Humanities 1301
Introduction to the
Humanities
Quiz 5
Chapter 27
1. The rise of ________ saw an exaltation of the political state and fervent patriotic identification with a territory that encompassed a common language and history.2. The 19th-century Western cultural development called ________ included a revolt against political and social conventions (traditions) and authority, the glorification of the individual self, and a reaction against neoclassicism and aesthetic "objectivity."
3. As the leading British nature poet of the 19th century, ________ most clearly and explicitly defined the goals of romantic poetry
4. In his manifesto on poetry, the British poet ________ proclaims poets as "the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
5. Six Chapters from a Floating Life, the autobiography of a Chinese writer named _________, contains subtle reminders of the interconnections between nature and human life, between beauty and happiness, and between the transient natures of each of these.
6. The _________ was a school of French landscape painting that combined romanticism and realism in the depiction of nature.
7. _________ was the leading figure among the American transcendentalists.
8. Thoreau referred to ________, a book describing his experiment in self-reliance and withdrawal from urban society, as a "handbook for living."
9. The German religious mystic called _________ greatly influenced German romanticism.
10. The concept called _________ describes an evolutionary process between spirit and matter, by which spirit seeks to know its own nature.
11. The proposition that the methods of the natural sciences should be applied in all areas of rational investigation is called _________.
Chapter 28
1. The Corsican army general ________ seized control of the French government in 1799, proceeded over the next decade to conquer most of Europe, and became the first romantic hero of the 19th-century artistic imagination.Chapter 292. The favorite fictional hero of the romantics was __________, primordial Greek god and benefactor of humanity.
3. The British poet _________ pursued a life that paralleled the image of the romantic hero.
4. The 19th-century American anti-slavery activists were called _________.
5. A former slave named Isabella Bomefree, _________ traveled the U.S. ìsharing the truthî on matters of human dignity.
6. The monumental poetic drama _________, by the German poet ________, has a central character who epitomizes the 19th-century romantic hero.
7. The 19th-century novelist _________ was the first realist in the English novel-writing tradition.
1. Raft of the Medusa, by the French painter _________, depicts ordinary human beings in a heroic struggle to survive the forces of nature.2. _________ was the French designer of the Statue of Liberty, considered a ìsisterî to Delacroixís heroine in the painting Liberty Leading the People.
3. Designed by James Renwick and located in New York City, __________ is one of the outstanding examples of Gothic revival in the United States.
4. Mid 19th-century _________ were often five times larger than those used by Haydn and Mozart.
5. The leading musical composer of the early 19th century, and one of the great musicians, ________ served as a bridge between the classical and romantic periods in art music.
6. The musical form called the lied was originated by the Austrian composer __________.
7. The Polish-born composer and piano virtuoso _________ left a body of work composed expressly for the piano.
8. Specializing in opera, _________ became the leading romantic Italian composer.
Chapter 30
1. The __________ were a series of conflicts between China and Great Britain over China's attempts to stop the British opium trade in China.2. Historically, political _________ stress the maintenance of political and social order and the preservation of traditional power structures and religious authority.
3. ___________, an idea advanced by the British liberal thinker _________, is the doctrine that government should seek to secure "the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people."
4. Political _________ advocate overthrow of the social order to liberate the working class, abolishment of private ownership, and placing control of the means and instruments of production in the workers' hands.
5. _________ was the author of The Subjection of Women, a condemnation of the legal subordination of women and an analysis of the social relationship between men and women.
6. The English novelist _________ depicted the gritty underside of industrial England.
7. The two great writers of Russian realist fiction were ________ and ________, both from wealthy upper-class backgrounds but sympathetic to the condition of the lower classes.
8. The French inventor __________ developed the first widely popular photographic process.
9. The photographs of the American photographer __________ documented the American Civil War.
10. The American artist __________ started his career as a newspaper illustrator and war correspondent during the Civil War.
Chapter 31
1. The American inventor __________ developed the first workable incandescent light bulb.2. The French philosopher _________ believed that we are governed jointly by intellect and intuition, and that duration ("perpetual becoming") is the essence of life.
3. The __________ were a group of poets who attempted to use verbal images to elicit moods and feelings beyond the literal meanings of words.
4. The work of the scientists _________ and __________ on color and tone in the perception of light and sound influenced the work of the impressionist artists and musicians.
5. Known especially for his paintings of racehorses and dancers, _________ experimented with unbalanced and asymmetrical compositions.
6. An American painter who worked among the impressionists in France, _________ generated American interest in impressionism with her use of domestic themes in her paintings.
7. _________, the most important sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century, was the creator of The Age of Bronze, The Kiss, and The Thinker.
8. _________ refers to the islands of the South and Central Pacific Ocean.
9. The French postimpressionist _________ developed the painting style known as pointillism.
10. The painting style known as _________ uses dense clusters of tiny dots of color (paint) to build the impression of solid forms.