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This course provides an introduction to the humanities, exploring major artistic, literary, philosophical, and historical developments that have shaped human thought and culture. Through critical engagement with works from diverse global traditions, students will examine key concepts such as identity, morality, beauty, and the human experience. Emphasis is placed on developing analytical and interpretive skills, fostering an appreciation for cultural diversity, and understanding the ways in which the humanities continue to influence contemporary society.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) Biographies of saints and other religious figures are called __________.
Answer: hagiographies
Q2) __________ refers to relief sculpture in which the figures protrude from the background by at least half their depth.
A) Haut-relief
B) Freestanding
C) Full-round
D) Low-relief
E) Bas-relief
Answer: A
Q3) __________ refers to the representation of distance and three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface.
A) Form
B) Palette
C) Narrative
D) Composition
E) Perspective
Answer: E
Q4) How does "formal criticism" approach an artwork?
Answer: It focuses only on the internal form and design of the work.
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Domestication of animals began during the __________ period.
A) Babylonian
B) Sumerian
C) Neolithic
D) Mesopotamian
E) Paleolithic
Answer: C
Q2) Egyptian musicians played the lyre.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Egyptians believed the __________ embodied the sun god.
Answer: pharaoh
Q4) The basic instrument in Mesopotamia and in Egypt was the __________.
A) cymbals
B) bells
C) lyre
D) flute
E) harp
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) By the end of the Archaic period,Greek city-states no longer included slaves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Greek equivalent to our musical scale is called a __________.
A) mood
B) tone
C) harmony
D) mode
E) plan
Answer: D
Q3) __________ refers to a sculpture of a fully clothed female.
A) Kouroi
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Contrapposto
E) Polis
Answer: C
Q4) __________ often had signatures and typically served as funerary and temple art.
Answer: Kouroi
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) The Greek ship used at the battle of Salamis is called a __________.
A) platea
B) schooner
C) trireme
D) techne
E) catharsis
Q2) The Classical Greek Temple uses a __________ structure.
A) brick
B) pilaster
C) post-and-lintel
D) wooden
E) column
Q3) __________ called artistry a form of "divine madness."
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Diogenes
D) Thucydides
E) Thales
Q4) At the end of the Peloponnesian Wars,__________ had gained political dominance.
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Q5) Diogenes was leader of the philosophers called __________.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) The "Roman attitude" is best described as __________.
A) idealistic
B) cynical
C) utopian
D) utilitarian
E) futuristic
Q2) The opinions of specialized legal scholars called __________ limited the power of judges.
Q3) The Romans honored successful political and military figures with publicly displayed
A) arches
B) portrait sculptures
C) wall paintings
D) columns
E) temples
Q4) Public executions were part of the "theater" of Roman blood sport.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During the reign of __________,Romans imported Greek classical ideals into its art and architecture wholesale.
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) The word __________ comes from the Greek word for "book," which itself referred to the town of Byblos from which papyrus was exported.
Q2) The Roman __________ arch became a symbol of Christ's triumph over death.
Q3) Many Christians __________ service in the Roman army.
A) volunteered B) refused C) wished D) outlawed E) honored
Q4) Which city was known for its lavish Roman architecture after the shift of political power to Constantinople?
Q5) Who coined the phrase "Lamb of God" to refer to Christ?
Q6) Many Jews accept the Jewish culture and its ethical system but disregard the religious observances.
A)True
B)False
Q7) For the most part,Christian churches took the form of the Roman __________.
Q8) In __________ music,singing alternates between two choruses.
Q9) Which New Testament books were used by the earliest Christians?
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) Orthodoxy differs from Catholicism by focusing on a __________ communion with God.
A) community
B) afterlife
C) personal
D) familial
E) artistic
Q2) The genre of __________ literature grew out of monasticism.
A) devotional
B) mystical
C) funerary
D) meditation
E) monkish
Q3) The fall of the Roman Empire occurred in the year __________.
A) 411
B) 330
C) 395
D) 476
E) 732
Q4) Which Byzantine medium was more important for wall art than painting?
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Analyze the common themes of the three epic poems discussed in this chapter.What do they tell us about life in the early Middle Ages? Why do you think they remain popular in the modern world?
Q2) As part of the Carolingian "renaissance," scholars under the leadership of __________ attempted to reunite the fragments of classical civilization.
Q3) The bronze doors of the Hildesheim Cathedral were made using a __________ process.
A) additive
B) lost-wax
C) subtractive
D) relief
E) illumination
Q4) Romanesque churches differed from Byzantine churches by being built according to the shape of a __________.
A) Greek cross
B) Latin cross
C) military watchtower
D) Roman basilica
E) common house
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) __________ is music employing definite time values and precise meters.
A) Commedia dell'arte
B) Sottie
C) Measured rhythm
D) Blank verse
E) Autos sacramentales
Q2) The medieval city offered hope of escape and protection to runaway __________,among others.
A) serfs
B) lords
C) knights
D) women
E) criminals
Q3) The Doge's Palace in Venice combines European and __________ influences.
Q4) Unofficial crusades continued long after the official campaigns.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The area around Paris,called the __________,was the birthplace of Gothic architecture.
Q6) Of all architectural elements,the __________ is most characteristically Gothic.
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) __________ famously considered painting a science and sculpture a mechanical art.
