Describe Run-DMC's influence on hip-hop.

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Run-DMC did much to popularize rap to widespread white audiences during the mid-eighties; "It's Like That" introduced style "hard-core rap" that stressed hard realities of life; Hard-core rap opened the door for gangsta rap on the West Coast; on "Walk This Way" (1986), the group rapped over Aerosmith's song; the group was popular with general listeners.

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What is the most famous-and well-known-of all medieval sequences today?

A) Dies irae B) Natus ante saecula C) Omnipotens genitor D) A chantar m'er

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Describe how Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait demonstrates the ways that Northern European Renaissance art is different from Italian Renaissance art.

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The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling as seen in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveals the ____ roots of his style

a. fundamentally medieval b. classical c. Byzantine d. Platonic

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In the church of San Lorenzo, each nave arch springs from __________.

A. an aedicula B. a loggia C. an impost block D. a balustrade

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