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Sartre's existentialism suggested that the individual |
| | A) | possessed an essential nature. |
| | B) | was controlled by instinctual drives. |
| | C) | could not choose between good and evil. |
| | D) | was defined by his or her actions. |
| | E) | was happiest in the company of other people. |
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Which president of the Southern Christian Leadership Council was the leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement? |
| | A) | Pablo Neruda |
| | B) | Langston Hughes |
| | C) | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | D) | James Baldwin |
| | E) | Zora Neale Hurston |
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Simone de Beauvoir argued that women should |
| | A) | reject the role of the "Other." |
| | B) | accept a position of inferiority. |
| | C) | recognize the benefits of femininity. |
| | D) | accept no blame for their inferior status. |
| | E) | exploit men's sexism to their own advantage. |
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Which of the following is an attempt by physicists to provide a "theory of everything"? |
| | A) | deconstruction |
| | B) | the Linguistic Turn |
| | C) | the Human Genome Project |
| | D) | String Theory |
| | E) | postmodernism |
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Postmodernism |
| | A) | was a reaction against modernism. |
| | B) | borrowed images and texts from the past. |
| | C) | adopted a playful approach to its subject. |
| | D) | crossed boundaries between "high" and "low." |
| | E) | All these answers are correct. |
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A defining characteristic of Abstract Expressionists was their |
| | A) | borrowing of themes from popular culture. |
| | B) | revival of classical values. |
| | C) | recreation of photographic clarity. |
| | D) | emphasis on the act of painting. |
| | E) | assembling of miscellaneous fragments into art. |
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Which of the following best exemplifies Pop Art? |
| | A) | de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle |
| | B) | Pollock, Autumn Rhythm |
| | C) | Warhol, Campbell Soup Cans |
| | D) | Close, Big Self-portrait |
| | E) | Christ, Running Fence |
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New realism seeks to |
| | A) | recreate photographic clarity. |
| | B) | revive classical values. |
| | C) | eliminate representational forms. |
| | D) | emphasize geometric abstraction. |
| | E) | present an "installation" in a public space. |
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Nam June Paik was a pioneering figure in |
| | A) | absurd theater. |
| | B) | new realism. |
| | C) | art assembled from found objects. |
| | D) | electronic and video art. |
| | E) | land art. |
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Who designed London's first environmentally sustainable skyscraper, the Swiss Re office building (popularly known as the Gherkin)? |
| | A) | Charles Moore |
| | B) | Santiago Calatrava |
| | C) | Robert Venturi |
| | D) | Zaha Hadid |
| | E) | Norman Foster |
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_____________, which led to synthesizers and sampling among other things, has had the most radical impact on music in the 20th century. |
| | A) | International dance |
| | B) | Non-Western music |
| | C) | Electronic technology |
| | D) | Improvisation |
| | E) | Atonality |
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Political pop and cynical realism developed in the 1990s in |
| | A) | Russia. |
| | B) | China. |
| | C) | the United States. |
| | D) | South America. |
| | E) | the Middle East. |
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Which of the following novelists wrote novels with the least traditional narrative structure? |
| | A) | Margaret Atwood |
| | B) | Philip Roth |
| | C) | Don DeLillo |
| | D) | Joyce Carol Oates |
| | E) | John Updike |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, is a native of |
| | A) | Columbia. |
| | B) | Spain. |
| | C) | the United States. |
| | D) | Mexico. |
| | E) | Argentina. |
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Who wrote the novel Gravity's Rainbow, which many critics consider the archetypal work of postmodern fiction? |
| | A) | Tom Wolfe |
| | B) | Doris Lessing |
| | C) | Saul Bellow |
| | D) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| | E) | Thomas Pynchon |
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