Humanities Survey
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Course Introduction
This course offers an interdisciplinary overview of the humanities, exploring influential works, ideas, and movements from literature, philosophy, art, music, and history. Students will examine the cultural, social, and historical contexts of classic and contemporary texts and artistic expressions from around the world. Through analysis, discussion, and critical thinking, the course fosters an understanding of how the humanities shape human experience and provide insight into personal and collective identities.
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Discovering the Humanities 3rd Edition by Henry M. Sayre
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Chapter 1: The Prehistoric Past and the Earliest Civilizations
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Q1) Which of the following ancient Egyptian leaders ruled circa 3000 BCE and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt?
A) Djoser
B) Khafre
C) Khufu
D) Narmer
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following terms refers to what the Zuni Pueblo people consider deified spirits who manifest themselves in performance and dance?
A) kachinas
B) kivas
C) menhirs
D) cairns
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Greek World
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Q1) Which of the following is the Greek term for an open meeting place?
A) polis
B) acropolis
C) metropolis
D) agora
Answer: D
Q2) What is significant about Herodotus' Histories?
A) Herodotus was the first Greek historian and his work tells of Xerxes' invasion of Greece.
B) He was the primary strategist for Darius, recounting stories of military battles as strategic lessons.
C) He was an Athenian statesman and general who saved Athens by predicting an attack.
D) He was the founder of the political system of demes that eventually became a democracy.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Empire
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Q1) Multiple architectural orders were incorporated into the Colosseum,including
A) Corinthian and Ionic.
B) Doric and Composite.
C) Composite and Minoan.
D) Doric and Ionic.
Answer: A
Q2) Who was the Roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people?
A) Cicero
B) Virgil
C) Horace
D) Ovid
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following terms refers to good and righteous conduct reflecting the cosmic moral order that underlies all existence?
A) bodhisattva
B) dharma
C) dhammapada
D) nirvana
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Flowering of Religion
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Q1) Which of the following terms refers to Muhammad's series of successors who assumed political and religious authority following the death of the Prophet?
A) madrasas
B) caliphs
C) muqarnas
D) minarets
Q2) What is the modern name for Constantinople?
A) Split
B) Damascus
C) Istanbul
D) Nicaea
Q3) Which of the following is translated as "surrender" or "submission"?
A) Islam
B) Allah
C) shahadah
D) hajj
Q4) Discuss Rome's attitude toward the Jewish faith and practice.
Q5) Explain the significance of the ecumenical council held at Nicaea,noting in particular the intended effect of the Nicene Creed on laypeople.
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Chapter 5: Fiefdom and Monastery, pilgrimage and Crusade
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Q1) Discuss the changes that occurred as a result of pilgrimages.
Q2) Discuss Charlemagne's contributions to literacy and the changes that resulted.
Q3) Summarize the historical inaccuracies included in the Song of Roland.
Q4) Which of the following provides an accurate translation for memento mori?
A) reminder of death
B) reminder of life
C) reminder of happiness
D) reminder of wisdom
Q5) Who established a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona?
A) Augustine
B) Columba
C) Eadfrith
D) Patrick
Q6) Which of the following terms refers to a free man in Anglo-Saxon culture who owned a farm of between 90 and 100 acres?
A) thane
B) kenning
C) churl
D) wergild
Q7) Discuss the significant contributions of Hildegard of Bingen. Page 7
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Chapter 6: The Gothic and the Rebirth of Naturalism
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Q1) Which of the following is composed of heroic couplets?
A) The Canterbury Tales
B) the Decameron
C) Book of the City of Ladies
D) The Book of the Deeds and Good Manners of the Wise King Charles V
Q2) The Sorbonne was established to offer studies in
A) music and languages.
B) theology.
C) mathematics and architecture.
D) science and medicine.
Q3) Which of the following did Chartres Cathedral claim as its most cherished relic?
A) the Crown of Thorns
B) the tunic Mary wore at Jesus' birth
C) a nail from Jesus' crucifixion
D) a remnant of the cross from Jesus' crucifixion
Q4) What is the minimum number of voices included in a motet?
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
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Chapter 7: The Renaissance
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Q1) What was the primary method Pope Julius II used to finance construction of the new St.Peter's Basilica?
A) He increased the taxes on papal lands.
B) He charged admission to the Vatican Museums.
C) He sent St. Peter's relics on tour throughout Europe.
D) He sold indulgences.
Q2) According to Machiavelli,the prince's chief preoccupation and primary duty is
A) to govern his subjects.
B) to wage war.
C) to support the arts.
D) to encourage peace among his neighbors.
Q3) How is Raphael's School of Athens reminiscent of Classicism?
A) Offering an illusion of Roman architecture, the painting includes figures of Greek gods and ancient philosophers.
B) The painting has a dramatic juxtaposition of light and dark within the scene.
C) It includes the twelve apostles in an ancient forum.
D) The painting is a study in the ratio (canon) of Praxiteles.
Q4) Discuss the Classical elements interpreted in Renaissance architecture.
Q5) What techniques were used by artists of the Renaissance to reflect the new attitude toward humanism?
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Chapter 8: Renaissance and Reformation in the North
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Q1) What was the cheapest price for admission into London theaters?
A) one pound
B) five pounds
C) ten pennies
D) one penny
Q2) Summarize the symbolism found in Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights.
