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19th Century

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is an historical event from the 19th century?

a)

Elementary education becomes universal

b)

Mass production of goods

c)

Research advances on all levels

d)

All listed are historical events from the 19th century

2.

_____ began first on-line production of his cars in the 19th century.

a)

Edison

b)

Einstein

c)

Darwin

d)

Ford

e)

Wright brothers

3.

Growing spirit of internationalism which was helped with __________ wireless telegraphy in the 19th century.

a)

Edison's

b)

Einstein's

c)

Darwin's

d)

Marconi’s

e)

Wright brothers'

4.

______ created motion pictures in the 19th century.

a)

Edison

b)

Einstein

c)

Darwin

d)

Ford

e)

Wright brothers

5.

The ______ first motorized airplane was created in the 19th century.

a)

Edison's

b)

Einstein's

c)

Darwin's

d)

Marconi’s

e)

Wright brothers'

6.

______ became a topic of discussion among scientists in the 19th century.

a)

Edisonism

b)

Einsteinism

c)

Darwinism

d)

Fordism

e)

Wright brotherism

7.

______ equation for the theory of relativity a topic of discussion among mathematicians in the 19th century.

a)

Edison's

b)

Einstein’s

c)

Darwin's

d)

Marconi’s

e)

Wright brothers'

8.

Ballet in France during the 19th century began to decline, and the male dancer’s role came to little more than support for the ballerina.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Ballet in the 19th century continued to grow and prosper in Czarist Russia, where it was subsidized by the ___.

a)

Britian

b)

Church

c)

Government

d)

Monarch

10.

Russian ballets gave ___ importance to dance, music, costume and scenery in the 19th century.

a)

divided

b)

equal

c)

limited

d)

some

11.

In the 19th century, director Marius Petipa and composer Tchaikovsky created which of the following greatest ballets of the era?

a)

Les Miserables

b)

The Nutcracker

c)

The String of Pearls

d)

Swan Lake

12.

Which of the following is true of 19th century drama?

a)

Costumes became more accurate to the history of the play

b)

Gas lights and finally incandescent bulbs lighted the stage and scenery

c)

Simple backdrops gave way to the realism of the box set

d)

All listed are true of the 19th century drama

13.

Melodrama means “song drama” or “music drama” and were written putting emphasis on surface effects that would evoke suspense, fear, nostalgia, and other strong emotions.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Which of the following statements are correct in regards to 19th century melodrama?

a)

A lot of the same people who created the theater industry moved it to New York.

b)

The entertainment industry moved to film to distribute the melodramas for WAY cheaper than doing plays.

c)

Melodrama died in 1915.

d)

Melodrama is the standard Chicago model “Melodramatic” suggests a style that is over the top, extremely emotional, larger than life.

15.

Which of the following statements are correct in regards to the elements of a melodrama?

a)

Happy Ending where cosmic justice has prevailed

b)

Heroine was portrayed as a damsel in distress who must be saved by the hero

c)

Morally polarized characters

d)

Music was an underscore

e)

All listed are elements of a melodrama

16.

Which of the following statements are correct in regards to the elements of a melodrama?

a)

Always ends in a final physical conflict

b)

Heroine was portrayed as a damsel in distress who must be saved by the villain

c)

Mixture of suspense and comedy

d)

Sidekicks are usually a best fried who provides comic relief when a situation is serious

e)

All listed are elements of a melodrama

17.

Which of the following statements are correct in regards to the elements of a melodrama?

a)

Animal acts on stage

b)

Exotic locations of new fare away places and setting in the past or future

c)

Mixture of suspense and tragedy

d)

Technology, stage combat, stunts and special effects were used to keep an audience's interest from start to finish

e)

All listed are elements of a melodrama

18.

Melodramas can be socially or politically progressive, but it is always culturally conservative. Which of the following is an example of melodrama today?

a)

A happy ending where at the end of a battle the villain defeats all he comes in contact with.

b)

The side kick provides guidance in situations where the hero must make an important decision.

c)

Women is portrayed as successful in business, succeeding in a man's job, multi-tasking a home life and a work life. They can beat up the guys, but they haven't neglected their feminine side, beautiful, tender and emotionally vulnerable and still get rescued.

19.

19th century drama used gas lights and finally incandescent bulbs to light the stage and scenery.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

19th century drama created costumes which became more accurate to the history of the play.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

19th century drama created simple backdrops which gave way to the realism of the box set.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Which of the following describes how the show itself consisted of a series of "historical" scenes interspersed with feats of showmanship, sharp shooting, racing, or rodeo style events. Native Americans figured prominently in many of the scenes, often shown attacking whites in historical situations with Buffalo Bill or one of his colleagues riding in and saving the day?

a)

Burlesque

b)

Circuses

c)

Wild West Shows

23.

Which of the following describes a wide range of comic plays, including non-musicals works which entertained the lower and middle classes in Great Britain and the United States by making fun of the operas, plays and social habits of the upper classes. It also evolved out of the spontaneous/improvisational tradition of commedia dell’arte, and spoofed Greek tragedies and Shakespeare?

a)

Burlesque

b)

Circuses

c)

Wild West Shows

24.

