Exam 30: Global Confrontation and Modern Life: the Quest for Cultural Identity

Nationalism was based upon the values of

Identify and explain two ways Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)was designed not to please but to shock the French Salon-in other words,to fulfill Manet's role as a flâneur.

In Rigoletto,Giuseppe Verdi shows his characters' contrasting emotions by

To have his operas produced in Paris,Giuseppe Verdi had to

Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's plan increased land dedicated to public parks in Paris by

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx wanted to eliminate capitalism,believing it to

Why did French audiences react so negatively to Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser?

Mehmet Ali presented France with an obelisk from Luxor Temple

Identify and explain two ways Giuseppe Verdi achieved dramatic realism in his operas.

Compare the compositional elements of Suzuki Harunobu's Two Courtesans,Inside and Outside the Display Window and Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave,showing how each artist uses the Taoist principle of unity within diversity.

Which nineteenth-century artist was most enthusiastic about Japanese prints?

Describe the role cotton played in Europe's subjugation of at least three non-European countries.

Primarily contributing to the abysmal conditions in Paris in 1848 was

In 1882,the United States outlawed Chinese immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Act for fear of Chinese immigrants

Liberalism was based upon the values of

Explain the differences between liberalism and nationalism,and show how these two ideologies figured into two of the conflicts that defined the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Charles Baudelaire was forced to remove six poems from his book Les Fleurs du mal because they

According to Charles Baudelaire,the greatest job of a flâneur like himself and Édouard Manet was to

George Sand challenged sexual stereotypes by

Why did the Parisian workers revolt in June 1848?