Question 1

In 1892,what percent of all millionaires in the United States lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn?

Accepted Answer

A) Ten 
B) Thirty 
C) Fifty 
D) Seventy 
A) Ten 
B) Thirty 
C) Fifty 
D) Seventy

Question 2

In The Rocky Mountains,Lander's Peak,why did Albert Bierstadt paint a mountain from the Swiss Alps,not the actual Lander's Peak?

Accepted Answer

A) The Swiss mountain is more picturesque 
B) He had never been to the Rocky Mountains 
C) There is no Lander's Peak in the Rocky Mountains 
D) His audience expected that familiar view 
A) The Swiss mountain is more picturesque 
B) He had never been to the Rocky Mountains 
C) There is no Lander's Peak in the Rocky Mountains 
D) His audience expected that familiar view

Question 3

Compare the views of Americans abroad as presented by Henry James in his novels and by John Sargent Singer in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.

Accepted Answer

Henry James and John Singer Sargent both

Question 4

How is Mary Cassatt's Gathering Fruit mural a positive reinterpretation of the Eve theme?

Accepted Answer

A) The women share the fruit among generations 
B) The women avoid temptation to eat the fruit 
C) The women warn children to avoid the fruit 
D) The women cut down the Tree of Knowledge 
A) The women share the fruit among generations 
B) The women avoid temptation to eat the fruit 
C) The women warn children to avoid the fruit 
D) The women cut down the Tree of Knowledge

Question 5

How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and white relations?

Accepted Answer

A) She lived peacefully with Native Americans 
B) Native Americans captured,killed,and scalped her 
C) Native Americans taught her their Ghost Dance 
D) She led the Trail of Tears into Oklahoma 
A) She lived peacefully with Native Americans 
B) Native Americans captured,killed,and scalped her 
C) Native Americans taught her their Ghost Dance 
D) She led the Trail of Tears into Oklahoma

Question 6

Matching

Accepted Answer

29-b,30-g,

Question 7

In The Life Line,how does Winslow Homer present the female?

Accepted Answer

A) Totally dependent on the strong male 
B) Bathed in a soft,gauzy light 
C) Vulnerable to the forces of Nature 
D) With a rose symbolizing fallen virtue 
A) Totally dependent on the strong male 
B) Bathed in a soft,gauzy light 
C) Vulnerable to the forces of Nature 
D) With a rose symbolizing fallen virtue

Question 8

How did Frederick Law Olmstead's general plan for Riverside,Illinois,reinvent American living conditions?

Accepted Answer

A) He established farms within cities 
B) He opened up acres of parkland 
C) He developed a commuter suburb 
D) He established neighborhood grids 
A) He established farms within cities 
B) He opened up acres of parkland 
C) He developed a commuter suburb 
D) He established neighborhood grids

Question 9

What caused the "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression"?

Accepted Answer

A) Speculation in cotton futures 
B) Political graft in New York City 
C) Failure of a Philadelphia banking firm 
D) A strike by Pennsylvania railroad workers 
A) Speculation in cotton futures 
B) Political graft in New York City 
C) Failure of a Philadelphia banking firm 
D) A strike by Pennsylvania railroad workers

Question 10

According to architect Louis H.Sullivan,what determined a building's identity?

Accepted Answer

A) Framework 
B) Design 
C) Height 
D) Ornamentation 
A) Framework 
B) Design 
C) Height 
D) Ornamentation

Question 11

In The Agnew Clinic,why does Eakins show no blood on the patient or Dr.Agnew?

Accepted Answer

A) Dr.Agnew requested this 
B) Blood would distract viewers 
C) Women are in the painting 
D) Eakins' wife,Susan,requested this 
A) Dr.Agnew requested this 
B) Blood would distract viewers 
C) Women are in the painting 
D) Eakins' wife,Susan,requested this

Question 12

Why did suffragette Lillie Devereux Blake declare the Statue of Liberty to be an oxymoron?

Accepted Answer

A) Native Americans were treated as slaves 
B) U.S.women had no political liberty 
C) Lady Liberty's foot rests on a chain 
D) African Americans had lost their rights 
A) Native Americans were treated as slaves 
B) U.S.women had no political liberty 
C) Lady Liberty's foot rests on a chain 
D) African Americans had lost their rights

Question 13

Why did the Plains tribes begin performing the Ghost Dance in 1889?

