Survey of Modern Cultures Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Survey of Modern Cultures provides an interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary societies around the world, examining how historical developments, social dynamics, technological advances, and global interactions have shaped modern cultural identities, values, and practices. Through case studies, readings, and discussions, students will analyze the diversity of cultural expressions, consider issues such as globalization, media influence, and cultural conflict, and develop a deeper understanding of the complex forces that influence modern life. This course encourages critical thinking and cross-cultural awareness, preparing students to engage thoughtfully in a rapidly changing world.
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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) Discuss the significance of opera as a reflection of the baroque spirit.
Q2) Under the leadership of Ignatius Loyola,the ________ order became the most influential missionary society of early modern times.
A)Dominican
B)Jesuit
C)Benedictine
D)Cistercian
Q3) Compare those features shared by baroque art and music.
Q4) In literature during this age there appeared a new emphasis on heightened spirituality and on personal visionary experience acquired
A)through divine intercession.
B)through meditation.
C)by way of the senses.
D)through careful reading and learning.
Q5) How was the spirit of Catholic reform expressed in literature and art?
Q6) Discuss the Jesuits and their role in the Catholic Church of this era.
Q7) Explain the rise of mannerism and the baroque style.
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Chapter 21: Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style
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Q1) What was the significance of Molière as a comic dramatist?
Q2) Describe Louis XIV's Versailles in terms of a symbol of royal absolutism and an expression of the Classical baroque style.
Q3) The imperial complex at the Forbidden City in ________ stands as a symbol of the absolutism of China's Ming and Qing emperors.
A)Tokyo
B)Beijing
C)Chunking
D)Hanoi
Q4) As absolute monarch,________ brought France to a position of political and military preeminence among the European nation-states.
A)Louis X
B)Louis XV
C)Louis XIV
D)Louis V
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) During this period,the Dutch were embroiled in a nineteen-year war with which of the following countries?
A)England
B)Portugal
C)Spain
D)France
Q2) Highlight the literary achievements of both Donne and Milton.
Q3) The musical genre in which a long sacred or epic text is performed in concert by a narrator,soloists,chorus,and orchestra is called
A)operA.
B)oratorio.
C)tone poem.
D)All these answers are correct.
Q4) ________,Puritan,humanist,and defender of Cromwell's Commonwealth,was the most notable English-language poet of the seventeenth century.
A)Chaucer
B)Milton
C)Wren
D)Handel
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Chapter 23: The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning
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Q1) According to the text,which of the following was NOT a focus of the Scientific Revolution?
A)the exercise of direct observation and experimentation
B)combining science with so-called religious truths
C)the invention of instruments by which to measure and test
D)the reliance on mathematical verification
Q2) Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning.
Q3) List the central figures of the Scientific Revolution and their contributions.
Q4) Which of the following was the famous seventeenth-century Dutch painter and camera obscura user who only produced some forty canvases in his career?
A)Goya
B)Reuben
C)Rembrandt
D)Vermeer
Q5) Discuss deism and how it formed a bridge of faith between religion and science in this age.
Q6) Explain the fundamental ideas of Bacon,Descartes,and Locke.
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 of the following is the name of the early type of fictional portrayals of contemporary life in written form?
A)novellas
B)treaties
C)histories
D)memoirs
Q2) The era marking the divide between the medieval faith-based view of the world and the modern,secular view is called
A)the Enlightenment.
B)the Golden Age.
C)the Reformation.
D)the Renaissance.
Q3) Outline the development of the novel form of literature.
Q4) ________,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
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Chapter 25: The Limits of Reason
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Q1) Explain the role of satire as a literary instrument for attacking false values.
Q2) Explain the reasons for and consequences of the revolutions in America and in France.
Q3) ________'s engravings exposed the social ills and class discrepancies of British society,even as they mocked universal human vices.
A)Jonathan Swift
B)Olaudah Equiano
C)Voltaire
D)William Hogarth
Q4) The first production sector of the English economy to undergo transformation towards machinery was
A)transportation.
B)coal-mining.
C)textiles.
D)agriculture.
Q5) Defend Voltaire's Candide as literary satire.
Q6) Discuss the original purpose and the nature of transatlantic slave trade.
Q7) Examine the revolt against reason in the writings of Rousseau and Kant in a short essay.
