Question 1 Why did both Britain and France side with the South prior to the Civil War?Answer The South was home to many of British and French descentThey associated the North with nationalist ideologyTheir economies depended on Southern cottonThey maintained important seaports in the South2 pointsQuestion 2 Why did Mehmet Ali present France with an obelisk from Luxor Temple?Answer For the French's help in industrializing EgyptIn gratitude for helping him become Egypt's viceroyFor France's military support in his invasion of TurkeyAs payment for the money Egypt borrowed from France2 pointsQuesQuestion 1 

  

Why did both Britain and France side with the South prior to the Civil War?

Answer 

 

The South was home to many of British and French descent   

They associated the North with nationalist ideology   

Their economies depended on Southern cotton   

They maintained important seaports in the South  

2 points   

Question 2 

  

Why did Mehmet Ali present France with an obelisk from Luxor Temple?

Answer 

 

For the French's help in industrializing Egypt   

In gratitude for helping him become Egypt's viceroy   

For France's military support in his invasion of Turkey   

As payment for the money Egypt borrowed from France  

2 points   

Question 3 

  

By how much did Haussmann's plan increase land dedicated to public parks in Paris?

Answer 

 

Ten times   

Twenty-five times   

Fifty times   

A hundred times  

2 points   

Question 4 

  

Why was Egyptian cotton so prized by European markets?

Answer 

 

Held dye better   

Exceptionally soft   

Long , strong fibers   

Cheaper than American  

2 points   

Question 5 

  

What is Japonisme?

Answer 

 

Imitation of Japanese art   

Prints colored in flat areas   

Japanese woodblock prints   

Japanese wrapping paper  

2 points   

Question 6 

  

On what values was liberalism based?

Answer 

 

Equality and freedom   

Regional autonomy   

Monarchial control   

Working class reform  

2 points   

Question 7 

  

Why did Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx believe capitalism should be eliminated?

Answer 

 

It supported government   

It failed to generate profits   

It exploited women and slaves   

It was inherently unfair  

2 points   

Question 8 

  

How did the East India Company recoup the money it spent buying Chinese products for import?

Answer 

 

Indenturing the Chinese for cheap labor   

Opening gold and silver mines in India   

Taxing the goods destined for America   

Selling opium to the Chinese  

2 points   

Question 9 

  

Why did the Japanese nishiki-e calendar painters have to disguise the symbols for months in their works?

Answer 

 

The government forbade printing of calendars   

The Japanese disliked the Western use of calendars   

The Japanese symbols for months were too erotic   

The government held a monopoly on calendar printing  

2 points   

Question 10 

  

Why does Suzuki Harunobu in both Two Courtesans. Inside and Outside the Display Window and Visiting (Kayoi) portray one woman sitting and the other standing?

Answer 

 

To show one (sitting) as virtuous and one (standing) as immoral   

To represent a phallus with the standing woman   

To reflect the Taoist principle of harmonious opposites   

To balance the figures within his grid structure  

2 points   

Question 11 

  

Why did Charles Garnier design the façade of the Paris Opera House to be a merger of Neoclassical and Baroque?

Answer 

 

To satisfy liberals and nationalists   

To highlight the best of both styles   

To reflect a new imperial style   

To cut expenses by using existing parts  

2 points   

Question 12 

  

In Rigoletto, how does Giuseppe Verdi show his characters' contrasting emotions?

Answer 

 

Using lighting to underscore feelings   

Replacing songs with spoken words   

Introducing discordant musical elements   

Presenting two scenes simultaneously  

2 points   

Question 13 

  

Why did Wagner believe Jews were incapable of producing music?

Answer 

 

Their slovenly manners   

Their love of money   

Their religious focus   

Their Yiddish speech  

2 points   

Question 14 

  

According to Émile Zola, what two factors over which they have no control determine people's lives?

Answer 

 

Economy and social status   

Heredity and environment   

Class and heredity   

Economy and environment  

2 points   

Question 15 

  

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

Answer 

 

Its plot was hopelessly Romantic   

It was performed in the German language   

Its second-act dance was not a ballet   

Its German plot inflamed French hostility  

2 points   

Question 16 

  

How does naturalism differ from literary realism?

Answer 

 

More objective   

More erotic   

More optimistic   

More subjective  

2 points   

Question 17 

  

In the preface to his novel Thérèsa Raquin, how does Zola explain the immoral actions of the two main characters?

Answer 

 

They are human animals   

They are lower class   

They are fatigued   

They are in love  

2 points   

Question 18 

  

Who is the first person to call himself an "anarchist"?

Answer 

 

George Sand   

Édouard Manet   

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon   

Karl Marx  

2 points   

Question 19 

  

Why did Wagner design the orchestra to be underneath the stage of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus?

Answer 

 

To open up more space for seating   

To draw the audience closer to the stage   

To make the Festspielhaus distinctly German   

To soften the sound of the orchestra  

2 points   

Question 20 

  

Why were Jacques Offenbach's operettas so popular with the French?

