Question 1

Which of the following was a military alliance formed by the Eastern bloc in 1955?

Accepted Answer

A)  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 
B)  Iron Curtain 
C)  Warsaw Pact 
D)  League of Nations 
A)  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 
B)  Iron Curtain 
C)  Warsaw Pact 
D)  League of Nations

Question 2

The theater of the absurd

Accepted Answer

A)  shared existentialism's bleak vision. 
B)  obeyed the rules of the classical tradition. 
C)  concentrated on the psychology of the characters. 
D)  romanticized the lives of ordinary people. 
A)  shared existentialism's bleak vision. 
B)  obeyed the rules of the classical tradition. 
C)  concentrated on the psychology of the characters. 
D)  romanticized the lives of ordinary people.

Question 3

The hero in Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Accepted Answer

A)  is killed during a rebellion against the prison system. 
B)  endures the hardships of the labor camp. 
C)  decides that life is not worth living and commits suicide. 
D)  renounces Marxism and is executed for his thought crime. 
A)  is killed during a rebellion against the prison system. 
B)  endures the hardships of the labor camp. 
C)  decides that life is not worth living and commits suicide. 
D)  renounces Marxism and is executed for his thought crime.

Question 4

Who is considered the founder of neoorthodoxy, which claimed that God was beyond human reason?

Accepted Answer

A)  Teilhard de Chardin 
B)  Paul Tillich 
C)  Martin Buber 
D)  Karl Barth 
A)  Teilhard de Chardin 
B)  Paul Tillich 
C)  Martin Buber 
D)  Karl Barth

Question 5

Who of the following was born on a Mississippi plantation and created literary works filled with too much rage at racism to be accepted by white literary critics in the 1940s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Martin Luther King Jr. 
B)  James Baldwin 
C)  Richard Wright 
D)  Doris Lessing 
A)  Martin Luther King Jr. 
B)  James Baldwin 
C)  Richard Wright 
D)  Doris Lessing

Question 6

Which of the following was a characteristic of late modernism?

Accepted Answer

A)  an undaunted optimism 
B)  a commitment to a fixed set of standards in art 
C)  investing works with spiritual or metaphysical meaning 
D)  appropriation of images of mass culture 
A)  an undaunted optimism 
B)  a commitment to a fixed set of standards in art 
C)  investing works with spiritual or metaphysical meaning 
D)  appropriation of images of mass culture

Question 7

What is meant by the term cold war? Which nations were involved in this conflict, and what were the causes of this "war"?

Accepted Answer

The term "Cold War" refers to the period

Question 8

Who of the following wrote a play that spawned a movement called the angry young men?

Accepted Answer

A)  Eugene Ionesco 
B)  Tennessee Williams 
C)  Arthur Miller 
D)  John Osborne 
A)  Eugene Ionesco 
B)  Tennessee Williams 
C)  Arthur Miller 
D)  John Osborne

Question 9

Who of the following insisted on the existence of the authentic God, known as the "God behind God"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Teilhard de Chardin 
B)  Paul Tillich 
C)  Martin Buber 
D)  Karl Barth 
A)  Teilhard de Chardin 
B)  Paul Tillich 
C)  Martin Buber 
D)  Karl Barth

Question 10

Which of the following nations enjoyed an average of 10 percent annual growth in its gross domestic product between 1950 and 1973?

Accepted Answer

A)  Great Britain 
B)  Japan 
C)  the United States 
D)  the Soviet Union 
A)  Great Britain 
B)  Japan 
C)  the United States 
D)  the Soviet Union

Question 11

In which of the following nations did Mao Zedong play a key role as the nation sought to establish a socialist system?

Accepted Answer

A)  North Korea 
B)  South Korea 
C)  China 
D)  Vietnam 
A)  North Korea 
B)  South Korea 
C)  China 
D)  Vietnam

Question 12

How did the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. affect James Baldwin?

Accepted Answer

A)  It revived his faith in the American way of life. 
B)  It persuaded him that an integrated society was the only solution to America's racism. 
C)  It convinced him that violence was the only path to changing America's racial attitudes. 
D)  It led him to dedicate his life to working among the urban poor. 
A)  It revived his faith in the American way of life. 
B)  It persuaded him that an integrated society was the only solution to America's racism. 
C)  It convinced him that violence was the only path to changing America's racial attitudes. 
D)  It led him to dedicate his life to working among the urban poor.

Question 13

Which two abstract expressionists showed the way to pop art?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning 
B)  Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg 
C)  Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler 
D)  Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis 
A)  Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning 
B)  Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg 
C)  Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler 
D)  Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis

Question 14

Which New York museum was a major force in elevating the artists of the Western avant-garde to dominance in postwar Western art?

