Matt46&hD" Matt46"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACA&h ;Packet 46 1. It had its origins in the Democratic partys devisions over the Lecompton constitution, the Whig Partys collapse, and the problems of the Know-Nothings. Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky set up a meeting of 50 conservative, pro-compromise congressmen in 1859, which led to a convention in Baltimore in 1960. Its vice-presidential candidate that year was Edward Everett. FTP, name this party whose presidential nominee that year was John Bell. Answer: The _Constitutional Union_ Party 2. Born the son of a Jewish stockbroker, he later became a Quaker. In 1799, Adam Smiths _Wealth of Nations_ drew his attention to economics, and ten years later, he published _The High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of Banknotes_, arguing for a metal currency standard. FTP, name this economist most famous for his _Principles of Political Economy and Taxation_. Answer: David _Ricardo_ 3. He crossed the Euphrates in 53, and was promptly defeated by Surenas the king of Parthia, and there is a story that after he was dead, the Parthians poured molten gold down his throat to satisfy his greed. He put down the rebellion of Spartacus, and made a fortune by operating a service to put out fires and buying up any damaged property. FTP, name this man, nicknamed Dives, one of the three men of the first triumvirate. Answer: Marcus Licinius _Crassus_ 4. He founded Eton and Kings College, Cambridge. Shakespeare says that he was in infant bands crowned king, whose state so many had the managing that they lost France and made his England bleed. A period of insanity led to the appointment of Richard, Duke of York as his protector. When Charles VI of France died, he asserted his claim to the French throne, but was never able to make good, thanks in part to Joan of Arc. FTP, name this king who squandered the gains his father had made at Agincourt. Answer: _Henry VI_ 5. This work had its basis in a story told in 1838 by Episcopal clergyman Horace Lorenzo Conolly about a young couple who had been separated by the British order expelling about 6,000 inhabitants from Acadie in Nova Scotia. Influenced by Goethes _Hermann und Dorothea_, its characters are Gabriel Lajeunesse, and his bride, surnamed Bellefontaine. FTP, name this poem that begins This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Answer: _Evangeline_ 6. A wealthy judge stops to talk to a girl who is raking hay. Each is impressed by the other, but the judge rides away, and each dreams of marriage to the other, but marries a social equal with regrets later on. Bret Harte parodied it in his Mrs. Judge Jenkins, in which the pair really married, but unhappily. FTP, name this poem by Whittier than concludes with of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been! Answer: _Maud Muller_ (do not accept Maud Miller) 7. According to James Thurber, he reported a husband identifying his wifes body in the municipal morgue as crying My God, its her! The city editor changed the quote to My God, it is she, whereupon this writer resigned and went to Alaska. He conducted the One Mans Meat department for the New Yorker and collaborated with Thurber on Is Sex Necessary? FTP, name this essayist most famous for his 1959 collaboration on _The Elements of Style_ with William Strunk. Answer: E[lwyn] B[rooks] _White_ 8. After completing his education under the Jesuits, he joined the military and took part in the Seven Years War as an officer. In 1772, he was condemned to death at Aix for his cruelty, but he escaped, only to be apprehended and imprisoned at Vincennes and in the Bastille, ending his life in a mental asylum at Charenton. Among his works are _Les 120 Journees de Sodome_, and _La Philosophie dans le boudoir_. FTP, name this author of _Juliette_ and _Justine_, whose real name was Donatien Alphonse Francois. Answer: The Comte or Marquis de _Sade_ 9. He is known from two texts, one written in Low German around 1483, the next in High German in 1515. Tradition makes him a native of Brunswick who died in 1350. The townspeople, especially innkeepers and tradesmen, but sometimes priests and nobles, scorn him as an inferior. Charles de Coster wrote a version of his story, and Richard Strauss based a tone poem on him. FTP, name this peasant, a player of merry pranks. Answer: Till _Eulenspiegel_ 10. His wisdom came from tasting the salmon of knowledge, which fed on the hazelnuts of wisdom. Educated in the forest by a poet, he has countless adventures with giants and hags, which he performs in the service of the high king at Tara. His first wife was Sedb, the mother of his son Ossian, while his second wife Grainne betrays him. FTP, name this leader of the Fenians, the legendary Gaelic hero of Ireland. Answer: _Fionn_ mac Cumhaill or _Finn_ MacCool_ 