UNIVERSITY
VERSION 1
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
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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
Perhaps more than any other period, the Romantic era was expressed as well
in literature as in music and the visual arts. “Art,” wrote _____________, “is
the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”