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  1. This French artist painted "Water Lilies," a series featuring his beloved garden pond at Giverny.

    Difficulty: Easy
    • Claude Monet
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    • Edgar Degas
    • Camille Pissarro
  2. This artist was famous for painting ballet dancers and scenes from the Paris Opera.

    Difficulty: Medium
    • Edgar Degas
    • Claude Monet
    • Paul Cézanne
    • Édouard Manet
  3. The Impressionists initially called their exhibiting group by this formal name when incorporating in 1873.

    Difficulty: Hard
    • Society of French Artists
    • Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc.
    • Independent Artists Cooperative
    • Progressive Artists Association
  4. This country served as the birthplace of Impressionism in the 1860s and 1870s.

    Difficulty: Easy
    • France
    • Italy
    • England
    • Netherlands
  5. Impressionist paintings typically featured this quality of brushwork that contrasted with the smooth finish of academic painting.

    Difficulty: Medium
    • Invisible and blended
    • Visible and loose
    • Thick and textured like impasto
    • Dotted and pointillist
  6. Degas's fascination with capturing sequential movement was partly inspired by this photographer's motion studies published in the 1870s-80s.

    Difficulty: Hard
    • Matthew Brady
    • Felix Nadar
    • Eadweard Muybridge
    • Eugene Atget
  7. The Impressionist movement got its name from this Monet painting showing a harbor at sunrise.

    Difficulty: Easy
    • Water Lilies
    • Impression, Sunrise
    • The Japanese Bridge
    • Haystacks
  8. This boating suburb northwest of Paris became Monet's home from 1871 to 1878 and inspired many of his paintings of sailboats and bridges.

    Difficulty: Medium
    • Argenteuil
    • Giverny
    • Honfleur
    • Barbizon

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