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Why did artists during the Industrial Age turn away from classicism and develop a different style of art?

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They wanted to use a style of art that was based on traditional values.
B
They were reacting to advances in technology and wanted to celebrate them.
C
They wanted to represent reason and balance in their paintings and literature.
D
They were reacting to the social problems brought by industrialization.
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This painting of the Yosemite Valley in California, finished in 1865, reflects the Romantic movement.

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by creating works that celebrated tradition and reason
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by creating works that illustrated the beauty of life and nature
C
by creating works that highlighted ancient Roman culture
D
by creating works that focused on heavy machinery and factories
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How did industrialization bring literature to more people and contribute to the growth of popular culture?

A
Owners of factories allowed their workers to read books and magazines on the job.
B
People working in industry were given free subscriptions to magazines and newspapers.
C
Machines were invented that turned out high-quality printings of famous works of literature.
D
High-speed presses could mass-produce books, magazines, and newspapers.
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This 1818 painting shows a man looking out to sea.

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The man is posing much like a Greek statue.
B
The man is in nature, lost in his imagination.
C
The scene is a traditional one.
D
The fog suggests that the man has rejected nature.
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What impact did new inventions such as the ice box, electric lights, and the phonograph have on the lives of the growing middle class in the late 1800s?

A
People became frustrated, as the expense of these inventions put them out of reach of most consumers.
B
People rejected these inventions, preferring to do things as they had been done in the past.
C
People feared these inventions, believing that ice and electricity did not belong in a home and that music was evil.
D
People found life more convenient, as these inventions gave them more opportunities and freedoms.
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Read the passage from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.

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Industrialization results in pollution.
B
Industrialization results in standardization and monotony.
C
Laborers in the Coketown factory had to work hard.
D
People in Coketown typically volunteered to work long hours.
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In what way did the writer Charles Dickens embrace social criticism?

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by finding fault with the ways in which poor workers lived
B
by describing the problems caused by industrialization
C
by basing his novels in the countryside or in small seaside towns
D
by campaigning for public office as a reformer
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Which word is best associated with the classical style of art?

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nature
B
emotion
C
tradition
D
humanity
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In which ways did the invention of the automobile change society? Check all that apply.

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Factory goods were made in new ways.
B
Large numbers of new roads and highways were built.
C
People felt much safer in cities at night.
D
People now had the option of working farther from home.
E
People were able to drive to different states.

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