CHAPTER 21 – Test Bank
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Millet’s Gleaners combines
a. social observation with Neoclassicism.
b. Renaissance monumentality with Romanticism.
c. Medieval feudalism with Romanticism.
d. social observation with Romanticism.
Answer: d
2. Who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx?
a. Baudelaire
b. Engels
c. Dickens
d. Balzac
e. Zola
Answer: b
3. Rosa Bonheur was particularly drawn to images of
a. lions.
b. athletes.
c. horses.
d. city life.
Answer: c
4. Courbet’s patron, who financed the Realist exhibition, was
a. Baudelaire.
b. Zola.
c. Flaubert.
d. Bruyas.
Answer: d
5. Which of the following is NOT a painting by Courbet?
a. Stone Breakers
b. Interior of My Studio
c. Third-Class Carriage
d. Burial at Ornans
Answer: c
6. ________ painted realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples.
a. Courbet
b. Millet
c. Daumier
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
7. The central group in Courbet’s My Studio includes
a. a boy, a cat, a painter, a woman, and a landscape.
b. a juggler, a crucifix, a cat, and a painter.
c. a painter, a woman, a boy, and a journalist.
d. a painter, a woman, a boy, and a peddler.
Answer: a
8. For most of his life Daumier made a living
a. as a painter.
b. as a caricaturist.
c. as a cartoonist.
d. as a photographer.
Answer: b
9. Gargantua is a (an)
a. tyrant.
b. greedy king.
c. good-natured giant.
d. gargoyle.
e. ogre from French folklore.
Answer: c
10. Daumier was sentenced to jail for
a. fraud.
b. satirizing the king.
c. revolutionary activities.
d. defending freedom of the press.
e. forgery.
Answer: b
11. Nadar’s Le Géant was
a. a painting.
b. a photograph.
c. a balloon.
d. a folktale.
Answer: c
12. Who of the following was NOT a nineteenth-century photographer?
a. Cameron
b. Nadar
c. Brady
d. Duckworth
Answer: d
13. Which is NOT a feature of the Pre-Raphaelites’ style?
a. pastel colors
b. clear edges
c. erotic subtexts
d. figuration
Answer: a
14. In Modern Painters, Ruskin wrote a defense of
a. Constable.
b. Turner.
c. Cole.
d. Nash.
e. Millais.
Answer: b
15. The figures in Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’Herbe are identified as
a. Manet’s sister, his brother-in-law, and Victorine.
b. Manet’s model, brother-in-law, and sister.
c. Manet’s model, Gustave Manet, and Ferdinand Leenhoff.
d. Manet, his model, and his brother.
Answer: c
16. Critics objected to Déjeuner sur l’Herbe because
a. it was not sufficiently Classical.
b. it was not colorful enough.
c. it contained the artist’s self-portrait.
d. it was too much like a Renaissance painting.
Answer: a
17. Manet’s Olympia was inspired by
a. the Rokeby Venus.
b. the Venus of Urbino.
c. Ingres’ Grande Odalisque.
d. Canova’s Pauline.
Answer: b
18. Courbet objected to Olympia because
a. it was not realistic enough.
b. it was too Classical.
c. it was based on Renaissance prototypes.
d. it was too flat.
Answer: d
19. Which was NOT among the advantages of the Crystal Palace?
a. It was fireproof.
b. It was prefabricated.
c. It was relatively inexpensive.
d. It was constructed quickly.
Answer: a
20. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, bridges were designed according to what method?
a. suspension
b. cantilever
c. truss
d. post-and-lintel
Answer: c
21. Which is NOT true of the Brooklyn Bridge?
a. It was designed by the Roeblings.
b. It has Gothic arches.
c. It has four huge parallel cables.
d. It was the first use of steel wire in a bridge.
e. It connects Brooklyn with the Bronx.
Answer: e
22. Which is NOT true of the Statue of Liberty?
a. It was sculpted by Bartholdi.
b. Its frame was wrought by Eiffel.
c. It is on Ellis Island.
d. It was constructed from 1875 to 1884.
Answer: c
23. Which was NOT a new feature in the development of nineteenth-century skyscrapers?
a. masonry and brick construction
b. power-driven elevators
c. steel frames
d. concrete reinforced with steel wire
Answer: a
24. Which of the following correctly matches writer with work?
a. Melville – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
b. Alcott – Far From the Madding Crowd
c. Thoreau – Leaves of Grass
d. Darwin – Origin of Species
Answer: d
25. The leading American Civil War photographer was
a. Robert E. Lee.
b. Matthew Brady.
c. Nadar.
d. Fox Talbot.
Answer: b