Final Exam Questions Flashcards
Which of the following is not one of the basic precepts of surrealism?
It sought emotional reactions from unpredictable juxtapositions of everyday objects. It championed a return to conservatism and classical motifs. It embraced the technique of automatic writing as a way to access the dream world of the psyche. Score: 1 of 1
It championed a return to conservatism and classical motifs.
Which of the following is not true of Stravinsky’s music written after 1918?
It goes back to melody with accompaniment textures, clear tonality, and forms with alternating themes and transitions and developments. It uses the cubist chunks heard in Rite of Spring. It uses smaller orchestras and traditional genres.
It uses the cubist chunks heard in Rite of Spring.
Which of the following was not a conspicuous factor in World War I?
trench warfare no-man’s land barbed wire the atom bomb indirect fire grenade bombing from airplanes over-the-top
the atom bomb
Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the graying edge of his shiny black coat-sleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes. Across the threadbare cuffedge he saw the sea hailed as a great sweet mother by the wellfed voice beside him. The ring of bay and skyline held a dull green mass of liquid. A bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had torn up from her rotting liver by fits of loud groaning vomiting.
It is from Ulysses. It is from Mrs. Dalloway. It is from The Trial. It is an example of modernist stream-of-consciousness technique. It takes place in a mysterious Eastern European church. both a and d both b and e
both a and d
It is from Ulysses
It is an example of modernist stream-of-consciousness technique
Which of the following is not one of the events occurring in the aftermath of World War I?
The Russian Romanov Dynasty collapsed. The Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary collapsed. The Ottomans of Turkey collapsed. The Germans were brutally punished. Revolution broke out in Russia. Italy became a dominant military and economic power in Europe
Italy became a dominant military and economic power in Europe
Which of the following does not apply to Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel?
It is an exploration of stasis and movement simultaneously. It is ready-made. It is a painting of a painting of a sculpture. It displays a Dada-like irrational combination of things
It is a painting of a painting of a sculpture.
Which of the following does not apply to serialism?
It was invented as a way of bringing popular music into the domain of art music. It is based on a continuous repetition of a row that includes all twelve pitches. It was created by Schoenberg. It was created to give atonal music comprehensibility.
It was invented as a way of bringing popular music into the domain of art music.
Which of the following is not a feature of Kafka’s writing?
It portrays lonely people persecuted by some vast, menacing bureaucracy. It portrays souls who are alienated and tortured for no reason. It displays a radical literary style that proceeds in cubist shards from one thought fragment to another
It displays a radical literary style that proceeds in cubist shards from one thought fragment to another
Which of the following does not apply to Picasso’s Three Women at the Spring?
It is a balanced composition. It shows massive bodies conveying timelessness and universality. It displays Parisian Dada and chance-based structure. It shows classical motifs. It focuses on representation rather than abstraction
It displays Parisian Dada and chance-based structure.
Which of the following is not an idea promoted by Vladimir Lenin?
the need to unite works with peasants the need to reintroduce the values of classical liberalism the need for violent revolution the need to create a powerful worker’s party
the need to reintroduce the values of classical liberalism
Which of the following does not apply to Picasso’s Guernica?
It is a response to a Nazi blitzkrieg. It depicts a set of melting weapons on a Portuguese coastal plain. It is enormous in size. It is an attack against modern technology. It depicts a bull, a horse, a broken soldier, and a reference to the Pieta
It depicts a set of melting weapons on a Portuguese coastal plain.
Which of the following is not true about socialist realist music?
It stipulated that Russian music must glorify the state. It was a strict set of rules established by the Union of Soviet Composers. It demanded the reliance on Russian folk music and old-fashioned harmonies. It insisted that music champion the ideas of formalism.
It insisted that music champion the ideas of formalism.
Which of the following does not apply to Dali’s Persistence of Memory?
It shows “images of concrete irrationality.” It shows recognizable but incongruent environments. It is an attempt to release truths from the subconscious. It displays precise realism applied to an unreal scene. none of the above
none of the above
Which of the following is not true about Wood’s American Gothic?
It includes a specific kind of American cottage architecture. The whole is organized around a pitch-fork motif. Two figures are shown centered, close to the picture plane, frontal, in stationary poses. It shows a brawny man chopping wood
It shows a brawny man chopping wood
Which of the following is not true about Copland’s Appalachian Spring?
It was originally intended as a ballet. It used ordinary major and minor scales. It turned away from the composer’s earlier, more complex style toward style that was more tonal and tuneful. It uses serial methods in conjunction with dance choreography. It quotes a well-beloved Shaker tune
It uses serial methods in conjunction with dance choreography.
Which of the following is not true about Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky?
It was originally written as music for a film.
It features such formalist practices as serialism and fugal counterpoint.
It features a simple choral music, with short phrases and tonal harmonies.
It celebrates a great Russian military victory of the past, thereby filling a role of state propaganda.
It features such formalist practices as serialism and fugal counterpoint.
Which of the following is not true about Brecht’s Good Person of Setzuan?
Shen Te survives as “Shui Ta” by making herself into a heartless capitalist. The gods behave with silliness. The only good person in Setzuan is a prostitute. Mustafa Mond turns out to be a benefactor in disguise.
Mustafa Mond turns out to be a benefactor in disguise.
Which of the following is not a feature of Huxley’s Brave New World?
soma the use of “alienation effect” in the theater to separate spectator from spectacle the worship of Henry Ford and mass production human baby hatcheries
the use of “alienation effect” in the theater to separate spectator from spectacle
Which of the following is not true about the Soviet notions of musical formalism?
It involved music that was complex and experimental. It involved music that strove to use music as a propaganda tool. It involved music that strove to be modern.
It involved music that strove to use music as a propaganda tool.
Which of the following is not true about Soviet music in the years between 1930 and 1945?
Style to an unusual degree was dependent on the values of the Parisian neoclassical academy. Its style reflected darkening social and political circumstances. Style to a large extent was controlled by a totalitarian government. Incorrect. This is true about Soviet music between 1930 and 1945. Learn more in the text’s section entitled Music and Social Context 1930-1945.
Style to an unusual degree was dependent on the values of the Parisian neoclassical academy.
