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HUM 112 Quiz 1
Question 1
Correct What inspired the first operas?
. Question 2
Correct What Greek myth inspired Monteverdi's first opera?
. Question 3
Correct What did Louis XIV's rejection of Bernini's plan mark in
European culture?
. Question 4
Incorrect Why did the orphanage directors hope audiences would be
dazzled by the orphans' musical performances?
. Question 5 . Correct Why was Baroque originally used in a derogatory
way to describe this new style?
. Question 6 .

Incorrect Why in 1618 were some members expelled from the Dutch
Reformed Church and even imprisoned?
. Question 7
Correct What distinguished Bach's cantatas from the simple melodies of
the Lutheran chorales on which they were based?
. Question 8
Correct Why did Johannes Goedaert paint a broken and empty nautilus
shell beside the vase in his Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue-Tit?
. Question 9
Incorrect According to Francis Bacon, what were the greatest obstacles
to human understanding?
. Question 10
Correct Why in 1637 did the Dutch economy come close to collapse?
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HUM 112 Quiz 2
Why did the eighteenth-century Parisian courtiers lose interest in
portraits?

• Question 2
In Jean-Antoine Watteau's The Signboard of Gersaint, why is
a portrait of Louis XIV being placed in a storage box?
• Question 3
What view of God did the Deists take?
• Question 4
How did Voltaire make himself so unpopular with both the
French and Prussian courts that he had to retire to the country to avoid
imprisonment?
• Question 5
Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fêtes galantes become so
popular?
• Question 6
According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, why did people lose the
natural goodness with which they were born?
• Question 7
Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie?

• Question 8
Why did the Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II react negatively to
Mozart's Don Giovanni?
• Question 9
Why did English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability"
Brown issue yellow-tinted glasses to Stowe gardens' visitors?
• Question 10
What work of art does the young man's position in Jean-
Honoré Fragonard's The Swing reflect?
• Question 11
Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano's
autobiography of his years as a slave?
• Question 12
Who inspired Thomas Jefferson's argument for freedom in the
Declaration of Independence?

• Question 13
Why did Napoleon launch a massive rebuilding program in
Paris?
• Question 14
Why was Olympe de Gouges executed in 1793?
• Question 15
According to German philosopher Immanuel Kant, what was
the Enlightenment's precondition?
• Question 16
Why did the French Tribunal order execution of Maximilien
Robespierre, one of the leaders of the revolution and new government?
• Question 17
Why in The Wealth of Nations did Adam Smith take a laissez-
faire position on slavery?
• Question 18

Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?
• Question 19
Which of the following was taxed by the Stamp Act that
Britain imposed on the American colonies?
• Question 20
What distinction does Phyllis Wheatley hold?
• Question 21
Why did John Constable include a cathedral in so many of his
paintings?
• Question 22
Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America
as having so much potential?
• Question 23
What were the Romantic artists reacting against?
• Question 24

Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John
Keats?
• Question 25
Which Wordsworth poem is considered to be the fullest
statement of the Romantic imagination?
• Question 26
Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary
subject?
• Question 27
Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on
people from "humble and rustic life"?
• Question 28
In Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what does
the Mariner's killing of the albatross represent?
• Question 29
Which historic figure was considered the personification of the
Romantic hero?

• Question 30
Why in Constable's paintings are human figures usually so
small?
• Question 31
Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and
1880?
• Question 32
Why could Charles Dickens describe the suffering of London's
poor so vividly and accurately?
• Question 33
What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory
workers?
• Question 34
How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?
• Question 35

What theory did Harvard professor Louis Agassiz aim to prove
in his study of South Carolina slaves?
• Question 36
Why did Frederick Douglass eventually break away from the
Anti-Slavery Society?
• Question 37
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HUM 112 Quiz 3 Ch 25-26
Question 1
Question 2
In Jean-Antoine Watteau's The Signboard of Gersaint, why is
a portrait of Louis XIV being placed in a storage box?

• Question 3
As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,
why was Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie-Antionette en
chemise rejected by the Salon of 1783?
• Question 4
According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, why did people lose the
natural goodness with which they were born?
• Question 5
Why did the eighteenth-century Parisian courtiers lose interest
in portraits?
• Question 6
Why in The Wealth of Nations did Adam Smith take a laissez-
faire position on slavery?
• Question 7
How is David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard
historically inaccurate?

