Q 01/05

Monet was a leading figure of which art movement?

A) Cubist painting

B) Impressionism

C) Surrealism

D) The Baroque

Answer · why

B) Impressionism

The movement took its name from his 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise.

Q 02/05

What is the French title of Monet's Water Lilies series?

A) Les Fleurs d'Eau

B) Impression

C) Le Jardin

D) Nymphéas

Answer · why

D) Nymphéas

The name is the French word for the water lily genus, and the series runs to roughly 250 canvases.

Q 03/05

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

A) About 250

B) About 25

C) About 100

D) About 150

Answer · why

A) About 250

They were the main focus of his work for the last 31 years of his life.

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

With 530,000 visitors in 2010 the estate was the region's second most visited site after Mont Saint-Michel.

Q 05/05

Which structure spanning the pond appears in many of the garden paintings?

A) A windmill

B) A stone aqueduct

C) A boathouse

D) A Japanese bridge

Answer · why

D) A Japanese bridge

Built by a local craftsman in 1893, it was later draped in wisteria; termites had undermined it by the time restoration began.