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Chapter 26: Eighteenth-Century Art,music,and Society
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Q1) Describe the aspects of Neoclassical architecture of the era and give examples of any buildings you can recall having this style.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Which of the following was a female painter who produced portraits for an almost exclusively female clientele?
A)Watteau
B)Boucher
C)Vigée-Lebrun
D)Fragonard
Q4) Highlight the major developments in eighteenth-century music: the birth of the orchestra and new forms of Classical composition.
Q5) 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) It was among Western romantics that the ________ became an independent and publicly acclaimed subject in the visual arts.
A)musical comedy
B)still life
C)Native American
D)landscape
Q2) Walt Whitman,Thoreau,and Emerson are all considered ________ writers.
A)right-wing
B)industrial
C)transcendentalist
D)novelistic
Q3) ________ compared the elemental forces of nature with the creative powers of the poet.
A)Wordsworth
B)Shelley
C)Blake
D)Wordsworth,Shelley,and Blake all made this comparison.
Q4) Define the European Romantic poets and explain their attitudes towards nature.
Q5) Examine attitudes toward nature in Asian culture and Native American culture.
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Q6) Detail the intellectual contributions of Hegel and Darwin.
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Chapter 28: The Romantic Hero
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Q1) Write a brief essay on the extraordinary career of Napoleon and his influence on the art world of his day.
Q2) Discuss the significance of historical heroes (such as Napoleon and Douglass)in nineteenth-century culture.
Q3) Examine the concept of the heroic personality as manifested in the fictional figures of Prometheus,Frankenstein,and Faust.
Q4) The most important antebellum musical contribution of America's population was which of the following?
A)the blues
B)jazz
C)the spiritual
D)bluegrass
Q5) For nineteenth-century Romantics,________ was an expression of the expansive subjectivity of the individual.
A)nature
B)the hero
C)the absolute monarch
D)the church
Q6) Explain the role and influence of nationalism on nineteenth-century culture.
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Chapter 29: The Romantic Style in Art and Music
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Q1) Musical pieces (often short)that have an improvised sound in spite of their carefully written notation are called
A)études.
B)impromptus.
C)nocturnes.
D)treatments.
Q2) Which of the following hailed imagination as paramount in the life of the artist and focused on sensuous and violent subjects? He said,"I have no love for reasonable painting."
A)Gros
B)Goya
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix
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) Discuss the basic characteristics of the Romantic style in art and music.
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Chapter 30: Industry,Empire,and the Realist Style
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Q1) Society should operate entirely in the interest of the needs of the people,communally and cooperatively,rather than competitively,according to which of the following?
A)liberalism
B)conservatism
C)utilitarianism
D)socialism
Q2) Discuss the shift from Romanticism to Realism in literature,the visual arts,and music.
Q3) Differentiate between the theories of liberalism,conservatism,utilitarianism,and socialism.
Q4) In painting,________ led the realist movement with canvases depicting the activities of humble and commonplace men and women.
A)Talbot
B)Courbet
C)Cameron
D)Brady
Q5) Define the factors that contributed to Western global dominion: industrialism,colonialism,nationalism,and imperialism.
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Chapter 31: The Move Toward Modernism
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Q1) Which of the following was famous for his posters of Parisian nightlife?
A)Cassatt
B)Toulouse-Lautrec
C)Renoir
D)Degas
Q2) Contributing to the European obsession with foreign culture was the World's Fair of 1880 held in which of the following cities?
A)Brussels
B)Philadelphia
C)London
D)Paris
Q3) Symbolist poets,such as Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud,devised a language of ________ that evoked (rather than described)feeling.
A)simple and general signs
B)sensation
C)numbers
D)natural sounds
Q4) Describe Symbolism and Impressionism as styles in the arts of the West.
Q5) Explain how postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's-sake spirit.
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Chapter 32: The Modernist Assault
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Q1) At the forefront of the modernist revolution in poetry stood the American expatriate ________,who studied the literatures of many peoples in the East and West.
A)Sanders
B)Frost
C)Tennyson
D)Pound
Q2) Picasso's new "language" of painting was called A)bluism.
B)cubism.
C)paintism.
D)retractable art.
Q3) The ________ were enthralled by the speed and dynamism of automobiles,trains,airplanes,and technology in general.
