The setting of Édouard Manet's reclining nude figure of Olympia is a(n) __________
a. upscale apartment in Paris's eighth arrondissement
b. lush Tahitian landscape
c. blue bedroom
d. lavish bedchamber in a Venetian villa
e. bordello of the Parisian demimonde
e
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A. The path to enlightenment B. The cosmic mountain C. The axis of the universe D. The Wheel of the Law
Contemporary jazz can be grouped into what three general categories?
a. mainstream, legacy of 1970s fusion, b. mainstream, legacy of 1950s cool jazz, legacy of 1960s avant-garde c. legacy of 1950s hard bop, legacy of 1960s avant-garde, smooth jazz d. legacy of 1950s hard bop, legacy of 1960s avant-garde, legacy of 1970s fusion
Which commentary addresses a fundamental issue related to women and education in humanist society?
A. "Nature has generously lavished its gifts upon all people,... the desire to know grows ever more wide and deep." B. "I took her by the hand and showed her around the whole house. ... At the end there were no household goods of which my wife had not learned both the place and purpose." C. "Let her not stupidly pretend to know that which she does not know, but modestly seek to do herself credit in that which she does know. ..." D. "When a man sees that a woman is superior to him, both in virtue and in beauty, and that she is justly honored and loved even by him, he tortures himself and is consumed with envy."
The Roman baths come to signal a decline in values and morals because
a. prostitutes established their businesses in them. b. they came to symbolize material excess. c. they distracted Romans from the affairs of the state. d. money lenders controlled them.