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Questions 10–12 refer to the engraving below:
William Hogarth, Marriage à la Mode (The Marriage
Contract), Plate 1, 1745
- The scene depicted in the engraving refers to
which manifestation of social change in the
eighteenth century?
A. The marriage of older men to younger women
B. The liquidation of art collections by a cash-
poor aristocracy
C. The combining, through marriage, of aristo-
cratic status and bourgeois wealth
D. The movement to allow Protestant churchmen
to marry - The engraving is an example of which of the
following developments in eighteenth-century
art?
A. Artists’ abandonment of realistic representation
B. Artists’ criticism of social practices through
satire
C. Artists’ creation of flattering portraits for rich
patrons
D. The continued development of landscape - Which of the following is an accurate summa-
tion of the kind of commentary Hogarth was
attempting?
A. The practice of selling art to foreigners leads
to cultural bankruptcy.
B. The practice of painting flattering portraits
of the rich will be the death of true art.
C. The practice of economically motivated mar-
riages of convenience is morally repugnant
and bound to bring misery.
D. The marrying of aristocratic status to bourgeois
wealth will solidify the future of the realm. - The interpretation of the state of religious belief
in ancient Rome by the eighteenth-century
English historian Edward Gibbon might be
offered as evidence for which of the following?
A. The clergy’s monopoly on academic scholar-
ship in eighteenth-century Britain
B. The hatred of all things Roman by British
scholars in the eighteenth century
C. The spread of religious skepticism among the
educated elite of Britain in the eighteenth
century
D. The lack of sources available to the eight-
eenth-century scholar for the study of ancient
Roman civilization - Gibbon’s interpretation of the state of religious
worship in ancient Rome could be best summa-
rized how?
. A In ancient Rome, religious worship was
decentralized and tended to vary with one’s
social position.
B. In ancient Rome, religious worship was the
source of much social tension and turmoil.
C. In ancient Rome, religious worship was
homogeneous and highly centralized.
D. In ancient Rome, religious worship was revo-
lutionized by the introduction of Christianity.
Questions 13–14 refer to the following quotation:The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally
true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776–178824_Bartolini_QuesPrac1_207-230.indd 214 27/04/18 10:15 AM