Semester exam guide, Dec, 2011

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Guitars and Camels
1. The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3,300 year old stone carving of a ____ bard. a) Hittite b) Chinese c) Aryan d) Persian.
2. The Middle Eastern antecedent of the guitar is the __, an instrument brought to Spain by the conquering Moors, the Islamic peoples of North Africa. a) guitarra b) kithara c) lute d) goombah.
3. The prominent nation whose flag features a long-bladed sword with elaborate hilt and pommel. a) Syria b) India c) Saudi Arabia d) Israel.
4. The Stratocaster, one of pop music's most oft-played instruments, was developed in California by a) Les Paul b) Leo Fender c) Orville Gibson d) CF Martin.
5. In the cultural transference across the Silk Road - from Asia to Europe - we see jewels, fabrics and pottery traveling from China to a middle trading center, __ . a) Persia b) Japan c) Espana d) Italy.
6. Name the keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by metal fingers. a) Piano forte b) Cithara c) Harpsichord d) Zither.
7. Vienna (Wien) is a city of coffeehouses and astounding music in the nation of a) Germany b) Switzerland c) Deutschland d) Austria.
8. Early Christian music as chanted in monasteries and churches was named for a pope: a) St Benedict b) St Gregory c) St Ignatius of Loyola d) St John.
9. If the word liturgical indicates religious matters, the word for non-religious matters is a) secular b) terra cotta c) mnemonic d) pontifical.
10. "Every writer should have a built-in, shockproof crap detector." a) Shakespeare b) TS Eliot c) Chaucer d) Ernest Hemingway.
11. The musical instrument commonly associated with ancient Greece is the a) goblet drum b) harp, or lyre c) flute d) fiddle.
12. The Italian port cities of __ and __ were centers for European trade with China, Persia and India. a) Venice, Genoa b) Rome, Naples c) Milan, Bologna d) Florence, Cremona.

Caravaggio and brethren
1. Caravaggio painted in numerous locales, among them Roma and a small
island southeast of Italy: a) Sicily b) Malta c) Corsica d)
Sardinia.
2. Caravaggio was commissioned to paint primarily by (the) __ . a)
Catholic church b) Italian noblemen c) growing Italian middle class
d) Roman senators.
3. Caravaggio's style was notable for its dramatic use of light and
shadow, a technique known as __ (spelling counts).
4. The Normandy invasion undertaken by the Allies in WWII took place
alongside the English Channel in __ France. a) Southwest b)
Northwest c) Mediterranean d) Brittany.
5. Region of France favored by the majority of painters and sculptors:
a) Cote d'Azur b) Bordeaux c) Champagne d) Burgundy.
6. Shutter noise - if minor - due to the internal mirror which must
move for an exposure to take place: a) Rangefinder camera b) Single
lens reflex camera
c) Imax camera.
7. The expensive, prestigious and reliable German camera company
favored by Henri Cartier-Bresson: a) Nikon b) Canon c) Hasselblad
d) Leica.
8. This female from Jewish biblical literature decapitated the
Assyrian commander named Holofernes: a) Judith b) Leah c) Esther
d) Rachel.
9. While working for Leland Stanford in California Eadweard Muybridge
was a pioneer in photography that recorded movement . After their
falling out, Muybridge shot most of his movement studies for the
University of __ . a) California b) Texas c) Pennsylvania d)
Michigan.
10. Boggis, Bunce and Bean: a) Leland Stanford b) Eadweard Muybridge
c) Roald Dahl d) Caravaggio.
11. Escargots à la Bourguignonne: a) Bordeaux b) Burgundy c)
Normandy d) Cote d'Azur.
12. The Decisive Moment: a) Eadweard Muybridge b) Roald Dahl c) Caravaggio
d) Henri Cartier-Bresson.