• Question 8
Why did Neoclassicism become the preferred style in late
eighteenth-century United States?
• Question 9
On whose design did Thomas Jefferson model Monticello?
• Question 10
Why did the French Tribunal order execution of Maximilien
Robespierre, one of the leaders of the revolution and new government?
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HUM 112 quiz 5
Question 1
Why did Voltaire declare that "Sparta became Athens" when
Frederick the Great assumed power in Prussia?
• Question 2

Why does Fragonard paint the young lady in The Swing as
losing a shoe?
• Question 3
From what sources did the English draw inspiration for the
English garden?
• Question 4
What was the overarching purpose of the Encyclopédie?
• Question 5
Why in the mid-eighteenth century did art criticism begin?
• Question 6
• Question 7
With what were the eighteenth-century French philosophes
concerned?
• Question 8

Why were the philosophes attracted to China?
• Question 9
Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie?
• Question 10
popular?ns?
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HUM 112 quiz 8
Question 31
What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory
workers?
• Question 32
What theme is at the heart of Dickens' socially realistic
writings?

• Question 33
• Question 34
Why did the French public and critics object to Gustave
Courbet's paintings?
• Question 35
Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and
1880?
• Question 36
Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn the runaway
slave Jim in for a reward?
• Question 37
On what main point did Darwin's discoveries and theories
draw criticism from Louis Agassiz and others?

• Question 38
According to French philosopher Auguste Comte, society
passes through what three stages on its quest for knowledge?
• Question 39
How did the coming of the railroads transform inner-city
London?
• Question 40
What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell
in 1815?
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HUM 112 Week 1 Quiz
Question 1
Why did Gabrieli organize his compositions around a single
note-the tonic note?

• Question 2
Why was the division between the Council of Trent-rejected
secular music and religious compositions less pronounced in Venice?
• Question 3
What is the meaning of the Portuguese term barroco, from which
"Baroque" likely derived?
• Question 4
As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,
why did Louis XIV reject Bernini's design for a new façade for the
Louvre?
• Question 5
Why is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons known as program music?
• Question 6
Why did Pope Urban VIII commission a baldachino (canopy) for
Saint Peter's interior?
• Question 7
Why did Bernini decorate the baldachino's grooved columns with
bronze vines?
• Question 8
Why did Bernini include theater boxes on each side his Cornaro
Chapel sculptural program?
• Question 9
What effect does Caravaggio achieve with light in The Calling of
Saint Matthew?
• Question 10
In his Cornaro Chapel sculptural program, with what did Bernini
equate Saint Teresa's religious visions?
• Question 11
In Descent from the Cross, discussed in the chapter's "Continuity
and Change" section, why does Rembrandt push his scene deeper into
the canvas than does Rubens in his earlier painting of the same title?
• Question 12

Why can Rembrandt's late work Slaughtered Ox be viewed as
optimistic?
• Question 13
Why in 1637 did the Dutch economy come close to collapse?
• Question 14
What creates the "broken" tulip, so highly valued by the
seventeenth-century Dutch?
• Question 15
In The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, why does Rembrandt
illuminate the cadaver?
• Question 16
Why can Bach's fugues be viewed as sublime examples of
Cartesian rationalism?
• Question 17
What provided one of the main forms of entertainment at Dutch
family gatherings?
• Question 18
What might the pearls In Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl
Necklace represent?
• Question 19
What distinguished Bach's cantatas from the simple melodies of
• Question 20
Why was Rembrandt's Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering
His Company once mistitled The Night Watch?
• Question 21
According to Poussin, what should be a painting's subject
matter?
• Question 22

Why does Louis XIV wear red high-heeled shoes in Hyacinthe
Rigaud's portrait?
• Question 23
Why was Cardinal Richelieu furious with Pierre Corneille for his
play El Cid?
• Question 24
Why is Velázquez's Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
considered such a complex painting?
• Question 25
Why did the New England Puritans have themselves painted in
luxurious attire?
• Question 26
Why did Spain enter a period of decline after the death of Philip
II?
• Question 27
How was Louis able to maintain such a well-disciplined, loyal
army?
• Question 28
What new dance form emerged from Louis's court?
• Question 29
Why did the Spanish program to convert the Pueblo to
Christianity fail in 1680?
• Question 30
What event was the Palace of Versailles's Hall of Mirrors
designed to celebrate?
• Question 31
Why primarily did James Cook set sail for Tahiti in 1768?
• Question 32
Why did John Locke disagree with Hobbes' social contract?

