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Mid-Term #1, Feb. 7, 2022
Culture and Ideas, INCS-2030

This test must be completed in one, unbroken forty-minute (40-minute) sitting.

Highlight answer choices in YELLOW (or as otherwise instructed within)

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Questions # 1 - 15 are correlated to slide-projected images

1. Slide 1. This painting portrays . . .

a. Marat in a Christ-like death pose
b. the assassination that instigated the French Revolution
c. the demise of General Wolfe
d. one of the victims of the Vendée-Vengé campaign
e. an anonymous Jacobin

2. Slide 1. This figure portrayed in this painting . . .

a. was assassinated by Charlotte Corday
b. was a Jacobin
c. suffered from a skin condition
d. was a journalist
e. all of the previous/above

3. Slide 1. Who painted this work?

a. Jacques-Louis David
b. Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
c. Benjamin West
d. Emmanuel Leutze

4. Slide 1. This painting contains a reference to the Revolutionary Calendar. Which year is
referenced?
a. 2
b. 1
c. 0
d. 50
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5. Slide 1. The negative space in this image is an allusion to the ancient Roman author who
proposed an atomic theory of matter. Who is that author?
a. Plato
b. Livy
c. Aristotle
d. Cincinnatus
e. Lucretius

6. Slide 2. Pick the untrue statement:

a. the figure is portrayed as a modern-day Cincinnatus
b. the sculpture is installed in the Virginia State House
c. realism is conveyed by a missing button in the jacket
d. the work was sculpted by Gilbert Stuart

7. Slide 2. The term that identifies the bundle of rods in this sculpture:
a. Ionic order
b. Fasces
c. American cane
d. Phrygian rods

8. Slide 2. Who commissioned this statue?

a. Edmund Burke
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Thomas Paine
d. the U.S. Congress
e. Washington himself

9. Slide 3. The setting of the action in this painting is . . .

a. Windsor, Ontario
b. Trenton, New Jersey
c. Plains of Abraham
d. Montreal
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10. Slide 3. The artist of this work was also a member of the British Royal Academy:
a. True b. False

11. Slide 3. As a “history painting” this work caused outrage because it . . .

a. belittled Montezuma
b. glorified General Montcalm
c. used Christian iconography to depict Wolfe
d. used “noble savage” iconography
e. showed historical figures in contemporary dress

12. Slide 4. What was the intended political message of this work?
a. the French Queen is a foreigner and should not be trusted
b. Marie Antoinette is financially irresponsible
c. Marie Antoinette is a dutiful mother and a responsible monarch
d. the monarchy should be overthrown

13. Slide 4. Which does not apply to this painting?

a. nicknamed “Madame Deficit” before installation at the Salon
b. painted after the Fall of the Bastille
c. painted by a member of the French Academy
d. during the painting process the artist was mentored by David

14. Slide 5. The republican political ideal communicated by this painting is symbolized by . . .
a. the use of symbolic colours
b. the use of chiaroscuro
c. the sons and the father placed on equal footing
d. the swooning women on the right
e. the conspicuously chipped paving stones in the foreground

15. Slide 5. Which does not apply to this painting?

a. painted in Rome
b. is neoclassical in style
c. the arches are anachronistic
d. sourced in Livy
e. painted during the early phases of the Revolution
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16. Which represents the least radical pro-republican ideas in Revolutionary France?
a. Jacobins
b. Girondists
c. Louis XVI
d. David, the painter

Fill in the blanks: From the Halls of [ 17 ]

To the shores of [ 18 ]

17.
a. Massachusetts
b. Montezuma
c. the Bastille
d. Fort McHenry

18.
a. Tripoli
b. the Great Lakes
c. Africa
d. Florida

For numbers 19 to 21 identify the author or speaker for the underlined statement:

19. . . . a wicked old fellow’s rotten bones, whose books . . . have been the ruin of thousands
a. Mary Wollstonecraft
b. Maria Cosway
c. Hannah More
d. Marie Antoinette

20. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

a. Thomas Paine
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. General Wolfe
d. Edmund Burke
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21. Our civil rights should have no dependence on our religious opinions.
a. Alexander Hamilton
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Thomas Paine
d. Edmund Burke

22. Who was defending Trenton when Washington launched a surprise attack?
a. Spanish soldiers
b. French and Indian volunteers
c. German mercenaries known as Hessians
d. the Montagnards

23. To whom does the term “The Third Estate” apply?

a. Louis XVI and the nobles of pre-Revolutionary times
b. the religious authorities of pre-Revolutionary France
c. George III
d. the middle and lower classes of France

Match 24-28 with the accompanying alphabetic options: write/put and highlight the
matching number after the alphabetic option

24. Old Jewry a. Robespierre

25. Sally Hemings b. Catholic architectural style

26. Gothic d. Monticello

27. The Incorruptible e. pro-republican sermon

28. Dieu Le Roi c. the Vendée uprising

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29. The first major event of the French Revolution was

a. the execution of Louis XVI
b. the fall of the Bastille
c. Marat’s murder
d. the calling of the Estates General

30. The term that identifies the execution or assassination of a reigning monarch:
a. patricide
b. matricide
c. genocide
d. regicide
e. fratricide

31. Louis XVI belonged to the dynastic House of . . . ?

a. Orleans
b. Habsburg
c. Windsor
d. Romanov
e. Bourbon

32. Identify the untrue statement:

a. depictions of people smiling had counter-revolutionary associations in republican-
dominated France
b. the battle of the Plains of Abraham preceded the fall of the Bastille
c. Jefferson’s two-term presidency was the first two-term presidency in U.S. history
d. some historians consider the putting down of the Vendée uprising as a genocide
e. Sacagawea was an indigenous woman who made significant contributions to the Lewis
and Clark Expedition

33. The main material used for the outside walls of Monticello:
a. limestone
b. marble
c. brick
d. wood
e. concrete
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34. Which is not part of the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, i.e., the Bill of Rights?
a. no state religion shall be imposed
b. the right to free speech
c. the right to bear arms
d. peaceful assembly is allowed

35. Which is not true of the Declaration of Independence?

a. it declared the legitimacy of the independence cause so that nations of the world could
extend recognition and material assistance to Americans
b. it was written and adopted in Philadelphia
c. one of the clauses that was removed compared George III to the “infidel” states of North
Africa who practiced piracy and slavery
d. Jefferson acknowledged that its political ideals were borrowed from past philosophers
e. it includes the famous phrase “separation of church and state”

36. Thomas Paine favoured the type of government that was founded on . . .
a. “superstition,” by which he meant the rule of religious clerics
b. the absolute powers of monarchs
c. reason and the rights of man
d. plutocracy, or rule of the wealthy

For numbers 37 to 43: write and highlight TRUE or FALSE after the statement

37. During the French Revolution the Phrygian cap became an anti-royalist symbol.

38. In the Proclamation of 1763 the British Crown prevented further colonial settlement west
of the Appalachians.

39. The British tradition of revolutionary political radicalism includes seventeenth-century

Protestant and Puritan movements.

40. When Jefferson designed the curriculum for the University of Virginia he excluded the
study of “divinity.”
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41. In the late eighteenth century, four (4) was the number of women painters admitted to
membership in the French Academy.

42. In the Academy-defined hierarchy of painting genres or styles, the genre known as
“history painting” ranks lower than the genre known as “portraiture.”

43. The aesthetic slogan “utile at dulce” was rejected by Neoclassical artists.

44. Which is not one of the four languages used by Jefferson in the production of “The Life
and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”?
a. Hebrew
b. Greek
c. English
d. French

45. The first shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired at Lexington and Concord.
What major city is only a few miles away?
a. Philadelphia
b. Trenton, on the Delaware River
c. Charlottesville, Virginia
d. Boston
e. Washington, D.C.

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