Humanities Final Exam

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Who painted The Cardiff Team, a painting that represents in part the internationalization of sports?

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Robert Delaunay

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Lev Kuleshov, a founder of the Film School in Moscow, is given credit for developing a theory of

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Montage

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Who wrote the General Principles of Relativity

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Albert Einstein

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In which style did George Seurat paint A Sunday on La Grand Jatte?

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Pointillism : Dot painting

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Which of the following painters was greatly influenced by travels to Tahiti?

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Paul Gauguin

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Which of the following paintings is set in Tahiti?

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Mahana no atua

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Pablo Picasso's Les Demoisseles D'Avignon was notoriously known as

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An early demonstration of Futurist influence in painting

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Which of the following paintings might be considered a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?

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Dance

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Who painted Houses at l'estaque, which includes "spatial ambiguity and cube-like shapes"?

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George Braque

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With whom did Pablo Picasso develop cubism?

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George Braque

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Fillippo Marinetti, Umberto Bociioni, and Balla were among the artists who collectivelydeveloped a new style known as

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Futurism

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In which style is Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?

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Futurism

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Who directed the ballet Russes during the premiere of the ballet the rite of spring?

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Which of Der Blaue Reiter artists created The Large Blue Horses?

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Franz Marc

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Which of the following musicians is most closely associated with Sprechstimme?

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Who wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" and was killed in combat just a week before the armistice ending World War 1 was signed in 1918?

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Wilfred Owen

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The Dada Manifesto is

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A treatise on the artist's view of destruction resulting from world war 1

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Who painted the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase and also created "readymades"?

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Marcel Duchamp

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Who wrote "Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret," one of many poems collected in Weary Blues and published in 1926?

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Langston Hughes

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Who was a trumpeter that formed two studio bands, The Hot Five and the Hot Seven, and recorded Hotter Than That, which features "scat"?

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Louis Armstrong

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Who enjoyed a five-year engagement at Harlem's Cotton Club and performed It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing), introducing the term "swing" to jazz culture?

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Duke Ellington

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Which of the following figures led the Bolsheviks, the most radical of russian post-revolutionary groups?

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Sergei Eisenstein

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Which of the following is most closely associated with The Battleship Potemkin, a film about a 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian naval vessel?

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Sergei Eisenstein

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With which of the following are the terms "id," "ego," and "superego" most closely associated with?

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Sigmund Freud

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Who is the author of the Surrealist Manifesto?

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Andre Breton

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Who created Persistence of memory?

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Salvador Dali

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Which of the following literary pieces includes a scene in which "a valet greets Monsieur Garcin as he enters the room that will be his eternal hell"?

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No Exit

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Which phrase was the basic premise of John- Paul Satre's Existetialism?

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Existence precedes essence

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Satre's existential prespective includes only one certainty?

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Death

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What is the most famous line from Satre's Play No Exit?

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Hell is other people

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Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee, and Samuel Beckett wrote plays that are considered "absurdist" productions. Which best describes the theater of the absurd?

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It's central theme was the meaningless of existence

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Who wrote waiting for Godot, which features two characters Vladimir and Estragon, waiting and doing nothing?

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Samuel Beckett

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What of the following phrases describes waiting for Godot and characterizes it as theater of the Absurd?

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The promise of action and the realization of no action

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Which painter is most associated with "action painting"

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Jackson Pollock

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Who is most closely associated with colored field paintings?

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Mark Rothko

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What is most closely associated with a method that involved diluting paint "almost to the consistency of water color and then pouring it onto unprimed cotton canvas to achieve giant stains of color that suggest landscape," as seen in The Bay?

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Helen Frankenthaler

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The beat generation is best described as

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A generation rebelling against the conformity of the postwar american status quo.

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What best describes the beat generation writers' unique narratives?

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a random and continuous chain of undisciplined thought

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the term "pop-art" came to refer to art that reflects

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consumer culture as its theme

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the refined austerity of international-style architecture is best describes as

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"less is more"

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Which architect is responsible for the phrase associated with the international style

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Lugwig Mies van Der Rohe

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During the 1960's, which U.S city was considered the center of civil rights movements

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New York, New York

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Who is most closely associated with a series of paintings of Campbell's soup cans?

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Andy Warhol

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Who is most closely associated with Ben Day dots, which he used to create enlarged comic strips?

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Roy Lichtenstein

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who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, narrated by a survivor of allied fire-bombing of Dresden?

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Kurt Vonnegut

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whose poems contributed to the development of hip-hop?

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Gil Scott-Heron

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Who was instrumental in introducing graffiti to the art world?

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Jean-Michel Basquit

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What event solidified moderate white support for the civil rights movement?

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the bombing of a baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama

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Who collaborated with Vlado Milunic on the Rasin Building?

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Frank Gehry

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Who is the author of "child of the Americas," which reflects on the distinctive culture group inside the United States and was created by North Americans of Hispanic Descent?

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Aurora Levins Morales