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

A
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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Popular culture is best described as

A
activities that are uplifting.
B
activities that are widely shared.
C
magazines and books that are printed by hand.
D
paintings that are only enjoyed by wealthy admirers.
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Which word is best associated with the classical style of art?

A
nature
B
emotion
C
tradition
D
humanity
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Read the passage from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.

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that it resulted in streets that were not built thoughtfully.
B
that it led to air, land, and water pollution.
C
that it robbed people of their individuality.
D
that it widened the gap between rich and poor.
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In which ways did the invention of the automobile change society? Check all that apply.

A
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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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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The poet William Wordsworth summed up romanticism in literature with this statement.All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.Which theme of romanticism was Wordsworth referring to?

A
emotion
B
nature
C
the common man
D
individualism
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How did industrialization contribute to the changing role of women in the late 1800s?

A
Women who worked outside the home were allowed to vote in state and national elections.
B
New appliances helped women complete household chores faster so they could pursue other interests.
C
New appliances signaled the end of housework, freeing women to work outside the home.
D
Women who worked outside the home were able to hold public office.
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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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This 1818 painting shows a man looking out to sea.

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A
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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