As industrialization progressed throughout the 1800's more and more people began working in factories and with industrial goods. This shift away from the natural world caused a backlash in the form of Romanticism. Romanticism was meant to encourage people to go back to nature and appreciate its beauty. While more people were living in cities, well in excess of half the population was still living in rural, primarily farming, communities.

Most artists in the French Royal Painting and Sculpture Academy were male, but a small minority were female.

After the French Revolution, the Academy was suspended as it was a project of the Royal family.

Jacques-Louis David was one of the most famous Academy artists, but his fame originated before the Revolution.

Some Academy students, such as the Swedish painter Adolf Wertmuller, were not French.

The Academy was a prestigious institution that was patronized by French Royalty, but nevertheless prided itself on skill and professionalism; it was not a collection of artists lacking talent, but rather talented artists with connections to power.

Most Oceanic artwork dates from the 1700s onward because they were made from perishable materials.

Art, including masks, sculpture, and decorative textiles existed all over the island cultures of Oceania, and were recorded as already existing by the initial European explorers.

The islands of Oceania were settled centuries and millennium prior to the 1700s.

Savonarola was a religious leader on the Italian peninsula who burned much Renaissance art; he was not from Oceania.

Neoclassical tastes among the French elite of the late 18th century were largely inspired by France's revolution, its new empire, and continued exploration of the ancient Roman sites at Herculaneum and Pompeii.

Medieval and gothic tastes were going out of fashion in the late 18th century.

Napoleon had many advisers over his life but Italians never dominated his court.

The "Renaissance" is a term largely attributed to Jacob Burckhardt, who studied the art and culture of Italy in between the middle ages and the modern era.

France's power was destroyed in the First World War, and again in the Second.

Jean Francois Champollion is notable for deciphering the Rosetta Stone and allowing people to understand Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time. He achieved this in 1822, following the discovery of the Rosetta stone by French troops, fighting for Napoleon in North Africa.

Tolstoy's War and Peace is set in Tsarist society during the Napoleonic wars and details, in part, the French invasion of Russia in 1812. 

The Rosetta Stone was found in the early nineteenth century. It contained both Egyptian hieroglyphics and Greek writing. This allowed Egyptian hieroglyphs to be translated for the first time.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was the husband of Mary Shelley, and while he wrote in the same time period, he is an incorrect answer. Byron was a friend to both the Shelley's — well known for the poem Don Juan — although he did not write Frankenstein, so he would not be a good choice. Jonathan Swift was best known for A Modest Proposal and he died before Frankenstein was published, so he would not be a suitable choice. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a well known literary figure in the time, but he was predominantly a poet, so he would not be a good choice either. Lastly, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is the author, and although she published anonymously originally, she is now widely credited as the author, making her the best choice.

Socialist realism was a rejection of "bourgeoisie" artistic styles in favor of sculptures, paintings, and works of literature that celebrated the lives of workers and peasants. It was also used as propaganda to promote the rule of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government.  

Thomas Mann fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and recorded anti-Nazi speeches during the WWII period that were disseminated through the BBC in Britain. Kafka died in 1924 before the rise of Hitler. Grass and Schmidt both served in the German army during parts of WWII, though they later came to criticize the regime. Hamsun was not a German-language writer but rather Norwegian, and also a well-known supporter of the Nazi regime.