CSTU 101 Week 8 Quiz

A belief system in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. Has influenced many cultural fields, including literary criticism, sociology, linguistics, architecture, visual arts, and music.

From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.”  Massive intellectual changes have shaped and reshaped our culture since the dawn of the Enlightenment. At the heart of this great intellectual shift is _______________.

He stressed the absurdity of human existence and the inability of our reason to understand the world. A passionate individualist, he proclaimed the will to power as the only value in a meaningless world. Lived from 1844-1900.

Published years after their death. These 1,775 poems were written as if they were entries in a diary, the private thoughts of a solitary person who took just a little from society and shut out all the rest. Lived from 1830-1886--

In Chapter 22 who said “No man can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

In Chapter 21, we take a look at the 19^th century. Which one of these is not one of the realities of this century in Western culture?

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.

Which Revolution was a major factor in the complex chain of events leading to the Great War?

From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.”  Which letters below signify-we are Roman and all of this is ours?

Our distance from past ages enables us to perceive the periods when a culture was    balanced, when the balance tipped into chaos, when the adjustment began that leads to a new period of balance and so on.

Whose quote is this? "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

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.”

The Vietnam Memorial is located in which town?

Between 1750 and 1850 England’s economic structure changed drastically as the nation shifted from an agrarian society to modern _________________.

The spokesman and chief painter of the Impressionist style was __________ who throughout his long and productive career relied wholly on his visual perceptions.

The early 20th century could be described by which representative phrase?

Which is these is not an American author?

The Middle Modern World would be considered which dates?

He believed in an all-encompassing Absolute, a world Spirit that expressed itself in the historical process. Basing his logic on the “triadic dialectic,” He stated that for every concept or force (thesis) there was its opposite idea (antithesis). He has a strong influence on Karl Marx. Lived from 1770-1831.

The so called “War to end all Wars.”

From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.”  Radical individualism is demanded when there is no danger that achievement will produce inequality and people wish to be unhindered in the pursuit of pleasure.

Impressionists saw themselves as the ultimate realists whose main concern was the perception of optical sensations of light and color.

History and culture are best studied as separate areas so that they do not influence each other.

There was a general calm over Europe with no revolutions from 1830-1848.

From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.”  Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces.

Existentialism owes its popularity in no small part to repeated failures in politics, economics, and social organizations that have scarred our century.

Whitman’s epic novel Moby Dick is still read by many.

The battle cry of the French Revolution of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” was thrilling slogan which represented the reality of this Revolution.

People's religious views will determine the direction of their individual lives and of their society.

The nineteenth century was noted for the prosperity stimulated by the industrial revolution, the growing middle class, and the enormous increase in manufactured products.