Final Flashcards
(145 cards)
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Why was Nicholas Fouquet imprisoned?
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Embezzlement
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What was the Fronde?
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Rebellion when members of the French aristocracy conspired to overthrow King Louis XIV
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What was the Palace of Versailles before Louis XIV had it remodeled?
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An old hunting lodge
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What did Louis XIV call himself?
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The son of King
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What did the word Barocco originally refer to?
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Large, irregularly shaped pearl
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What does the word affection mean?
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Emotion
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What are the humors?
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Bodily fluids generated in the glands that affected our emotions.
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Which philosopher saw the world as a perfectly ordered and mathematically inspired creation?
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Rene Descartes
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Which country saw the most destruction in the Thirty Years War?
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Germany
10
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Which country was wracked by a Civil War between 1642-1649?
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England
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What was another name for the rum-sugar-slave trad in 17th and 18th centures?
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Triangle trade
12
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Who used his telescope to prove the heliocentric nature of the solar system?
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Galileo
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What was the belief that music had the ability and purpose of moving the emotions?
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Doctrine of Affections
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What was the name of the style where the bass and harmonies played continuously regardless of what instruments or voices were carrying the melody?
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Basso continuo
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What do we call it when performers improvise notes not written on the page?
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Ornamentation
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What do we call it when the chords and melodic figures clearly outline a strong sense of home key?
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tonal
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The birth of what art form marks the beginning of the Baroque era?
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Opera
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What kind of singing features music where the words are clearly enunciated in a speech-like manner with simple accompaniement?
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Recitative
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What is the name of singing where the music becomes more important that the words and seeks to explore a single emotion of the character?
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Aria
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Where did Handel settle and write most of his oratorios?
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England
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What do we call many notes on a single syllable of text?
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Melisma
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What musical instrument (besides the voice) was most characteristic of the Baroque era?
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Violin
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What do we call a multi-movement instrumental work for one or two solo musical instruments?
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Sonata
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What do we call a large work for full orchestra, with contrasting sections played by a solo instrument or small group?
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Concerto
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What do we call a section of a composition that keeps returning throughout?
Ritornello
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What musical composition sounds like improvisatory finger exercises on a keyboard?
Toccata, or prelude
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What is the main theme of a fugue called?
Subject
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What do we call the first section of a fugue?
Exposition
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What do we call the center part of a fugue where the main theme disappears?
Episodes
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What do we call the return of the main theme near the end of the fugue?
Recapitulation
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Who remodeled a portion of the Versailles gardens to make them more sensitive?
Marie Antionette
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What is the word we use to describe a landscape that fits our notions of the way it should be ordered?
Picturesque
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Why did Marie Antoinette die?
She was beheaded by the guillotine for treason
34
What culture did Revolutionary France model itself after?
The thousand year history of Rome
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What did the English call their bloodless revolution of 1688?h
The Glorious Revolution
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Who reigned France for 72 years?
Louis XIV
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What do we call the lighter late-Baroque style of Louise XV's reign?
Rococo
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Who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith-a scottish economist?
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What is the French word for the middle class?
Bourgeoisie
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What movement in the 1700s encouraged critical questioning of traditional institutions, customs, and morals, and a strong belief in rationality and science?
The enlightenment
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What were the three estates of France?
First-Nobility, Second-clergy, Third-land-owning citizens and middle class merchants.
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What violent event signaled the beginning of the French revolution?
The storming of the Bastille
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Who crowned Napoleon emperor?
Himself
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What do we call the rate of chord change in a musical composition?
Harmonic rhythm
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What was the most important musical genre of the Classical period?
The symphony
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What do we call two phrases of equal length?
A parallel period
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What form is the first movement of a symphony usually in?
Sonata allegro
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What do we call a slow, three-part dance form that was popular for the third movement of a symphony in the Classical period?
Minuet
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What do we call a fast, three-part dance form that was popular for the third movement of a syphony in the Classical period?
Scherzo
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What do we call the first part of sonata allegro form where we hear all the themes for the first time?
