Question 1

Define absolutism,and show how Louis XIV's rule exemplifies it.

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Question 2

On what plan did André Le Nôtre design Versailles's formal garden?

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A) Sweeps of gently rolling lawns against a woodland background 
B) A grid along a north-south axis with the palace at the center 
C) A series of increasingly larger circles surrounding the palace 
D) Pathways radiating like sunbeams from a central axis 
A) Sweeps of gently rolling lawns against a woodland background 
B) A grid along a north-south axis with the palace at the center 
C) A series of increasingly larger circles surrounding the palace 
D) Pathways radiating like sunbeams from a central axis

Question 3

Why were the New Spain retablos (altarpiece ensembles)designed to be so extravagant?

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A) To contrast with the simplicity of the indigenous people's sacred spaces 
B) To impress the indigenous people into converting to Christianity 
C) To show the indigenous people how their taxes were spent 
D) To Christianize the indigenous people's existing art 
A) To contrast with the simplicity of the indigenous people's sacred spaces 
B) To impress the indigenous people into converting to Christianity 
C) To show the indigenous people how their taxes were spent 
D) To Christianize the indigenous people's existing art

Question 4

Compare Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" to Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins,To Make Much of Time," focusing on audience,style,and theme.

Accepted Answer

Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving

Question 5

Why was Louis XIV so fond of Peter Paul Rubens's paintings?

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A) Their classical rationality and clarity 
B) Their frank sexuality and sensual brushwork 
C) Their compositionality geometry 
D) Their absence of allegory and moral undertones 
A) Their classical rationality and clarity 
B) Their frank sexuality and sensual brushwork 
C) Their compositionality geometry 
D) Their absence of allegory and moral undertones

Question 6

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,in Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV,why does Louis look out of place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?

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A) He looks bewildered by the instruments 
B) He is the image of ostentatious excess 
C) He is much shorter than the scientists 
D) He is rendered obsolete by the scientists 
A) He looks bewildered by the instruments 
B) He is the image of ostentatious excess 
C) He is much shorter than the scientists 
D) He is rendered obsolete by the scientists

Question 7

Why are most dances in binary form-a repeated two-part structure?

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A) To challenge the dancers 
B) To showcase the dancers' grace 
C) To make the dance easier to master 
D) To correspond to the music's tempo 
A) To challenge the dancers 
B) To showcase the dancers' grace 
C) To make the dance easier to master 
D) To correspond to the music's tempo

Question 8

Why was Cardinal Richelieu furious with Pierre Corneille for his play El Cid?

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A) For ignoring the classical unities 
B) For including bawdy humor 
C) For satirizing Richelieu in it 
D) For basing it on a Spanish story 
A) For ignoring the classical unities 
B) For including bawdy humor 
C) For satirizing Richelieu in it 
D) For basing it on a Spanish story

Question 9

How was Louis able to maintain such a well-disciplined,loyal army?

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A) Deserters and traitors faced immediate execution 
B) Each provincial government oversaw its own army 
C) The army was well-supplied and regularly paid 
D) Each soldier received a share of any war profits 
A) Deserters and traitors faced immediate execution 
B) Each provincial government oversaw its own army 
C) The army was well-supplied and regularly paid 
D) Each soldier received a share of any war profits

Question 10

Why did the English people find Oliver Cromwell difficult to tolerate as their leader?

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A) For changing the state religion to Catholicism 
B) For refusing to participate in peace talks with France 
C) For imposing too many restrictions on them 
D) For raising taxes to support his troops in the civil war 
A) For changing the state religion to Catholicism 
B) For refusing to participate in peace talks with France 
C) For imposing too many restrictions on them 
D) For raising taxes to support his troops in the civil war

Question 11

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Question 12

What event was the Palace of Versailles's Hall of Mirrors designed to celebrate?

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A) The alliance between France and Spain 
B) Louis XIV's marriage to Maria Theresa of Spain 
C) The end of the six-year war with Holland 
D) Louis XIV's eighteenth birthday 
A) The alliance between France and Spain 
B) Louis XIV's marriage to Maria Theresa of Spain 
C) The end of the six-year war with Holland 
D) Louis XIV's eighteenth birthday

Question 13

Why did Louis XIV urge his courtiers to live beyond their means?

