Question 1

What important French Realist novelist described the banal life of bourgeois middle-class Emma Bovary?

Accepted Answer

A)  Flaubert
B)  Balzac
C)  Hugo
D)  Tolstoy A

Question 2

Who composed the Symphonie fantastique?

Accepted Answer

A)  Wagner
B)  Chopin
C)  Beethoven
D)  Berlioz D

Question 3

Who are two early developers of photography?

Accepted Answer

A)  Niépce and Daguerre
B)  Constable and Copley
C)  Friedrich and Heade
D)  Hawthorn and Melville A

Question 4

Which Romantic artist used his paintings to criticize the Spanish court and to explore the darker side of life, including his own suffering?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ingres
B)  Velázquez
C)  Goya
D)  Chateaubriand

Question 5

_______________________ German term for a musical theme assigned to a specific character, idea or object

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Question 6

Which French Romantic painter is remembered for The Massacre at Chios?

Accepted Answer

A)  Girodet-Trioson
B)  Delacroix
C)  Honoré Daumier
D)  Gustave Courbet

Question 7

What is a bel canto opera? Which great opera singer brought this form back into the modern operatic repertoire?

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Question 8

What did Chopin, Mussorgsky, and Smetana have in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were Polish.
B)  They incorporated traditional folk tunes into their compositions.
C)  They were Russian expatriates living in Paris.
D)  They composed exclusively for violin and orchestra.

Question 9

What of the following were parts of the basis for the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang?

Accepted Answer

A)  The rejection of the ideals of the French Romantic literary movement
B)  The inspiration of German society with a sense of unity and nationalism
C)  The rejection of the neoclassical ideas of reason, order, and balance
D)  The compilation of German folklore and mythology

Question 10

_______________________ Short melancholic piano piece in a form used extensively by Chopin

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The answer of _______________________ Short melancholic piano piece in a...

Question 11

What are the principal characteristics of Romanticism?

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Question 12

_______________________ Theory of Charles Darwin about the origin of species

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Question 13

_______________________ Lighthearted musical genre used by Beethoven in the third movement of his "Eroica" symphony

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Question 14

Who is usually regarded as the pioneer of musical romanticism?

Accepted Answer

A)  Brahms
B)  Beethoven
C)  Haydn
D)  Chopin

Question 15

Which opera composer of the nineteenth century was most closely associated with the nationalist movement in Italy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Verdi
B)  Monteverdi
C)  Puccini
D)  Palestrina

Question 16

_______________________ Short art songs with piano accompaniment, such as the 600 composed by Schubert

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Question 17

_______________________ Source of inspiration for the stories in Richard Wagner's operas

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Question 18

Which French Realist novelist wrote over 90 novels and stories, in which he uses many of the same characters?

Accepted Answer

A)  Balzac
B)  Flaubert
C)  Hugo
D)  Tolstoy

Question 19

Who, with Coleridge, was the co-founder of the Romantic movement in English poetry?

Accepted Answer

A)  Charles Dickens
B)  William Wordsworth
C)  Percy Shelly
D)  Emily Dickinson

Question 20

What were common themes of the novels of George Sand?

Accepted Answer

A)  The opportunities and recognition enjoyed by women in French society
B)  The inequities and injustices faced by women in French society
C)  The inequities and injustices faced by women in English society
D)  The opportunities and recognition enjoyed by women in English society

Exam 16: The Eighteenth Century