Q 01/05

Monet was a leading figure of which art movement?

A) Romanticism

B) Impressionism

C) Symbolism

D) Realism

Answer · why

B) Impressionism

Impressionism began as an insult: critic Louis Leroy mockingly headed his 1874 review 'The Exhibition of the Impressionists' after Monet's harbour sce...

Q 02/05

Monet promised France a group of Water Lilies paintings the day after which event?

A) The Battle of Verdun

B) The sinking of the Lusitania

C) The 1918 Armistice

D) The Battle of the Marne

Answer · why

C) The 1918 Armistice

The 1918 Armistice: on 12 November he wrote to his friend the prime minister offering two panels as a monument to peace, a gift that grew into the Ora...

Q 03/05

Roughly how many oil paintings make up the Water Lilies series?

A) About 8

B) About 25

C) About 80

D) About 250

Answer · why

D) About 250

About 250 is the usual count, though the Orangerie puts it nearer 300, and there would be more had Monet not destroyed canvases that failed to satisfy...

Q 04/05

Monet's house and lily pond lie in which region of France?

A) Provence

B) Normandy

C) Brittany

D) Burgundy

Answer · why

B) Normandy

Normandy: Giverny was a small farming village when Monet rented a house there in 1883, and the garden he made now draws hundreds of thousands of visit...

Q 05/05

Which flowering climber did Monet train over the Japanese bridge in his water garden?

A) Honeysuckle

B) Wisteria

C) Clematis

D) Jasmine

Answer · why

B) Wisteria

Wisteria: Monet added an arched framework above the bridge to carry it, so the bridge in his paintings from 1918 on wears a canopy of blooms that the ...