LaBelle Epoch Quiz

Question 1

artist who helped pioneer and make famous an artistic movement called Cubism

Answer 1

Picasso

Question 2

one of the fathers of psychiatry who believed that human beings must use the Ego to balance the competing impulses of the Id and the Superego

Answer 2

Freud

Question 3

father of sociology and author of The Positive Philosophy who believed that social behavior could be understood in the same way as a natural phenomenon

Answer 3

Comte

Question 4

In his work The Descent of Man. this man applied his theories of natural selection and evolutionary change to human beings

Answer 4

Darwin

Question 5

pope who issued Rerum Novarum, a papa encyclical that criticized the injustices of capitalism but rejected communism as an alternative

Answer 5

Leo XIII

Question 6

impressionist painter whose work entitled A Bar at the Folies-Bergere captures many of the social and artistic intentions of the modernist movement

Answer 6

Manet

Question 7

thinker who advanced the theory of social Darwinism in which struggle was glorified and by implication the idea that might makes right

Answer 7

Spencer

Question 8

French author who has been called the “father of realism”

Answer 8

Courbet

Question 9

scientist who suggested that the location of subatomic particles could only be guessed adding to those who challenged the comfortable assumptions of the previous era

Answer 9

Heisenberg

Question 10

brilliant philosopher who discussed how human beings come to judge what is good and evil and celebrated the model of the heroic superman

Answer 10

Neitzsche