Which of the following describes an entertainment venue which developed exhibits in the American Museum in New York City that exhibited human curiosities and presented variety acts and plays in a theater built for family audiences and in 1850s became a touring version which was advertised as “the greatest show on earth”?

a)

Burlesque

b)

Circuses

c)

Wild West Shows

25.

Which of the following describes a box set?

a)

Consists of flats hinged together to represent a room

b)

Had practical elements, such as doors and windows

26.

Typically, modern artists rejected previous ________-based traditions, in favor of new forms of artistic experimentation.

a)

Classical

b)

Renaissance

c)

Trade

27.

An Art Movement does not have much to do with the date in time, except when the movement emerged. Meaning an artist today could still be identified as an Impressionist.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Which of the following was a different material used by Modern artists?

a)

Acrylic

b)

Assemblage

c)

Collage

d)

Photography

29.

Which of the following were not a subject matter the Impressionists were interested in showing in their artwork?

a)

Historical

b)

Landscapes

c)

Religion

d)

Still lifes

30.

How did the color and the themes change during the Impressionist period?

a)

Lighter and brighter

b)

Somber and conservative

31.

Modern artists' brushstrokes have broken the solid shape into smaller pieces and blurred the edges, creating dabs of color that blend together.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

Which of the following Modern artists were known for his/her main subjects being nature and landscapes where he/she painted en plein air capturing the same scenes day after day to document the changing of light, weather, atmosphere and the changing of seasons?

a)

Mary Cassat

b)

Edgar Degas

c)

Edouard Manet

d)

Claude Monet

e)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

33.

Which of the following Modern artists were known for his/her suggestion of the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his/her figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings? This artist used vibrant light, saturated color, most often focused on people, females being the primary subjects, in intimate and candid compositions.

a)

Mary Cassat

b)

Edgar Degas

c)

Edouard Manet

d)

Claude Monet

e)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

34.

Which of the following Modern artists was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism? This artist was a classical artist, but then ‘adopted’ the notions of impressionism becoming friends with other Impressionist artists where they influenced each other. This artist was most well known for his/her social scenes depicting an in depth story.

a)

Mary Cassat

b)

Edgar Degas

c)

Edouard Manet

d)

Claude Monet

e)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

35.

Which of the following Modern artists cropped subjects awkwardly, showed emotional tension, chose unusual viewpoints, and linked to his/her fascination with photography?

a)

Mary Cassat

b)

Edgar Degas

c)

Edouard Manet

d)

Claude Monet

e)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

36.

Expressionist art distorts reality through exaggeration, vigorous and visible brushwork and strong color, in order to express an artist’s ideas or emotions.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

Which of the following Expressionist artists used his psychological insights and support for the causes of intellectual and political freedom to depict scenes in his artwork?

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Vincent van Gogh

c)

Francisco de Goya

d)

Franz Marc

e)

Edvard Munch

38.

Which of the following Expressionist artists did not eliminate recognizable objects from his work and his color functioned independently of content?

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Vincent van Gogh

c)

Francisco de Goya

d)

Franz Marc

e)

Edvard Munch

39.

Which of the following art movements was used to refer to all types of non-geometric abstraction?

a)

Abstract Expressionism

b)

Cubism

c)

Impressionism

d)

Surrealism

40.

All Abstract Expressionist were influenced by Existentialist ideas, which emphasized the importance of the act of creating, not of the finished object.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

Which Cubism category incorporates what would in reality be air space is filled up with multiple lines, planes, and geometric solids; a sense of three-dimensional form is achieved by combining shading with bold strokes of color; edges of images lose parts of their outlines dissolving into shared geometric shapes but never dissolve completely Items are multifaceted and organic items are built geometrically?

a)

Analytic Cubism

b)

Synthetic Cubism

42.

Which Cubism category marked a return to bright color and arranged flat shapes of color to form objects ?

a)

Analytic Cubism

b)

Synthetic Cubism

43.

Which Cubist artist created analytic cubist art who limited his subject matter and the expressive possibilities of color to subordinate a geometric exploration of three-dimensional space and rendered most of the picture plane as a jumble of fragmented cubes and other solid geometric shapes?

a)

Georges Braque

b)

Pablo Picasso

44.

Which Modern movement was an international artistic and literary intellectual movement that began during World War I in relative safety of neutral Switzerland that involved artists, writers, and performers? This movement was not an artistic style in the sense of shared formal qualities that are easily recognized. Rather, and idea of a kind of “anti-art” predicated on a nihilist philosophy of negation involving iconoclastic forces that challenged traditional assumptions about art.

a)

Dada

b)

Pop Art

c)

Surrealism

45.

Which Modern movement was based on Freud’s psychoanalytic technique of free association as a means of exploring the imagination and entering the world of myth, fear, fantasy, and dream and members believed the source of creativity of creativity lay in the unconscious mind?

a)

Dada

b)

Pop Art

c)

Surrealism

46.

Which Modern movement was designed for a mass audience, transient short-term solutions, was expendable and easily forgotten, low-cost, mass-produced, aimed at the youth, was witty, gimmicky, glamorous, and big business ?

a)

Dada

b)

Pop Art

c)

Surrealism