Deck 20: Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Question 1

The Salon refers to

A)an official art exhibition.
B)a room in a château.
C)a room in a private Paris apartment.
D)an art gallery.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

1830 is the date of

A)the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
B)the July Revolution in France.
C)the attack on Fort Sumter.
D)the Spanish-American War.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which is NOT a tenet of Romanticism?

A)nostalgia
B)exoticism
C)chivalric tales
D)the sublime
E)social realism

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The war depicted in Massacre at Chios was between

A)America and England.
B)France and Italy.
C)Greece and Turkey.
D)Greece and Italy.

Question 5

In the Raft of the "Medusa," "Medusa" refers to

A)a jellyfish.
B)a life raft.
C)a ship.
D)a hospital.
E)a painting by Caravaggio.

Question 6

Gouache is a kind of

A)etching.
B)paint.
C)woodcut.
D)pigment.

Question 7

The Brighton Pavilion is an example of

A)Gothic revival.
B)Islamic Gothic.
C)Classical revival.
D)Indian Gothic.

Question 8

François Rude's sculpture La Marseillaise represents

A)a parade in Paris.
B)Liberty leading France to protect the motherland.
C)the French Revolution led by Louis XVI.
D)the battle of the Centaurs.

Question 9

Romantic artists

A)were interested in the wild and ghostly.
B)yearned for the past or a golden future.
C)loved wild landscapes.
D)All these answers are correct.

Question 10

Chronos was

A)a bad Spanish father.
B)the father of the Olympians.
C)the father of Goya.
D)the father of Hermes.

Question 11

In Liberty Leading the People,the figure of Liberty is an example of

A)irony.
B)allegory.
C)satire.
D)metonymy.
E)realism.

Question 12

Géricault's paintings reflect his interest in

A)combating social injustice.
B)horsemanship.
C)psychology.
D)both psychology and combating social injustice.
E)All these answers are correct.

Question 13

Which is NOT a theme in Goya's painting?

A)social injustice
B)child psychology
C)irrational thinking
D)frivolity

Question 14

________ marked the high point in Romantic influence on politics.

A)The publishing of Lyrics of Ballads
B)The "return to nature" movement
C)Charles X ascending to the French throne
D)The July Revolution
E)The Sturm und Drang movement

Question 15

Géricault's Raft of the "Medusa" was based on

A)a Romantic concoction under the influence of opium.
B)an event taken from the newspapers of the day.
C)a scene from the French Revolution.
D)a mythological scene.

Question 16

Massacre at Chios is sympathetic to

A)Greece.
B)Turkey.
C)Italy.
D)France.
E)England.

Question 17

The Houses of Parliament are an example of

A)Classical revival architecture.
B)Palladian architecture.
C)Gothic revival architecture.
D)Islamic revival architecture.

Question 18

Aquatint combines

A)watercolor and drawing.
B)engraving and oil.
C)watercolor and silverpoint.
D)watercolor and engraving.

Question 19

"La Marseillaise" is

A)a French city.
B)a French building.
C)the French anthem.
D)a French epic.

Question 20

Which best describes the work of William Blake?

A)Classical
B)Gothic
C)down-to-earth
D)military
E)visionary

Question 21

Constable's painting of Salisbury Cathedral is an example of

A)Gothic revival.
B)Realism.
C)Romanticism.
D)watercolor.

Question 22

Towards the end of his career,Turner painted

A)carefully delineated scenes of upper class virtue.
B)realistic landscapes.
C)broadly imagined, expressionistically colored landscapes.
D)photographic-quality portraits.

Question 23

________ was a literary movement that exalted individualism and nature as a reaction against French Classical taste.

A)Walden Pond
B)Gouache
C)Storm and Stress
D)Gothic Revival
E)Alhambra

Question 24

Which is NOT a correct match?

A)Burke - the sublime
B)Goethe - Sturm und Drang
C)Freud - "The Uncanny"
D)Rousseau - Les Misérables

Question 25

Which of the following is a correct match?

A)Coleridge - "The Solitary Reaper"
B)Shelley - "Kubla Khan"
C)Byron - "Don Juan"
D)Keats - "Ozymandias"

Question 26

Which is NOT an American Romantic writer?

A)Coleridge
B)Thoreau
C)Emerson
D)Cooper
E)Poe