Philadelphia Arts And Culture Quiz #3
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This is the third quiz for Professor Finkel's Fall 2009 Philadelphia Arts and Culture class to help you prepare for the test on Friday October 30th.
- 1.What is the first line George Lippard's of The Quaker City?
- A.
“One winter night I was called to the bedside of a dying friend.”
- B.
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
- C.
Once upon a time...
- D.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
- E.
On an exceptionally hot evening in early July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge
- 2.Robert Montgomery Bird was a famous writer, who wrote plays and novels including the famous play about Spartacus and slave uprisings in ancient Rome called ______ , and Sheppard Lee, about a man who dies and whose soul goes on to possesses various other bodies.HINT: It was turned into a Hollywood movie that Russell Crowe starred in.
- 3.George Lippard was a 19th century writer and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union. His most famous published work _______ _______ was initially issued in several parts and based of the real 1843 trial of Singleton Mercer who was tried for the murder of his sisters rapist.
- 4.Population in Philadelphia more than __________ from 1800‐1850
- A.
Doubled
- B.
Quadrupled
- C.
Tripled
- 5.This Philadelphia photographer is known best for being one of the first to use photography in a artistic style:
- A.
Joseph Saxton
- B.
Robert Cornelius
- C.
Robert Montgomery Bird
- D.
John Moran
- 6.On May 17, 1838: an anti‐Abolitionist mob burned the recently constructed _________ ________at Race and 6th Streets showing the changing social and political landscape of Philadelphia in the 1820 and 30s.
- 7.________ ________ ________ was a cartoonist from the 1820 and 1830s whose work focused on social pretensions within Philadelphia society. He is known for perpetuating exaggerated stereotypes of African Americans.
- 8.The ______ was a patented English process, an alternative to the daguerreotype. The Langenheim brothers licensed it from Talbot in 1849.
- 9.What is Joseph Saxton best known for doing, specifically?
- A.
For taking the first American daguerreotype from the window of US Mint
- B.
For writing the classical American novel "Sheppard Lee."
- C.
For helping to make photography a commercial industry.
- D.
For helping to make photography part of artistic culture.
- 10.What is the name of the particular literary setting in Philadelphia that is being described below: “The front of the mansion, one plain mass of black and red brick, disposed like the alternate colors of a chessboard, looked towards the south. A massive hall-door, defended by heavy pillars, and surmounted by an intricate cornice, all carved and sculptured into hideous satyr-faces.”
- 11.Half of the city's foreign born population in 1880 were:
- A.
Eastern European
- B.
Italian
- C.
Irish
- D.
African American
- E.
German
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