Answer 

 

They included the second-act ballet   

They satirized the Germans   

They were light and entertaining   

They glorified Louis-Napoleon's reign  

2 points   

Question 21 

  

Why did Zola call Gustave Caillebotte's The Floor-Scrapers "crude" and "violent"?

Answer 

 

Its loose, sketchy brushwork   

Its working-class subject   

Its reliance on parallel lines   

Its downplay of natural light  

2 points   

Question 22 

  

How did the Parisians avoid starvation during the 1870-71 Prussian siege of their city?

Answer 

 

Ate the plants in the palace gardens   

Cannibalized the dead Parisians   

Stormed and robbed the palace kitchens   

Killed and ate the zoo animals  

2 points   

Question 23 

  

In Berthe Morisot's Summer's Day, why is one woman's dress with zigzags while the other is a patchwork of straight strokes?

Answer 

 

To distinguish the clothing from the water   

To show one's social superiority to the other   

To emphasize the distance between them   

To capture the diverse play of light better  

2 points   

Question 24 

  

Why did Louis-Napoleon dismiss Georges-Eugène Haussmann from his Paris civic-planning post?

Answer 

 

To appease Parisians angry with his city renewal plans   

For supporting the Parisians' desire to secede from France   

To use his enormous salary to fund the military   

For questionable financing schemes for his projects  

2 points   

Question 25 

  

What innovation enabled the Impressionists to paint en plein air?

Answer 

 

Tinted eyewear   

Portable easel   

Colored chalk   

Paint in tubes  

2 points   

Question 26 

  

How did William Morris and Company discriminate against women?

Answer 

 

Presented them erotically in art   

Hired them to do embroidery only   

Paid them a lower wage than male workers   

Refused to let them design tapestries  

2 points   

Question 27 

  

For what did Joseph Paxton design London's Crystal Palace?

Answer 

 

The new Saint Christopher le Stocks Church   

The Bridgeman Art Library of Impressionist Painting   

The Royal Society of London for Improving Knowledge   

The Exhibition of the Art and Industry of All Nations  

2 points   

Question 28 

  

What two principles did William Morris emphasize in his designs?

Answer 

 

Beauty and utility   

Labor and love   

Simplicity and utility   

Honor and pride  

2 points   

Question 29 

  

Why did Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and other artists found a Société anonyme?

Answer 

 

To help rebuild French culture   

To unionize the French artists   

To challenge the Salon's exhibits   

To show their art anonymously  

2 points   

Question 30 

  

Approximately how many Parisians were killed in "the bloody week" of May 21-28, 1871?

Answer 

 

5,000-10,000   

10,000-15,000   

20,000-25,000   

30,000-35,000  

2 points   

Question 31 

  

With what did Native American tribes believe artistic skill coexisted?

Answer 

 

Hunting magic   

Divine powers   

Fertility   

Beauty and virtue  

2 points   

Question 32 

  

According to architect Louis H. Sullivan, what determined a building's identity?

Answer 

 

Framework   

Design   

Height   

Ornamentation  

2 points   

Question 33 

  

In The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, why did Albert Bierstadt paint a mountain from the Swiss Alps, not the actual Lander's Peak?

Answer 

 

The Swiss mountain is more picturesque   

He had never been to the Rocky Mountains   

There is no Lander's Peak in the Rocky Mountains   

His audience expected that familiar view  

2 points   

Question 34 

  

In The Agnew Clinic, why does Eakins show no blood on the patient or Dr. Agnew?

Answer 

 

Dr. Agnew requested this   

Blood would distract viewers   

Women are in the painting   

Eakins' wife, Susan, requested this  

2 points   

Question 35 

  

Which earlier artist seems to have influenced Eakins in The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic?

Answer 

 

Vermeer   

Rembrandt   

Van Eyck   

Rubens  

2 points   

Question 36 

  

Why did the Plains tribes begin performing the Ghost Dance in 1889?

Answer 

 

To make the white people disappear   

To prepare for battle at Wounded Knee   

To bring about peace with the white people   

To honor those who died from smallpox  

2 points   

Question 37 

  

What was the title of the preparatory sketch for George Bellows' Cliff Dwellers?

Answer 

 

"Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses"   

"Why Don't They All Go to the Country for a Vacation?"   

"I Sing the Body Electric, the Armies of Those I Love"   

"The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shores"  

2 points   

Question 38 

  

Why did John Ruskin criticize James Whistler's Impressionistic Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket?

Answer 

 

For copying the French style   

For selling for 200 pounds   

For looking like flung paint   

For altering objective truth  

2 points   

Question 39 

  

Why did the U.S. Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?

Answer 

 

Location at center of the U.S.   

Majority of citizens foreign-born   

Lakes providing efficient transport   

Rural areas for hall construction  

2 points   

Question 40 

  

Why did Congress pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

Answer 

 

To quarantine smallpox-infected Native Americans   

To protect them from the white settlers   

To seize their lands east of the Mississippi   

To decrease conflicts among various tribes  

2 points   

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