Strayer University - HUM 112 Week 2 Quiz

Strayer University - HUM 112 Week 2 Quiz.2 out of 2 points Why did the eighteenth-century Parisian courtiers lose interest in portraits? Answer Selected Answer: They desired paintings that entertained Correct Answer: They desired paintings that entertained  Question 2 2 out of 2 points In Jean-Antoine Watteau's The Signboard of Gersaint, why is a portrait of Louis XIV being placed in a storage box? Answer Selected Answer: Louis had recently had died Correct Answer: Louis had recently had died  Question 3 2 out of 2 points What view of God did the Deists take? Answer Selected Answer: God had little to do with humans Correct Answer: God had little to do with humans  Question 4 0 out of 2 points How did Voltaire make himself so unpopular with both the French and Prussian courts that he had to retire to the country to avoid imprisonment? Answer Selected Answer: Stating that the Prussian monarchy was better than the French Correct Answer: Criticizing the government and satirizing the rulers  Question 5 2 out of 2 points Why did JeanAntoine Watteau's fêtes galantes become so popular? Answer Selected Answer: Their erotic overtones Correct Answer: Their erotic overtones  Question 6 2 out of 2 points According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, why did people lose the natural goodness with which they were born? Answer Selected Answer: Society and civilization corrupted them Correct Answer: Society and civilization corrupted them  Question 7 2 out of 2 points Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie? Answer Selected Answer: For causing irreparable damage to morality and religion Correct Answer: For causing irreparable damage to morality and religion  Question 8 0 out of 2 points Why did the Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II react negatively to Mozart's Don Giovanni? Answer Selected Answer: I