Chapter 28 1st Homework Assignment
Read pages 921 to 930. Stop at Modern Art and Music. Also, look at the Power Point: Pre
WWII on my website. Look at slides 1 through 10.
Answer the following questions:
1. Before WWI what was the view that most Europeans shared about the world?
What was the view after the Great War?
2. In what ways do The Grieving Parents sculpture and the poem, “crisis of the mind”
capture the essence of The Age of Anxiety? Explain
3. Explain Nietzsche’s views in bullet point format. What were his views of God and
Christians?
4. Explain what gave rise to the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche after the Great War.
5. Explain Existentialism beliefs and what they must do according to Sartre. Explain
where it became popular and why it became popular.
6. What were some of the core Christian beliefs after WWI and what individuals were
responsible for the resurgence in Christian teachings?
7. What were the beliefs of Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth and Gabriel Marcel?
8. How did Christian beliefs tie into The Age of Anxiety?
9. Why was the 1920’s referred to as the “heroic age of physics?”
10. How did Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis contribute to the Age of Anxiety? How
did these ideas reach the masses?