Jazz quiz
1. First city of jazz: __ __.
2. Second city of Jazz (and of the US in general): __ .
3. Third city to which the fathers of jazz - such as Joe Oliver, Louis
Armstrong and Jellyroll Morton - relocated: __ __ .
4. Movement of impoverished black Americans from the farms of the Deep
South to urban centers of Upper Midwest and Northeast: a) diplomacy b)
dispora c) displacement d) dislocation .
5. Approximate date for the birth of jazz: a) 1800 b) 1850's c)
1900 d) 1920's.
6. Name given to the place in New Orleans where slaves gathered on
Sundays: a) river levees b) Ashanti circle c) Place Congo d) Vieux
Carre.
7. Louisiana term for people of mixed ethnic background, esp. a
mixture of French, Spanish, native American and Afro-Caribbean: __ .
8. Gens de couleur libre was a special ethnic category in NO. It
indicated a person who was African-American, yet not a slave. T / F
9. Another name for the historic French Quarter is Vieux Carre; it
means: a) Spanish Quarter b) Old Quarter c) French District d)
Slave Quarters .
10. A radical change in his instrument's shape was the signature of
bebop jazz artist Dizzy Gilespie. His instrumentwas the ____ .
11. Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazzers offered vocal
improvisation with random vocables and syllables or without words at
all. This is called __ singing.
12. World War I and the Immigration Act of 1924 halted the flow of
European immigrants to the emerging industrial centers of the
Northeast and Midwest, causing shortages of workers in the factories
and openings for immigrating African-Americans. T / F
13. Chronological order of the development of jazz: a) Dixieland,
big band-style swing, bebop, Latin jazz, free jazz b) big band-style
swing, Dixieland, bebop, Latin jazz, free jazz c) bebop, Dixieland,
big band-style swing, Latin jazz, free jazz
14. In jazz the skilled performer will interpret a tune in very
individual ways, never playing the same composition exactly the same
way twice. Thus while jazz may be difficult to define, ______ is
clearly one of its key elements.
a) swing b) improvisation c) syncopation d) concentration.


1. New Orleans
2. Chicago
3. NYC (Harlem is not a city; it is a neighborhood in NYC)
4. diaspora
5. 1900
6. Place Congo, or Congo Square
7. Creole
8. T
9. Old Quarter
10. trumpet
11.scat
12. T
13. Dixieland, swing, bebop, etc
14. improvisation

Jazz musicians with the highest status in this American art form -

1. Jellyroll Morton
2. Joe King Oliver
3. Louis Armstrong
4. Fletcher Henderson
5. Charlie Parker
6. Edward Duke Ellington
7. William Count Basie
8. Benny Goodman
9. Glenn Miller
10. Lionel Hampton
11. Charlie Christian
12. Charlie Bird Parker
13. Dizzy Gillespie
14. Thelonius Monk
15. Miles Davis
16. John Coltrane
17. Charles Mingus
18. Billie Holiday
19. Ella Fitzgerald
20. Nat King Cole
21. Herbie Hancock
22. Wynton Marsalis
23. George Gershwin, classical / jazz
24. Leonard Bernstein, classical / jazz

Another Jazz quiz:
1. He was a Manhattan music man who straddled jazz, pop and Classical music. Most famous for 'West Side Story." a) Leonard Bernstein b) George Gershwin c) Duke Ellington d) Dizzy Gillespie.
2. Bebop sounds from the man with the bent horn: a) Wynton Marsalis b) Louis Armstrong c) Duke Ellington d) Dizzy Gillespie.
3. Approximate date for the birth of jazz: a) 1800 b) 1850's c) 1900 d) 1920's.
4. Name given to the place in New Orleans where slaves danced and sang on Sundays: a) the levee b) Basin St c) Vieux Carre d) Place Congo.
5. Louisiana term for people of mixed ethnic background, esp. a mixture of French, Spanish, native American and Afro-Caribbean: __ .
6. Gens de couleur libre was a special ethnic category in NO. It indicated a person who was African-American, yet not a slave. T / F
7. The primary destination of the Great Migration of Black Americans in the early part of the 20th century: a) upper Midwest b) West coast c) Harlem d) East Coast.
8. At the turn of the century both New Orleans and Shreveport established legal red light districts. Shreveport's was called St Paul's Bottoms. New Orleans was called a) French Quarter b) Vieux Carre' c) Canal St d) Storyville.
9. Referring to the a dynasty of Kings in France: a) Royal St b) Bourbon St c) Rampart St d) Decatur St.
10. Had a well-documented predilection for cannabis sativa: a) John Coltrane b) Miles Davis c) Dizzy Gillespie d) Louis Armstrong.
11. Was a vivid and profuse writer of letters and of an autobiography: a) John Coltrane b) Miles Davis c) Dizzy Gillespie d) Louis Armstrong.
12. Yiddish-based term for art-like work that is non-original, commercial and intended for a mass audience: a) schlock b) kitsch c) kvetch d) chutzpah.
13. Azucar was the Arabic word for a substance that drove the Atlantic slave trade: a) rum b) African peoples c) sugar d) tobacco.