Accepted Answer

A) To make his court the envy of Europe 
B) To elevate their status in his eyes 
C) To increase profits of influential French merchants 
D) To make them financially dependent on him 
A) To make his court the envy of Europe 
B) To elevate their status in his eyes 
C) To increase profits of influential French merchants 
D) To make them financially dependent on him

Question 14

What new dance form emerged from Louis's court?

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A) Ballet 
B) Bal-musette 
C) Canarie 
D) Minuet 
A) Ballet 
B) Bal-musette 
C) Canarie 
D) Minuet

Question 15

Describe the differences in politics and appearance of the English Cavaliers and Roundheads.

Accepted Answer

The English Cavaliers and Roundheads wer

Question 16

According to Poussin,what should be a painting's subject matter?

Accepted Answer

A) The everyday life of moral people 
B) Historical people and events 
C) Heroes and the nobility 
D) Classical mythology or Christian tradition 
A) The everyday life of moral people 
B) Historical people and events 
C) Heroes and the nobility 
D) Classical mythology or Christian tradition

Question 17

Why did Louis XIV of France consider himself "the Sun King"?

Accepted Answer

A) His attire was so rich that he glittered when he walked 
B) France's domain was so large that the sun never set on it 
C) Like the sun god Apollo,he saw himself dispensing wealth 
D) He believed that the world revolved around him 
A) His attire was so rich that he glittered when he walked 
B) France's domain was so large that the sun never set on it 
C) Like the sun god Apollo,he saw himself dispensing wealth 
D) He believed that the world revolved around him

Question 18

What distinction does Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse hold?

Accepted Answer

A) The first book published in the colonies 
B) The first book of Puritan poetry 
C) The first book of poetry written by a colonist 
D) The first published book written by a woman 
A) The first book published in the colonies 
B) The first book of Puritan poetry 
C) The first book of poetry written by a colonist 
D) The first published book written by a woman

Define absolutism,and show how Louis XIV's rule exemplifies it.

On what plan did André Le Nôtre design Versailles's formal garden?

Why were the New Spain retablos (altarpiece ensembles)designed to be so extravagant?

Compare Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" to Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins,To Make Much of Time," focusing on audience,style,and theme.

Why was Louis XIV so fond of Peter Paul Rubens's paintings?

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,in Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV,why does Louis look out of place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?

Why are most dances in binary form-a repeated two-part structure?

Why was Cardinal Richelieu furious with Pierre Corneille for his play El Cid?

How was Louis able to maintain such a well-disciplined,loyal army?

Why did the English people find Oliver Cromwell difficult to tolerate as their leader?

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What event was the Palace of Versailles's Hall of Mirrors designed to celebrate?

Why did Louis XIV urge his courtiers to live beyond their means?

What new dance form emerged from Louis's court?

Describe the differences in politics and appearance of the English Cavaliers and Roundheads.

According to Poussin,what should be a painting's subject matter?

Why did Louis XIV of France consider himself "the Sun King"?

What distinction does Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse hold?

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Define absolutism,and show how Louis XIV's rule exemplifies it.

On what plan did André Le Nôtre design Versailles's formal garden?

Why were the New Spain retablos (altarpiece ensembles)designed to be so extravagant?

Compare Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" to Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins,To Make Much of Time," focusing on audience,style,and theme.

Why was Louis XIV so fond of Peter Paul Rubens's paintings?

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,in Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV,why does Louis look out of place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?

Why are most dances in binary form-a repeated two-part structure?

Why was Cardinal Richelieu furious with Pierre Corneille for his play El Cid?

How was Louis able to maintain such a well-disciplined,loyal army?

Why did the English people find Oliver Cromwell difficult to tolerate as their leader?

Matching

What event was the Palace of Versailles's Hall of Mirrors designed to celebrate?

Why did Louis XIV urge his courtiers to live beyond their means?

What new dance form emerged from Louis's court?

Describe the differences in politics and appearance of the English Cavaliers and Roundheads.

According to Poussin,what should be a painting's subject matter?

Why did Louis XIV of France consider himself "the Sun King"?

What distinction does Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse hold?

The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal

The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation

The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason

The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason

The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature and the Nature of Self

Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity

In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s

The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World

The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

New York skyscraper Culture and the Jazz Age: Making It New

The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression holocaust and Bomb

After the War: Existential Doubt, artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption

Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s

Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World

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