Multiple Choice Questions

Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as?
  • Cubism.
  • Ulysses.
  • Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
  • Pop art.
A major component of hip-hop music is?
  • Newtonian laws of physics did not function at the cosmic level.
  • Should reject the role of "Other".
  • Percussive beats, disco, reggae, and rock influences, and electronic manipulations of music by disc jockeys.
  • Improvisation, syncopation, and the blues motif.
The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is known as?
  • Montage.
  • The ego.
  • Fairytales.
  • Pop art.
The "Great Criticism" series by the Chinese artist Wang Guangyi reflects the influence of?
  • James Baldwin.
  • Montage.
  • Pop art.
  • Pollock.
Albert Einstein and other twentieth-century physicists argued that?
  • Theater of the absurd.
  • Newtonian laws of physics did not function at the cosmic level.
  • Improvisation, syncopation, and the blues motif.
  • Pared down, abstract style.
After 1945, there was a shift in major art production from?
  • Langston Hughes.
  • String Theory.
  • Being and Nothingness.
  • Paris to New York.
The pioneer figure in American Pop art was?
  • Montage.
  • Pollock.
  • The ego.
  • Warhol.
The names Gropius and Le Corbusier are associated with the?
  • Should reject the role of "Other".
  • International style in architecture.
  • Pared down, abstract style.
  • Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
According to Freud, civilization was the product of the?
  • Ulysses.
  • Pollock.
  • Superego.
  • The ego.
The pioneering narrative films of George Méliès and Edwin S. Porter were early examples of which popular genres?
  • International style in architecture.
  • Westerns and science fiction.
  • Industrial technology.
  • James Baldwin.
Leading artists of China's Pop art movement, such as Wang Guangyi, have assumed the role of?
  • Russia.
  • Social critic.
  • Science fiction.
  • String Theory.
Freud theorized that the libido was an important drive of?
  • Pollock.
  • Superego.
  • The ego.
  • Montage.
Merce Cunningham's choreography is considered radical because it?
  • Paris to New York.
  • Destroyers of tradition.
  • Does not depend on music.
  • Theater of the absurd.
The Holocaust resulted from Hitler's?
  • Theater of the absurd.
  • International style in architecture.
  • Westerns and science fiction.
  • Theory of Aryan racial superiority.
In his writings on existentialism, Sartre insisted that each individual is?
  • Social critic.
  • Dada.
  • Russia.
  • The sum of his or her own actions.
Some critics contend that Postmodernism originated with the rejection of the International Style in the field of?
  • Philip Glass.
  • Architecture.
  • String Theory.
  • James Baldwin.
Leopold Bloom is the central figure in James Joyce's landmark work?
  • Superego.
  • Fairytales.
  • Montage.
  • Ulysses.
Arguably the most radical development in music in the last fifty years, as seen in synthesizers and sampling, has been the?
  • International style in architecture.
  • Impact of electronic technology.
  • Westerns and science fiction.
  • Theater of the absurd.
The elements of jazz and street slang in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks show the influence of?
  • Industrial technology.
  • String Theory.
  • James Baldwin.
  • Langston Hughes.
Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were pioneering figures in which literary genre?
  • Paris to New York.
  • String Theory.
  • Science fiction.
  • The cantilever.
What are some characteristics of art in the first half of the twentieth century?
  • International style in architecture.
  • Industrial technology.
  • Cubism, futurism, fauvism, and dada.
  • Mondrian and Kandinsky.
Einstein on the Beach, one of the first operas to employ electronically amplified instrumentation, was written by?
  • James Baldwin.
  • Philip Glass.
  • Pop art.
  • Fairytales.
Purging the canvas of all recognizable subject matter was the aim of artists such as?
  • Langston Hughes.
  • Mondrian and Kandinsky.
  • Being and Nothingness.
  • Industrial technology.
Picasso's landmark painting, Guernica, immortalized the?
  • International style in architecture.
  • Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
  • Being and Nothingness.
  • Should reject the role of "Other".
The feminist Simone de Beauvoir held that women?
  • Pared down, abstract style.
  • Should reject the role of "Other".
  • Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
  • International style in architecture.
In his landmark poem The Rock, T. S. Eliot claimed that the knowledge accumulated by Western civilization brought twentieth-century Westerners closer to?
  • Cage.
  • American folk songs.
  • The sum of his or her own actions.
  • Ignorance and death.
Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as 4' 33"?
  • American folk songs.
  • Cage.
  • Ignorance and death.
  • The sum of his or her own actions.
The most distinctive feature of Imagist poetry was its?
  • International style in architecture.
  • Theater of the absurd.
  • Should reject the role of "Other".
  • Pared down, abstract style.
The aesthetic, production, and materials of minimalist artworks are inspired by?
  • Industrial technology.
  • String Theory.
  • Mondrian and Kandinsky.
  • Theater of the absurd.
The United States Supreme Court did not ban school segregation until?
  • Montage.
  • Pollock.
  • 1954.
  • Pop art.
Fauvist artworks are most notable for their bold use of?
  • Fairytales.
  • Color.
  • Warhol.
  • Cubism.
What do minimalism and geometric abstraction have in common?
  • Does not depend on music.
  • Architecture.
  • Both largely nonrepresentational.
  • Should reject the role of "Other".
The effort on the part of contemporary physicists to achieve a "theory of everything" is evident in?
  • Philip Glass.
  • String Theory.
  • Langston Hughes.
  • Science fiction.
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