Howl
by Allen Ginsberg

For Carl Solomon

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the
supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of
cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels
staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkan-
sas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes
on the windows of the skull,

the importance of Kerouac and On The Road

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On the Road is a highly-recommended book for the college-bound student
or the adventure-minded person.
- Lower middle class life in the post-war, post-depression era prior
to widespread prosperity.
- A writer and his charismatic buddy criss-cross the US by bus,
hitch-hiking, train and careening, high-speed driving.
- Find an atlas and keep it by your side as you read so that you can
learn the towns and cities of the US.
- Men obsessed with drinking, sex, drugs and boyish freedom
nonetheless bond with each other over philosophical inquiry.
- How men slowly and painfully mature.
- Strong parallels with Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby.
- A celebration of jazz and of brotherhood.
- Published in 1957 the tale catalyzed the alienated and restless
youths already disillusioned by the material prosperity delivered by
success in the American Dream.

1.Kerouac 2.Ginsberg 3.Lear 4.Burroughs 5.Albee 6.Albee 7.Kerouac
8.Carroll 9.Carroll
10.Dylan 11.Albee 12.Kerouac 13.Beatles 14.Kerouac 15.Kerouac
16.Kerouac 17.San Francisco.

Mozart quiz from the award-winning movie Amadeus -

1. Mozart has six children and one wife. Her name: a) Nanerl b) Marie
Antoinette c) Constanza d) Maria Magdalena.
2. Court composer Antonio Salieri makes a dramatic vow to God. Which
virtue does he withhold in the vow? a) charity b) chastity c)
humility. '
3. The Mozarts have a never-ending domestic issue. It is a) infidelity
b) inheritance c) money d) parties.
4. A notable work by Mozart is the __ known as Don Giovanni. a) opera
b) symphony c) chamber work d) piano concerto.
5. As a child Mozart performs for the Pope in Rome. Mozart is a __ .
a) prophecy b) profligate c) philanthropist d) prodigy.
6. Much of Mozart's early career is spent in __, Austria. A very
musical city, it is not the capital. a) Vienna b) Salzburg
c) Brandenburg d) Munich.
7. In a gentile European party in the late 1700's it is distinctly
improper for a lady to allow a view of her a) breasts b) legs c)
tongue.
10. Mozart composed his first symphony at the age of __ . a) 3 b) 7
c) 16 d) 21.
12. The Emperor of Austria has numerous musical advisors from the
nation that is home to the opera and to the violin: a) Germany b)
France c) England d) Italy.
13. Mozart's wife is so stressed by domestic issues that she leaves
home to have a stay in a __ . a) castle b) palace
c) spa d) hospital.
14. Mozart had a puerile and __ sense of humor. a) scatalogical b)
sarcastic c) satirical d) scrotile.
15. Who is Mozart's employer when the movie begins? a) the Pope b)
Archbishop of Salzburg c) Louis XVI d) Henry VIII.
16. In the last part of his career, Mozart makes money independently
of his commissioned work for the Emperor. T / F
17. Emperor Joseph of Austria had a famous sister who was put to death
in 1792. She was a) Marie Antoinette b) Queen Anne
c) Victoria I d) Elizabeth I.
18. One of Mozart's operas is about a bird man named Papagaeno and the
Queen of the Night. It has been called a vaudeville work. a) Requiem
b) The Marriage of Figaro c) The Magic Flute d) Cosi fan Tutte
("Women are like that").
19. In 1787 a young German composer, __, spent several weeks in
Vienna, hoping to study with Mozart. a) Beethoven b) Salieri
c) Tchaikovsky d) Verdi.
20. Mozart died of ill health at age a) 25 b) 35 c) 45 d) 65.

