Unit 1: American Landscape

Question 1

When did Native Americans settle in Alaska?

Answer 1

During the Ice Age

Question 2

Who were the Eurasians ?

Answer 2

Eurasian people were the first people to establish in America after crossing the Pacific ocean.

Question 3

What is one of the synonyms to describe John Smith?

Answer 3

Greedy

Question 4

When did the British colonize America?

Answer 4

In the early 17th century

Question 5

What does the woman represent in the painting ?

Answer 5

She is a allegory of progress.

Question 6

Landscape

Answer 6

Paysage

Question 7

What does this painting represent?

Answer 7

John Gast’s vision of American progress in the 19th century

Question 8

What is the idea which guided the American settlers to expand westward called?

Answer 8

The Manifest Destiny

Question 9

Lush

Answer 9

Luxuriant

Question 10

What’s the difference between people and peoples?

Answer 10

Peoples means “peuple(s)”

Question 11

Ce qu’il y a derrière dans un tableau

Answer 11

In the background

Question 12

Ce qu’il y a devant dans un tableau

Answer 12

In the foreground

Question 13

Who is pocahontas

Answer 13

a native-american

Question 14

What word can be used to say that something was said previously ?

Answer 14

Aforementioned

Question 15

Selfish

Answer 15

Égoïste

Question 16

How American thought Indians were ?

Answer 16

Savages

Question 17

For Americans, were are the Indians ?

Answer 17

Savages

Question 18

What other word can be used to say “So” ?

Answer 18

Thus

Question 19

How the West is seen by the colonists?

Answer 19

Wild and ominous

Question 20

What does the dark part of the picture represent ?

Answer 20

This part represent the Natives Americans, a savage population

Question 21

How are the colonizers represented on the painting?

Answer 21

they bring light, sun and modernity

Question 22

how are native americans represented in the paintings and who are they fleeing?

Answer 22

they are represented in the shadows and they are hunted by the colonizers

Question 23

What is the synonym for ambitions

Answer 23

It’s aspirations

Question 24

A synonym for to transmit

Answer 24

Conveys

Question 25

What is a synonym of to conclude?

Answer 25

overall

Question 26

how do native americans look?

Answer 26

they look scared and pityful

Question 27

O

Question 28

Peinture à l’eau

Answer 28

Watercolor

Question 29

cold

Answer 29

crisp

Question 30

Synonymie de «change»

Answer 30

Shift

Question 31

Synonym of haze

Answer 31

Fog

Question 32

How does the manual work change ?

Answer 32

It becomes mechanical

Question 33

Give a synonym for fume ?

Answer 33

It’s smoke

Question 34

what type of paint should be used by Thomas Moran

Answer 34

It’s a watercolor

Question 35

A synonym for cold

Answer 35

Crisp

Question 36

Blurry

Answer 36

Flou

Question 37

What does dark represent on the painting ?

Answer 37

The pollution

Question 38

Give a synonym for haze

Answer 38

It’s fog

Question 39

Smoke/fume

Answer 39

Fumée

Question 40

How does the painter saw the industrialisation?

Answer 40

He finds beauty in pollution

Question 41

Synonyme de «smoke»

Answer 41

Fume

Question 42

What does the painting represent?

Answer 42

Industrialisation