Accepted Answer

A)  Metropolitan Museum of Art 
B)  Whitney Museum 
C)  Museum of Modern Art 
D)  Guggenheim Museum 
A)  Metropolitan Museum of Art 
B)  Whitney Museum 
C)  Museum of Modern Art 
D)  Guggenheim Museum

Question 15

Which of the following countries was NOT part of the American bloc during the cold war?

Accepted Answer

A)  Japan 
B)  West Germany 
C)  Italy 
D)  China 
A)  Japan 
B)  West Germany 
C)  Italy 
D)  China

Question 16

Which abstract expressionist is famous for "drip paintings"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jackson Pollock 
B)  Robert Rauschenberg 
C)  Jasper Johns 
D)  Mark Rothko 
A)  Jackson Pollock 
B)  Robert Rauschenberg 
C)  Jasper Johns 
D)  Mark Rothko

Question 17

What were the reasons for the end of European colonialism after 1945? What international issues and problems emerged in the wake of decolonization?

Accepted Answer

The end of European colonialism after 19

Question 18

Which of the following playwrights created a work using the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts, to symbolize the communist investigation undertaken by the Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives?

Accepted Answer

A)  Tennessee Williams 
B)  John Osborne 
C)  Harold Pinter 
D)  Arthur Miller 
A)  Tennessee Williams 
B)  John Osborne 
C)  Harold Pinter 
D)  Arthur Miller

Question 19

Structuralists maintain that

Accepted Answer

A)  human freedom is unlimited. 
B)  humans act and operate in random ways, absent of patterns. 
C)  civilizations arise from deep-seated modes of thought. 
D)  the basic nature of the human mind is unfathomable. 
A)  human freedom is unlimited. 
B)  humans act and operate in random ways, absent of patterns. 
C)  civilizations arise from deep-seated modes of thought. 
D)  the basic nature of the human mind is unfathomable.

Question 20

Which of the following artists was guided by the "truth to materials" argument and enhanced his reputation in the United Kingdom by sketching a series of "shelter" drawings that depicted Londoners huddled in the underground subway stations during the blitz?

Accepted Answer

A)  Joseph Beuys 
B)  David Smith 
C)  Henry Moore 
D)  George Segal 
A)  Joseph Beuys 
B)  David Smith 
C)  Henry Moore 
D)  George Segal

Exam 22: The Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism

Which of the following was a military alliance formed by the Eastern bloc in 1955?

The theater of the absurd

The hero in Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Who is considered the founder of neoorthodoxy, which claimed that God was beyond human reason?

Who of the following was born on a Mississippi plantation and created literary works filled with too much rage at racism to be accepted by white literary critics in the 1940s?

Which of the following was a characteristic of late modernism?

What is meant by the term cold war? Which nations were involved in this conflict, and what were the causes of this "war"?

Who of the following wrote a play that spawned a movement called the angry young men?

Who of the following insisted on the existence of the authentic God, known as the "God behind God"?

Which of the following nations enjoyed an average of 10 percent annual growth in its gross domestic product between 1950 and 1973?

In which of the following nations did Mao Zedong play a key role as the nation sought to establish a socialist system?

How did the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. affect James Baldwin?

Which two abstract expressionists showed the way to pop art?

Which New York museum was a major force in elevating the artists of the Western avant-garde to dominance in postwar Western art?

Which of the following countries was NOT part of the American bloc during the cold war?

Which abstract expressionist is famous for "drip paintings"?

What were the reasons for the end of European colonialism after 1945? What international issues and problems emerged in the wake of decolonization?

Which of the following playwrights created a work using the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts, to symbolize the communist investigation undertaken by the Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives?

Structuralists maintain that

Which of the following artists was guided by the "truth to materials" argument and enhanced his reputation in the United Kingdom by sketching a series of "shelter" drawings that depicted Londoners huddled in the underground subway stations during the blitz?

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The Aegean: the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age

Classical Greece: the Hellenic Age

The Hellenistic World

Classical Rome: From Republic to Empire

Judaism and the Rise of Christianity

Late Antiquity: the Transformation of the Roman Empire and the Triumph of Christianity

The Heirs to the Roman Empire: Byzantium and the West in the Early Middle Ages

The Rise of Islam

The High Middle Ages

The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Recovery

The Early Renaissance: Return to Classical Roots

The High Renaissance and Early Mannerism

Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, and Late Mannerism

The Baroque Age I: Glamour and Grandiosity

The Baroque Age Ii: Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought

The Age of Reason

Revolution, Reaction, and Cultural Response

The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie

The Age of Early Modernism

The Age of the Masses and the Zenith of Modernism

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