HUM 112 QUIZ 2

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•   2 out of 2 points

	Why did the eighteenth-century Parisian courtiers lose interest in portraits? Answer

•   Question 2

2 out of 2 points

	In Jean-Antoine Watteau's The Signboard of Gersaint, why is a portrait of Louis XIV being placed in a storage box? Answer

•   Question 3

2 out of 2 points

	What view of God did the Deists take? Answer

•   Question 4

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	How did Voltaire make himself so unpopular with both the French and Prussian courts that he had to retire to the country to avoid imprisonment? Answer

•   Question 5

2 out of 2 points

	Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fêtes galantes become so popular? Answer

•   Question 6

2 out of 2 points

	According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, why did people lose the natural goodness with which they were born? Answer

•   Question 7

2 out of 2 points

	Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie? Answer

•   Question 8

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	Why did the Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II react negatively to Mozart's Don Giovanni? Answer

•   Question 9

2 out of 2 points

	Why did English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability" Brown issue yellow-tinted glasses to Stowe gardens' visitors? Answer

•   Question 10

2 out of 2 points

	What work of art does the young man's position in Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing reflect? Answer

•   Question 11

2 out of 2 points

	Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography of his years as a slave? Answer

•   Question 12

2 out of 2 points

	Who inspired Thomas Jefferson's argument for freedom in the Declaration of Independence? Answer

•   Question 13

2 out of 2 points

	Why did Napoleon launch a massive rebuilding program in Paris? Answer