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1
The rococo style in art had frivolous subjects and themes. Eroticism and pastel colors were frequently a part of rococo paintings.
A)True
B)False
2
Watteau, Fragonard, and Hogarth are all rococo painters in style and spirit.
A)True
B)False
3
Balance, simplicity, and restraint are characteristics of rococo style.
A)True
B)False
4
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote The Social Contract, in which he set forth his model of the ideal state.
A)True
B)False
5
Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding were English neoclassical painters.
A)True
B)False
6
The piano was invented by installing a mechanism in the harpsichord that would strike the strings with hammers instead of pluck them.
A)True
B)False
7
The style galant was fashionable during the reign of Louis XVI. This music has a light and charming sound with graceful melodies over simple harmonies.
A)True
B)False
8
Couperin and Rameau wrote rococo music.
A)True
B)False
9
Franz Joseph Haydn is largely responsible for the development of the sonata form.
A)True
B)False
10
Deists believed in a "clockmaker" God.
A)True
B)False
11
Haydn's supreme achievement was to allow each musical instrument to show its independence from the rest.
A)True
B)False
12
Mozart composed in every musical genre available to him.
A)True
B)False
13
The neoclassical Pantheon in Paris is an exact copy of the Pantheon in Rome.
A)True
B)False
14
Diderot wrote the study that led to the founding of the academic discipline of art history.
A)True
B)False
15
More than 161 writers wrote for the educational venture known as the Compendium, which was intended as a summary of existing knowledge in the arts, crafts, and sciences.
A)True
B)False





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