11. The first series, published in 1848, is concerned with the Mexican War, while the second series, in 1867, dealt with the Civil War. A satire of politicians and their doctrines and the cowardice of editors, these poems and prose pieces feature three central characters: the Reverend Homer Wilbur; Birdofredom Sawin, a scoundrel; and Hosea, after whom the work is named. FTP, name this work of James Russell Lowell. Answer: The _Biglow Papers_ 12. At the end of his tirade, this character throws open the door to the prison cell and orders the occupant to leave. The prisoner, who has been silent throughout his speech, answers him with a kiss on the cheek before leaving. In his speech, he explains that the Church has shifted its allegiance to the Devil and that Jesus is only an unwanted distraction. FTP, name this character who upbraids Christ, his prisoner, in a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in _The Brothers Karamazov_. Answer: The _Grand Inquisitor_ 13. Her great beauty and the speed with which she worked made her popular among the French nobility. In 1776, she married an art dealer, but the marriage soon turned miserable, as she couldnt tear herself away from her canvases even during pregnancy. In London, she painted the Prince of Wales and Lord Byron. In France, she portrayed Marie Antoinette. FTP, name this painter, famous for her portrait of the Duchess de Polignac. Answer: (Marie) Elisabeth Louise _Vigee Lebrun_ 14. Two of this groups organizations in the U.S. are headquartered in Quakertown, Pennsylvania and San Jose, California. They combine the teachings of Gnosticism, Jewish Cabalism, and Egyptian Hermetism. Developed in Germany after the publication of two pamphlets, one of which was the _Fama Fraternitas_, its members claim that it was founded by a man named Rosenkreuz who made a trip to the Orient in the 1500s. FTP, name this secret society whose symbol is a combination of the rose and the cross. Answer: The _Rosicrucians_ 15. Based in New York City, he studied at the Art Students League. Working in pen and ink and oils, he was an illustrator for periodicals including St. Nicholas, Life, and Judge. Known during World War I for his popular images of young women, he is more famous for his recruiting posters for the military. FTP, name this creator of the Uncle Sam I Want You portrait. Answer: James Montgomery _Flagg_ 16. Shortly after his birth in 1406, he was sent as an orphan to the monastery of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. In 1424, Masaccio was painting frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel there, and he took this man as his pupil. He abducted a nun, Lucrezia Buti, and was released from his monastic vows by Pope Pius II in order to marry her. He painted The Tarquinia Madonna and The Relaxation of the Carmelite Rule. FTP, name this painter who collaborated with Fra Angelico on the 1445 circular painting The Adoration of the Magi. Answer: Fra _Filippo Lippi_ or _Lippo_ 17. Thought to have learned technical secrets from Hubert, brother of Jan van Eyck, he settled in Tournai around 1400 at the age of 25, and taught Jacques Daret and Roger van der Weyden. He did paintings in the Abbey of a small town near Liege, which gave him his nickname, the Master of Flemalle. FTP, name this painter of the Merode Altarpiece. Answer: Robert _Campin_ prompt on Master of Flemalle if given early. 18. He loved his wife, Elizabeth Siddall, and was grief-stricken when she died, even exhuming her body to place manuscript poems by her side. Throughout the 1840s, he painted pictures like The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and How They Met Themselves. In 1861, he published _The Early Italian Poets_ and in 1881, finished Ballads and Sonnets, which contained The House of Life. FTP, name this painter of Ecce Ancilla Domini, the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Answer: Dante Gabriel _Rossetti_ 19. Born in Naples in 1562, he came to Rome and attracted the attention of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who became his patron. Urban VIII employed him constantly, but he fell out of favor with Innocent X because he had designed the structurally unsound towers of St. Peters. Among his other works are the Cornaro chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, and the baldacchino for St. Peters. FTP, name this sculptor of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, the dominant figure of the Italian Baroque. Answer: Gian Lorenzo _Bernini_ 20. He was the head of the department of public works in Paris, and his optical investigations contributed to the establishment of the wave theory of light. He invented the compound light lens and produced circularly polarized light by means of a special prism, or rhomb, named after him. 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