poems is the concept of unrequited love and the anguish of longing. Petrarch's Canzoniere is filled with poems expressing his love for a woman named Laura, who does not return his affections. This theme of unrequited love and the pain of longing became a prominent motif in Renaissance lyric poetry, as poets sought to explore the complexities of human emotion and desire. The use of these poetic forms allowed poets to convey these themes with elegance and precision, contributing to the development of Renaissance poetry as a whole.
Q2) Sfumato, which means "smoky," is a technique developed by Tintoretto.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) The Northern Renaissance painters favored egg tempera over the newly developing oil medium.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The hay in Hieronymous Bosch's Hay Wain symbolizes __________.
A) heaven
B) youth
C) material possessions
D) pleasures of the flesh
E) the wheel of fate
Answer: C
Q3) __________ created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as a princess that displays Elizabeth's love of learning by representing books.
A) Levina Bening Teerling
B) Hans Holbein the Younger
C) Caterina van Hemessen
D) Lucas Cranach
E) all of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________ contended that the human mind is at birth a tabula rasa.
A) John Locke
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) René Descartes
D) Thomas Hobbes
E) Gottfried Leibniz
Answer: A
Q2) __________ composed The Four Seasons.
A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Arcangelo Corelli
D) Antonio Vivaldi
E) Joseph Haydn
Answer: D
Q3) René Descartres is known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and is well known for his dictum cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am").
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) What are the elements of Enlightenment thought and how did they manifest themselves in artistic, musical, and literary works?
Q2) The George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon stands in the contrapposto pose derived from antiquity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) There was a rise in public concerts during the Neoclassical era.Provide an example to delineate the changes that occurred due to a new audience made up primarily of the middle-class.
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Q4) Angelica Kauffmann's Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures is a model of Rococo style and technique.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What do Jane Austen's novels advocate?
Q6) How was the Neoclassical style used to promote the ideals of the French Revolution?
Q7) Trace the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.
Q8) How does the Neoclassical garden compare to the gardens of the Baroque era?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) What was Wagner's contribution to music of the nineteenth-century?
Q2) Kant called the two basic substances, "those that we receive through impressions, and those that our faculty of knowledge supplies from itself" __________ respectively.
A) senses and matters
B) sensations and perceptions
C) phenomena and noumena
D) feeling and knowing
E) conscious and unconscious
Q3) All of the following were English Realist novelists except __________.
A) Charles Dickens
B) Emily Brontë
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) George Eliot
E) Anthony Trollope
Q4) How is one's understanding of nineteenth-century sexual politics enhanced by applying feminist theories to Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass?
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Q5) 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) Claude Debussy was to nineteenth-century French music what Pierre-Auguste Renoir was to nineteenth-century French __________.
A) literature
B) architecture
C) painting
D) philosophy
E) sculpture
Q2) What "improvements" to Impressionism are seen in either George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte or Paul Gauguin's Manao Tupapau ?
Q3) __________ is known as the "father of abstract art."
A) Claude Monet
B) Henri Matisse
C) Paul Cézanne
D) Paul Gauguin
E) Vincent van Gogh
Q4) The favorite subjects of Paul Cézanne were still life and landscape.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List the features of Art Nouveau and provide an example of this style.
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) The Chinese often considered __________ the highest form of art.
A) poetry
B) prose
C) landscape painting
D) portraits
E) calligraphy
Q2) Under the rule of the so-called Yongle Emperor the palace enclosure where the emperor and his court lived was called the __________.
A) Imperial City
B) Forbidden City
C) Gate of Heavenly Peace
D) Gate of Supreme Harmony
E) The Garden of Imperial Delights
Q3) __________ is described as the "poet of the brush."
A) Shen Zhou
B) Qiu Ying
C) Bei Dao
D) Zhu Da
E) Cao Xuequin
Q4) What is the significance of the subject matter of Wu Zhen's Bamboo ?
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Oe Hikari was a Muromachi sculptor known for his images of Buddha.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did Confucianism impact the organization of society during the Edo period?
Q3) The Tokugawa shogunate unified the country of Japan and isolated it from outside world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is an example of a Zen __________.
A) shoin
B) cha-no-yu
C) samurai
D) koan
E) shogun
Q5) Compare and contrast Utagamaro Kitagawa's Kuchi-bini and the poems of Yosano Akiko.
Q6) How does the Japanese garden compare to those of Europe?
Q7) Explain how woodblock prints were linked to the world of Kabuki theater.
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Q8) Summarize the Japanese approach to architecture during the Muromachi and Momoyama periods.
Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) With what are the most prevalent forms of popular music in Latin America associated?
Q2) How did colonialism encourage the rapid expansion of Islam?
Q3) What is the role of religion in the production of art, music, and literature of the African and Latin American worlds?
Q4) The Los Tres Grandes referred to the __________.
A) three Mexican novelists
B) three distinctive "Mexicos"
C) three painters of the mural movement in Mexico
D) three periods of the history of Mexican culture
E) both A and C
Q5) Isabel Allende's novel The House of Spirits (1982) creates a fictional world that reconstructs the history of __________.
A) Chile
B) Brazil
C) Peru
D) Argentina
E) Paraguay
Q6) What two separate cultural and economic traditions make up Latin America?
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) The goal of such Russian artists as Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky was to bring art to the masses; thus, these artists saw their art as a political tool.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Analyze at least three works to determine how did the goals of modern abstract painters differ from those of the American Regionalist painters.?
Q3) The stories of __________ explore ideas from Christianity that transcend the confines of Southern Regionalism.
A) William Faulkner
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) T.S. Eliot
E) Franz Kafka
Q4) James Joyce use a stream of consciousness technique to get readers into the character's minds.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Leonard Bernstein was successful at popularizing not only classical music, but also at classicizing popular music.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut abandons the __________ of traditional religious architecture.
A) grid-like structure
B) bays
C) devotionality
D) concave and convex shapes
E) symmetry
Q3) What are the major principles of the Bauhaus?
Q4) __________ coined the term "Happening."
A) John Cage
B) Allan Kaprow
C) Andy Warhol
D) Roy Lichtenstein
E) Jean-Michel Basquiat
Q5) Who were the Gutai artists and what influenced their art production?
Q6) Describe the variety of musical forms that were popularized after World War II.
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) Leslie Marmon Silko's __________ "reflects the intersection of the spiritual and material worlds, as well as connections between history and personal experience."
A) The Bluest Eye
B) Storyteller
C) Silent Dancing
D) The Way to Rainy Mountain
E) "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision"
Q2) __________ is the focus of the Guerilla Girls.
A) The gender inequities in the art scene
B) The nudity of female art figures
C) The need for more minority representation in art gallery attendance
D) The need to make art galleries handicapped accessible
E) both A and C
Q3) __________ is the chief practitioner of Poststructuralism.
A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
E) Simone de Beauvoir
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