Matt15 ""78Matt15"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACA 78%Packet 15 A pupil of Hegel, he reacted against his teachers Idealism. His most famous work, _The Essence of Christianity_ was translated by George Eliot. In it, he attacked Christianity and claimed that religion is the dream of the human mind. FTP, name this philosopher who influenced Marx with his materialism. Answer: Ludwig Andreas _Feuerbach_ His parents forbade him from becoming a musician, and at the age of eleven he ran away from home and earned a living by playing various instruments in cafes, cinemas, and dance halls. He wrote several operas, including _Cardillac_ and two biographical operas. FTP, name this German composer whose based his two operas Die Harmonie der Welt_ on the life of Johann Kepler, and _Mathis der Maler_, on the life of Matthias Grunewald. Answer: Paul _Hindemith_ In 1400, he entered the Augustinian convent of Agnietenberg in the Netherlands, took holy orders in 1413, and was made sub-prior in 1429. Among his sermons, pious biographies, and hymns, one book stands out -- it has been used by Christians of all denominations, and its theology is purely ascetical except for the fourth book, which teaches the doctrine of the real presence. FTP, name this author of _On the Imitation of Christ_. Answer: Thomas _Kempis_ After becoming a drug addict, his later roles were in cheap, dreadful films, and he died during production of _Plan 9 from Outer Space_, possibly the worst film ever made. A student of the Academy of Performing Arts in Budapest, he played roles in _Murders in the Rue Morgue_, and _Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein_. FTP, name this Hungarian actor famous for his heavily-accented aristocratic portrayal of Dracula. Answer: Bela _Lugosi_ (was born in Lugos, which is now in Romania, but was in Hungary at the time) The son of Maximilian II, he involved Bavaria in alliance with Prussia, and offered the crown to Wilhelm I, though he himself was a recluse. Constantly fighting with his ministers on account of his lavish expenditures on palaces, he devoted himself to patronage of Richard Wagner. FTP, name this king of Bavaria who was found drowned in the Starnberger Lake a few days after being declared insane. Answer: _Ludwig II_ or _Ludwig the Mad_ Three disillusioned gods are given shelter by the prostitute Shen Te, and they reward her with money, which she uses to open a tobacco shop, but her generosity bankrupts her. Disguising herself as a male cousin Shui Ta, she wins back the money by ruthless business practices, but when the gods judge Shui Ta for the murder of Shen Te, she removes the mask and exposes her dilemma. FTP, name this play by Bertold Brecht set in China. Answer: _The Good Woman (or Person) of Setzuan_ She married at the age of 19 into a wealthy trading family and in 1797 founded the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children. In 1803, she herself was widowed as a mother of five. She converted to Catholicism and founded a Catholic elementary school in Baltimore and the United States first religious order, the Sisters of Charity. FTP, name this woman, the first American to be canonized as a saint. Answer: Elizabeth _Seton_ After years of service in a sworn band of heroes, he departed for the land of perpetual youth with its queen, Tir na n-Og, and returned after 300 years to age catastrophically and be converted to Christianity by St. Patrick. James Macpherson claimed that his _Fingal, An Ancient Epic_ and _Temora, An Epic Poem_ were translations of this man. FTP, name this legendary Gaelic bard, the son of Fin. Answer: _Ossian_ The brother of Jacques Villon, he was one of the pioneers of Dadism. In 1915, he left Paris for New York, where he introduced the found object as art. He used chance effects like blown dust to produce the 1923 work called _The Large Glass_ that is better known as _The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Batchelors Even_. FTP, name this artist whose Cubist paintings include _Coffee Mill_ and _Nude Descending a Staircase_. Answer: Marcel _Duchamp_ A teacher of Puccini, he was born in Cremona in 1834. He studied for eleven years in Milan and became music director at the Bergamo Cathedral. He then turned his talents to opera, though he wrote a ballet _Le due Gemelle_. FTP, name this composer famous for the opera _La Gioconda_ and the Dance of the Hours. Answer: Amilcare _Ponchielli_ The worlds most prolific playwright, he wrote about 1800 plays and 400 autos sacramentales or one-act religious dramas. 