MCQ Questions
Q.1.
Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as?
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    Cubism.
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    Ulysses.
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    Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
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    Pop art.
Q.2.
A major component of hip-hop music is?
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    Newtonian laws of physics did not function at the cosmic level.
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    Should reject the role of "Other".
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    Percussive beats, disco, reggae, and rock influences, and electronic manipulations of music by disc jockeys.
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    Improvisation, syncopation, and the blues motif.
Q.3.
The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is known as?
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    Montage.
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    The ego.
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    Fairytales.
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    Pop art.
Q.4.
The "Great Criticism" series by the Chinese artist Wang Guangyi reflects the influence of?
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    James Baldwin.
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    Montage.
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    Pop art.
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    Pollock.
Q.5.
Albert Einstein and other twentieth-century physicists argued that?
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    Theater of the absurd.
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    Newtonian laws of physics did not function at the cosmic level.
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    Improvisation, syncopation, and the blues motif.
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    Pared down, abstract style.
Q.6.
After 1945, there was a shift in major art production from?
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    Langston Hughes.
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    String Theory.
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    Being and Nothingness.
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    Paris to New York.
Q.7.
The pioneer figure in American Pop art was?
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    Montage.
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    Pollock.
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    The ego.
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    Warhol.
Q.8.
The names Gropius and Le Corbusier are associated with the?
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    Should reject the role of "Other".
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    International style in architecture.
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    Pared down, abstract style.
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    Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
Q.9.
According to Freud, civilization was the product of the?
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    Ulysses.
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    Pollock.
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    Superego.
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    The ego.
Q.10.
The pioneering narrative films of George Méliès and Edwin S. Porter were early examples of which popular genres?
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    International style in architecture.
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    Westerns and science fiction.
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    Industrial technology.
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    James Baldwin.
Q.11.
Leading artists of China's Pop art movement, such as Wang Guangyi, have assumed the role of?
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    Russia.
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    Social critic.
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    Science fiction.
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    String Theory.
Q.12.
Freud theorized that the libido was an important drive of?
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    Pollock.
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    Superego.
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    The ego.
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    Montage.
Q.13.
Merce Cunningham's choreography is considered radical because it?
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    Paris to New York.
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    Destroyers of tradition.
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    Does not depend on music.
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    Theater of the absurd.
Q.14.
The Holocaust resulted from Hitler's?
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    Theater of the absurd.
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    International style in architecture.
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    Westerns and science fiction.
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    Theory of Aryan racial superiority.
Q.15.
In his writings on existentialism, Sartre insisted that each individual is?
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    Social critic.
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    Dada.
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    Russia.
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    The sum of his or her own actions.
Q.16.
Some critics contend that Postmodernism originated with the rejection of the International Style in the field of?
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    Philip Glass.
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    Architecture.
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    String Theory.
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    James Baldwin.
Q.17.
Leopold Bloom is the central figure in James Joyce's landmark work?
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    Superego.
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    Fairytales.
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    Montage.
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    Ulysses.
Q.18.
Arguably the most radical development in music in the last fifty years, as seen in synthesizers and sampling, has been the?
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    International style in architecture.
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    Impact of electronic technology.
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    Westerns and science fiction.
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    Theater of the absurd.
Q.19.
The elements of jazz and street slang in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks show the influence of?
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    Industrial technology.
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    String Theory.
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    James Baldwin.
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    Langston Hughes.
Q.20.
Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were pioneering figures in which literary genre?
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    Paris to New York.
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    String Theory.
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    Science fiction.
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    The cantilever.
Q.21.
What are some characteristics of art in the first half of the twentieth century?
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    International style in architecture.
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    Industrial technology.
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    Cubism, futurism, fauvism, and dada.
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    Mondrian and Kandinsky.
Q.22.
Einstein on the Beach, one of the first operas to employ electronically amplified instrumentation, was written by?
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    James Baldwin.
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    Philip Glass.
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    Pop art.
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    Fairytales.
Q.23.
Purging the canvas of all recognizable subject matter was the aim of artists such as?
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    Langston Hughes.
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    Mondrian and Kandinsky.
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    Being and Nothingness.
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    Industrial technology.
Q.24.
Picasso's landmark painting, Guernica, immortalized the?
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    International style in architecture.
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    Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
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    Being and Nothingness.
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    Should reject the role of "Other".
Q.25.
The feminist Simone de Beauvoir held that women?
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    Pared down, abstract style.
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    Should reject the role of "Other".
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    Aerial bombing of a civilian target.
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    International style in architecture.
Q.26.
In his landmark poem The Rock, T. S. Eliot claimed that the knowledge accumulated by Western civilization brought twentieth-century Westerners closer to?
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    Cage.
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    American folk songs.
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    The sum of his or her own actions.
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    Ignorance and death.
Q.27.
Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as 4' 33"?
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    American folk songs.
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    Cage.
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    Ignorance and death.
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    The sum of his or her own actions.
Q.28.
The most distinctive feature of Imagist poetry was its?
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    International style in architecture.
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    Theater of the absurd.
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    Should reject the role of "Other".
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    Pared down, abstract style.
Q.29.
The aesthetic, production, and materials of minimalist artworks are inspired by?
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    Industrial technology.
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    String Theory.
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    Mondrian and Kandinsky.
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    Theater of the absurd.
Q.30.
The United States Supreme Court did not ban school segregation until?
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    Montage.
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    Pollock.
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    1954.
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    Pop art.
Q.31.
Fauvist artworks are most notable for their bold use of?
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    Fairytales.
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    Color.
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    Warhol.
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    Cubism.
Q.32.
What do minimalism and geometric abstraction have in common?
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    Does not depend on music.
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    Architecture.
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    Both largely nonrepresentational.
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    Should reject the role of "Other".
Q.33.
The effort on the part of contemporary physicists to achieve a "theory of everything" is evident in?
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    Philip Glass.
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    String Theory.
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    Langston Hughes.
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    Science fiction.