• Question 33
How did Charles II thank John Dryden for his poem "Annus
Mirabilis"?
• Question 34
How did Josiah Wedgwood revolutionize ceramic ware
production?
• Question 35
Why did Alexander Pope use heroic couplets for his discourse on
ethics, An Essay on Man?
• Question 36
What new literary form did Addison and Steele invent for their
newspapers?
• Question 37
What caused the 1666 Great Fire of London?
• Question 38
Why did Samuel Johnson undertake his monumental Dictionary
of the English Language?
• Question 39
Why did Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" advocate
butchering Irish children?
• Question 40
Why was the Great Fire advantageous to London?
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HUM 112 Week 2 Quiz 1

Question 1
bronze vines?
• Question 2
What is the meaning of the Portuguese term barroco, from which
"Baroque" likely derived?
• Question 3
What did Bernini intend his Four Rivers Fountain to represent?
• Question 4
What Greek myth inspired Monteverdi's first opera?
• Question 5
Why did Pope Urban VIII commission a baldachino (canopy) for
Saint Peter's interior?
• Question 6
According to Descartes, what was God?
• Question 7
In The Little Street why does Vermeer include a half-
whitewashed wall and a mortar-filled cracked façade?
• Question 8
Why in 1618 were some members expelled from the Dutch
Reformed Church and even imprisoned?
• Question 9
Why was Rembrandt so interested in self-portraiture?

• Question 10
Why in 1656 was Rembrandt forced to declare bankruptcy?
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Question 1
Why did the English Parliament raise an army against King
Charles I in 1642?
• Question 2
• Question 3
Why were the New Spain retablos (altarpiece ensembles)
designed to be so extravagant?
• Question 4
How was Louis able to maintain such a well-disciplined, loyal
army?
• Question 5
As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, in
Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the
Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV, why does Louis look out of
place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?
• Question 6
According to Thomas Hobbes, what two factors motivate
people?

• Question 7
Why primarily did James Cook set sail for Tahiti in 1768?
• Question 8
Why did the Hawaiians kill Captain Cook in 1779?
• Question 9
How did Charles II thank John Dryden for his poem "Annus
Mirabilis"?
• Question 10
What commission did Christopher Wren receive during the
rebuilding of London?
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HUM 112 Week 3 Quiz
Question 1
Why did John Milton write Paradise Lost?
Question 2
What new literary form did Addison and Steele invent for their
newspapers?
Question 3
Why did Alexander Pope use heroic couplets for his discourse on
ethics, An Essay on Man?
Question 4
Why did London's East End become home to the very poor in the
eighteenth century?

Question 5
Why was the Great Fire advantageous to London?
Question 6
Why did Samuel Johnson undertake his monumental Dictionary
of the English Language?
Question 7
According to Thomas Hobbes, what two factors motivate
people?
Question 8
How did Samuel Richardson tell the plot of his novel Pamela, or
Virtue Rewarded?
Question 9
Why did the Hawaiians kill Captain Cook in 1779?
Question 10
Why did Hobbes believe that most people willingly accepted a
social contract?
Question 11
As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,
why did Louis XIV reject Bernini's design for a new façade for the
Louvre?
Question 12
What Greek myth inspired Monteverdi's first opera?
Question 13
Why did the orphanage directors hope audiences would be
dazzled by the orphans' musical performances?
Question 14
What is the canzona's dominant rhythm?
Question 15
bronze vines?
Question 16

In his Cornaro Chapel sculptural program, with what did Bernini
equate Saint Teresa's religious visions?
Question 17
Why did the Baroque artists place elements on a diagonal, not
the Renaissance frontal and parallel planes?
Question 18
While his coworkers constructed his designs, what hobby did
Bernini pursue?
Question 19
Why is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons known as program music?
Question 20
What did Louis XIV's rejection of Bernini's plan mark in
European culture?
Question 21
Why did the English Puritans invite Holland to invade Britain in
1688?
Question 22
Which Baroque artist greatly influenced Diego Velázquez's
paintings?
Question 23
How does the Southern Cuzco school Our Lady of the Victory of
Málaga recall Inca religious worship?
Question 24
Why did Louis XIV urge his courtiers to live beyond their
means?
Question 25
What is the Spanish notion of pundonor (point of honor), a
favorite theme in Calderón's plays?
Question 26

