CSTU 101 Quiz: The Modern World and the Future of Western
Culture
Due Aug 18 at 11:59pm Time Limit 40 Minutes
Points 80
Questions 30
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Question 1
3 / 3 pts
Who said these famous words? With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Jefferson Washington
Lincoln Martin Luther King Jr.
Question 2
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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.
Arnold Tennyson Gauguin Shelley
Question 3
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Between 1750 and 1850 England’s economic structure changed drastically as the nation shifted from an agrarian society to modern _____.
Industrialism Democracy Technology Modernism
Question 4
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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?
“In God We Trust” Liberty Freedom “E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, one”),
Question 5
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He believed in an all-encompassing Absolute, a world Spirit that expressed itself in the historical process. Basing his logic on the “triadic dialectic,” He stated that for every concept or force (thesis) there was its opposite idea (antithesis). He has a strong influence on Karl Marx. Lived from 1770-1831.
Darwin Kant Hegel James Adams
Question 6
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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.”
Rousseau Oscar Wilde Shelley Wordsworth
Question 7
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Which group concludes that truth is off the table, so relax?
Modernists Christians Postmodernists Communists
Question 8
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The so called “War to end all Wars.”
Great War World War II Spanish-American War Civil War
Question 9
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From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Which letters below signify-we are Roman and all of this is ours?
Pax-Romano SPQR Omega Alpha
Question 10
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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.
Darwin
Marx Wordsworth Tennyson
Question 11
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On a larger scale, __ reinforced the idea that some nations were more competent than others; defeating an adversary in warfare would thus demonstrate that superiority. Indeed, it became almost a moral duty.
Social Darwinism Romanticism Existentialism Nihilism
Question 12
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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 1830-1886–
Twain Emily Dickinson Crane
Poe
Question 13
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Who wrote 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.”
Shelley Lord Byron Keats Wordsworth
Question 14
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The spokesman and chief painter of the Impressionist style was __ who throughout his long and productive career relied wholly on his visual perceptions.
Monet Dickinson Cezanne Rousseau
Question 15
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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”.
Darwin Rousseau Marx Napoleon
Question 16
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Whose sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” which mourns a world so overwhelmed with materialism that it may lose its spiritual qualities.
Wordsworth Beethoven Rousseau Lord Byron
Question 17
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The English philosopher who argued that evolution occurred not only in nature, but in human institutions as well.
Spencer Keats Kant Flanagan
Question 18
Which is these is not an American author?
Emerson Shelley Poe Whitman
3 / 3 pts
Question 19
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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”.
Wordsworth
Coleridge Byron Shelley
Question 20
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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.
World War 1 Spanish American War Industrial Revolution Roaring 20’s
Question 21
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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.
True False
Question 22
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According to the video presentation “Modernist Influences on Western Thought”, Rousseau had a low view of mankind and taught that mankind never had a chance in life because we are born bad.
True False
Question 23
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According to the video “A Prism for Christian Reflection on Popular Culture”, the presenter stated that as Christians, we can and should remove ourselves from Culture.
True False
Question 24
2 / 2 pts
In many ways, the modern environmental movement could be traced back to the romantic veneration of nature.
True False
Question 25
2 / 2 pts
Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” illustrates his love of puritanism during the late 19th century.
True False
Question 26
2 / 2 pts
Whitman’s epic novel Moby Dick is still read by many.
True False
Question 27
2 / 2 pts
The Vietnam Memorial is a prime example of Neo-Classical architecture.
True False
Question 28
2 / 2 pts
Globalization does not appear to have created a global community. Indeed, one can argue it has made the possibility even more remote.
True
False
Question 29
2 / 2 pts
People’s religious views will determine the direction of their individual lives and of their society.
True False
Question 30
2 / 2 pts
Impressionists saw themselves as the ultimate realists whose main concern was the perception of optical sensations of light and color.
True False
Quiz Score: 80 out of 80
