01. Which of the following did not come into being during the 1950s: McDonalds, Frisbee, Playboy Magazine, Cheerios cereal?
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NOT-Cheerios cereal
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02. What did the philosophical movement of existentialism offer people?
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a path for finding some sense of meaning in life
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03. According to Søren Kierkegaard, why must Christians live in a state of anguish caused by their own freedom of choice?
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Because belief in God requires suspension of reason
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04. According to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, what did religion provide the post-World War II alienated person?
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The courage to conquer despair
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05. What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of his atheistic existentialism?
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself"
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06. Why is Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist play entitled Huis Clos (No Exit)?
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the main character is in hell
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07. According to existential feminist Simone de Beauvoir, why are women often satisfied with secondary status to men?
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because men provide women with financial and existential protection
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08. In Albert Camus's The Stranger, why does society condemn Meursault, the main character?
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Society condemns him because he refused to lie
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09. What is the central thematic concern of the Theater of the Absurd?
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Meaninglessness of existence is the central thematic concern
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10. In Samuel Beckett's play entitled Waiting for Godot, why does Godot never arrive?
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He never showed up
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11. Why do the works by Jean Dubuffet, such as Corps de Dame, look do disordered?
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Dubuffet wanted to have "authentic" art, divorced from the convention and tradition
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12. Why did the London-formed Independents call their creations "Pop Art"?
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Because it was based on American pop culture
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13. In Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing, why does Richard Hamilton position a canned ham in front of the nearly nude stripper?
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Because the are both "meat" edible flesh
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14. How did Jackson Pollock create his Abstract Expressionist mental landscapes?
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?
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15. Why did a rooster have psychological meaning to Jackson Pollock, who painted one into his Guardians of the Secret?
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because a rooster had stolen his severed fingertip
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16. Why did the organization of Abstract Expressionist artists known as "The Club" exclude in their charter communists, homosexuals, and women?
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They believed that these were the three groups that "take over"
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17. What effect do the somber color fields of a Mark Rothke painting often have on viewers?
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Often caused tearful breakdown among his viewers
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18. To reap the full effect of David Smith's Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith, what must the viewer do?
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the viewers must move around
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19. What were the "Beat" artists reacting against in American society?
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they were reaching to what this considered the false values of modern life
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20. What work best characterizes the "Beat" generation?
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"Howl" by Allen Ginseberg
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21. Why was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore, charged with obscenity?
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?
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22. What was the musical score for Allan Kaprow's Happenings designed to represent?
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inventive multimedia pieces of Alan Kaprow who wanted to represent Pollock's action in his musical scores for the "Happenings"
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23. Why did Frank Lloyd Wright design the Guggenheim Museum in New York as a spiral with a ramp and an open rotunda in the middle?
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so viewers could see what they had viewed and what is to come
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24. What does Roy Lichtenstein criticize in Oh, Jeff . . . I Love You, Too . . . But . . . ?
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criticizes modern love's emptiness
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25. What question about art did the Minimalists seem to be asking with their works?
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"what makes a work of art"
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