CSTU 101 WALKER (FINAL EXAM)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1850-1910 - Correct Answers -The Age of Industry
The belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems,
and create human happiness. - Correct Answers -Materialism
- German and philosophical idealist
- responsible for the phrase "The real is rational, the rational is real."
- The "mind engaged in a creative struggle with history's materials and circumstances"
what Hegel calls the "dialectic" - Correct Answers -Georg Hegel
believed that "history was propelled by material forces and the struggle of the classes." -
Correct Answers -Karl Marx
"Das Kapital"
"The Communist Manifesto" - Correct Answers -Karl Marx, key works
"The philosophic belief that moral good lies in the greatest happiness for the greatest
number." - Correct Answers -Utilitarianism
- utilitarianist
argues that "happiness promised by social reforms could be positively and empirically
measured." - Correct Answers -Jeremy Bentham
- utilitarianist
- key work: "On Liberty"
- advocates for women's rights to vote in his "The Subjection of Women"
- "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend
to produce the reverse of happiness." - Correct Answers -John Stuart Mill
"Origin of Species"
- develops this theory of natural selection, in which he argues that "humans had evolved
naturally from lower animals, according to inexorable laws of mutation and adaptation."
- social Darwinism - Correct Answers -Charles Darwin
- England was the most prosperous and powerful of all industrial nations
- Era takes name from the long reign of Queen Victoria
- "stunning technological advances" - Correct Answers -England & Victorian Era
, - the crystal palace designed by Joseph Paxton
- covering 26 acres with full size trees and garden
- iron and glass construction marks period - Correct Answers -Great Exhibition in
London
- "first truly modern buildings arose in the North American heartland." - Correct Answers
-America: Modern City
- Chicago architect develops first modern "skyscraper"
- "form follows function"
- Chicago-style skyscrapers became known as "commercial palaces" - Correct Answers
-Louis Sullivan
- distinct chief new material: iron-and-glass construction
- example: The Eiffel Tower by Gustav Eiffel
- example: National Library by Henri Labrouste
- redevelopment plan by Baron Georges- Eugene Houssmann - Correct Answers -Paris:
Modern City
"The truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or
imaginative alternation" - Correct Answers -Realism in Art
"Burial at Ornans"
- declares that "painting can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things."
- Correct Answers -Gustave Courbet
- towering figure post-Courbet in Paris
- known for his updating of traditional paintings
- "Luncheon in the Grass" - Correct Answers -Edouard Manet
- "The Gross Clinic"
- Known for his combination of "realist technique" with an "American matter-of-factness."
- Correct Answers -Thomas Eakins
- Uncompromising desire to portray honest details of form, depth, and proportion -
Correct Answers -Scientific realism
"The Gulf Stream"
"Breezing Up" - Correct Answers -Winslow Homer
- british novelist
- most ""outspoken in his protests against the injustices of industrialism"
- his work focuses on the "social evils of nineteenth-century England, particularly its
cruelty to children." - Correct Answers -Charles Dickens
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1850-1910 - Correct Answers -The Age of Industry
The belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems,
and create human happiness. - Correct Answers -Materialism
- German and philosophical idealist
- responsible for the phrase "The real is rational, the rational is real."
- The "mind engaged in a creative struggle with history's materials and circumstances"
what Hegel calls the "dialectic" - Correct Answers -Georg Hegel
believed that "history was propelled by material forces and the struggle of the classes." -
Correct Answers -Karl Marx
"Das Kapital"
"The Communist Manifesto" - Correct Answers -Karl Marx, key works
"The philosophic belief that moral good lies in the greatest happiness for the greatest
number." - Correct Answers -Utilitarianism
- utilitarianist
argues that "happiness promised by social reforms could be positively and empirically
measured." - Correct Answers -Jeremy Bentham
- utilitarianist
- key work: "On Liberty"
- advocates for women's rights to vote in his "The Subjection of Women"
- "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend
to produce the reverse of happiness." - Correct Answers -John Stuart Mill
"Origin of Species"
- develops this theory of natural selection, in which he argues that "humans had evolved
naturally from lower animals, according to inexorable laws of mutation and adaptation."
- social Darwinism - Correct Answers -Charles Darwin
- England was the most prosperous and powerful of all industrial nations
- Era takes name from the long reign of Queen Victoria
- "stunning technological advances" - Correct Answers -England & Victorian Era
, - the crystal palace designed by Joseph Paxton
- covering 26 acres with full size trees and garden
- iron and glass construction marks period - Correct Answers -Great Exhibition in
London
- "first truly modern buildings arose in the North American heartland." - Correct Answers
-America: Modern City
- Chicago architect develops first modern "skyscraper"
- "form follows function"
- Chicago-style skyscrapers became known as "commercial palaces" - Correct Answers
-Louis Sullivan
- distinct chief new material: iron-and-glass construction
- example: The Eiffel Tower by Gustav Eiffel
- example: National Library by Henri Labrouste
- redevelopment plan by Baron Georges- Eugene Houssmann - Correct Answers -Paris:
Modern City
"The truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or
imaginative alternation" - Correct Answers -Realism in Art
"Burial at Ornans"
- declares that "painting can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things."
- Correct Answers -Gustave Courbet
- towering figure post-Courbet in Paris
- known for his updating of traditional paintings
- "Luncheon in the Grass" - Correct Answers -Edouard Manet
- "The Gross Clinic"
- Known for his combination of "realist technique" with an "American matter-of-factness."
- Correct Answers -Thomas Eakins
- Uncompromising desire to portray honest details of form, depth, and proportion -
Correct Answers -Scientific realism
"The Gulf Stream"
"Breezing Up" - Correct Answers -Winslow Homer
- british novelist
- most ""outspoken in his protests against the injustices of industrialism"
- his work focuses on the "social evils of nineteenth-century England, particularly its
cruelty to children." - Correct Answers -Charles Dickens
