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B.Eliot once said that nothing in art is really original. The artist merely recreates what is already there. This line is reminiscent of a similar observation made by Chaucer centuries before - ANSWER Who was the first black actor to star in the role of Emperor Jones? A) Canada Lee B) Paul Robeson C) Ossie Davis D) Bill Cosby E) James Earl Jones
B. Robeson was not able to amass much fortune out of his fame or talent in this country because of his leftist political views, but he paved the way for many artists of his race - ANSWER In Chinese landscape painting, the human figure is hardly visible. Why? A) It's traditional. B) It's expressive of Chinese contempt of mankind. C) It shows the proper relation of man to nature in Chinese thought. D) It shows man as the conqueror of nature. E) It is the nature of landscape painting The correct answer is C. The resurgence of Eastern thought today conflicts with Western thought that Nature is to serve man.-ANSWER Rembrandt van Rijn created sixty A) paintings. B) landscapes. C) paintings of Christ on the cross. D) self-portraits.
E) paintings on classical
D. The first artist who expressed his state of mind and mood in self-portraits was Rembrandt. They record more than forty years of his life - ANSWER The philosophy of Zen Buddhism tries to promote serenity through A) self-consciousness. B) hatred of one's enemy. C) creativity. D) worship of Buddha. E) the attainment of satori
The harmony with everyone is at the core of every person's work - ANSWER Gianlorenzo Berninis famous sculpture The Ecstasy of St. Theresa comes from which period? A) Baroque B) Renaissance C) Mannerist D) Gothic E) Modern
A. The Baroque qualities are extreme dramatic action caught, as in a photograph; an elaborate harmony achieved by spiral or zigzag interplay of lines; and fullness, and even sensuality, of the conception - ANSWER The father was a famous painter and the son became a leading force in the French cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. What is the family name? A) Cocteau B) Renoir C) Malle D) Cézanne E) Degas
C. Hamlet believes that Claudius is on the other side of a curtain and thrusts his sword through it. He is full of regret upon finding out that he slays Polonius instead. - ANSWER Which one of the following novels is NOT set in Hollywood? A) The Day of the Locust B) The Loved One C) The Betsy D) Daniel Martin E) The Killer Angels
E. This is a book about the Battle of Gettysburg.-ANSWER Virginia Woolf was A) an English actress. B) a sister of Thomas Wolfe. C) an experimental novelist. D) a follower of Isadora Duncan. E) the first woman to attend Cambridge University
The correct answer is C. She wrote To the Lighthouseand The Waves, among others.-ANSER What artistic movement is identified with Zurich 107, during World War I? A) Expressionism B) Impressionism C) Cubism D) Dadaism E) Fauvism
The correct answer is D.Tristan Tzara was the founder - ANSWER Who was NOT a major influence on modern architecture? A) Paul Klee
B) Louis Sullivan C) Walter Gropius D) Frank Lloyd Wright E) Buckminster Fuller
The correct answer is A.Paul Klee was a painter - ANSWER The first scientific history was written in the late fifth century B.C.E. by Thucydides about the A) Persian Wars. B) invasion of Egypt. C) Peloponnesian War. D) Punic War. E) Trojan War
ANSWER Thucydides was one of the greatest of ancient historians. His one work, a history of the Peloponnesian War to 411 B.C.E., is a military record, devoid of social and political references apart from those pertaining to the war - ANSWER Exposition, development, and recapitulation describe the three sections of a(n) A) mass. B) opera. C) suite. D) sonata. E) concertina
D.The classical sonata form has three parts: exposition, development, and recapitulation - ANSWER A discovery that began the great flowering of fifteenth century Italian painting was A) the use of new colors. B) the discovery of nude statues. C) the use of geometrical perspective.