1. chai: Asian term for __ . a) tea b) coffee c) ginger d) wine.
- ciao: Italian for hello or goodbye
2. An American journalist who became a major novelist advised writers
to cultivate a "A built-in, shock-proof crap detector."
a) Scott Fitzgerald b) Allen Ginsberg c) Alvin Ailey d) Ernest Hemingway.
3. Meaning "in the middle of earth" or "between lands:" a) Atlantic
b) Pacific c) Mediterranean d) Caribbean.
4. Austrian city notable for coffee shops for discussion of ideas and
art: a) Berlin b) Vienna c) Munich d) Milan.
5. Capital city of Germany. Bach's home was near this city: a) Berlin
b) Vienna c) Munich d) Milan.


1. Earliest roots of the guitar: a) Persia b) Arabia c) India.
2. The etymology of "guitar" reaches back to a) Persia b) Arabia c) India.
3. The oud, a 4-string lute, was a direct antecedent to the guitar; it was brought to Spain and to Western Europe by people of __ . a) Persia b) Arabia c) India.
4. The Fender Stratocaster was created in the early a) 1940's b) 1950's c) 1960's.
5. Leo Fender, one of the fathers of the electric guitar, lived in a) Los Angeles
b) NYC c) London d) Chicago.
6. Orville Gibson, founder of the company famous for the Les Paul electric guitar, lived in the 1890's and designed a) drums b) mandolins c) acoustic guitars
d) pianos.
7. In the 1930's and 1940's the classic jazz guitar was one made by a) Gibson
b) Fender.


The Leonardo Quiz, Da Vinci 1. Born in Vinci, near the major city of __ .
2. Another word for a person with superior intelligence whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. A Renaissance Man or a _polymath__ .
3. Da Vinci: a geologist? y / n
4. Da Vinci: a dentist? y / n
5. Da Vinci: a student of law? y / n
6. A botanist? y / n
7. Leonardo was said to use empirical methods. Empirical studies are based on a) theory b) observation.
8. He was educated under the notable artist of Firenze, Andrea del __.
9. Da Vinci was a bastard, or illigitimate by birth. y / n
10. He died in: a) Italy b) France c) Germany.
11. Leonardo worked in Milan; he also worked in Naples, Sienna and in Sicily. y / n
12. This subject of this painting was described as enigmatic and monumental, if small in size. It is a) Vitruvian Man b) Mona Lisa c) Last Supper .
13. Painting purchased by the king of France, Francois 1; later owned by Louis XIV and displayed in the Palais de Versailles: _____ . a) Vitruvian Man b) Mona Lisa c) Last Supper .
14. In 1919, Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential Dadaists, created a parody of the Leonardo painting ____ . a) Vitruvian Man b) Mona Lisa c) Last Supper .
15. In Rome he worked for Lorenzo de Medici. y / n
16. In Milan he worked for Ludovico Sforza, il Moro. y / n
17. Both Leonardo and Michelangelo designed domes for the largest churches in Italy. y / n
18. The statue was called the Gran Cavallo. In it he lionized the Sforza family in his presentation of an animal that stood 24 feet high. It was a __ .
19. The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist is a cartoon, or work preparatory to a painting. It was drawn on paper with black and white __ .
20. Leonardo worked as chief military engineer and architect for Cesare Borgia. His most significant work was to create a __ for Borgia.

