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The troubadours of the Middles ages are best described as

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poet-musicians

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the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

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feudalism

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Who proposed that our world, our reality, was just a reflection?

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Plato

It’s a shadow of another world, composed by perfect ideas and forms.

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Who reinterpreted Plato’s ideas and was the founder of NeoPlatonism?

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Plotinis.

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Who was the founder of Scholasticism?

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St. Anselm.
11th century, basically the application of Aristotle’s principles. the principle of the fair middle.
The principle that there is a supreme Entity that Aristotle called the First Engine,
or the First Force that was the cause of all effects
and had not a cause in itself.

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believed that the existence of God could be proven in five ways, mainly by: 1) observing movement in the world as proof of God, the “Immovable Mover”; 2) observing cause and effect and identifying God as the cause of everything; 3) concluding that the impermanent nature of beings proves the existence of a necessary being, God, who originates only from within himself; 4) noticing varying levels of human perfection and determining that a supreme, perfect being must therefore exist; and 5) knowing that natural beings could not have intelligence without it being granted to them it by God. Subsequent to defending people’s ability to naturally perceive proof of God

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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He believed that tragedy causes the proper purgation of those emotions of pity and fear which it has aroused.

The author and concept referred to in the sentence above are

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Aristotle . . . catharsis

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He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty

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apollo

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The god of revelry and wine, he later became patron of the theater

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Dionysus

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A short narrative used to answer a difficult moral question or to offer a moral truth is called

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parable

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Aristotle considered that only these two literary genres were worth of attention because they had a mimetic or figurative relation with the world, as opposed to a diegetic or directly representative relation

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tragedy and epic poetry

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Socrates was ordered to drink hemlock because

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he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods

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The philosopher that proposed the existence of a world of ideas truer than the world of material appearance was

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plato

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linearity of forms, simplicity, proportion and symmetry

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Classicism

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Play by Sophocles where Jocasta marries her son?

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Oedipus Rex

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In the Iliad, Achilles kills Hector because

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Hector had killed Achilles’s friend Patroclus

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Odysseus escaped from Polyphemus the cyclops

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by deceiving him and piercing his only eye

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Who traveled to the Black Sea to seize the Golden Fleece

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Jason and the Argonauts

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Which Roman poet made of Aeneas the hero who foresaw the grandeur of Rome

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Virgil

Wrote The Aeneid

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Who was famous for writing poems on topics such as carpe diem and beatus ille

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Horace

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Saint Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have said, “Beware the man of one book.” Such an expression is commonly called

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an aphorism

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Dante Alighieri chooses Virgil as his guide in their descent into Inferno because

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Virgil represented the light of reason before the revelation of God

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“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” is a line that belongs to

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Dante’s Divine Comedy

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This philosopher adapted Plato’s ideas and founded Neo-Platonism

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Plotinus

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Saint Augustine is considered a Neo-Platonic Christian because

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he envisioned the City of Men as a bad replica of the City of God

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Which Renaissance painter painted the Birth of Venus?

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Botticelli

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The Decameron was written by

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Which Shakespearean plays was used as the basis for a libretto for a Verdi opera?

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Othello

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Sometimes called a religion, sometimes referred to as “the religion of no religion,” sometimes identified simply as “a way of life,” its development can be traced from its origins in India in the sixth century B.C.E., to Japan in the twelfth century C.E. by way of China and Korea, and to the United States in the twentieth century.

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Zen Buddhism

30
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The rediscovery of classical texts and ideas, an emphasis on reason, and the development of linear perspective in art were characteristic of which of the following movements in Europe?

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the Renaissance

31
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Which of the following satirizes the eighteenth-century doctrine “whatever is, is right” in this “best of all possible worlds”?

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Voltaire’s Candide

32
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Rationalism and empiricism are represented by these two philosophers

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Descartes (rationalism) and Locke (empiricist)

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an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe l’oeil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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roccoco or late baroque

34
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This question refers to the following symphony. Mozart’s Symphony in D major, No. 35, is divided into the following four parts.

Allegro con spirito
Andante
Menuetto
Finale: presto
The parts are known as
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movements

35
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This question refers to the following symphony. Mozart’s Symphony in D major, No. 35, is divided into the following four parts.

Allegro con spirito
Andante
Menuetto
Finale: presto
Which two parts have the fastest tempos?
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1 and 4

36
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A composer and organist of the Baroque period, he created such works as the Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations, and the Well-Tempered Clavier. The composer described is

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Bach

37
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The terms “adagio,” “cadenza,” and “opus” are all associated with

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music

38
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Choral music without instrumental accompaniment is known as

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a capella

39
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An aria is usually found in, and associated with, which of the following genres of the arts?

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opera

40
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During his travels, his overexcited imagination invariably blinds him to reality; he thinks windmills are giants, flocks of sheep are armies, and galley slaves are oppressed gentlemen.

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Don Quixote by Baroque writer Cervantes

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who, although he is sometimes called a tragic hero, is also recognized as the villain of John Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost?

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satan

42
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Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and The Bourgeois Gentleman are all comedies written by

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Moliere

43
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Artists associated with this nineteenth-century movement created images based on emotion, imagination, and the irrational.

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Romanticism

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He composed in a wide variety of musical genres, including nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, and an opera. The composer is

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Ludwig van Beethoven

45
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Renowned for his waltzes, mazurkas and studios, this composer represented the spirit of romantic nationalism

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Frédéric Chopin

46
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Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which do Delacroix and Brahms belong?

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Romantic

47
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Which is the setting for most of the events in A Tale of Two Cities?

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France during the French Revolution

48
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Which is the setting for events in War and Peace?

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by Tolstoy about Russia during the Napoleonic Wars

49
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Fagin, Pip, and Ebenezer Scrooge are characters created by

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Dickens

50
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The development of photography in the 19th century had which of the following effects on the arts?

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It gave rise to the realist movement, which emphasized a kind of photographic objectivity in the depiction of its subjects.

51
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It was a school of the early twentieth century whose adherents designed buildings and objects in a functional style consistent with the era of mass production. Its use of industrial materials served as a basis for the International Style.

The school described above is known as

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Bauhaus

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a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.
a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction.
MUSIC
a style of composition (associated especially with Debussy) in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the whole-tone scale.

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Impressionism 19-20th century
Famous Impressionist painter
Degas
Monet
Manet
Renoir
53
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a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880s against Impressionism. It was led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat.

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Post Impressionism

54
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Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which do Debussy and Renoir belong?

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impressionist

55
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Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are associated with which art movement?

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cubism

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a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

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surrealism

57
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Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, and To the Lighthouse are all works written by

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Virginia Woolf

58
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Which of the following terms describes a literary or dramatic form of discourse in which a character reveals thoughts in a monologue?

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soliloquy

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Which of the following composers was Picasso’s closest musical contemporary?

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Igor Stravinsky

60
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Which philosopher wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which became the inspiration for a tone-poem of the same name by Richard Strauss?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

61
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La Dolce Vita, La Strada, and 8 1∕2 are films directed by

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Federico Fellini

62
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Who wereGeorges Melies and the Lumiere Brothers?

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Pioneers of cinematography

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all of the heroes in Shakespeare’s tragedies have a weakness in personality that eventually leads to their downfall.

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fatal flaw

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