For whom was the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture’s category, fête galante, created?
A. Watteau
B. Fragonard
C. Bernini
D. Poussin
Answer: A. Watteau
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The Warsaw Pact was which of the following?
A) alliance formed by the Eastern European countries as a deterrent to the USSR B) alliance formed by Khrushchev of the Soviet Union with Poland C) alliance formed by the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin with countries of Eastern Europe D) East-West pact that promised no proliferation of nuclear weapons
Joseph Stalin
A. inaugurated a benevolent stage of governmental policy with his Stalingrad speech in 1946. B. continued his reliance on the terror apparatus, including the holding of about 9,000,000 Soviet citizens in Siberian concentration camps. C. named his protégé, Andrei Zhdanov, as his successor. D. denounced Lenin at the Thirtieth Party Congress. E. pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West in 1948.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s controversial novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was __________
A) sympathetic to both slaves and slaveholders but became a major success for the abolitionist movement B) a condemnation of the southern white plantation class C) a satire about life on southern plantations that showed the ridiculousness of justifications for slavery D) received well by Southerners who saw it as a religious justification for paternalism