A. tingle our senses
B. stir our intellect
C. restore our skills for the art
D. instill in us the sense of the art
Related Mcqs:
- The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?
A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
C. Avoid all forms of prose
D. Make art profitable above all else - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
A. Mimetic
B. Psychological
C. Historical/Biographical
D. Mythological/Archetypal - Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?
A. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary
B. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopédie
C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe - The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does “extirpation” mean ?
A. Execution
B. Going to extremes
C. Extermination
D. Expatriating - Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________?
A. Art presents only part of the world
B. Art describes only what appears and not what is real
C. Art tells lies about the world
D. Art is an exaggeration of the world - From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
A. Castiglione’s \The Courtier\
B. Dante’s \Divine Comedy\
C. Boccaccio’s \Decameron\
D. Machiavelli’s \The Prince\ - Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method” and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about “making the modern world possible for art” ?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses - In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.
B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.
C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.
D. Both A and C