Question 27
Why did Spain enter a period of decline after the death of Philip
II?
Question 28
Why is Velázquez's Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
considered such a complex painting?
Question 29
Why has the era of Louis XIV's reign come to be known as the
Age of Absolutism?
Question 30
As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, in
Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the
Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV, why does Louis look out of
place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?
Question 31
In Descent from the Cross, discussed in the chapter's "Continuity
and Change" section, why does Rembrandt push his scene deeper into
the canvas than does Rubens in his earlier painting of the same title?
Question 32
In The Little Street why does Vermeer include a half-
whitewashed wall and a mortar-filled cracked façade?
Question 33
What distinguished Bach's cantatas from the simple melodies of
Question 34
Why was Rembrandt's Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering
His Company once mistitled The Night Watch?

Question 35
Why in 1637 did the Dutch economy come close to collapse?
Question 36
Why did Johannes Goedaert paint a broken and empty nautilus
shell beside the vase in his Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue-Tit?
Question 37
What manner of inquiry did René Descartes advocate?
Question 38
Why were the Catholic and the Protestant Churches opposed to
Kepler's and Galileo's heliocentric theory?
Question 39
What manner of inquiry did Francis Bacon advocate?
Question 40
Why was Rembrandt so interested in self-portraiture?
==================================
Question 1
Under Frederick I, what did Prussia value above all else?
• Question 2
popular?
• Question 3

Why did Voltaire declare that "Sparta became Athens" when
Frederick the Great assumed power in Prussia?
• Question 4
On whose art did Watteau model the dog in The Signboard of
Gersaint?
• Question 5
As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,
why was Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie-Antionette en
chemise rejected by the Salon of 1783?
• Question 6
Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano's
autobiography of his years as a slave?
• Question 7
How is David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard historically
inaccurate?
• Question 8
As described in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,
why does Antoine Jean Gros's painting of Napoleon and his army
battling the Russians make odd propaganda?
• Question 9
What distinction does Phyllis Wheatley hold?
• Question 10
What is David's overarching theme in both The Oath of the
Horatii and The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons?
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Question 1
How did Herman Melville's view of nature differ from that of
other Romantics?
• Question 2
Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John
Keats?
• Question 3
Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on
people from "humble and rustic life"?
• Question 4
Which Wordsworth poem is considered to be the fullest
statement of the Romantic imagination?
• Question 5
Why did Francisco Goya paint The Third of May, 1808, with
such graphic reality?
• Question 6
Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young
women and widows?
• Question 7
What type of government did France have after Napoleon fell in
1815?
• Question 8
How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?
• Question 9

What realistic device did Mark Twain use for his characters in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
• Question 10
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HUM 112 Week 6 Quiz 5 (1)
QUESTION 1
How did the American Civil War change the nature of warfare?
• QUESTION 2
On what values was liberalism based?
• QUESTION 3
Which of the following contributed to 1848 Paris's abysmal
conditions?
• QUESTION 4
In A Visit from the Old Mistress, why does Homer portray the
old mistress dressed in black and the former slaves in white?
• QUESTION 5
Why did Mehmet Ali present France with an obelisk from Luxor
Temple?
• QUESTION 6
In the preface to his novel Thérèsa Raquin, how does Zola
explain the immoral actions of the two main characters?

