Week2Quiz1

Review Test Submission: Week 2 Quiz 1
Content

Course
World Cultures II
Test
Week 2 Quiz 1

Status
Completed
Attempt Score
36 out of 40 points
Time Elapsed
26 minutes.

Question 1
4 out of 4 points

Why did Pope Urban VIII commission a baldachino (canopy) for Saint Peter's interior?
Answer

Selected Answer: To define the altar space
Correct Answer: To define the altar space

Question 2
4 out of 4 points

What technique that contrasts large areas of dark with smaller illuminated areas did Caravaggio master?
Answer

Selected Answer: Tenebrism
Correct Answer: Tenebrism

Question 3
4 out of 4 points

What did Bernini aim to symbolize with his oval colonnade that encloses Vatican Square?
Answer

Selected Answer: The motherly arms of the church
Correct Answer: The motherly arms of the church

Question 4
0 out of 4 points

Why did the orphanage directors hope audiences would be dazzled by the orphans' musical performances?
Answer

Selected Answer: They would help find jobs for the orphans
Correct Answer: They would donate money to the orphanages

Question 5
4 out of 4 points

Why did Gabrieli organize his compositions around a single note-the tonic note?
Answer

Selected Answer: To heighten the sense of harmonic drama
Correct Answer: To heighten the sense of harmonic drama

Question 6
4 out of 4 points

Why was Rembrandt's Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company once mistitled The Night Watch?
Answer

Selected Answer: It was covered with grime
Correct Answer: It was covered with grime

Question 7
4 out of 4 points

What manner of inquiry did René Descartes advocate?
Answer

Selected Answer: Deductive reasoning
Correct Answer: Deductive reasoning

Question 8
4 out of 4 points

Why did Johannes Goedaert paint a broken and empty nautilus shell beside the vase in his Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue-Tit?
Answer

Selected Answer: To symbolize worldly wealth, vanity, and mortality
Correct Answer: To symbolize worldly wealth, vanity, and mortality

Question 9
4 out of 4 points

Why were the Catholic and the Protestant Churches opposed to Kepler's and Galileo's heliocentric theory?
Answer

Selected Answer: For contradicting certain biblical passages
Correct Answer: For contradicting certain biblical passages

Question 10
4 out of 4 points

Why in 1618 were some members expelled from the Dutch Reformed Church and even imprisoned?
Answer

Selected Answer: Belief that good deeds could overcome predestination
Correct Answer: Belief that good deeds could overcome predestination

Review Test Submission: Week 3 Quiz 2

Question 1
4 out of 4 points

Why did Spain enter a period of decline after the death of Philip II?
Answer

Selected Answer: Severe inflation and a loss of tax revenue bankrupted the court
Correct Answer: Severe inflation and a loss of tax revenue bankrupted the court

Question 2
4 out of 4 points

Why does Louis XIV wear red high-heeled shoes in Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait?
Answer

Selected Answer: To elevate his 5'4" height
Correct Answer: To elevate his 5'4" height

Question 3
4 out of 4 points

Why did the English Puritans invite Holland to invade Britain in 1688?
Answer

Selected Answer: James II appointed Catholics to high government positions
Correct Answer: James II appointed Catholics to high government positions

Question 4
4 out of 4 points

Why were the New Spain retablos (altarpiece ensembles) designed to be so extravagant?
Answer

Selected Answer: To impress the indigenous people into converting to Christianity
Correct Answer: To impress the indigenous people into converting to Christianity

Question 5
4 out of 4 points

What new dance form emerged from Louis's court?
Answer

Selected Answer: Minuet
Correct Answer: Minuet

Question 6
4 out of 4 points

Why did John Milton write Paradise Lost?
Answer

Selected Answer: To justify the ways of God to men
Correct Answer: To justify the ways of God to men

Question 7
4 out of 4 points

Why did Hobbes believe that most people willingly accepted a social contract?
Answer

Selected Answer: To control their instincts and to achieve peace
Correct Answer: To control their instincts and to achieve peace

Question 8
4 out of 4 points

What commission did Christopher Wren receive during the rebuilding of London?
Answer

Selected Answer: Fifty-two churches
Correct Answer: Fifty-two churches

Question 9
4 out of 4 points

How did Samuel Richardson tell the plot of his novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
Answer

Selected Answer: Series of letters
Correct Answer: Series of letters

Question 10
4 out of 4 points

Why was Arkwright's waterwheel able to increase textile output?
Answer

Selected Answer: Looms could operate at much higher speeds
Correct Answer: Looms could operate at much higher speeds

Review Test Submission: Week 4 Quiz 3
Question 1
4 out of 4 points

Why in the mid-eighteenth century did art criticism begin?
Answer

Selected Answer: To enable tourists to appreciate and understand art
Correct Answer: To enable tourists to appreciate and understand art

Question 2
4 out of 4 points

Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fêtes galantes become so popular?
Answer

Selected Answer: Their erotic overtones
Correct Answer: Their erotic overtones

Question 3
4 out of 4 points

As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why was Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie-Antionette en chemise rejected by the Salon of 1783?
Answer

Selected Answer: They thought Marie's gown was lingerie
Correct Answer: They thought Marie's gown was lingerie

Question 4
4 out of 4 points

Why do many of François Boucher's paintings of Madame de Pompadour show her reading or writing?
Answer

Selected Answer: To validate her role as Louis XV's most trusted advisor
Correct Answer: To validate her role as Louis XV's most trusted advisor

Question 5
0 out of 4 points

Why did English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability" Brown issue yellow-tinted glasses to Stowe gardens' visitors?
Answer

Selected Answer: So the garden's features would be the same color
Correct Answer: So the landscape would seem to glow

Question 6
4 out of 4 points

Why did Houdon position a plowshare beaten by a sword behind George Washington in his 1788 sculpture?
Answer

Selected Answer: To signify his role as a warrior who brought peace to his people
Correct Answer: To signify his role as a warrior who brought peace to his people

Question 7
4 out of 4 points

On whose design did Thomas Jefferson model Monticello?
Answer

Selected Answer: Andrea Palladio
Correct Answer: Andrea Palladio

Question 8
4 out of 4 points

Why was Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état of the French Directory in 1799 successful?
Answer

Selected Answer: The Directory was not providing stability for France
Correct Answer: The Directory was not providing stability for France

Question 9
4 out of 4 points

Why did John Adams defend the British soldiers who in 1770 had killed five protesters at the Boston Customs House?
Answer

Selected Answer: They had fired in self-defense
Correct Answer: They had fired in self-defense

Question 10
4 out of 4 points

Why did North American slaveholders aim to gather Africans of differing backgrounds and languages?
Answer

Selected Answer: To reduce the chances of an uprising
Correct Answer: To reduce the chances of an uprising