Question 1

According to the Futurists,what was the defining characteristic of modern life?

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A) Politics 
B) Art 
C) War 
D) Speed

Question 2

Using The Birth of a Nation as the extended example,describe three film techniques that D.W.Griffith introduced to motion pictures.Next identify three current films that use one or more of these techniques.

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Question 3

Who developed Imagist poetry?

Accepted Answer

A) Guillaume Apollinaire 
B) Gertrude Stein 
C) Alice B.Toklas 
D) Ezra Pound

Question 4

Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.

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Question 5

Why did The Birth of a Nation establish director D.W.Griffith as a film master?

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A) His invention of intertitles 
B) His manipulation of racist sympathies 
C) His genius for promoting his film 
D) His use of cinematic space

Question 6

Which of the following was not among the technological and scientific developments of 1895-1915?

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A) Internal combustion engine 
B) Existence of electrons in atoms 
C) Airplane travel across the English Channel 
D) Broadcast of the first radio news station

Question 7

Compare Georges Braque's Violin and Palette to Pablo Picasso's Violin,focusing on portrayal of the violins,other objects pictured with the violins,and meaning expressed by the two works.

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Question 8

What is the dominant theme of Robert Delaunay's The Cardiff Team?

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A) Sportsmanship 
B) Competition 
C) Motion 
D) Nationalism

Question 9

Explain the German Der Blaue Reiter's obsession with color,identifying specifically two works that depend on their "spirituality of color."

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Question 10

Why did Picasso paint masks on two of the prostitutes in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

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A) To make them seem less real 
B) To mock ideas of beauty 
C) To make them look primitive 
D) To give his models anonymity

Question 11

Why did Guillaume Apollinaire arrange the words of his calligramme poem "Il Pleut" in vertical columns?

Accepted Answer

A) To mimic musical notation 
B) To imitate Chinese script 
C) To create a verbal picture 
D) To defy traditional form

Question 12

Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in their development of Cubism?

Accepted Answer

A) Manet 
B) van Gogh 
C) Cézanne 
D) Gauguin

Question 13

Why did viewers find Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon disturbing?

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A) The subjects are prostitutes 
B) The shapes are unnatural 
C) The women look androgynous 
D) The blue and orange colors clash

Question 14

What shift in art does Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein represent?

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A) Literal to conceptual 
B) Conceptual to symbolic 
C) Symbolic to abstract 
D) Abstract to surreal

Question 15

Identify and explain two ways Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shows the influence of Paul Cézanne's work (Chap.33).

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Question 16

Why was the Der Blaue Reiter artist Wassily Kandinsky obsessed with color?

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A) It imitated the divinity of nature 
B) It provided a range of emotions 
C) It directly influenced the soul 
D) It enabled him to change reality

Question 17

Identify and explain three specific examples for motion being a defining characteristic of early twentieth-century art.

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Question 18

Why did Braque and Picasso begin pasting paper,fabric,rope,and other objects to their canvases?

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A) To give texture to their Cubist paintings 
B) To challenge the space between life and art 
C) To counter their compositions' flatness 
D) To make the work seem to roll toward viewers

Question 19

Why did early silent films appeal especially to the working-class,immigrant audiences?

Accepted Answer

A) They could usually afford the $2 admission 
B) The early films featured working-class actors 
C) They didn't have to understand English 
D) Most of the films were set in exotic locales

Exam 33: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World