Question 1

The contributing elements to the artistic brilliance of Plato's dialogues include:

Accepted Answer

A)  the characters are fully-realized human beings. 
B)  each dialogue is brief enough to be read in its entirety without interruption. 
C)  the behavior of the characters actually exemplifies the theories Plato is expounding. 
D)  Both A and C 
E)  All of the above

Question 2

Tolstoy thought that art consisted of communicating one person's emotions to others.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Transcendence, in Marcuse's terminology, is:

Accepted Answer

A)  entering a higher, non-material realm. 
B)  an imaginative leap beyond the repressions of the given social world. 
C)  an act of artistic revolt, such as calling a blank canvas a painting. 
D)  the realization that surplus repression is different from necessary repression. 
E)  the realization that all repression is surplus repression.

Question 4

Tolstoy believes that Beethoven's 9th Symphony is bad art because

Accepted Answer

A)  music is incapable of transmitting the highest religious feeling. 
B)  it mixes poetry and music. 
C)  in an age before recordings, few people had an opportunity to hear a symphony that required a large orchestra and a chorus. 
D)  the feelings transmitted by the music did not unite all people, but only a few. 
E)  Both A and D

Question 5

Gorgias' upright moral character and speeches advocating a false ethical view illustrate the:

Accepted Answer

A)  difference between knowledge and belief. 
B)  way in which the organization of the individual soul mirrors the organization of the universe. 
C)  contrast between a persuasive argument and an invalid one. 
D)  distinction between appearance and reality. 
E)  All of the above

Question 6

Plato thought that art:

Accepted Answer

A)  leads us away from knowledge. 
B)  was the path to a deeper understanding of reality. 
C)  revealed truth in ways that mere reason could not. 
D)  was more reality than appearance. 
E)  revealed truth through its beauty.

Question 7

Tolstoy believed that we communicate our thoughts through art.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Plato often made the characters of his dialogues examples of the theories they were expressing. This was designed to demonstrate his belief that:

Accepted Answer

A)  there is no real difference between appearance and reality. 
B)  life itself is a form of art. 
C)  the order of the universe is reflected in the order of the soul. 
D)  Both A and B 
E)  All of the above

Question 9

A medieval nickname of Plato was "the philosopher."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

According to Plato:

Accepted Answer

A)  a painting of a chair and an actual chair are both copies of the Form of chair. 
B)  an actual chair resembles the Form of Chair, and the painting of the chair resembles the actual chair. 
C)  the actual chair resembles the Form of Chair, but the painting of the chair doesn't resemble the actual chair. 
D)  there is no difference between an actual chair and the Form of Chair. 
E)  None of the above

Question 11

According to Plato, a craftsman who builds a chair creates:

Accepted Answer

A)  a real chair which cannot be copied by a painter. 
B)  a copy of a real chair. 
C)  a real chair that might be copied by the painter. 
D)  a chair which is no closer to reality than a painting of a chair. 
E)  None of the above

Question 12

Mill's claim that some pleasures are higher than others is mirrored by Plato's claim that some pleasures are more real than others.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Warhol's Brillo Box differs from the average Brillo Box because it possesses greater aesthetic charm.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Danto's views are deeply influenced by the philosophy of Testadura.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

As our level of technology increases, our burden of necessary repression decreases.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The benefit of a tragedy, according to Aristotle, is to:

Accepted Answer

A)  purge the audience of unrealistic expectations. 
B)  purge the audience of harmful emotions. 
C)  put the audience's own troubles in proper perspective. 
D)  arouse in the audience the emotions of joy and relief. 
E)  allow members of the audience to understand the suffering of others.

Question 17

The sort of repression that occurs when you force yourself to endure the unpleasantness of an important vaccination rather than indulging your desire to be elsewhere is what Marcuse would call:

Accepted Answer

A)  subliminal repression. 
B)  necessary repression. 
C)  surplus repression. 
D)  direct repression. 
E)  manifest repression.

Question 18

According to Freud, civilization rests upon a foundation of repressed desires.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

"Repression" and "sublimation" are psychological terms first used by Herbert Marcuse.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Danto advocates the Imitation Theory of Art.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 7: Philosophy of Art

The contributing elements to the artistic brilliance of Plato's dialogues include:

Tolstoy thought that art consisted of communicating one person's emotions to others.

Transcendence, in Marcuse's terminology, is:

Tolstoy believes that Beethoven's 9th Symphony is bad art because

Gorgias' upright moral character and speeches advocating a false ethical view illustrate the:

Plato thought that art:

Tolstoy believed that we communicate our thoughts through art.

Plato often made the characters of his dialogues examples of the theories they were expressing. This was designed to demonstrate his belief that:

A medieval nickname of Plato was "the philosopher."

According to Plato:

According to Plato, a craftsman who builds a chair creates:

Mill's claim that some pleasures are higher than others is mirrored by Plato's claim that some pleasures are more real than others.

Warhol's Brillo Box differs from the average Brillo Box because it possesses greater aesthetic charm.

Danto's views are deeply influenced by the philosophy of Testadura.

As our level of technology increases, our burden of necessary repression decreases.

The benefit of a tragedy, according to Aristotle, is to:

The sort of repression that occurs when you force yourself to endure the unpleasantness of an important vaccination rather than indulging your desire to be elsewhere is what Marcuse would call:

According to Freud, civilization rests upon a foundation of repressed desires.

"Repression" and "sublimation" are psychological terms first used by Herbert Marcuse.

Danto advocates the Imitation Theory of Art.