E) Rijksmuseum
A. It has housed the state archives of Tuscany and the Uffizi Gallery, one of the richest art collections in the world. It was partly destroyed in 1993 by a car bomb - ANSWER Match the museum with the city. Paris A) Uffizi B) Prado C) Louvre D) Museum of Modern Art E) Rijksmuseum
C. The structure was once a royal fortress. A new entrance complex beneath the main courtyard, designed by I. M. Pei and crowned by a glass pyramid, opened in 1989 - ANSWER In which Greek tragedy does a mother kill her own son? A) Electra B) Oedipus the King C) Antigone D) The Bacchae E) Iphigenia at Aulis
D The correct answer is "Through the sprite of Dionysus, Agave and other Bacchanals slay her son, Pentheus, who has been caught spying on them." - ANSWER Who here set Stéphane Mallarmé's poem "The Afternoon of a Faun" to music? A) Richard Strauss B) Jacques Offenbach C) Charles Ives D) Claude Debussy E) Maurice Ravel
Answer D Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" is a tone poem intended to be an impression of Mallarmé's poem. Debussy intended to write a set of three pieces based on this poem but only the first was composed -ANSWER What geometrical figure was favored by Baroque artists? A) Circle B) Oval or ellipse C) Triangle D) Sphere E) Parabola
B This is in agreement with the fact that planets move in ellipses. - ANSWER French Romanticism occurred in the 1820s and 1830s with which three artists? A) Claude Lorrain, Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Lully B) Hector Berlioz, Victor Hugo, Eugene Delacroix C) Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud D) Marcel Proust, Andre Gide, Alexander Dumas E) Claude Monet, Pierre Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec
B.Berlioz's ideas of orchestration influenced many later composers. Hugo was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, and was nineteenth-century France's leading literary figure. Delacroix was the foremost painter of the Romantic Movement in France. - ANSWER The geometrical figure associated with the Ptolemaic astronomy of the classical and medieval worlds, which symbolized perfection and the movement of the planets, was the A) circle. B) straight line. C) ellipse. D) parabola. E) spiral
A) Russia B) France C) Germany D) Italy E) South Africa
The correct answer is A.Sholom Aleichem was a Russian Yiddish writer, perhaps best known for his humorous novels and stories of life among poor and oppressed Russian Jews - ANSWER Match the country in the answer choices below with this author: Franz Kafka A) Russia B) France C) Germany D) Italy E) South Africa
C.Franz Kafka was a German novelist and short-story writer, born to a Jewish family in Prague. Kafka presents a world at once real and dreamlike, in which modern people, burdened with guilt, isolation, and anxiety, make a futile search for personal salvation - ANSWER Match the country in the answer choices below with this author: Ivan Turgenev A) Russia B) France C) Germany D) Italy E) South Africa
The correct answer is A. Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist. His literary masterpiece is Fathers and Sons - ANSWER Fred Astaire's dancing partner in his most popular movies was
A) Maria Tallchief. B) Leslie Caron. C) Ginger Rogers. D) Adele Astaire. D) Esther Williams
C. Although Fred Astaire had many partners throughout his career, Ginger Rogers appeared with him in most of his movies and is known as his most popular partner. -ANSWER The Greek poet famous for singing the praises of Olympic victors was A) Sappho. B) Pindar. C) Solon. D) Tyrtaeus. E) Horace
B Pindar is generally regarded as the greatest Greek lyric poet. He practiced choral lyric and established a pattern for the victory or epinician ode - ANSWER The poet most commonly associated with the New York group of the Beat generation is A) Robert Lowell. B) Sylvia Plath. C) Allen Ginsberg. D) Robert Duncan. E) Denise Levertov
C. Allen Ginsberg was the American poet of the Beat generation. He still is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values. - ANSWER Who wrote Catcher in the Rye? A) Mark Twain B) J. D. Salinger
E) Paola and Francesca
E) Paola and Francesca -ANSWER Which of the following would be analogous to complementary colors? A) Orange and red B) Orange and yellow C) Orange and violet D) Orange and blue E) Blue and green
Answer: D.Two colors are called complementary if their light together produces white - ANSWER Which is a memoir of World War I? A) Goodbye to All That — Robert Graves B) Parade's End — Ford Madox Ford C) All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque D) "Lily Marlene" E) "Strange Meeting" — Wilfred Owen
Answer AChoices B and C are novels. Choice D is a song. Choice E is a poem.- ANSWER Match the poet from the answer choices below with the following poem: "Lyrics of Lowly Life" A) Hart Crane B) Joyce Kilmer C) Allen Ginsberg D) Robert Frost E) Paul Dunbar
E) Paul Dunbar - ANSWER Match the poet from the answer choices below with the following poem:
"Howl" A) Hart Crane B) Joyce Kilmer C) Allen Ginsberg D) Robert Frost E) Paul Dunbar
C) Allen Ginsberg - ANSWER The size of the standard orchestra was expanded to its present size in order to play the music of which composer? A) George Frederic Handel B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart C) Ludwig van Beethoven D) Igor Stravinsky E) Elliott Carter
Beethoven and other composers of the l800s helped the orchestra become reorganized. Composers of the Romantic period knew more about the instruments and what subtleties could be had. The Romantic period gave more room for variation in composition. -ANSWER When a song contains numerous lines or voices sounding all at once, that is referred to as A) monody. B) plainsong. C) counterpoint. D) aria. E) allegro.