A)assembly artists
B)beaux Artists
C)futurists
D)tekkies
Q4) Discuss antitraditional forms of expression in music and dance.
Q5) Describe the imagist movement in early twentieth-century poetry.
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Chapter 33: The Freudian Revolution
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Q1) Explain Jungian psychology and how his theories differed from those of Freud.
Q2) Discuss why this period of artistic development and the movements within hinge upon the human psyche.
Q3) The positive modification and redirection of primal urges is termed A)reward.
B)contraindication.
C)sublimation.
D)behavioral reinforcement.
Q4) The Freudian impact on music was most evident in the second decade of the century in the medium of A)musical notation.
B)instrument design.
C)musical drama and theater.
D)choral arrangement.
Q5) Show how the new psychology influenced the birth of key movements in the arts: Expressionism,Dada,and Surrealism.
Q6) Explain the basic theories of Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis.
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Chapter 34: Total War,Totalitarianism,and the Arts
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Q1) Describe totalitarianism as exercised in Nazi Germany,Russia,and China.
Q2) The Central Powers alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following?
A)Austria-Hungary
B)Germany
C)the Ottoman Empire
D)Serbia
Q3) Which of the following WWI poets produced The Waste Land,which became the single most influential poem in early modern literature?
A)Yeats
B)Eliot
C)Owens
D)Twain
Q4) A full 80 percent of the casualties of WWI were from which of the following technological developments?
A)the land mine
B)the canon
C)mustard gas
D)the automatic machine gun
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Chapter 35: The Quest for Meaning
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Q1) Which of the following authors is considered pessimistic and tended to lean towards a "dystopian" viewpoint?
A)Orwell
B)Bradbury
C)Huxley
D)All these answers are correct.
Q2) Describe the postwar cultural boom in America.
Q3) ________'s landmark work,The Seventh Seal,is an allegorical tale of despair in the face of impending death.
A)Segal
B)Giacometti
C)Hopper
D)Bergman
Q4) ________,in his often-painted Pope Innocent X,created a logo for despiritualized modernism,looking back to Munch,Eisenstein,and Picasso.
A)Eliot
B)De Kooning
C)Frost
D)Bacon
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Chapter 36: Liberation and Equality
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Q1) The first black woman to be honored with the Nobel Prize in literature is
A)Dorothy West.
B)Alice Walker.
C)Toni Morrison.
D)Zora Neale Hurston.
Q2) Ellison's novel Invisible Man is about which of the following themes?
A)a black family on the move from the American South to Detroit
B)the civil rights movement
C)colonial slavery and its societal consequences
D)an unnamed black man living in a basement room in Harlem
Q3) One of the earliest revolts against colonial rule took place against the British Empire in
A)IndiA.
B)Pakistan.
C)Bangladesh.
D)Australia.
Q4) Chronicle the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity in the arts.
Q5) Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music.
Q6) Discuss the quest for racial equality and its proponents in the arts.
Q7) Explain the quest for liberation in colonial Latin America.
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Chapter 37: The Information Age
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Q1) String theory seeks to unite quantum physics with which of the following?
A)the Doppler effect
B)gravity
C)the theory of relativity
D)time and spatial theory
Q2) The two key contributing factors to today's historical age as explained by the text are
A)transglobal communications and computers.
B)television and computers.
C)television and cell phones.
D)television and the European Union.
Q3) Discuss the ways in which new directions in science and philosophy have influenced information age culture.
Q4) The world's first online,nonprofit English-language encyclopedia,________,was launched in 2001.
A)Britannica
B)the World Wide Web
C)Google
D)Wikipedia
Q5) Describe the basic features of postmodern architecture,opera,and dance.
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Chapter 38: Globalism
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Q1) Describe the work of E.O.Wilson and its influence on the arts.
Q2) "________," the exercise of power by means of group solidarity,has often pitted ethnic groups against each other in militant opposition.
A)Coup d'etat
B)Identity politics
C)Putsch
D)Junta
Q3) ________ is art in which the computer is employed as a primary tool,medium,or creative partner.
A)Digital art
B)Computer art
C)Viewer art
D)Video art
Q4) Paul Taylor's 1999 chorographical spoof of the Ku Klux Klan is named which of the following?
A)Dance....Now!
B)Three Sheets
C)Oh,You Kid
D)Nothing Better To Do
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