HRS 134 -- Study List for Final Examination
1.
What sort of social behavior in France is mocked by Molière's "Le Bourgeois
gentilhomme?"
2.
Do you think that Phaedra in Racine's famous play is "one of the just to whom
grace has not been vouchsafed?"
3.
Would you describe Rembrandt as a baroque artist?
4.
Would you describe Jan Vermeer's painting style as an objective recording of
visual reality?
5.
How does Immanuel Kant define the European Enlightenment?
6.
Is Manon a "child in a woman's body?"
7.
Which of the rococo painters seen in class do you consider the most poetic?
Compare paintings from at least two artists.
8.
Summarize Voltaire's attitude toward England in His English Letters.
9.
Compare Candide's original viewpoint on the world (derived from his teacher
Pangloss) with his final position, "We must cultivate our own garden."
10.
How does the work of the neo-classical artist, Jacques-Louis David, compare to
the style of the French rococo?
11.
Show how Beethoven handles the sonata-allegro form in his symphonies
differently from Mozart.
12.
In Schiller's play is Elizabeth or Mary Stuart the nobler character?