Question 1

In her novel Lélia,why does George Sand write a happier ending for Pulchérie,the prostitute,than for Lélia,her more virtuous sister?

Accepted Answer

A) Pulchérie is a realist 
B) Lélia is unhappily married 
C) Pulchérie is an idealist 
D) Lélia is bourgeoisie 
A) Pulchérie is a realist 
B) Lélia is unhappily married 
C) Pulchérie is an idealist 
D) Lélia is bourgeoisie

Question 2

Why did Charles Baudelaire speak so disparagingly of George Sand?

Accepted Answer

A) She disguised her sexuality 
B) He despised her lack of morals 
C) She supported Louis-Napoleon 
D) He considered her bourgeoisie 
A) She disguised her sexuality 
B) He despised her lack of morals 
C) She supported Louis-Napoleon 
D) He considered her bourgeoisie

Question 3

What earlier work does Manet's Olympia mirror?

Accepted Answer

A) Titian's Reclining Nude 
B) Botticelli's The Birth of Venus 
C) Giorgione's The Tempest 
D) Antonio Canova's Paolina Bonaparte as Venus 
A) Titian's Reclining Nude 
B) Botticelli's The Birth of Venus 
C) Giorgione's The Tempest 
D) Antonio Canova's Paolina Bonaparte as Venus

Question 4

Why in part did Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)disturb its viewers?

Accepted Answer

A) The subject is too mundane for the painting's grand scale 
B) The nude female seems to serve no purpose 
C) The two dressed men are oblivious to the nude female 
D) The model for the nude female was Manet's wife 
A) The subject is too mundane for the painting's grand scale 
B) The nude female seems to serve no purpose 
C) The two dressed men are oblivious to the nude female 
D) The model for the nude female was Manet's wife

Question 5

Why did the Jockey Club demand that French opera have a second-act ballet?

Accepted Answer

A) To celebrate French dance 
B) To greet their late arrival 
C) To employ more actors 
D) To pay homage to Louis XIV 
A) To celebrate French dance 
B) To greet their late arrival 
C) To employ more actors 
D) To pay homage to Louis XIV

Question 6

How did Verdi have to change his operas so they would be produced in Paris?

Accepted Answer

A) Include a dance scene 
B) Eliminate female leads 
C) Reduce the orchestra's size 
D) Add nationalist references 
A) Include a dance scene 
B) Eliminate female leads 
C) Reduce the orchestra's size 
D) Add nationalist references

Question 7

In the preface to his novel Thérèsa Raquin,how does Zola explain the immoral actions of the two main characters?

Accepted Answer

A) They are human animals 
B) They are lower class 
C) They are fatigued 
D) They are in love 
A) They are human animals 
B) They are lower class 
C) They are fatigued 
D) They are in love

Question 8

Why was Baudelaire forced to remove six poems from his book Les Fleurs du mal?

Accepted Answer

A) For criticizing the French government 
B) For concerning lesbianism and vampirism 
C) For presenting a romanticized view of death 
D) For celebrating the lives of French prostitutes 
A) For criticizing the French government 
B) For concerning lesbianism and vampirism 
C) For presenting a romanticized view of death 
D) For celebrating the lives of French prostitutes

Question 9

What does the black cat at the end of Olympia's bed symbolize?

Accepted Answer

A) Slavery 
B) Poverty 
C) Promiscuity 
D) Superstition 
A) Slavery 
B) Poverty 
C) Promiscuity 
D) Superstition

Question 10

Compare Manet's Olympia to Titian's Reclining Nude,focusing on the differences in symbolic elements in the two works.

Accepted Answer

Manet's Olympia and Titian's Reclining N

Question 11

According to Émile Zola,what two factors over which they have no control determine people's lives?

Accepted Answer

A) Economy and social status 
B) Heredity and environment 
C) Class and heredity 
D) Economy and environment 
A) Economy and social status 
B) Heredity and environment 
C) Class and heredity 
D) Economy and environment

Question 12

Why did Wagner believe Jews were incapable of producing music?

Accepted Answer

A) Their slovenly manners 
B) Their love of money 
C) Their religious focus 
D) Their Yiddish speech 
A) Their slovenly manners 
B) Their love of money 
C) Their religious focus 
D) Their Yiddish speech

Question 13

Who is the first person to call himself an "anarchist"?

Accepted Answer

A) George Sand 
B) Édouard Manet 
C) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 
D) Karl Marx 
A) George Sand 
B) Édouard Manet 
C) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 
D) Karl Marx

Question 14

Define leitmotif,and explain Wagner's use of it to unify his music drama.

Accepted Answer

Leitmotif is a recurring musical theme o

Question 15

Why were Jacques Offenbach's operettas so popular with the French?

Accepted Answer

A) They included the second-act ballet 
B) They satirized the Germans 
C) They were light and entertaining 
D) They glorified Louis-Napoleon's reign 
A) They included the second-act ballet 
B) They satirized the Germans 
C) They were light and entertaining 
D) They glorified Louis-Napoleon's reign

Question 16

According to the author,Manet in The Gare Saint-Lazare suggests that the little girl dreaming of adventure probably is doomed to grow up to be the rather dour woman beside her steeped in a Romantic novel.Using the painting's details and your knowledge of nineteenth-century women's status,in two to three points argue for or against the author's claim.

Accepted Answer

The author's claim that the little girl

In her novel Lélia,why does George Sand write a happier ending for Pulchérie,the prostitute,than for Lélia,her more virtuous sister?

Why did Charles Baudelaire speak so disparagingly of George Sand?

What earlier work does Manet's Olympia mirror?

Why in part did Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)disturb its viewers?

Why did the Jockey Club demand that French opera have a second-act ballet?

How did Verdi have to change his operas so they would be produced in Paris?

In the preface to his novel Thérèsa Raquin,how does Zola explain the immoral actions of the two main characters?

Why was Baudelaire forced to remove six poems from his book Les Fleurs du mal?

What does the black cat at the end of Olympia's bed symbolize?

Compare Manet's Olympia to Titian's Reclining Nude,focusing on the differences in symbolic elements in the two works.

According to Émile Zola,what two factors over which they have no control determine people's lives?

Why did Wagner believe Jews were incapable of producing music?

Who is the first person to call himself an "anarchist"?

Define leitmotif,and explain Wagner's use of it to unify his music drama.

Why were Jacques Offenbach's operettas so popular with the French?

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In her novel Lélia,why does George Sand write a happier ending for Pulchérie,the prostitute,than for Lélia,her more virtuous sister?

Why did Charles Baudelaire speak so disparagingly of George Sand?

What earlier work does Manet's Olympia mirror?

Why in part did Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)disturb its viewers?

Why did the Jockey Club demand that French opera have a second-act ballet?

How did Verdi have to change his operas so they would be produced in Paris?

In the preface to his novel Thérèsa Raquin,how does Zola explain the immoral actions of the two main characters?

Why was Baudelaire forced to remove six poems from his book Les Fleurs du mal?

What does the black cat at the end of Olympia's bed symbolize?

Compare Manet's Olympia to Titian's Reclining Nude,focusing on the differences in symbolic elements in the two works.

According to Émile Zola,what two factors over which they have no control determine people's lives?

Why did Wagner believe Jews were incapable of producing music?

Who is the first person to call himself an "anarchist"?

Define leitmotif,and explain Wagner's use of it to unify his music drama.

Why were Jacques Offenbach's operettas so popular with the French?

The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal

The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation

The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage

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

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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