Accepted Answer

A) To make the white people disappear 
B) To prepare for battle at Wounded Knee 
C) To bring about peace with the white people 
D) To honor those who died from smallpox 
A) To make the white people disappear 
B) To prepare for battle at Wounded Knee 
C) To bring about peace with the white people 
D) To honor those who died from smallpox

Question 14

With what did Native American tribes believe artistic skill coexisted?

Accepted Answer

A) Hunting magic 
B) Divine powers 
C) Fertility 
D) Beauty and virtue 
A) Hunting magic 
B) Divine powers 
C) Fertility 
D) Beauty and virtue

Question 15

Why did the U.S.Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?

Accepted Answer

A) Location at center of the U.S. 
B) Majority of citizens foreign-born 
C) Lakes providing efficient transport 
D) Rural areas for hall construction 
A) Location at center of the U.S. 
B) Majority of citizens foreign-born 
C) Lakes providing efficient transport 
D) Rural areas for hall construction

Question 16

Why were Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic not well received by the American public?

Accepted Answer

A) Clinical portrayal of nudity 
B) Inclusion of female figures 
C) Inappropriate subject for art 
D) Impressionistic techniques 
A) Clinical portrayal of nudity 
B) Inclusion of female figures 
C) Inappropriate subject for art 
D) Impressionistic techniques

Question 17

How were women almost always portrayed in late nineteenth-century American visual art?

Accepted Answer

A) As maternal 
B) As erotic objects 
C) As professionals 
D) As passive 
A) As maternal 
B) As erotic objects 
C) As professionals 
D) As passive

Question 18

Describe and analyze the role and importance of art-both visual and performance-for the Plains tribes.

Accepted Answer

Art, both visual and performance, played

Question 19

Why did the Lakota and the Kiowa tribes keep a "winter count"?

Accepted Answer

A) To determine optimal planting times 
B) To mark the buffalo herds' migrations 
C) To keep track of the tribes' populations 
D) To record family or tribe history 
A) To determine optimal planting times 
B) To mark the buffalo herds' migrations 
C) To keep track of the tribes' populations 
D) To record family or tribe history

In 1892,what percent of all millionaires in the United States lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn?

In The Rocky Mountains,Lander's Peak,why did Albert Bierstadt paint a mountain from the Swiss Alps,not the actual Lander's Peak?

Compare the views of Americans abroad as presented by Henry James in his novels and by John Sargent Singer in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.

How is Mary Cassatt's Gathering Fruit mural a positive reinterpretation of the Eve theme?

How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and white relations?

Matching

In The Life Line,how does Winslow Homer present the female?

How did Frederick Law Olmstead's general plan for Riverside,Illinois,reinvent American living conditions?

What caused the "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression"?

According to architect Louis H.Sullivan,what determined a building's identity?

In The Agnew Clinic,why does Eakins show no blood on the patient or Dr.Agnew?

Why did suffragette Lillie Devereux Blake declare the Statue of Liberty to be an oxymoron?

Why did the Plains tribes begin performing the Ghost Dance in 1889?

With what did Native American tribes believe artistic skill coexisted?

Why did the U.S.Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?

Why were Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic not well received by the American public?

How were women almost always portrayed in late nineteenth-century American visual art?

Describe and analyze the role and importance of art-both visual and performance-for the Plains tribes.

Why did the Lakota and the Kiowa tribes keep a "winter count"?

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Exam 31: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

In 1892,what percent of all millionaires in the United States lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn?

In The Rocky Mountains,Lander's Peak,why did Albert Bierstadt paint a mountain from the Swiss Alps,not the actual Lander's Peak?

Compare the views of Americans abroad as presented by Henry James in his novels and by John Sargent Singer in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.

How is Mary Cassatt's Gathering Fruit mural a positive reinterpretation of the Eve theme?

How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and white relations?

Matching

In The Life Line,how does Winslow Homer present the female?

How did Frederick Law Olmstead's general plan for Riverside,Illinois,reinvent American living conditions?

What caused the "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression"?

According to architect Louis H.Sullivan,what determined a building's identity?

In The Agnew Clinic,why does Eakins show no blood on the patient or Dr.Agnew?

Why did suffragette Lillie Devereux Blake declare the Statue of Liberty to be an oxymoron?

Why did the Plains tribes begin performing the Ghost Dance in 1889?

With what did Native American tribes believe artistic skill coexisted?

Why did the U.S.Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?

Why were Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic not well received by the American public?

How were women almost always portrayed in late nineteenth-century American visual art?

Describe and analyze the role and importance of art-both visual and performance-for the Plains tribes.

Why did the Lakota and the Kiowa tribes keep a "winter count"?

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

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

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

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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