CSTU FINAL EXAM QUESTIONSWITH
COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Materialism - Answer-the belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all
problems, and create human happiness
Utilitarianism - Answer-the philosophical belief that moral good lies in the greatest happiness for the
greatest number
Natural selection - Answer-species survived in nature depending on how well they adapted to scarcity
or threat
Realism - Answer-truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or
imaginative alteration
Gesamtkunstwerk - Answer-Wagner's synthesis of all arts in opera
Leitmotif - Answer-leading motive
, Modernity - Answer-the process by which the new, up-to-date, and the contemporary replace the
outmoded and traditional
Art nouveau - Answer-a style of decorative art and architecture that used floral motifs and stressed the
organic unity of artistic materials and form
Post-Impressionists - Answer-their works extended impressionist techniques in different directions
Isaac Newton - Answer-universal laws of relativity
Modernism - Answer-was more of an attitude than a coherent philosophy or style . . . sought to free
itself from the depiction of external reality and concentrated instead on pure color, form, feeling, or
idea
Primitivism - Answer-The influence of arts from supposedly 'primitive' tribal cultures in Africa
Cubism - Answer-a style that analyzed natural forms into planes, angles, and geometric shapes
Collage - Answer-glue objects directly to painting
Futurists - Answer-an aggressively modern group that touted the automobile and modern war as the
salvation of the world
Constructivism - Answer-rejected traditional easel painting and declared that art should help build the
new Soviet society
Expressionism - Answer-generated an art more dynamic and psychologically intense
COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Materialism - Answer-the belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all
problems, and create human happiness
Utilitarianism - Answer-the philosophical belief that moral good lies in the greatest happiness for the
greatest number
Natural selection - Answer-species survived in nature depending on how well they adapted to scarcity
or threat
Realism - Answer-truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or
imaginative alteration
Gesamtkunstwerk - Answer-Wagner's synthesis of all arts in opera
Leitmotif - Answer-leading motive
, Modernity - Answer-the process by which the new, up-to-date, and the contemporary replace the
outmoded and traditional
Art nouveau - Answer-a style of decorative art and architecture that used floral motifs and stressed the
organic unity of artistic materials and form
Post-Impressionists - Answer-their works extended impressionist techniques in different directions
Isaac Newton - Answer-universal laws of relativity
Modernism - Answer-was more of an attitude than a coherent philosophy or style . . . sought to free
itself from the depiction of external reality and concentrated instead on pure color, form, feeling, or
idea
Primitivism - Answer-The influence of arts from supposedly 'primitive' tribal cultures in Africa
Cubism - Answer-a style that analyzed natural forms into planes, angles, and geometric shapes
Collage - Answer-glue objects directly to painting
Futurists - Answer-an aggressively modern group that touted the automobile and modern war as the
salvation of the world
Constructivism - Answer-rejected traditional easel painting and declared that art should help build the
new Soviet society
Expressionism - Answer-generated an art more dynamic and psychologically intense
