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Praxis Fine Arts 2
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is the nickname of musician William Basie?
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2. This Italian composed the operas 'Tosca' and 'La Boheme.'
Giacomo Puccini
Monteverdi
Benjamin Britten
John Constable
3. This actor won an Academy Award for his starring role in 'The King and I.'
Jerome Kern
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
Yul Brynner
Louis Armstrong
4. This American artist famous for her Southwestern landscapes married photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
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5. What is the name of the only opera that Beethoven composed?
Jerome Kern
Fidelio
Stephen Sondheim
Cello
6. This composer wrote the operas 'Lohengrin' and 'Tannhauser.'
Peter Tchaikovsky
Igor Stravinsky
Hector Berlioz
Richard Wagner
7. Rogers and Hammerstein wrote the musical 'Showboat' with the help of what famous songwriter?
Jerome Kern
Irving Berlin
Richard Wagner
Georgia O'Keefe
8. What American composer wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning 'Appalachian Spring?'
Aaron Copland
Marcel Duchamp
Georgia O'Keefe
D.W. Griffith
9. What pair wrote the musical 'The King and I?'
Fidelio
Rogers and Hammerstein
Giacomo Puccini
Benjamin Britten
10. What Russian composed 'Peter and the Wolf?'
Whistler's Mother
Giacomo Puccini
Sergei Prokofiev
Jerome Kern
11. What artist painted 'Nude Descending a Staircase?'
Louis Armstrong
Fidelio
Marcel Duchamp
Jerome Kern
12. What composer wrote the opera 'Benvenuto Celini?'
Whistler's Mother
Hector Berlioz
Yul Brynner
Beethoven
13. This man directed the classic movie 'Birth of a Nation.'
Buonarroti
Scott Joplin
Igor Stravinsky
D.W. Griffith
14. What Russian composer wrote the ballets 'The Wedding' and 'The Firebird?'
Igor Stravinsky
Richard Wagner
Edvard Grieg
La Traviata
15. What is the subtitle of Anton Dvorak's Symphony Number 9?
Engelbert Humperdinck
La Traviata
From the New World
Benjamin Britten
16. Who composed the opera 'The Marriage of Figaro?'
Hector Berlioz
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D.W. Griffith
Yul Brynner
17. What Spanish artist painted 'Maids of Honor?'
Igor Stravinsky
Louis Armstrong
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
Diego Velasquez
18. What instrument did Larry Adler popularize in the classical music scene?
Giacomo Puccini
Marcel Duchamp
Harmonica
Stephen Foster
19. This man wrote the lyrics to Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story.'
Stephen Sondheim
Beethoven
Bas relief
Stephen Foster
20. What Jazz musician was nicknamed 'Satchmo?'
Louis Armstrong
Winslow Homer
Scott Joplin
Whistler's Mother
21. He composed the opera 'Einstein on the Beach.'
Stephen Foster
John Constable
Philip Glass
Yul Brynner
22. What famous songwriter wrote 'Alexander's Ragtime Band?'
John Constable
Harmonica
Irving Berlin
Richard Wagner
23. This Russian composer wrote the '1812 Overture.'
'Count'
Buonarroti
Peter Tchaikovsky
Stephen Foster
24. This artist is best known for his paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans.
D.W. Griffith
Claude Debussy
Aaron Copland
Andy Warhol
25. What instrument is Pablo Cassals famous for playing?
Sergei Prokofiev
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Scott Joplin
Cello
26. Picasso was influential in this geometric art style of the early 20th century.
Cubism
Harmonica
'Count'
Modest Mussorgsky
27. Who composed the musicals 'Candide' and 'On the Town?'
Marcel Duchamp
Buonarroti
Leonard Bernstein
Modest Mussorgsky
28. This American artist painted 'Breaking Storm' and 'Gulf Stream.'
Winslow Homer
Cello
Irving Berlin
Edvard Grieg
29. This artist painted the famous 'At the Moulin Rouge.'
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
Cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
'Count'
30. This man composed the opera 'Hansel and Gretel.'
Harmonica
Engelbert Humperdinck
Benjamin Britten
Stephen Sondheim
31. This songwriter wrote 'Beautiful Dreamer.'
Stephen Foster
Georgia O'Keefe
Harmonica
Fidelio
32. This man composed the opera 'Boris Godunov.'
Richard Wagner
From the New World
Beethoven
Modest Mussorgsky
33. This Greek actor was the actor to be known by name.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Peter Tchaikovsky
Thespis
Benjamin Britten
34. This American artist pioneered the 'action painting' genre.
Stephen Sondheim
John Gay
Cello
Jackson Pollack
35. What was the last name of famed artist Michelangelo?
From the New World
Buonarroti
Georgia O'Keefe
Philip Glass
36. What French composer wrote 'Nocturne' and 'La Mer?'
Harmonica
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
Giacomo Puccini
37. This kind of sculpture is slightly raised from its flat background and literally translates as 'low relief.'
Beethoven
Louis Armstrong
Bas relief
Thespis
38. This man composed 'The Beggars Opera.'
John Constable
'Count'
John Gay
Irving Berlin
39. What Russian composer wrote the opera 'Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk?'
Igor Stravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Buonarroti
Modest Mussorgsky
40. He composed the operas 'Orfeo' and 'The Return of Ulysses.'
John Huston
Whistler's Mother
Monteverdi
Peter Tchaikovsky
41. This artist is best known for his frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Whistler's Mother
Michelangelo
Scott Joplin
Beethoven
42. What French composer wrote 'Damnation of Faust?'
Monteverdi
Hector Berlioz
Claude Debussy
Louis Armstrong
43. This Giuseppe Verdi opera's title translates to 'The Lost One.'
Yul Brynner
From the New World
La Traviata
'Count'
44. This artist painted the 'Haywain.'
Aaron Copland
John Constable
Cubism
Igor Stravinsky
45. What is the more famous name of the painting 'Arrangement in Gray and Black?'
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46. He composed the operas 'Billy Budd' and 'Peter Grimes.'
Benjamin Britten
Jackson Pollack
Leonard Bernstein
Louis Armstrong
47. Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata?'
Bas relief
Peter Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Claude Debussy
48. This composer wrote 'Holberg Suite.'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stephen Foster
Igor Stravinsky
Edvard Grieg
49. This man directed the movies 'Maltese Falcon' and 'African Queen.'
Louis Armstrong
Hector Berlioz
Marcel Duchamp
John Huston
50. This songwriter composed 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
Scott Joplin
Fidelio
Philip Glass
Thespis