Liberty University: CTSU101 quiz 8

Question 1 From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” In the American Western culture, our coins describe three of the values that provide the foundation that holds American culture together, as well as unites us. You can think of these like a three-legged stool. If you remove any leg the stool will fall. Which of these is not one of the three? • Question 2 For him, the way people made a living, their “means of production,” determined their beliefs and institutions. He based his worldview on the class struggle between the bourgeois vs the proletariat. • Question 3 Which building illustrates the materialism and industrialization of 19th-century Europe? • Question 4 In philosophical terms, Karl Marx most closely matches up with whom? • Question 5 What event in the early 1900’s was such a cataclysmic event that it ended a era of idealism and set the stage for the search for new values: chaos followed by a period of adjustment. • Question 6 The English philosopher who argued that evolution occurred not only in nature, but in human institutions as well. • Question 7 Perhaps more than any other period, the Romantic era was expressed as well in literature as in music and the visual arts. “Art,” wrote _____________, “is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” • Question 8 Who words these words from his famous work Don Juan? He was the epitome of the Romantic Hero. “I want a hero: an uncommon want, . . . But can’t find any in the present age Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one): So, as I said, I’ll take my friend Don Juan.” • Question 9 Whose sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” which mourns a world so overwhelmed with materialism that it may lose its spiritual qualities. • Question 10 What event destroyed the early 1900’s optimism and progress? • Question 11 Whose quote is this? "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." • Question 12 Which is these is not an American author? • Question 13 The most representative poet of the mid-Victorian era, He reflected the mood of the period in poetry that was sad, quiet, contemplative, melancholy, sometimes wistful, and often pessimistic. The old optimism of the early Romantics had vanished. • Question 14 Although he did not consider himself a Romantic poet, he is remembered for a classic Romantic quote: “Each man is meant to represent humanity in his own way, combining its elements uniquely”. • Question 15 The spokesman and chief painter of the Impressionist style was __________ who throughout his long and productive career relied wholly on his visual perceptions. • Question 16 Our distance from past ages enables us to perceive the periods when a culture was balanced, when the balance tipped into chaos, when the adjustment began that leads to a new period of balance and so on. • Question 17 Which Revolution was a major factor in the complex chain of events leading to the Great War? • Question 18 Who helped set the initial stages of the Romanticism with his inspirational Social Contract. With the ringing proclamation: “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”. • Question 19 Published years after their death. These 1,775 poems were written as if they were entries in a diary, the private thoughts of a solitary person who took just a little from society and shut out all the rest. Lived from -- • Question 20 He stressed the absurdity of human existence and the inability of our reason to understand the world. A passionate individualist, he proclaimed the will to power as the only value in a meaningless world. Lived from . • Question 21 There was a general calm over Europe with no revolutions from . • Question 22 Impressionists saw themselves as the ultimate realists whose main concern was the perception of optical sensations of light and color. • Question 23 History and culture are best studied as separate areas so that they do not influence each other. • Question 24 Whitman’s epic novel Moby Dick is still read by many. • Question 25 In many ways, the modern environmental movement could be traced back to the romantic veneration of nature. • Question 26 The most powerful moving force behind the Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s was Jessie Jackson, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. • Question 27 Paris hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851. • Question 28 From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Radical individualism is demanded when there is no danger that achievement will produce inequality and people wish to be unhindered in the pursuit of pleasure. • Question 29 From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces. • Question 30 The Vietnam Memorial is a prime example of Neo-Classical architecture.