Part of Greenwich Village: Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park - 01
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The Greenwich Village quiz
1. Mark Rothko was a native a) NYC b) Poland c) Russia d) Israel.
2. Which came first in the world of fine arts painting? a) impressionism b) expressionism
3. NYC replaced Paris as the center for cutting edge art in what decade?
a) 1940's b) 1950's c) 1960's d) 1970's.
4. The A bomb and the Cold War: which nation was second in demonstrating their possession of the nuclear bomb? a) US b) Russia c) England d) Germany
5. Two of NYC's boroughs are on Long Island: a) Bronx, Brooklyn b) Brooklyn, Manhattan c) Queens, Brooklyn d) Bronx, Manhattan.
6. "Color field paintings:" a) Pollock b) Rothko c) Benton
7. Houston is the site of the outstanding Menil Collection and the nearby __ Chapel. a) Rothko b) Pollock c) Matisse d) Magritte.
8. "To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast must I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts must I break? What lie must I maintain? What blood tread?"
It is a quote from the 19th century French poet Artur Rimbaud used by a) Jackson Pollock b) Lee Krasner c) Peggy Guggenheim d) Mark Rothko.
9. "La danse," Dance, is an epic painting composed in 1909 by the French painter a) Pablo Picasso b) Vincent Van Gogh c) Henri Matisse d) Paul Cezanne.
10. Greenwich Village in the 1950's: a) walkups and lofts b) gentrification.
11. In Dallas you will find work by Picasso in 2 of the 3 museums in the Dallas Arts District. You will not find Picasso in the a) Nasher b) DMA c) Crow d) Meyerson.
12. A perquisite, or "perk," for government work in the early 1940's was
a) draft deferment b) 4-F draft status c) salary adequate to feed a family d) free housing.
13. In one or 2 sentences explain the quote in number 8.