The exposition
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What do we call the second part of sonata allegro form where the themes wander through various keys?
The development
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What do we call the third part of sonata allegro form where the themes come back in the tonic key?
The recapitulation
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Who wrote over 100 symphonies and was considered the master of the genre?
Joseph Haydn
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What classical composer was best known for his piano concertos and operas?
Mozart
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Who stretched the boundaries of the Classical style with his immense and complex symphonies, concertos, piano works, and chamber music?
Beethoven
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What form is the second movement of Haydn's Surprise Symphony in?
Theme and variations
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What country is Waterloo in?
Belgium
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Who commanded the English at Waterloo?
The Duke of Wellington
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Why did Napoleon delay the battle of Waterloo until 11 AM?
So that the ground could dry out enough for his cannonballs to bounce along the valley floor, giving their maximum effect.
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Why did Captain Ahab hate Moby Dick?
He lost his leg and sunny disposition to Moby Dick
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Who invented the rotary steam engine?
James Watt
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What were the net effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Railroads allowed for transporting goods that were fresh.
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What are century inventions?
Railroads, dynamite, electric light, phonograph, modern nursing, germ theory, discovery of radiation, steam pump, phonograph, modern nursing, germ theory, discovery of radiation, steamp pump, rotor pump, horse-drawn rail wagon, steam locomotive.
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Who said Romanticism was "Feeling deeply"?
British poet, Lord Byron
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What are the tpical subjects of Romanticism?
Nature, nationalism, the supernatural, unrequited love
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Where was the first place Napoleon encountered nationalism against the French occupaton?
Spain
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Who wandered about Germany collecting folk tales?
The Brothers Grimm
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What gorup of painters celebrated the natural beauty of New York?
The Hudson River School
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What romantic work was about a man who sold his soul to the devil?
Faust
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In what style are the British Houses of Parliament?
Gothic
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Who wrote, "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have lved at all"?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What do we call music with some kind of extra-musical association?
Programmatic
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Who wrote a symphony about an opium-induced hallucination?
Hector Berlioz
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What medieval theme appears in the last movement of the Symphonie Fantasque?
Dies Irae-describes the torments of hell and the suffering of the damned
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What do we call the returning motive in the Symphonie Fantastique?
A single tune called idee fixe
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What happens to the poet's beloved in the Symphonie Fantastique?
He is driven to despair by his unrequited love for a beautiful woman and tries to poison himself with opium
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What do we call a short programmatic work for the piano?
Cantata
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of the two great pianists of the Romantic era who was the more virtuosic?
Franz Liszt
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Who was the poet of the piano?
Frederic Chopin
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What is rubato?
Robbery, because of the way the player steals time for the expressive moments
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What is the German word for song?
Lieder (singular, lied)
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Who wrote over 600 songs in German?
Franz Schubert
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How does Schubert set the death of the boy in the Erlkonig?
In recitative
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What does Bel Canto mean?
Beautiful singing
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What is Rigoletto's profession?
Court Jester
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What is a Gesamtkunstwerk?
An art form where a single composer wrote the story, composed the music, staged the production, coached the singers, led the orchestra, and designed the set and costumes
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What is the name of the women in Nordic mythology who bring the dead warriors back to Valhalla?
Valkyries, daughters of the god Wotan
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What was the longest battle in history?
Verdun
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Where did the crisis that touched off World War I occur?
bosnia
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Who was Germany's principle ally in World War I?
Austria
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What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I?
The Treaty of Versailles
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Who was the dictator of Germany during World War II?
Adolf Hitler
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How did the wars and genocide fo the Twentieth Century affect art?
They began to doubt that beauty had any relevance to modern society
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Which French ruler was overthrown by the German in 1871?
Napoleon III
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How did the invention of the camera change art in the 1800s?
Artists stopped trying to create realistic portrayals of their subjects
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How did the inventin of oil paint in metal tubes change art in the 1800s?
