PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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◉ Charles Dickens brought attention to "men and women, in every
variety of scanty and dirty apparel, lounging, scolding, drinking,
smoking, squabbling, fighting, and swearing," typical of which
notorious setting? Answer: Drury Lane
◉ One critical impact of industrialization in London prompted
petitions to Parliament and social critics' warnings in the early
decades of the nineteenth century to address Answer: disease
caused by polluted river water.
◉ Like many of the novels of the period, both Charles Dickens's Hard
Times and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Answer: were first
published in serial form in magazines.
◉ For reformist writers across Europe, which of the following
inspired the most ambivalence? Answer: the steam locomotive
◉ In contrast to the practices of both Neoclassicism and
Romanticism, Honore Daumier sought in his art to reveal Answer:
the truth of everyday experience.
, ◉ Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Odalisque could be
considered an example of Answer: a Neoclassical work representing
the nude in an idealized manner.
◉ What do Courbet's Burial at Ornans and Delacroix's Scenes from
the Massacres at Chios have in common? Answer: a refusal to uphold
the ideals of French Neoclassicism
◉ One advantage of lithography over daguerreotype photography
was Answer: its reproducibility in multiples.
◉ The practice of commercial photography arose in the mid-
nineteenth century in part to meet Answer: public desire for views
of the world's scenic wonders.
◉ Who undertook one of the earliest efforts to document war
photographically? Answer: Roger Fenton
◉ Conditions of the Working Class in England was a seminal work
written by Answer: Friedrich Engels.
◉ When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote, "WORKING MEN OF
ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE," they were calling for Answer: the forcible
overthrow of the capitalist system.