C. Counterpoint can sometimes simply mean the combination of several simultaneous lines or voices in a piece. -ANSWER Which statement is NOT true about "Job"? A) The Lord tested him.
A) Arthur Mitchell. B) Bill Bojangles Robinson. C) José Limon. D) Garth Fagan. E) Katherine Dunham. - ANSWER The correct answer is E.Katherine Dunham, a dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist, established the Katherine Dunham Dancers to showcase African and Afro-Caribbean dance. She also established a technique for its study
Which of these novels by William Faulkner was NOT set in his mythical southern country? A) The Sound and the Fury B) Sartoris C) Absalom, Absalom D) A Fable E) As I Lay Dying - CORRECT ANSWER D.Faulkner, born in New Albany, Mississippi, expressed in his works the decline of the old values and the corruption and suffering of the South after the Civil War, taking the imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha as a model of the Southern lifestyle. But A Fable takes place in the ditches during World War I.
H. C. Earwicker is the central character of which of James Joyce's novels? A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B) Exiles C) Ulysses D) Finnegan's Wake E) Dubliners - ANSWER The correct answer is E.Perhaps the major twentieth-century writer in English, Joyce was a master of language, exploiting its total resources. Educated in Dublin Jesuit schools, after 1902 he lived on the Continent, returning to Ireland only briefly.
Of the following American poets, which one, working in London during World War I,
helped launch the careers of James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost? A) Vachel Lindsay B) Ezra Pound C) Hilda Doolittle D) Joyce Kilmer E) Hart Crane - ANSWER The correct answer is B.Ezra Pound, one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century poetry, left the United States for Europe, eventually settling in England. There he led the "Imagists" before founding "Vorticism," and there he encouraged and influenced other writers.
The play Phaedra, based on the original by Euripides, was written by the seventeenth-century French classicist A) Jean Racine. B) Moliére. C) Madame de Lafayette. D) Nicolas Boileau-Despraux. E) Guy de Maupassant. - ANSWER The correct answer is A.Racine is the prime exemplar of French Classicism.
The theatre of Shakespeare was called the A) Swan. B) Globe. C) Cheshire Cheese. D) Wooden O. E) Abbey - ANSWER The correct answer is B.The Globe was a theatre which had both sections for the gentry and common folk. It was made of wood and open to the air with several levels and balconies.
Which of the following features did NOT add to, or derive from, the height of the Gothic cathedral?
E. Power Biggs - ANSWER The correct answer is A.Breem has brought the lute into renown by popularizing an older form of strings.
Which English author wroteHomage to Catalonia, about his experiences in Spain during the Spanish Civil War? A) Christopher Isherwood B) W. H. Auden C) George Orwell D) Robert Graves E) Evelyn Waugh - ANSWER The correct answer is C.Orwell is a great observer of the human condition and society
What kind of column is A? A) Etruscan B) Doric C) Ionic D) Mesopotamian E) Corinthian - ANSWER The correct answer is B.The Doric column, invented by the Dorians, is the simplest and least ornate of the various columns.
What kind of column is C? A) Etruscan B) Doric C) Ionic D) Mesopotamian E) Corinthian - ANSWER The correct answer is E. The Corinthian column is similar to an Ionic column in its use of the base, but it is more slender than the Ionic and is taller and more ornate
The Beggar's Opera was written by A) Joseph Addison. B) Jonathan Swift. C) Alexander Pope. D) John Gay. E) Richard Steele - ANSWER The correct answer is D.The Beggar's Opera was a parody based on a series of parallels between high life and low life in London, as well as a parody of Italian opera, using familiar English tunes instead of operatic arias. Gay wrote this, based on a suggestion of Swift
Which of these films starred Marion Morrison? A) Man of Aran B) The Quiet Man C) Shake Hands with the Devil D) The Informer E) The Young O'Casey - ANSWER The correct answer is B. Because John Wayne died a few years after this movie was made, it has received an inordinate amount of attention. It is one of a scant few films of "The Duke" that is set neither in the American West nor during a war; it is set in Ireland.
Who is the most recent American to win the Nobel Prize in literature? A) Toni Morrison B) William Faulkner C) Isaac Bashevis Singer D) Ernest Hemingway E) Saul Bellow - ANSWER The correct answer is A.The author of Beloved has written about both the human condition among African Americans and women. Her insight into the human heart brought her the Nobel Prize in 1993