• QUESTION 7
Who is the first person to call himself an "anarchist"?
• QUESTION 8
For what was Charles Baudelaire's poetry criticized?
• QUESTION 9
What does the black cat at the end of Olympia's bed symbolize?
• QUESTION 10
How did Verdi have to change his operas so they would be
produced in Paris?
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HUM 112 Week 6 Quiz 5 (2)
Question 1
Why did the United States outlaw Chinese immigration in 1882
with the Chinese Exclusion Act?
• Question 2
How did the East India Company recoup the money it spent
buying Chinese products for import?
• Question 3
Why in 1877 did Southern African Americans lose many of the
freedoms they had gained from the Civil War?
• Question 4

Why did Mehmet Ali present France with an obelisk from Luxor
Temple?
• Question 5
Why did both Britain and France side with the South prior to the
Civil War?
• Question 6
Why did Charles Garnier design the façade of the Paris Opera
House to be a merger of Neoclassical and Baroque?
• Question 7
In Germinal why was Zola able to portray the plight of the
French coal miner so realistically?
• Question 8
Why can Manet's Olympia be viewed as a statement about
human slavery?
• Question 9
How did Verdi have to change his operas so they would be
produced in Paris?
• Question 10
For what was Charles Baudelaire's poetry criticized?
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QUESTION 1

Why was Emperor Louis-Napoleon imprisoned and exiled to
England in 1870?
• QUESTION 2
Why was Degas attracted to the soft effects of pastel chalks?
• QUESTION 3
Why did the 13 Russian artists known as the Travelers show their
paintings across the country instead of in an urban gallery?
• QUESTION 4
Why did Louis-Napoleon dismiss Georges-Eugène Haussmann
from his Paris civic-planning post?
• QUESTION 5
In Berthe Morisot's Summer's Day, why is one woman's dress
with zigzags while the other is a patchwork of straight strokes?
• QUESTION 6
In 1892, what percent of all millionaires in the United States
lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn?
• QUESTION 7
Why did the Lakota and the Kiowa tribes keep a "winter count"?
• QUESTION 8
Which earlier artist seems to have influenced Eakins in The
Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic?
• QUESTION 9
With what did Native American tribes believe artistic skill
coexisted?
• QUESTION 10
How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and
white relations?
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QUESTION 1
As described in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,
what method did Sigmund Freud use to encourage his patients to talk
freely?
• QUESTION 2
Why was Auguste Rodin's The Kiss considered too scandalous
for U. S. public display?
• QUESTION 3
Why did Paul Gauguin leave France for Tahiti in 1891?
• QUESTION 4
What is the literal definition of fin de siècle?
• QUESTION 5
Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of
color called pontilles?

• QUESTION 6
Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo
Picasso in their development of Cubism?
• QUESTION 7
How can Henri Matisse's Dance II be viewed as a rebuttal to
Picasso's Les Demoiselles de Avignon?
• QUESTION 8
Who developed Imagist poetry?
• QUESTION 9
Why in Composition VII does Kandinsky represent the social
middle class with green?
• QUESTION 10
What shift in art does Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude
Stein represent?
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Question 1
How did Jackson Pollock create his Abstract Expressionist
mental landscapes?
• Question 2
What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of his atheistic
existentialism?
• Question 3
What work best characterizes the Beat generation?
• Question 4
Why is Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist play titled Huis Clos
(No Exit)?
• Question 5
What in American society were the Beat artists reacting
against?
• Question 6
In his painting to what event does Picasso link the tragedy of
Guernica?
• Question 7

Why most likely did composer Sergei Prokofiev write the
simplistic symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf?
• Question 8
During America's Great Depression, approximately how much
of the national workforce was unemployed?
• Question 9
Why did the Germans level the Basque town of Guernica in
1937?
• Question 10
What "cosmic interaction" did Piet Mondrian believe the grid
represented?
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Question 1
As recreated in Jeff Wall's photographic illustration for Invisible
Man, why does Ellison's narrator need light?
• Question 2

Why was Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested and jailed in
Birmingham in 1963?
• Question 3
According to composer Philip Glass, what made the score for
Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach so difficult?
• Question 4
How did television's An American Family star Lance Loud
create controversy in the mid 1970s?
• Question 5
May 4, 1970, why did the National Guard open fire on and kill
four Kent State students?
• Question 6
What is Prague's Dancing House with its teetering sense of
collapse designed to evoke?
• Question 7
In Janine Antoni's Touch, what does the horizon line on which
she appears to be walking represent?
• Question 8
Why did the makers of the film Flooded McDonald's build a
replica of the fast-food restaurant at the bottom of a pool and then flood
it?
• Question 9
How does Beijing's Olympic Stadium-the Bird's Nest-qualify as
"green architecture"?
• Question 10
Why did Benoit Mandelbrot reject traditional Euclid geometry
for his work with fractals?
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