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?