Q2) Mantegna creates unsettling drama in his St.James Led to Execution by placing the __________ below the lower edge of the painting.
A) chiaroscuro
B) composition
C) horizon line
D) frame
E) viewer
Q3) __________ is a type of low comedy characterized by slapstick.
A) Commedia dell'arte
B) Sottie
C) Proscenium
D) Farce
E) Autos sacramentales
Q4) By and large,the Renaissance popes were indifferent to art.
A)True
B)False
Q5) __________ sculpture,which had been out of favor since Classical times,was revived in the early Renaissance.
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) .Sophonisba Anguissola was a(n)__________ for the Queen of Spain.
A) attendant
B) court painter
C) court musician
D) playwright
E) poet
Q2) The basis of the composition of Leonardo's Virgin and Child with St Anne is a
Q3) How do you think the increased colonization and wealth in Europe influenced the arts? Consider the availability of certain materials,changes in wealth and patronage,and shifting political alliances.
Q4) __________ asserted that true worth comes "by character and intellect rather than by birth."
A) Petarch
B) Michelangelo
C) Castiglione
D) Ariosto
E) Cetina
Q5) Part of Titian's unique technique involved thin layers of paint over top of a reddish
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic communion largely because of __________ reasons.
A) doctrinal
B) political
C) theological
D) artistic
E) liturgical
Q2) Poetic lines of five metrical feet in which each foot has two syllables are called __________ pentameter.
A) dual
B) dialogic
C) blank
D) iambic
E) Elizabethan
Q3) Utopianism influenced and inspired the colonization of North America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Globe __________ of London appealed to both lords and commoners.
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Q5) John Calvin's doctrine of __________ argued that God had already chosen those he would save.
Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) John Locke believed that the each person is born __________.
A) corrupt
B) sinful
C) blank
D) rational
E) artistic
Q2) Consider the relationship between the rise of science,on one hand,and liberal political theory (such as that of John Locke)on the other.Explain how they both challenge key assumptions supporting rule by divine right and absolutism.
Q3) The dramatic use of light and shade in Baroque painting is called __________.
A) modeling
B) dramatism
C) emotionalism
D) chiaroscuro
E) classicism
Q4) Baroque painters symbolized the fleeting nature of life and beauty with
Q5) The __________ method is an example of induction,not deduction.
Q6) __________ music presents only musical ideas.
Q7) The work of __________ proposed three new laws of planetary motion.
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) Alexander Pope used __________ to criticize society.
Q2) The rococo style in literature produced much __________.
A) poetry
B) satire
C) realism
D) classicism
E) comedy
Q3) Enlightenment politics tended to be __________,wishing to elevate the downtrodden.
A) democratic
B) humanitarian
C) despotic
D) individualistic
E) rationalist
Q4) What was the name of the English artist who criticized society in order to stir people to humanitarian action?
Q5) Some scholars suggest neoclassicism is a sub-category of Romanticism.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In eighteen century literature,drama declined and the __________ began to rise.
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) Historical __________ became a standard for set design,costumes,and other aspects of theatre production in the Romantic age.
Q2) Balzac can be seen as a forerunner to realism in literature.
A)True B)False
Q3) Brahms replaced Latin liturgy with texts from the __________ in his A German Requiem.
Q4) Hegel believed that __________ art "reaches the highest level that sensuous,imaginative material can correctly express."
Q5) Some Japanese art of this period has striking similarities to European Romantic art. A)True B)False
Q6) Fillipo Taglioni's The Revolt in the Harem is probably the first ballet about the emancipation of __________.
Q7) The plays of William __________ became popular again in the nineteenth century.
Q8) Francisco de Goya believed art should remain separate from politics. A)True B)False
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) The Pre-Raphaelites were interested in the __________ function of art.
A) didactic
B) expressive
C) political
D) religious
E) memorializing
Q2) Henrik Ibsen is called the master of __________ drama.
A) realist
B) expressionist
C) symbolist
D) classical
E) modernist
Q3) The "stream of consciousness" technique is employed by __________ writers.
A) realist
B) impressionist
C) naturalist
D) aestheticist
E) cubist
Q4) The ideas of Sigmund Freud were controversial because of their emphasis on human __________.
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" (Kauffmann House)has some elements in common with the International Style.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Surrealists were influenced by the ideas of __________.?
A)Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Charles Sanders Pierce
D) Piet Mondrian
E) Albert Einstein
Q3) The abstract works of Joan Miró are an example of __________.
A) cubism
B) expressionism
C) impressionism
D) surrealism
E) montage
Q4) Migrant Mother,Nipomo,California is the work of the American photographer
Q5) The Villa Savoye is an example of the "domino" system devised by __________.
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Q6) Which two disciplines and approaches to design did the Bauhaus combine?
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) The work of __________ required an advanced aerospace computer in order to be built.
A) Ricardo Bofill
B) Frank Gehry
C) Le Corbusier
D) Frank Lloyd Wright
E) Raymond Hood
Q2) Judy Pfaff's Dragon is an example of __________.
A) installation
B) neo-expressionism
C) new media
D) feminist art
E) pluralism
Q3) New York's It's Alright to be a Woman Theatre is an example of __________ theatre.
A) alternative lifestyle
B) alternative social
C) modernist
D) absurdist
E) aleatory
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