426 plays and 42 autos survive. A long prose romance, _La Dorotea_, is his best non-dramatic work. Among his best works are _Peribanez_ and _El mejor Alcalde, El Rey_. FTP, name this Spanish dramatist. Answer: _Lope de Vega_ When the human Ottar needed to recite his ancestry, this Vanir goddess tricked the Giantess Hyndla into giving him memory beer and reciting his lineage. In order to obtain Brisingamen, a necklace, she slept with four dwarfs. Often called Syr, her emblem was the sow, and she rode in a chariot drawn by two flying cats. FTP, name this Norse goddess of love, and beauty. Answer: _Freyja_ or _Freya_ (accept other variants) They included Kunz Vogelgesang, a furrier, Sixtus Beckmesser, a town clerk, Veit Pogner, a goldsmith, Balthazar Zorn, a pewterer, Conrad Nachtigall, a buckle maker, Augustin Moser, a tailor, and Hans Schwarz, a stocking weaver, but probably the most famous was a shoe-maker named Hans Sachs. FTP, name these artistically inclined German craftsmen who formed guilds of singers. Answer: _Meistersingers_ or _Mastersingers_ When Clemenceau met him at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the French premier said, You have become prime minister? What a comedown! While visiting the Beethoven museum in Bonn, he saw Beethovens piano and said that he wasnt worthy to touch it. In 1909, he became director of the Warsaw Conservatory. FTP, name this Polish pianist who became one of his nations first prime ministers. Answer: Ignace Jan _Paderewski_ It is named after an 19th century English astronomer and president of the Royal Astonomical Society. First observed in 1836, this phenomenon is caused by irregularities in the shape of the moon. FTP, what is the name of this effect in which, during the last seconds before a solar eclipse, the advancing dark limb of the moon appears to break up into a series of bright points. Answer: _Bailys Beads_ In anatomy, this word means a cartilage disk that acts as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet in a joint, such as the disks between vertebrae. From the Greek for moon, it can also mean a concave-convex lens. FTP, what is this word which is most often applied to the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a container. Answer: _Meniscus_ Also called Phan Dinh Khai, He joined the Communist party of Indo-china in 1929 and was exiled to Con Dia by the French in 1930. Released in 1937, he became the head of the Nam Dinh revolutionary movement, but was re-arrested and imprisoned until 1944. After World War II, he entered the politburo. FTP, name this leader of Vietnam who shared with Henry Kissinger the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. Answer: _Le Duc Tho_ Five years after the Council of Trent, planning was begun on this church in Rome. Michelangelo promised a design, but never finished it, and so the job fell to two architects who had assisted him with St. Peters: Giacomo Vignola laid out the ground plan, and Giacomo della Porta did the unconventional facade with paired pilasters and a broken lower-story architrave. FTP, what is this mother church of the Jesuits? Answer: _Il Ges_ A shepherd and fig-grower from Tekoa, a small town about 11 miles from Jerusalem, he prophesied from 760-750 B.C. during the reigns of Uzziah over Judah and Jeroboam II over Israel. A contemporary of Hosea and Jonah, he warned of Gods impending wrath and judgment on an Israel that had forgotten past lessons. FTP, name this minor prophet whose book comes after Joel and before Jonah. Answer: _Amos_ He became an evangelical pastor in working-class Detroit after earning his degree from Yale Divinity School, and became a professor of Christian ethics in the Union Theological Seminary. An advocate of Christian Realism, he wrote _Moral Man and Immoral Society_. FTP, name this author of _The Serenity Prayer_. Answer: Reinhold _Niebuhr_ Ri[)RMatt15MTEXTMACAHTEXTMACA7  Ri[)R?!'@)( ( @0+@() @<'@ @?@@@@@@