Education, the humanities and the arts
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write the positive and negative sides of compulsory education in a table.
Positive: rising literacy; negative: poor children leaving early, separate schools in some places.
2
Explain Freud’s teaching in 4 sentences.
The idea of the unconscious, desires and behaviour, the method of psychoanalysis, its influence on literature and art.
3
Compare Impressionism and realism.
Realism depicts life precisely; Impressionism conveys a momentary impression, light and colour.
4
Write 4 facts about one composer (Mahler, Strauss, Scriabin or Rachmaninoff).
Individual answer: birth year, country, main works, best-known genre.
5
Why did new movements multiply in the visual arts in this period?
After photography appeared, painters moved from copying reality to expressing light, colour and feeling.