Question 1
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?
Selected Freedo
Answer: m
Question 2
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.
Selected Mar
Answer: x
Question 3
Which building illustrates the materialism and industrialization of
19th-century Europe?
Selected Crystal
Answer: Palace
Question 4
In philosophical terms, Karl Marx most closely matches up with
whom?
, Selected Charles
Answer: Darwin
Question 5
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.
Selected World War
Answer: 1
Question 6
The English philosopher who argued that evolution occurred not
only in nature, but in human institutions as well.
Selected Spenc
Answer: er
Question 7
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.”
Selected Oscar
Answer: Wilde
Question 8
Who words 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.”