Hum Quiz

HUM 112 Quiz two 1. Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John Keats? The eternal beauty of its art 2. Why did Frederick Douglass eventually break away from the Anti-Slavery Society? Concern that their doctrine would dissolve the Union 3. Why did the philosophes alienate themselves from the Church? Intolerant of hierarchy and ritual 4. Why does Fragonard paint the young lady in The Swing as losing a shoe? To symbolize virginity loss 5. Why do many of Fra To validate her role as Louis XV's most trusted advisor 6. Why in the mid-eighteenth century did art criticism begin? To enable tourists to appreciate and understand art 7. Why is the music that arose in reaction to the Rococo called "classical"? Its symmetry, proportion, unity, and clarity 8. Why were the philosophes attracted to China? Its high level of advancement 9. Why did English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability" Brown issue yellow-tinted glasses to Stowe gardens' visitors? So the landscape would seem to glow 10. Why did Neoclassicism become the preferred style in late eighteenth-century United States? The new United States copied the style of its ally, France Adams and Jefferson were admirers of classical architecture 11. Why did the British feel entitled to tax the colonists following the Seven Years' War? They had saved the colonists from the French 12. Why do Jacques-Louis David's paintings have a frozen quality to them? To emphasize rationality 13. Why in Constable's paintings are human figures usually so small? To emphasize nature's immensity and indifference 14. Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond? To live simply 15. Why did the Romantics revere Prometheus? For being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom 16. Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on people from "humble and rustic life"? They were closer to nature