Multiple Choice Quiz

After you have finished studying the chapter, test yourself by answering the sample quiz questions. The correct answers will be revealed after you have finished the quiz. If you have answered any question incorrectly, return to the chapter to review the pertinent material.

1		Louis XIV was NOT responsible for
			A)	establishing the French academies.
			B)	sponsoring the comedic-ballet.
			C)	bringing Bernini to the court of Versailles.
			D)	authorizing a new translation of the Bible.
2		The art of Poussin is representative of
			A)	the rise of fresco painting.
			B)	academic classicism.
			C)	aristocratic portraiture.
			D)	baroque illusionism.
3		Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme reflects Moliere's concern with social class in his portraying M. Jourdain as a man who
			A)	tries desperately to assume upper class respectibility.
			B)	is willing to serve the king under any circumstances.
			C)	seeks to marry his daughter to a leading portrait painter.
			D)	commissions a magnificent tomb for his deceased wife.
4		Known as "the Magnificent," __________ ruled over the Ottoman Empire and encouraged a golden age of literature and art.
			A)	Akbar
			B)	Suleiman
			C)	Shah Jahan
			D)	Jahangir
5		Shared by the seventeenth-century aristocratic courts of France, India, China, and Japan was the
			A)	production of comic opera and ballet.
			B)	commissioning of extravagant royal palaces.
			C)	effort to make cultural contact with each other.
			D)	will to employ the arts as expressive of mass sentiments.