How did tchaikovsky raise ballet music to a new level

• Question 1

Why did Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx believe capitalism should be eliminated?

• Question 2

Why were Timothy O'Sullivan's and Alexander Gardener's photographs of the Gettysburg battlefield so disturbing?

• Question 3

In Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave, what does the distant Mount Fuji represent?

• Question 4

How did the East India Company recoup the money it spent buying Chinese products for import?

• Question 5

By how much did Haussmann's plan increase land dedicated to public parks in Paris?

• Question 6

Why did the Parisian workers revolt in June 1848?

• Question 7

Why did the United States outlaw Chinese immigration in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• Question 8

On what values was nationalism based?

• Question 9

Why did Haussmann's redesign cause the working class to move outside the city?

• Question 10

Why did the Japanese nishiki-e calendar painters have to disguise the symbols for months in their works?

• Question 11

Why did Charles Baudelaire speak so disparagingly of George Sand?

• Question 12

Why in part did Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) disturb its viewers?

• Question 13

In Rigoletto, how does Giuseppe Verdi show his characters' contrasting emotions?

• Question 14

Why did the Jockey Club demand that French opera have a second-act ballet?

• Question 15

Why did Wagner design the orchestra to be underneath the stage of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus?

• Question 16

How did Verdi have to change his operas so they would be produced in Paris?

• Question 17

Who is the first person to call himself an "anarchist"?

• Question 18

For what was Charles Baudelaire's poetry criticized?

• Question 19

How did George Sand challenge sexual stereotypes?

• Question 20

What does the black cat at the end of Olympia's bed symbolize?

• Question 21

Why was Degas attracted to the soft effects of pastel chalks?

• Question 22

Why did nineteenth-century Russian collectors favor French and German works over Russian art?

• Question 23

Why are the young girls in Degas's Dance Class in a moment of great stress?

• Question 24

How did William Morris and Company discriminate against women?

• Question 25

How did Tchaikovsky raise ballet music to a new level?

• Question 26

Why did the 13 Russian artists known as the Travelers show their paintings across the country instead of in an urban gallery?

• Question 27

As stated in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why were nineteenth-century Americans so attracted to French culture?

• Question 28

Why did Camille Pissaro paint Red Roofs with the complementary colors red and green and orange and blue set side by side?

• Question 29

Why can Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party be viewed as a response to Émile Zola's challenge for the Impressionists to create more complex paintings?

• Question 30

In Berthe Morisot's Summer's Day, why is one woman's dress with zigzags while the other is a patchwork of straight strokes?

• Question 31

How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and white relations?

• Question 32

According to architect Louis H. Sullivan, what determined a building's identity?

• Question 33

Why did suffragette Lillie Devereux Blake declare the Statue of Liberty to be an oxymoron?

• Question 34

Why was ragtime music poorly received by many Americans?

• Question 35

Why did the Lakota and the Kiowa tribes keep a "winter count"?

• Question 36

Why did John Ruskin criticize James Whistler's Impressionistic Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket?

• Question 37

Which earlier artist seems to have influenced Eakins in The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic?

• Question 38

In The Life Line, how does Winslow Homer present the female?

• Question 39

What was the title of the preparatory sketch for George Bellows' Cliff Dwellers?

• Question 40

Why did the U.S. Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?