Wheat fields and a starry night: Vincent Van Gogh
1. Van Gogh's home nation? __ . a) Netherlands b) France c) Deutschland d) Belgium .
2. Father's occupation and Vincent's first vocation? ___ a) Art dealer b) painter c) minister d) farmer.
3. City in which VG realizes that his task in life is to reach the people - esp the common and impoverished people of Europe? a) London b) Amsterdam c) Antwerp d) Paris
4. He returns to the continent to a city in Belgium where he is inspired by Japanese woodcuts and paintings by Rubens. ____, Belgium. a) London b) Amsterdam c) Antwerp d) Paris
5. The most important person in his life. Steady subsidizer and moral support were unconditionally granted. __ . a) wife b) mother c) sister d) brother.
6. His next stop is the city that is the capital of the art world in the nineteenth century. __ . a) London b) Amsterdam c) Antwerp d) Paris.
7. During his time in the big city he lives near his brother. There we see that an important part of his historic record, or documentation of his life, is missing. His __ are the record is his life. a) paintings b) letters c) tattoos d) invoices and bills. 8. There he paints his most famous still lives, some dozen versions of this subject. The object of these paintings? __ a) wheat fields b) starry nights c) flowers d) portraits.
9. In this city he meets one of the leading painters of the day, the enormously creative and virile Paul __ . a) Gaugin b) Cezanne c) Monet d) Degas.
10. VG believes that he should have an artists' commune. It will be a house filled with artistic energy and discussions. To get this, he moves to small city in southern France: __. a) Provence b) Arles c) Versailles d) Marseille.
11. He is bedeviled by several forms of illness, says Wikipedia. Which one is Not listed? a) Depression b) Suicidal tendencies c) Epilepsy d) Schizophrenia.
12. While waiting for his artist companion from Paris in the isolated city mentioned above, he does what? __. a) Visits brothels b) paints the rooms c) purchases books d) Paints landscapes.
13. He subsequently spends some time in a former monastery in the town of St Remy, France. Why? a) Recuperation from mental illness b) recuperation from visiting brothels c) becoming a monk d) recuperation from an ill-fated affair with a resident of a brothel.
14. Characteristics of his painting that have made him so notable: ___ brush strokes. ____ __ __ use of color.
15. He moves near Paris to the care of a doctor specializing in melancholia. What do we call that illness today? ___ a) Epilepsy b) depression c) schizophrenia d) halitosis.
16. Following his period of convalescence he shoots himself. Dead. At what age does this occur? __ a) 37 b) 47 c) 57 d) 77.
17. Simon Schama says VG makes his best paintings during what period of his condition? __. a) deep illness b) between illnesses.
18. In the end he has moved far past the artistic style of the day, which was __ . a) impressionism b) realism c) expressionism d) fauvism.
19. He is thus called the father of expressionism but, even more importantly, he is called the progenitor of what general era of art? __ __ a) contemporary b) radical c) modern d) colorful.

Rembrandt quiz
1. Rembrandt Van Rijn was born and raised in a period in which the Dutch were in financial and cultural ascension. T / F
2. R. became a portraitist and teacher in the city of a) Rotterdam b) Leiden c) the Hague d) Amsterdam.
3. Based on his name we know that R's family resided in an area near the a) Danube R. b) Amstel R. c) Thames R. d) Rhine R.
4. R's success coincided with the Golden Age of the Dutch: a) 1500's b) 1600's c) 1700's d) 1800's.
5. In a life that was marked by personal tragedy in the later years, he lived about __ years. a) 30 b) 40 c) 50 d) 60.
6. Much of his work illustrated stories from the __ . a) Business leaders of Holland b) Shakespeare c) King James Bible d) Lives of leading professionals.
6. The Dutch empire extended to the Caribbean. T / F
7. The Dutch empire comprised a part of __ where diamonds and gold were found in abundance. a) South America b) South Africa c) Middle East d) South Asia.
8. Rembrandt's life would have overlapped in small part with that of a) JS Bach b) Mozart c) Beethoven.
9. Chiaroscuro: a) strong contrasts between light and dark b) portraiture with side lighting c) Portraiture done in classic Italian style.
10. Rembrandt lighting includes a triangle of light on the subject's cheek on the side that is a) lighted b) in shadow c) either side.
11. Also a famous resident of Amsterdam: a) Anne Frank b) Adolph Hitler c) Winston Churchill d) JS Bach.
12. Also a famous resident of Amsterdam: a) Edgar Degas b) Vincent Van Gogh c) Henri Matisse d) Claude Monet.
13. Western Europe's principal waterway, the Rhine, rises in Switzerland and empties into the Nord Zee (North Sea) at a) Rotterdam, the Netherlands b) Brussels, Belgium c) Hamburg, Germany d) Calais, France.
14.Painting of an association of clothing merchants in the garb of militiamen: a) The Anatomy Lesson b) The Jewish Bride c) The Syndics d) The Night Watch.