Q3) Who created the Isenheim Altarpiece?
A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Hieronymus Bosch
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Matthias Grünewald
Q4) Who created the Garden of Earthly Delights?
A) Rogier van der Weyden
B) Matthias Grünewald
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Hieronymus Bosch
Q5) Discuss the role that the business class played in fostering the careers of several artists who specialized in oil painting.
Q6) What is innovative about Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Q7) Discuss Johannes Gutenberg's role in the Reformation.
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Chapter 9: Encounter and Confrontation
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Q1) Which of the following terms refers to the supreme traditional head of a Benin town?
A) oba
B) lyalode
C) manilla
D) bwoom
Q2) Who commissioned the compilation of an authoritative encyclopedia of Chinese learning that comprised thousands of volumes?
A) Zhu Di
B) Confucius
C) Kublai Khan
D) Zheng He
Q3) Which of the following was a member of the Fluxus movement of artists,composers,and designers who popularized the Zen philosophical practice of posing riddles as a way to lead students to enlightenment?
A) Alan Watts
B) Carl Jung
C) D. T. Suzuki
D) Yoko Ono
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Chapter 10: The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque
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Q1) Discuss the consequences of England's Glorious Revolution.
Q2) What is the intent behind the use of vanitas symbols such as those in Jan Steen's The Dancing Couple?
A) to symbolize eternal punishment for Protestants who indulge in sin
B) to show Dutch domesticity
C) to remind the viewer of the fleeting nature of human life
D) to rally support for the Catholic Church in seventeenth-century Dutch culture
Q3) In what way does the work Jupiter and Io embrace the Mannerist spirit?
A) The sharp light and vast dark within the work is in sharp contrast.
B) The work was stylistically supported by the Council of Trent.
C) The Classical subject matter is reminiscent of humanism.
D) The nudity was later covered by clothing.
Q4) So popular was Venice as a source of music that composers from across Europe came to Venice to study.As a result,which of the following languages became the international language of music?
A) English
B) Spanish
C) France
D) Italian
Q5) Distinguish between the rubeniste and the poussiniste styles of painting.
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Chapter 11: Enlightenment and Rococo
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Q1) Which of the following terms refers to the monumental heads with torsos that Captain Cook found on Easter Island?
A) ahu
B) moai
C) hei-tiki
D) tapu
Q2) Tattooing is most closely associated with the traditions of which of the following?
A) the Tahitians
B) the Marquesas Islanders
C) the Maori
D) the Easter Islanders
Q3) During the early eighteenth century,which of the following areas was most closely associated with London's very poor?
A) the East End
B) Mayfair
C) Marylebone
D) Paddington
Q4) Explain how the Great Fire of London can be viewed as both a curse and a blessing.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Revolution
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Q1) Which of the following works features a lone man with windblown hair positioned directly in front of the viewer on a rocky promontory?
A) Monk by the Sea
B) The Wanderer above the Mists
C) The Oxbow
D) Twilight in the Wilderness
Q2) For which of the following paintings did J.M.W.Turner reportedly have sailors "lash [him] to the mast to observe" the scene?
A) The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach
B) The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons
C) Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
D) Monk by the Sea
Q3) Who was considered the chief drafter of the American Declaration of Independence and chairman of the committee that prepared the document?
A) Thomas Paine
B) George Mason
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) John Adams
Q4) Summarize Haydn's contributions to music.
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Chapter 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie
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Q1) Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Mark Twain
Q2) Walden,or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau was dedicated to
A) teaching the virtues of living in communion with nature.
B) showing the evils of industrialization.
C) upholding the morality in conservation movements.
D) justifying the agenda of the pro-industrial candidate.
Q3) Who composed Tannhäuser and faced a negative reaction from members of the Jockey Club?
A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Jacques Offenbach
C) Richard Wagner
D) Edwin P. Christy
Q4) Discuss several ways in which Henry David Thoreau proved himself a nonconformist.
Q5) Discuss the Jockey Club's powerful influence over French opera.
Q6) Discuss European involvement in Egypt.
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Chapter 14: The Modernist World
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Q1) Which of the following figures led the Bolsheviks,the most radical of Russian post-revolutionary groups?
A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
C) Lazar Lissitzsky
D) Kasimir Malevich
Q2) Which of the following is most closely associated with The Battleship Potemkin,a film about a 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian naval vessel?
A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
C) Lazar Lissitzsky
D) Kasimir Malevich
Q3) Which of the following paintings is set in Tahiti?
A) Les Poseuses
B) The Scream
C) Mahana no atua
D) The Vision after the Sermon
Q4) Discuss the roles of the id,the ego,and the superego in the human psyche,according to Sigmund Freud.
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Chapter 15: Decades of Change
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Q1) Who wrote Waiting for Godot,which features two characters,Vladimir and Estragon,waiting and doing nothing?
A) Edward Albee
B) Joseph Heller
C) Tom Stoppard
D) Samuel Beckett
Q2) What might have been the original appeal of the Theater of the Absurd as presented in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
Q3) Which of the following events solidified moderate white support for the civil rights movement?
A) the bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
B) the arrest of six hundred youth marchers in downtown Birmingham
C) the incarceration of Reverend Martin Luther King
D) the boycott of Alabama stores and markets
Q4) Sartre's existential perspective includes only one certainty: A) death.
B) inequality.
C) human greed.
D) God.
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