Question 1

In general,modernist artists

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A)  strove to duplicate what they saw in the world. 
B)  rejected the notion of reproducing what they saw exactly. 
C)  imitated the work of "primitive" artists in non-western cultures. 
D)  believed that art should be socially relevant. 
E)  accepted the Renaissance view of the world as inherently orderly and rational. 
A)  strove to duplicate what they saw in the world. 
B)  rejected the notion of reproducing what they saw exactly. 
C)  imitated the work of "primitive" artists in non-western cultures. 
D)  believed that art should be socially relevant. 
E)  accepted the Renaissance view of the world as inherently orderly and rational.

Question 2

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Principle of Uncertainty

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The Principle of Uncertainty, also known

Question 3

Who showed that matter and energy are two different expressions of the same physical entity?

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A)  Albert Einstein 
B)  Isaac Newton 
C)  Max Planck 
D)  Werner Heisenberg 
E)  Max Weber 
A)  Albert Einstein 
B)  Isaac Newton 
C)  Max Planck 
D)  Werner Heisenberg 
E)  Max Weber

Question 4

Max Weber's field of activity may be associated with

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A)  propagandizing for the Wandervogel. 
B)  leading the field of modern sociology. 
C)  rivaling Freud in psychoanalysis. 
D)  advancing medical research. 
E)  humanism. 
A)  propagandizing for the Wandervogel. 
B)  leading the field of modern sociology. 
C)  rivaling Freud in psychoanalysis. 
D)  advancing medical research. 
E)  humanism.

Question 5

​Which statement is an accurate depiction of modernist culture?

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A)  ​Reality can be grasped from a multiplicity of human experiences.​ 
B)  ​Human experience strives toward a single reality.​ 
C)  ​Religion must remain the core of morality or else human desires overwhelm social norms.​ 
D)  ​Artistic endeavors need to follow clear forms and structures.​ 
E)  ​Culture mirrors the perfect ideal of the superego. 
A)  ​Reality can be grasped from a multiplicity of human experiences.​ 
B)  ​Human experience strives toward a single reality.​ 
C)  ​Religion must remain the core of morality or else human desires overwhelm social norms.​ 
D)  ​Artistic endeavors need to follow clear forms and structures.​ 
E)  ​Culture mirrors the perfect ideal of the superego.

Question 6

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-Social thinkers diagnosed the ills of modernizing societies in various different ways in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.What were the different diagnoses and who was responsible for each one?

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One social thinker who diagnosed the ill

Question 7

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-higher man

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The term "higher man" refers to a concep

Question 8

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Cubism

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Cubism is an art movement that emerged i

Question 9

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Irrationalism

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Irrationalism is a philosophical concept

Question 10

The authors of your text contend that Freud

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A)  never vacillated in his basic support of reason. 
B)  believed that recognizing the similarity of the unconscious among human beings would lead to a confirmation and affirmation of self. 
C)  affirmed that the study of the unconscious would lead to a great human pride. 
D)  had a limited vision because he thought that the irrational could never be studied by the rational mind. 
E)  never wavered in his support for the irrational. 
A)  never vacillated in his basic support of reason. 
B)  believed that recognizing the similarity of the unconscious among human beings would lead to a confirmation and affirmation of self. 
C)  affirmed that the study of the unconscious would lead to a great human pride. 
D)  had a limited vision because he thought that the irrational could never be studied by the rational mind. 
E)  never wavered in his support for the irrational.

Question 11

​Cubism was developed by

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A)  ​Mondrain and Kandinsky. 
B)  ​Picasso and Braque. 
C)  ​Klee and Van Gogh. 
D)  ​Einstein and Bohr.​ 
E)  ​Planck and Stravinsky. 
A)  ​Mondrain and Kandinsky. 
B)  ​Picasso and Braque. 
C)  ​Klee and Van Gogh. 
D)  ​Einstein and Bohr.​ 
E)  ​Planck and Stravinsky.

Question 12

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a theore

Question 13

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Wassily Kandinsky

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Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter

Question 14

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-In what way did Emile Durkheim suggest that anomie of modern Western society might be corrected?

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I'm sorry, but it seems there might be a

Question 15

Bergson may be best associated with

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A)  studying the id. 
B)  offering cultural studies of the nineteenth century. 
C)  being the first artist of the surrealist movement. 
D)  the idea that truth may be arrived at through rational criticism. 
E)  the idea that truth must be achieved by an intuitive experience. 
A)  studying the id. 
B)  offering cultural studies of the nineteenth century. 
C)  being the first artist of the surrealist movement. 
D)  the idea that truth may be arrived at through rational criticism. 
E)  the idea that truth must be achieved by an intuitive experience.

Question 16

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Overman

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The term "Overman" is a concept introduc

Question 17

​All of the following are examples of modernist writers except​

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A)  ​Franz Kafka. 
B)  ​James Joyce. 
C)  ​Joseph Conrad. 
D)  ​Marcel Proust. 
E)  ​Igor Stravinsky. 
A)  ​Franz Kafka. 
B)  ​James Joyce. 
C)  ​Joseph Conrad. 
D)  ​Marcel Proust. 
E)  ​Igor Stravinsky.

Question 18

​Which composer abandoned traditional scales instead developing atonal music?

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A)  ​Igor Stravinsky 
B)  ​Pablo Picasso 
C)  ​Arnold Schoenberg 
D)  ​Thomas Mann 
E)  ​Gottfried Benn 
A)  ​Igor Stravinsky 
B)  ​Pablo Picasso 
C)  ​Arnold Schoenberg 
D)  ​Thomas Mann 
E)  ​Gottfried Benn

Question 19

Freud would have agreed that

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A)  human nature is naturally good. 
B)  evil is a product of environmental conditions. 
C)  people are quite capable of controlling their irrational impulses. 
D)  one must strive for a utopia for humankind. 
E)  human nature is not naturally good. 
A)  human nature is naturally good. 
B)  evil is a product of environmental conditions. 
C)  people are quite capable of controlling their irrational impulses. 
D)  one must strive for a utopia for humankind. 
E)  human nature is not naturally good.

Question 20

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Werner Heisenberg

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Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist

Exam 17: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human Nature, and the Arts

In general,modernist artists

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Principle of Uncertainty

Who showed that matter and energy are two different expressions of the same physical entity?

Max Weber's field of activity may be associated with

​Which statement is an accurate depiction of modernist culture?

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Social thinkers diagnosed the ills of modernizing societies in various different ways in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.What were the different diagnoses and who was responsible for each one?

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -higher man

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Cubism

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Irrationalism

The authors of your text contend that Freud

​Cubism was developed by

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Albert Einstein

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Wassily Kandinsky

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -In what way did Emile Durkheim suggest that anomie of modern Western society might be corrected?

Bergson may be best associated with

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Overman

​All of the following are examples of modernist writers except​

​Which composer abandoned traditional scales instead developing atonal music?

Freud would have agreed that

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Werner Heisenberg

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greeks: From Myth to Reason

Rome: From City-State to World Empire

Early Christianity: a World Religion

The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical,christian,and Germanic Traditions

The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval Civilization

Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation

Political and Economic Transformation: National States, overseas Expansion, commercial Revolution

Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment

The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Society

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism: Revolution, counterrevolution, and Unification

Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, positivism, darwinism, and Social Criticism

Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century: Modernization, nationalism, imperialism

World War I: the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance

Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989

The Troubled Present

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Which statement is an accurate depiction of modernist culture?

Cubism was developed by

All of the following are examples of modernist writers except

Which composer abandoned traditional scales instead developing atonal music?