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You've won the lottery and you want a famous silent film director to make a biopic about you, starring a silent film star.Choose either Erich von Stroheim or F.W.Murnau as director and Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Theda Bara, or Mary Pickford as the star.Describe what they would bring to your life story.
On Jun 19, 2024
Von Stroheim (an intense eye for realist detail), Murnau (stylized mise-en-scene and expressionism), Fairbanks (attractive and athletic action star), Valentino (emotional and ambiguous sex symbol), Bara (sexy vamp), Pickford (everywoman).
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Kano painters of the Momoyama period were asked to create folding screens and sliding panels for structures built for which group?
A) European traders
B) Jesuit monks
C) Warlords
D) Zen philosophers
A) European traders
B) Jesuit monks
C) Warlords
D) Zen philosophers
On Jun 15, 2024
C
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Which of the following artists created a modern art style that combined Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and the energy of American cities?
A) Charles Demuth
B) Marsden Hartley
C) Stuart Davis
D) Georgia O'Keeffe
A) Charles Demuth
B) Marsden Hartley
C) Stuart Davis
D) Georgia O'Keeffe
On Jun 11, 2024
C
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rejected Realism and based their artistic philosophy on the writings of which individual?
A) Gustave Courbet
B) William Morris
C) John Ruskin
D) John Singer Sargent
A) Gustave Courbet
B) William Morris
C) John Ruskin
D) John Singer Sargent
On May 21, 2024
C
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Which of the following Postclassic groups had a strong written tradition?
A) Olmec
B) Teotihuacán
C) teotihuacán
D) Maya
A) Olmec
B) Teotihuacán
C) teotihuacán
D) Maya
On May 14, 2024
D
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Which of the following would NOT be a subject of the works, referred to as ukiyo-e, produced by the urban counterculture of the Edo period?
A) Sumo wrestling ring
B) Kabuki theater
C) Court ceremony
D) Bathhouses
A) Sumo wrestling ring
B) Kabuki theater
C) Court ceremony
D) Bathhouses
On May 11, 2024
C
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Which of the following describes the structural elements referred to as gopuras that are found in temple complexes in the far south of India?
A) Small fountains
B) Gateway towers
C) Enclosure walls
D) Carved pillars
A) Small fountains
B) Gateway towers
C) Enclosure walls
D) Carved pillars
On May 07, 2024
B
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The downbeat ending of Chinatown holds some parallels with which 1970s American event?
A) the Vietnam War
B) the death of Elvis Presley
C) the Watergate scandal
D) the gas crisis
A) the Vietnam War
B) the death of Elvis Presley
C) the Watergate scandal
D) the gas crisis
On May 04, 2024
C
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Although Muhammad had all the idols within it destroyed, why did he allow the Kaaba to be preserved?
A) It was the location of his divine inspiration.
B) He knew it would be the site of his ascendancy into Paradise.
C) It was his family's ancestral home.
D) He saw it as the Islamic world's symbolic center.
A) It was the location of his divine inspiration.
B) He knew it would be the site of his ascendancy into Paradise.
C) It was his family's ancestral home.
D) He saw it as the Islamic world's symbolic center.
On Apr 30, 2024
D
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Which Elia Kazan film is a thinly veiled allegory for the HUAC hearings and the blacklist?
A) A Streetcar Named Desire
B) Only Angels Have Wings
C) The Searchers
D) On the Waterfront
A) A Streetcar Named Desire
B) Only Angels Have Wings
C) The Searchers
D) On the Waterfront
On Apr 27, 2024
D