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1
Which artistic movement focused on ordinary people and attempted to depict in objective terms "the heroism of everyday life"?
2
What perspective means "practical politics" but really means "power politics"?
3
What nineteenth century English philosopher wrote On Liberty, campaigned for religious toleration and minority rights, and supported women's right to vote?
4
Who wrote Les Misérables?
5
Name "the first modern, liberated woman." She was a novelist with a male pen name who wrote about people without power, such as women, artists, and laborers.
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Name the author of Wuthering Heights.
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Name the author of Jane Eyre.
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Name the romantic literary and philosophical movement in the United States.
9
Who wrote Walden, which has become the "bible" of today's environmental movement?
10
Name the famous woman realist painter who specialized in animal subjects, wore men's clothes, and painted The Horse Fair.
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What term did Richard Wagner use to describe an opera cycle?
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What French realist artist conjured up the city as a living hell where daily existence could be a form of punishment? He created thousands of lithographs and paintings and was imprisoned for his satire.
13
Name the French painter whose scandalous paintings include one of a nude courtesan who boldly stares at the viewer from her bedroom.
14
What American romantic painters specialized in landscapes of New England and New York that glorified nature with a mystical quality?
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What is the term for their second generation of painters, who emphasized nature rather than the individual?
16
Name the two principal writers of American slave narratives.
17
What great Russian realist author wrote The Brothers Karamazov?
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What great nineteenth-century American poet was a virtual recluse and only had seven poems published while still alive?
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What great nineteenth century American poet created a body of work based on his experience as an American, written in a specifically American language?
20
What is a leitmotif?







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