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1
Who are the bourgeoisie?
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Name the great Spanish romantic artist who showed the stupidity of the Spanish court in a painting and protested the horrors of war in another painting.
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Name the economist who wrote Wealth of Nations, which states that entrepreneurs acting mutually in enlightened self-interest would raise the standard of living for all and also get rich.
4
Who wrote the Essay on the Principle of Population and forecasted a miserable world that was overpopulated?
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What country was the first to develop a written constitution and a constitutional convention?
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Which European art movement embraces uncontrolled emotion, unruly nature, and the mysteries of the human soul?
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What English novelist is known for the examination of social relationships and Pride and Prejudice?
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What American architect created famous, harmonious, and symmetrical buildings in the neoclassical style?
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Name the German literary movement that revolted against Classical restraint and drew inspiration from Rousseau's emotionalism. Its members found God in nature and valued free expression in language, dress, behavior, and love.
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What famous German writer's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is about a young hero who commits suicide because of disappointment in love?
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Who were the English authors of a collection of their romantic poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads?
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What German romantic drama became the most often performed German-language play in the world?
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What English romantic painter was the most original of his age, since large sections of his paintings were abstract compositions?
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What German romantic painter is known for rather bleak, brooding landscapes?
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Name the great German romantic composer who was deaf for part of his career.
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Name the Viennese romantic composer famous for the beauty of his melodies and the simple grace of his songs.
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Who is most famous for perfecting the art song (lied)?
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What romantic composer is original in his use of a recurring and unifying musical theme, called an idée fixe, or "fixed idea"?
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What philosopher came up with "thesis-antithesis-synthesis"?
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What German romantic system of thought was a philosophic alternative to conventional religion? It espoused a spiritual view of life.







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