Painters were no longer tied to their studios and could paint with natural lighting
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Which painter believed that traditional studio art did not look the way objects appear in real life?
Manet
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What did monet call painting in front of a real-life object?
Painting from the motif
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What do we call the literary parallel to Impressionism?
Symbolism
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What do the French call a depressed boredom that sets in once all desires have been met?
Ennui
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What are some of Debussy's stylistic techniques?
Colorful orchestration, parallel to impressionism with music, based on literary text-a poem
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What did the French not like about Wagner's music?
They were revolted by the triumphant bombast of Wagner's operas and they sought a new, more reserved, more sophisticated mode of expresson
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Why did composers like Debussy use non-tonal scales and chord progressions?
It was a rebellion against the German dominance of music in Europe from Beethoven to Wagner.
Wagner had exhausted the possibilities of tonality. Chords had so many notes that they undermined any sense of chord function; and chord successions that did not follow the establishment of tonal music theory.
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What did Cezanne not like about Impressionism?
It's messiness
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What does Cezanne use to bring order to his canvases?
The order of regular geometric patterns; Kept the color and free brushwork of the Impressionists,
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What about Cezanne gave impetus to Modernism?
His desregard of correctness of outline.
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What do we call the style of painting that uses paint in tiny dots of color?
Pointillism
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Who did Vincent Van Gogh write to throughout his career?
His brother, Theo
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How did Van Gogh show his excitement in painting?
With brushstrokes
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What do we call an emphasis on geometric forms in art?
Cubism
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What do we call a tendency to distort to create intense emotion?
Expressionism
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What do we call Gauguin's emphasis on native, folk styles?
Primitivism
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Which work provoked a riot at its premier?
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
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Who nominated an award for art but was denied it by the government because it was so lacking in "mitigating or conciliatory elements"?
Kathe Kollwitz
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Who wrote a book about the psychological effects of color?
Wassily Kandinsky
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Which war serves as the backdrop for Casablanaca?
World War II
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Where was Casablanca made?
Hollywood
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What did France and England do when Hitler occupied the Rhineland?
Nothing
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Where was the Sudetenland?
Czechoslovakia
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Who claimed that he brought "peace in our time"?
Neville Chamberlain
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Where is Victor Laszlo from?
Czechoslovakia
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What was the name of the German secret police under the Nazis?
Gestapo
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Where did the Nazis put their poliltical opponents?
Concentration camps
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What is the German word for "lightning war?
Blitzkrieg
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What did the French and English call the war during the winter of 1939-40?
The Phony War
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Where was the capital of the French government after the fall of France to the Germans?
Vichy
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Where is Casablanca?
French Morocco
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What brought the United States into World War II?
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Where did the refugees in Casablanca go if they got passports out of the city?
Lisbon, Portugal
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Early in the movie we see a man warning an Englishman to "beware of vultures" in Casablanca. What does he do to the Englishman?
Steals his wallet
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Why is Ugarte fleeing from the Germans??
He has stolen letters of transit.
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Where does Rick hide the letters of transit?
In Sam's piano
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What does Rick tell Louis is the reason he came to Casablanca?
He came for the waters
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Where has Victor Laszlo come from?
He escaped from a German prison camp
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What is the name of Rick's piano player?
Sam
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What is Ilsa's favorite song?
As Time Goes By
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Where did Rick and Ilsa first meet?
Paris
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What forced them to leave?
The german occupation
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Why does Ilsa not leave with Rick?
She discovered that her husband is still alive
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How does rick save Annina from Louis?
He helps her husband win at roulette
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What is Louis shocked to discover about Rick's?
That there is gambling going on in the establishment
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What does Rick do with the two letters of transit?
He gives them to Victor and Ilsa
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What does Louis do when he discovers that Rick has shot Major Strasser?
He tells the men to round up the usual suspects
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What does Louis do when he discovers that Rick has shot Major Strasser?
He tells the men to round up the usual suspects
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dDjva1ecYo&t=14s.
G.F. Handel, Messiah: Comfort Ye and Ev'ry Valley
