Question 1

How does The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene qualify as Eisenstein's invention?

Accepted Answer

A) No civilians were killed in the massacre 
B) No such steps exist in the city of Odessa 
C) No massacre occurred on the steps 
D) No baby carriage rolled down the steps 
A) No civilians were killed in the massacre 
B) No such steps exist in the city of Odessa 
C) No massacre occurred on the steps 
D) No baby carriage rolled down the steps

Question 2

Why did Gertrude Stein declare of the World War I survivors,"You are all a lost generation"?

Accepted Answer

A) They were expatriated 
B) They were damned 
C) They were optimistic 
D) They were aimless 
A) They were expatriated 
B) They were damned 
C) They were optimistic 
D) They were aimless

Question 3

Why did some early twentieth-century writers embrace stream of consciousness?

Accepted Answer

A) To pare down their writing styles to the most basic reflections 
B) To expand their novels beyond a mere narrative of events 
C) To focus more sharply on condensed episodes of time 
D) To emphasize the subjectivity of their characters' points of view 
A) To pare down their writing styles to the most basic reflections 
B) To expand their novels beyond a mere narrative of events 
C) To focus more sharply on condensed episodes of time 
D) To emphasize the subjectivity of their characters' points of view

Question 4

What did one American critic call Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase?

Accepted Answer

A) "The work of a French lunatic" 
B) "Tin cans descending a staircase" 
C) "Naked girl falling down a staircase" 
D) "An explosion in a shingle factory" 
A) "The work of a French lunatic" 
B) "Tin cans descending a staircase" 
C) "Naked girl falling down a staircase" 
D) "An explosion in a shingle factory"

Question 5

Why is the final episode in James Joyce's Ulysses considered revolutionary?

Accepted Answer

A) Uncensored exploration of a woman's sexuality 
B) Vivid description of the main character's suicide 
C) Frank exploration of a character's mental illness 
D) Use of Homer's epic as its organization 
A) Uncensored exploration of a woman's sexuality 
B) Vivid description of the main character's suicide 
C) Frank exploration of a character's mental illness 
D) Use of Homer's epic as its organization

Question 6

Why did so much of Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist art depend on the square?

Accepted Answer

A) To show the universality of the simple shape 
B) To represent the four corners of the world 
C) To free art from the weight of objectivity 
D) To challenge the viewers' imaginations 
A) To show the universality of the simple shape 
B) To represent the four corners of the world 
C) To free art from the weight of objectivity 
D) To challenge the viewers' imaginations

Question 7

According to its founders,what did Dada mean?

Accepted Answer

A) New 
B) Nonconformity 
C) Nothing 
D) Notorious 
A) New 
B) Nonconformity 
C) Nothing 
D) Notorious

Question 8

Why did the World War I soldiers so fear mustard gas?

Accepted Answer

A) It had a noxious smell 
B) It blinded and choked them 
C) It turned their skin yellow 
D) It provided cover for the enemy 
A) It had a noxious smell 
B) It blinded and choked them 
C) It turned their skin yellow 
D) It provided cover for the enemy

Question 9

According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did so many Southern African-Americans make the Great Migration to the north between 1915 and 1918?

Accepted Answer

A) Plentiful jobs 
B) Less racism 
C) Better housing 
D) More diversity 
A) Plentiful jobs 
B) Less racism 
C) Better housing 
D) More diversity

Question 10

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes dislike Paris?

Accepted Answer

A) Too racist 
B) Too money-oriented 
C) Too avant-garde 
D) Too elegant 
A) Too racist 
B) Too money-oriented 
C) Too avant-garde 
D) Too elegant

Question 11

Compare Alfred,Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" to Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" within the context of World War I.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

In The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene,how did Eisenstein heighten tension and emotional impact?

Accepted Answer

A) Alternating traveling and fixed shots 
B) Using different rhythms of music 
C) Speeding up the ate of the sequence 
D) Shooting the film from behind the soldiers 
A) Alternating traveling and fixed shots 
B) Using different rhythms of music 
C) Speeding up the ate of the sequence 
D) Shooting the film from behind the soldiers

Question 13

Approximately how many casualties resulted from World War I?

