The Following Questions Refer to the Image Below

question 47

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the image below.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Image source:Art Resource,NY

Thomas Cole,View on the Catskill-Early Autumn,1837
-The painting represents an idea similar to that of

• A) American realist authors.
• B) American romantic authors.
• C) critics of growing democracy.
• D) opponents of the temperance movement.

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