Question 1
The Vietnam Memorial is located in which town?
Selected Answer: Washington D.C.
Question 2
Our distance from past ages enables us to perceive the periods when a culture
was balanced, when the balance tipped into chaos, when the adjustment began
that leads to a new period of balance and so on.
Selected Culture-Epoch Theory
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Question 3
The most representative poet of the mid-Victorian era, He reflected the mood of
the period in poetry that was sad, quiet, contemplative, melancholy, sometimes
wistful, and often pessimistic. The old optimism of the early Romantics had
vanished.
Selected Tennyson
Answer:
Question 4
Who said these famous words? With malice toward none; with charity for all;
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to
finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who
shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all
nations.
Selected Lincoln
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Question 5
, From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” In the American Western
culture, our coins describe three of the values that provide the foundation that
holds American culture together, as well as unites us. You can think of these
like a three-legged stool. If you remove any leg the stool will fall. Which of
these is not one of the three?
Selected Answer: Freedom
Question 6
Which is these is not an American author?
Selected Answer: Whitma
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Question 7
A belief system in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of
objective truth and global cultural narrative. Has influenced many cultural
fields, including literary criticism, sociology, linguistics, architecture, visual
arts, and music.
Selected Postmodernism
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Question 8
Those who own property and means of production; in Marxism, capitalists as a
class. Marxism says they exploit the class called the Proletariat.
Selected Answer: Bourgeoisie
Question 9
The so called “War to end all Wars.”
Selected Great War
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Question 10