Question 1

Dorothea Lange created photographs that were semi-abstract and unconcerned with the effects of
the Depression.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Brancusi's Bird in Space evokes __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the bird itself 
B)  space 
C)  time 
D)  a squawking parrot 
E)  the flight of the bird 
A)  the bird itself 
B)  space 
C)  time 
D)  a squawking parrot 
E)  the flight of the bird

Question 3

In FSA photographer Walker Evan's Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burrough's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, there are visual echoes of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Dalí's Surrealism 
B)  Duchamp's "anti-art" 
C)  Matisse's Fauvism 
D)  Mondrian's pure abstractions 
E)  Arp's Dada 
A)  Dalí's Surrealism 
B)  Duchamp's "anti-art" 
C)  Matisse's Fauvism 
D)  Mondrian's pure abstractions 
E)  Arp's Dada

Question 4

Analyze at least three works to determine how did the goals of modern abstract painters differ from those of the American Regionalist painters.?

Accepted Answer

Modern abstract painters and American Re

Question 5

Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Picasso painted Guernica in response to the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  stock market crash of 1929 
B)  injustice, racism, and inadequate housing encountered by blacks as they migrated north 
C)  bombing of a defenseless Basque village 
D)  beginning of World War II 
E)  Louisville Flood of 1937 
A)  stock market crash of 1929 
B)  injustice, racism, and inadequate housing encountered by blacks as they migrated north 
C)  bombing of a defenseless Basque village 
D)  beginning of World War II 
E)  Louisville Flood of 1937

Question 7

The "Manifesto" was the founding document of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cubism 
B)  Futurism 
C)  Fauvism 
D)  Vienna Secession 
E)  German Expressionism 
A)  Cubism 
B)  Futurism 
C)  Fauvism 
D)  Vienna Secession 
E)  German Expressionism

Question 8

Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

__________ composed Porgy and Bess.

Accepted Answer

A)  George Gershwin 
B)  Scott Joplin 
C)  Aaron Copland 
D)  Louis Armstrong 
E)  Dizzie Gillespie 
A)  George Gershwin 
B)  Scott Joplin 
C)  Aaron Copland 
D)  Louis Armstrong 
E)  Dizzie Gillespie

Question 10

Filippo Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism which outlines an eleven-point pledge in the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

__________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.

Accepted Answer

A)  William Faulkner 
B)  James Joyce 
C)  Langston Hughes 
D)  Virginia Woolf 
E)  Ernest Hemingway 
A)  William Faulkner 
B)  James Joyce 
C)  Langston Hughes 
D)  Virginia Woolf 
E)  Ernest Hemingway

Question 12

How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?

Accepted Answer

World War I had a profound impact on the

Question 13

The painting, __________, is best described as depicting the impossible and irrational with absolute conviction.

Accepted Answer

A)  Georgia O'Keeffe's Yellow Calla 
B)  Charles Demuth's Aucassin and Nicolette 
C)  Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory 
D)  Edward Hopper's Nighthawks 
E)  Piet Mondrian's Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue 
A)  Georgia O'Keeffe's Yellow Calla 
B)  Charles Demuth's Aucassin and Nicolette 
C)  Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory 
D)  Edward Hopper's Nighthawks 
E)  Piet Mondrian's Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue

Question 14

Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Realism 
B)  Futurism 
C)  Fauvism 
D)  German Expressionism 
E)  Vorticism 
A)  Realism 
B)  Futurism 
C)  Fauvism 
D)  German Expressionism 
E)  Vorticism

Question 15

Why did Marcel Duchamp use puns in many of his works?

Accepted Answer

Marcel Duchamp, a French-American artist

Question 16

Two Modernist American poets influential because of the complex, multifaceted, technically innovative and densely allusive works are Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What did the Fauves believe about color?

Accepted Answer

The Fauves, a group of early twentieth-c

Question 19

Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  pointillism 
B)  blank verse 
C)  action painting 
D)  color field painting 
E)  automatism 
A)  pointillism 
B)  blank verse 
C)  action painting 
D)  color field painting 
E)  automatism

Question 20

__________ instituted the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

A)  Franklin D. Roosevelt 
B)  John F. Kennedy 
C)  Harry Truman 
D)  Lyndon Johnson 
E)  Herbert Hoover 
A)  Franklin D. Roosevelt 
B)  John F. Kennedy 
C)  Harry Truman 
D)  Lyndon Johnson 
E)  Herbert Hoover

Dorothea Lange created photographs that were semi-abstract and unconcerned with the effects of the Depression.

Brancusi's Bird in Space evokes __________.

In FSA photographer Walker Evan's Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burrough's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, there are visual echoes of __________.

Analyze at least three works to determine how did the goals of modern abstract painters differ from those of the American Regionalist painters.?

Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke.

Picasso painted Guernica in response to the __________.

The "Manifesto" was the founding document of __________.

Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance.

__________ composed Porgy and Bess.

Filippo Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism which outlines an eleven-point pledge in the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909.

__________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.

How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?

The painting, __________, is best described as depicting the impossible and irrational with absolute conviction.

Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of __________.

Why did Marcel Duchamp use puns in many of his works?

Two Modernist American poets influential because of the complex, multifaceted, technically innovative and densely allusive works are Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot.

Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point.

What did the Fauves believe about color?

Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of __________.

__________ instituted the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.

The Renaissance and Mannerism

The Renaissance in Northern Europe

The Baroque Age

The Eighteenth Century

Romanticism and Realism

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century

Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century

Modern Africa and Latin America

Mid-Twentieth Century and Later

Diversity in Contemporary Life

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Exam 10: Early Twentieth Century

Dorothea Lange created photographs that were semi-abstract and unconcerned with the effects of the Depression.

Brancusi's Bird in Space evokes __________.

In FSA photographer Walker Evan's Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burrough's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, there are visual echoes of __________.

Analyze at least three works to determine how did the goals of modern abstract painters differ from those of the American Regionalist painters.?

Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke.

Picasso painted Guernica in response to the __________.

The "Manifesto" was the founding document of __________.

Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance.

__________ composed Porgy and Bess.

Filippo Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism which outlines an eleven-point pledge in the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909.

__________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.

How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?

The painting, __________, is best described as depicting the impossible and irrational with absolute conviction.

Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of __________.

Why did Marcel Duchamp use puns in many of his works?

Two Modernist American poets influential because of the complex, multifaceted, technically innovative and densely allusive works are Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot.

Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point.

What did the Fauves believe about color?

Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of __________.

__________ instituted the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.

The Renaissance and Mannerism

The Renaissance in Northern Europe

The Baroque Age

The Eighteenth Century

Romanticism and Realism

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century

Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century

Modern Africa and Latin America

Mid-Twentieth Century and Later

Diversity in Contemporary Life

Filters