Sample Test 2 - Answers

For Questions 1 and 2

1. How would you best classify this painting?
a. Neoclassical
b. Romantic with exoticism elements
c. Romantic with Neo-medieval elements
d. Romantic with industrial elements
e. Both b and c above

Classify…always classify!

2. Who is this painting by?
a. David
b. Ingres
c. Delacroix
d. Turner
e. Goya

As always, know the painters discussed in class, their style and works.

For Questions 3 and 4

3.How would you classify this painting?
a. Neoclassical
b. Romantic with exotic elements
c. Romantic with Neo-medieval elements
d. Romantic with industrial elements
e. Both b and c above

4. Who is this painting by?
a. Gericault
b. David
c. Turner
d. Delacroix
e. Goya

5. In the Marriage of Figaro, who is the character that spends most his time gossiping and trying to stir up trouble?
a. Dr. Bartolo
b. Marcellina
c. Susanna
d. Cherubino
e. Basilio

If you slept through this in class I suggest you check it out somewhere and have a look at the first act.

6. The Buddha said, "To be is to suffer." Which western thinker also based a philosophy on this dictum?
a. Nietzsche
b. Paine
c. Dostoevsky
d. Napoleon
e. Schopenhauer

Make sure you know all the philosophic thinkers of the eras we've studied. What would they say? How would they respond to events of their day? ...I wonder if Schopenhauer had to take a Humanities class?

7. If nihilism is the illness, then what according to Nietzsche is the cure?
a. Zerrissenheit
b. Gesamtkunstwerk
c. Ubermensch
d. Zarathustra
e. The Inquisitor

Boy, that sure is a lot of German ain't it!

8. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Erlking?
a. The poem is by Goethe
b. The boy dies at the end
c. It is an example of Romantic Salon music
d. It contains an Idee Fixe
e. It is a lied

9. Which of the following pairs do NOT belong together?
a. Fantasy - Berlioz
b. Neo-Medieval - Vignon
c. Exoticism - Ingres
d. American Revolution - Paine
e. Neo-Classical - Greenough

10. Which of the following is an example of Gesamtkunstwerk?
a. Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
b. Beethoven's Symphony number 2
c. Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther
d. Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
e. Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter