CSTU 101 Quiz 8

CSTU 101 Quiz: The Modern World and the Future of Western Culture

1. 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–

2. Who helped set the initial stages of the Romanticism with his inspirational Social Contract. With the ringing proclamation: “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”.

3. The English philosopher who argued that evolution occurred not only in nature, but in human institutions as well.

4. What event destroyed the early 1900’s optimism and progress?

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

6. Which is these is not an American author?

7. The so called “War to end all Wars.”

8. 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

9. From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” In the American Western culture, our coins describe three of the values that provide the foundation that holds American culture together, as well as unites us. You can think of these like a three-legged stool. If you remove any leg the stool will fall. Which of these is not one of the three?

10. 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.

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

12. 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.”

13. From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture” This quote by Wendell Phillips “The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.” is located in front on which building in Washington D.C.?

14. In philosophical terms, Karl Marx most closely matches up with whom?

15. He was an atheistic existentialist quite unlike Nietzsche, and arrived at his conclusions using logic. He contended that the idea of God was self- contradictory, that the man called Christ could not be both divine and human because the terms are mutually exclusive. Lived from 1905-1980.

16. Which building illustrates the materialism and industrialization of 19th- century Europe?

17. The most representative poet of the mid-Victorian era, He reflected the mood of the period in poetry that was sad, quiet, contemplative, melancholy, sometimes wistful, and often pessimistic. The old optimism of the early Romantics had vanished.

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

19. 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.

20. The Middle Modern World would be considered which dates?

21. According to the video presentation “Modernist Influences on Western Thought”, Rousseau had a low view of mankind and taught that mankind never had a chance in life because we are born bad.

22. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” illustrates his love of puritanism during the late 19th century.

23. Globalization does not appear to have created a global community. Indeed, one can argue it has made the possibility even more remote.

24. Paris hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851.

25. The Vietnam Memorial is a prime example of Neo-Classical architecture.

26. 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.

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

28. The most powerful moving force behind the Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s was Jessie Jackson, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.