Cultural Heritage Final

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Modernism: a cultural moviement of the late 19th and 20th centureis that looked to the past for guidance and was non-revolutionary in its outlok.

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Fale

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John Stuar Mill: most remembered for his opposition to granting women the right to vote.

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False

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Jeremy Bentham: pioneer of "utilitarianism", the doctrine of "the greatest good for the greatest number"

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True

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Richard Wagner's contribuiton to the opera was his use of "leitmotifs"; i.e., of his use of recurring themes associated with particular charcters, objects or ideas.

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True

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The founder of "realism" in painting was Gustave Courbet.

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True

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THe architect of German unification in the 19th century was Otto von Bismarck

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True

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Forces that helped to shape events between 1871 and 1914 included the forces of nationalism, militarism, and imperialism.

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True

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Friedrich Nietzche: author of The Will to Power, and wherin he announced the "death of God" and the "life-affirming will to power"

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True

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Cubism: a revolutionary style of painting that first introduced by Gauguin and Van Gogh.

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False

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Frank Lloyd Wright: father of modernism in architecture who coined the phrase "form follows function"

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False

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Sigmund Freud: founder of a type of therapy known as "psychoanalysis"

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True

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Decadent literature refers to the literary movement of the late 19th century that focused on the perverse world of bourgeois society as reflected in the novels of Marcel Proust

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True

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The Impressionist movement in painting derives its name from a painting by Claude Monet entitled Impression.

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True

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Van Gogh: launched the Post-Impressionist trend in painting known as Expressionism

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True

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Freud's conclusions about the meaning of culture are assoicated with the struggle between "eros" and thanatos" as set out in his book,, Civilization and its Discontents.

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True

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The writings of Franz Kafka represent a striking example of Expressionism in literatue in the early 20th century

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True

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Friedrich Nietzsche, who died in 1900, held that htere were no moral certainties

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True

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Dostoevsky, a realist writer of the late 19th century, invented the modern literary type, the anti-hero, who lacked the virtues of heroism but was not a villain.

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True

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The immediate cause of the First World War was not related to the demands of Austria upon Serbia made in an ultimatum a full month after the murder of Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

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False

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Early Modernism's optimism about the future was reinforced by its rapprochement with Christianity

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Flase

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Early Modernism is associated with the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian War until the outbreak of World War I in 1914

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True

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Picasso and Matisse: two of the leading painters in Paris on the eve of World War I

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True

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In 1917, two events helped to shape in a decisive way the outcome of World War I: the entrance of the United States on the side of the Entente powers and the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia later that same year

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True

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In accordance with President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" at the end of World War I, and the Paris Peace Conference that followed it, the United States became a member of the League of Nations

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False

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The government that replaced the German monarchy after World War I was named the Weimar Republic

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True

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The author of the Waste Land, published in 1922, was W.H. Auden

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False

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A literary innovation of the modern novel was the "stream of consciousness" technique adopted by such writers as Virginia Woolf

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True

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As Nietzsche saw clearly, the dinial of Christian values amounted to the denial of all values, and that this is Nihilism

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True

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Walter Gropius: German architect after World War I identified with the "Bauhaus" and the "International style"

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True

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A modernist writer who spoke for the "lost generation" in the post-World War I era was Ernest Hemingway

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True

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A distinguishing feature of American Life afater World War I was the fact that the United States had become an urban nation according to the national census of 1920

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True

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Leon Trotsky became the sole ruler of Russia in the 1920's after Lenin's death in 1924

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False

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The European country most adversely affected by the Great Depression in the 1930's was Italy

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False

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Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 percipitated the outbreak of World War II

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True

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Hitler was the author of Mein Kampf

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True

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Hitler succeeded in coming to power in Germany in 1933 just as Mussolini had succeeded in coming to power in Italy a decade earlier

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True

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Picasso: painter of Guernica, a village destroyed bythe Nationalists side during hte Spanish civil War in 1937

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True

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Al eading exponent of eistentialism was the French plyawright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre

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True

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The United STaes enetered World War II only after the Japanese attacke the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941

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True

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The atomic bombs proved to be decisive in ending the Second World War in 1945

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True

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After World War II, the AMerican government adopteda policy toward the Soviet Union known as containment in 1947

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True

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Sozhenitsyn: russian writer who exposed the extent of Stalin's terro in his work The Gulag Archipelago

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True

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Albert Camus: French writer who opposed totalitarianism in all its forms

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True

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For eyars, WEst Berlin had been a symbol of freedom in the cold war confrontation between Russia and the West

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True

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The closest the United States came to military conflict with the the Soviet Union in the Cold War era was during the Cuban missile crisis of 1692

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True

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The fall of China to communist rule followed the end of the Korean War in 1953

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False

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Norman Mailer: modernist writer who defended US involvement in the Vietnam War

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False

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Simone de Beauvoir: author of the Second Sex, which was published in France, in 1949, and whose book ignited a revival of feminist thought

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True

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According to Sartre, there is no God, thre are no absolute standards of morality or of truth, and so each person must choose his or her own morality and truth

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True

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Modernism as a cultural movement had virtually ended by 1960

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False