Exam 3 Terms Flashcards
Which of the following is true about the passage below?
“Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.”
It comes from “Afternoon of a Faun.” It comes from “A Doll’s House.” It was written by Ibsen. It was written by Chopin. It appears in a work that chronicles the psychological transformation of a woman trapped in a nineteenth-century, male-dominated world. It was designed as a fragment produced in a drugged-induced state. both d and e both a and f
It was written by Chopin
It appears in a work that chronicles the psychological transformation of a woman trapped in a nineteenth-century, male-dominated world.
SO.. both D & E
Which of the following is not true about Rodin’s The Gates of Hell?
It is the largest oil Rodin ever painted. It uses ideas from Baudelaire. It is based on episodes from Dante’s Inferno. It reveals wild, churning surfaces that express the anxiety of contemporary turn-of-the-century culture.
It is the largest oil Rodin ever painted.
Which of the following is not true about Munch’s The Dance of Life?
It shows a tormented character on a bridge. Its structure resembles an ancient temple frieze. It shows one woman in three different phases of her life. It expresses a state of anxiety. It is a brooding meditation on the subjects of sex, love, life, and death.
It shows a tormented character on a bridge.
Which of the following is not true about Erik Satie?
His music sounded intentionally anti-German. His music lacked a strong forward drive. His music was focused more on the static color of chords rather than motivic development. He wrote giant pieces about deep philosophical issues.
He wrote giant pieces about deep philosophical issues.
Which of the following is not true about Van Gogh’s Night Café?
It expressed moral revulsion at a drinking spot. The handling of space is purposefully distorted. Its colors symbolize the terrible passions of humanity. Van Gogh put in things like cypress trees and church steeples, which were not actually part of the scene.
Van Gogh put in things like cypress trees and church steeples, which were not actually part of the scene.
Which of the following is not true about Cezanne’s Montagne Ste.-Victoire?
At first it looks like a conventional landscape, but on closer inspection it becomes flatter, more abstract, more focused on intellectual motivic relationships. It is part of a series of works devoted to the same image. It is composed of tiny “divisionist” dots that must be seen from a distance.
It is composed of tiny “divisionist” dots that must be seen from a distance.
Which of the following is not one of the factors that led to a state of uneasiness at the end of the 1800s?
the socialist, anarchic, and feminist responses to the Industrial Revolution an attack on the West’s spiritual foundations by Nietzsche the reemergence of eighteenth-century Enlightenment culture the second Industrial Revolution a new imperialism
the reemergence of eighteenth-century Enlightenment culture
Which of the following does not apply to Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard?
It concludes with a tidy summary and happy ending to prove that Russia has solved its social turmoil. The nursery room and the cherry orchard are used to symbolize the current state of Russian society. It poses a conflict between the old-fashioned romantic ideals of the aristocracy and the new hard-headed ideals of the newly emerging merchant class. It uses the seasons to celebrate the death of one era and the birth of another.
It concludes with a tidy summary and happy ending to prove that Russia has solved its social turmoil.
Which of the following is not true about Sunday Afternoon of the Island of La Grande Jatte?
It wants to present a social utopia, with people of many classes recreating together. It is based on cloisonné technique and children’s art. The human figures appear strictly in front, profile, and three-quarter poses. It uses a technique called pointillism.
It is based on cloisonné technique and children’s art.
Which of the following is not true about Debussy’s Prelude to ‘The Afternoon of a Faun’?
It focuses to a new degree on instrumental color. The melodies often use a wavy, highly decorative profile inspired by art nouveau. The melodies are often fragmentary, discontinuous. It uses new scales, such as the pentatonic and whole-tone. Its music is often nonmetrical. The music is atonal and expresses nightmarish psychic turmoil.
The music is atonal and expresses nightmarish psychic turmoil.
Which of the following does not apply to Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire?
It is a twenty-one-song cycle. It is written for a heterogeneous instrumental ensemble. The music was intended to express the deep instincts of the inner psyche. It is atonal. It was tonal and tuneful.
It was tonal and tuneful.
Which of the following is not true about Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past?
introduced a new kind of narrative that involves sequences of discontinuous memories presented a world in which truth fluctuated explored “lived time,” the kind of states of being that humans experience in their everyday lives used a realistic or “naturalistic” presentation of everyday reality to show how his family was losing their connection to old-world values
used a realistic or “naturalistic” presentation of everyday reality to show how his family was losing their connection to old-world values
Which of the following is true about Kandinsky’s Composition VII?
It is based on a cubist version of a color wheel. It is a cubist treatment of a Swiss mountain. It shows animals caught in a cosmic explosion. It eliminates all references to reality.
It eliminates all references to reality.
Which of the following is not true about Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring?
It introduces Russian folk songs in addition to modernist harmonic materials. It uses German chorales and vocal choruses to enhance crowd scenes. It uses a technique of juxtaposing static blocks of material that resembles cinematic cross-cutting. It breaks up meter into discontinuous bits of time. It uses a very dissonant chord as a surrogate tonality.
It uses German chorales and vocal choruses to enhance crowd scenes.
Which of the following is not true about D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation?
It introduced film techniques that still exist today. It told the story of the Monitor and the Merrimack. It was an epic-length early film. It told a story of the American Civil War in which the members of the Ku Klux Klan appear as heroes.
It told the story of the Monitor and the Merrimack.