Accepted Answer

A) One million 
B) Five million 
C) Ten million 
D) Twenty million 
A) One million 
B) Five million 
C) Ten million 
D) Twenty million

Question 14

Whose utopian views influenced Vladimir Lenin?

Accepted Answer

A) Thomas More 
B) Karl Marx 
C) William Morris 
D) Voltaire 
A) Thomas More 
B) Karl Marx 
C) William Morris 
D) Voltaire

Question 15

In The Lugubrious Game,why does Dali position a grasshopper under his self-portrait's nose?

Accepted Answer

A) Grasshoppers symbolize death 
B) Dali was terrified of grasshoppers 
C) Grasshoppers symbolize famine 
D) Dali found their phallic shape amusing 
A) Grasshoppers symbolize death 
B) Dali was terrified of grasshoppers 
C) Grasshoppers symbolize famine 
D) Dali found their phallic shape amusing

Question 16

According to Freud,how have civilizations failed humans?

Accepted Answer

A) Repressing human sexuality 
B) Not defining a social conscience 
C) Not controlling aggression 
D) Not establishing pleasure principles 
A) Repressing human sexuality 
B) Not defining a social conscience 
C) Not controlling aggression 
D) Not establishing pleasure principles

Question 17

Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.

Accepted Answer

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Ye

Question 18

Show and explain two ways Freud's theories about personality affected the Surrealist art of Picasso and Dali.

Accepted Answer

Freud's theories about personality had a

Question 19

Why did the exhibition committee for a 1917 New York show hide Duchamp's "ready-made" entry,Fountain,behind a curtain?

Accepted Answer

A) It was a urinal 
B) He used a pseudonym 
C) It was a defaced Mona Lisa 
D) He parodied an art critic 
A) It was a urinal 
B) He used a pseudonym 
C) It was a defaced Mona Lisa 
D) He parodied an art critic

How does The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene qualify as Eisenstein's invention?

Why did Gertrude Stein declare of the World War I survivors,"You are all a lost generation"?

Why did some early twentieth-century writers embrace stream of consciousness?

What did one American critic call Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase?

Why is the final episode in James Joyce's Ulysses considered revolutionary?

Why did so much of Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist art depend on the square?

According to its founders,what did Dada mean?

Why did the World War I soldiers so fear mustard gas?

According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did so many Southern African-Americans make the Great Migration to the north between 1915 and 1918?

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes dislike Paris?

Compare Alfred,Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" to Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" within the context of World War I.

In The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene,how did Eisenstein heighten tension and emotional impact?

Approximately how many casualties resulted from World War I?

Whose utopian views influenced Vladimir Lenin?

In The Lugubrious Game,why does Dali position a grasshopper under his self-portrait's nose?

According to Freud,how have civilizations failed humans?

Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.

Show and explain two ways Freud's theories about personality affected the Surrealist art of Picasso and Dali.

Why did the exhibition committee for a 1917 New York show hide Duchamp's "ready-made" entry,Fountain,behind a curtain?

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Exam 34: The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

How does The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene qualify as Eisenstein's invention?

Why did Gertrude Stein declare of the World War I survivors,"You are all a lost generation"?

Why did some early twentieth-century writers embrace stream of consciousness?

What did one American critic call Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase?

Why is the final episode in James Joyce's Ulysses considered revolutionary?

Why did so much of Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist art depend on the square?

According to its founders,what did Dada mean?

Why did the World War I soldiers so fear mustard gas?

According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did so many Southern African-Americans make the Great Migration to the north between 1915 and 1918?

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes dislike Paris?

Compare Alfred,Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" to Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" within the context of World War I.

In The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene,how did Eisenstein heighten tension and emotional impact?

Approximately how many casualties resulted from World War I?

Whose utopian views influenced Vladimir Lenin?

In The Lugubrious Game,why does Dali position a grasshopper under his self-portrait's nose?

According to Freud,how have civilizations failed humans?

Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.

Show and explain two ways Freud's theories about personality affected the Surrealist art of Picasso and Dali.

Why did the exhibition committee for a 1917 New York show hide Duchamp's "ready-made" entry,Fountain,behind a curtain?

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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 Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World

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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