Lit And Arts Final Study Guide
To help students study for final.
- 1.Who is usually regarded as the pioneer of musical romanticism?
- A.
Beethoven
- B.
Chopin
- C.
Haydn
- D.
Brahms
- 2.Who were the great musical virtuosos of the 19th century?
- A.
Beethoven, Haydn, Liszt
- B.
Chopin, Berlioz, Scarlatti
- C.
Liszt, Chopin, and Paganini
- D.
Mussorgsky, Smetana, and Paganini
- 3.What did Chopin, Mussorgsky, and Smetana have in Common?
- A.
They were Russian expatriates living in Paris.
- B.
They were Polish.
- C.
They incorporated traditional folk tunes into their compositions.
- D.
They composed exclusively for violin and orchestra.
- 4.Who was the greatest Italian opera composer of the 19th century?
- A.
Monteverdi
- B.
Verdi
- C.
Puccini
- D.
Palestrina
- 5.What 1853 work broke new ground in the history of opera by dealing with contemporary life rather than a historical or mythological subject?
- A.
Nabucco
- B.
Rigoletto
- C.
Lusia Miller
- D.
La Traviata
- 6.Who composed the Fantastic Symphony?
- A.
Wagner
- B.
Beethoven
- C.
Chopin
- D.
Berlioz
- 7.What did Richard Wagner mean by Gesamtkunstwerk?
- A.
Super Consciousness
- B.
Complete Art Work
- C.
Total Immersion
- D.
Super Consciousness
- 8.What is the title of Richard Wagner's most monumental operatic work?
- A.
Norma
- B.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
- C.
The Ring Cycle
- D.
Aida
- 9.Who was the most important Spanish artist of Romanticism?
- A.
Goya
- B.
Ingres
- C.
Velazquez
- D.
Chateaubriand
- 10.Which French painter was the creator of Raft of the Medusa (1818)?
- A.
Gustave Courbet
- B.
Delacroix
- C.
Girodet-Trioson
- D.
Gericault
- 11.Which of these 19th century artists were known especially for their scenes depicting nature?
- A.
Constable and Turner
- B.
Daumier and Goya
- C.
David and Gericault
- D.
Delacroix and Casper Freidrich
- 12.What of the following were parts of the basis for the German literary movement known as Sturm and Drang?
- 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.
- 13.Who was the founder of the Romantic movement in English Poetry?
- A.
John Keats
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Percy Bysshe Shelly
- D.
Charles Dickens
- 14.What important French Realist novelist described the banal life of bourgeois Emma Bovary?
- A.
Tolstoy
- B.
Hugo
- C.
Balzac
- D.
Flaubert
- 15.Who is considered to be the most important Russian author of the 1800's?
- A.
Leo Tolstoy
- B.
Jean Ingres
- C.
Herman Melville
- D.
Modest Mussorgsky
- 16.Which of Charles Dickens novels criticized the treatment of the poor in workhouses?
- A.
A Tale of Two Cities
- B.
Our Mutual Friend
- C.
Oliver Twist
- D.
Pickwick Papers
- 17.What was the subject of Henry David Thoreau's Walden?
- A.
The nature of existence.
- B.
The redefinition of men and women's roles in the 19th century.
- C.
Political justice and equality.
- D.
The intersection of spiritual and the material world.
- 18.Who were the Transcendentalists?
- A.
A group of French poets whose work dealt with spiritual themes
- B.
A group of American writers inspired by the natural world
- C.
A group of French composers who sought to convey images through music
- D.
A group of English painters whose works portrayed nature
- 19.What is Walt Whitman's most important work?
- A.
Ode to a Nightingale
- B.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- C.
Drum Taps
- D.
Leaves of Grass
- 20.The Execution of the Madrilenos is by:
- A.
Jacques-Louis David
- B.
Eugene Delacroix
- C.
Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
- D.
Francisco Goya
- 21.What period would World War I bring to a close?
- A.
The Belle Epoque
- B.
The Modern Era
- C.
The Edwardian period
- D.
The Victorian Period
- 22.Who was the author of Thus Spake Zarathustra?
- A.
Descartes
- B.
Nietzsche
- C.
Goethe
- D.
Plato
- 23.What was Friedrich Nietzche's view of the condition of western civilization in the 1880's and 1890's?
- A.
Humans were not able to live in a secular society.
- B.
The chaos of the times was due to industrialization.
- C.
Stability could be gained by a return to Classical models and ideals.
- D.
Religion and democracy were erroneous ideals.
- 24.How did Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) break with the stylistic tradition of the past?
- A.
The figures were placed in broad, flat color fields.
- B.
The painting included both male and female nudes.
- C.
The painting used pyramidal arrangement for the figures.
- D.
The painting's subjects were expressionless.
- 25.Which of Monet's paintings exemplifies his emphasis on conveying light and color?
- A.
A Bar at the Folie-Bergere
- B.
Nympheas (Water Lilies)
- C.
Two Girls at the Piano
- D.
Mont Sainte-Victoire
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