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Introduction to Humanities offers students an interdisciplinary exploration of human culture, thought, and expression. The course examines major themes, ideas, and artistic works from literature, philosophy, history, visual arts, and music, encouraging students to critically analyze how societies construct meaning and identity. Through readings, discussions, and written assignments, students will develop skills in interpretation, argumentation, and cultural understanding, gaining insight into the enduring questions and creative achievements that shape the human experience.
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Humanities Culture Continuity and Change Volume II 3rd Edition by Henry M. Sayre
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in Italy: the Church and Its Appeal
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Q1) Fra Andrea Pozzo created the highly dramatic space in Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius by using
A) chiaroscuro.
B) foreshortening.
C) tenebrism.
D) an invisible complement.
Answer: B
Q2) Orphanage directors hoped that audiences would be dazzled by the orphans' musical performances so that they would
A) adopt the talented children.
B) buy tickets to their performances.
C) help find jobs for the orphans.
D) donate money to the orphanages.
Answer: D
Q3) The Roman patrons who were most responsible for creating the Baroque style were A) the middle class.
B) the nobility.
C) women
D) the papal court.
Answer: D
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Q1) Most of Johannes Vermeer's paintings depict A) Dutch landscapes.
B) the domestic world of women.
C) vanitas still lifes.
D) the world of militiamen.
Answer: B
Q2) The "broken" tulip,so highly valued by the seventeenth-century Dutch,is created by A) a virus.
B) cross-breeding.
C) a mutation.
D) a fungus.
Answer: A
Q3) The Baroque era is considered the golden age of A) the violin.
B) the piano.
C) the organ.
D) the harp.
Answer: C
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Chapter 23: The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage
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Q1) What is the Spanish notion of pundonor,a favorite theme in Calderón's plays?
A) Men were obligated to avenge violations of their women's honor.
B) Duty to king and country took precedence over all other matters.
C) False accusations-violations of honor-led to dire consequences.
D) Men and women held differing views of the meaning of honor.
Answer: A
Q2) The Christ child in the Laguna retablo shows a unification of Pueblo and Christian traditions by
A) holding a green peyote button.
B) being swaddled in a buffalo hide.
C) having the eyes and mouth of a kachina.
D) being dressed in silver and gold cloth.
Answer: A
Q3) André Le Nôtre designed Versailles's formal garden with
A) sweeps of gently rolling lawns against a woodland background.
B) a grid along a north-south axis with the palace at the center.
C) a series of increasingly larger circles surrounding the palace.
D) pathways radiating like sunbeams from a central axis.
Answer: D
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Chapter 24: The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: the
Claims of Reason
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Q1) In John Milton's Paradise Lost,the character that can be viewed as representing the Stuart monarchy and thus Hobbes's Leviathan is
A) Lucifer.
B) God.
C) Raphael.
D) Adam.
Q2) According to the opening of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice,an eighteenth-century English woman's main prospect was
A) independent wealth.
B) writing.
C) marriage.
D) servitude.
Q3) What new literary form did Joseph Addison and Richard Steele invent for their newspapers?
A) the journalistic essay
B) yellow journalism
C) parody
D) new journalism
Q4) Describe three ways the 1666 Great Fire of London improved London.
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Chapter 25: The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the
Continent: Privilege and Reason
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Q1) In Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing,the young man's position reflects that of A) Polyclitus's Doryphoros.
B) Adam in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.
C) Jesus in Leonardo's The Last Supper.
D) Plato in Raphael's The School of Athens.
Q2) Show how François Boucher's paintings of Madame de Pompadour-Madame de Pompadour and The Toilet of Venus-were propagandistic in terms of her roles with Louis XV.
Q3) All of the following are forms in a symphonic movement EXCEPT A) sonata.
B) aria.
C) allegro.
D) rondo.
Q4) In the mid-eighteenth century,art criticism began in an effort to A) satisfy the French appetite for knowledge.
B) give exposure to new artists and architects.
C) enable tourists to appreciate and understand art.
D) demonstrate French cultural superiority.
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Q5) Identify and explain at least two reasons that Louis XV and his court objected to the printing and distribution of the Encyclopédie.
Chapter 26: The Rights of Man: Revolution and the
Neoclassical Style
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Q1) Why did Thomas Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?
A) Hilltops were deemed most secure in the event of war.
B) A hilltop would be safe from the floods common to that area.
C) Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples.
D) A hilltop provided the best view of the Virginia countryside.
Q2) In 1793,Olympe de Gouges was executed for
A) arguing that popular vote should select government.
B) killing Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub.
C) calling for more liberal divorce laws.
D) proposing that marriage be based on equality.
Q3) In his 1788 sculpture,Jean-Antoine Houdon positioned a plowshare beaten by a sword behind George Washington to
A) signify his role as a warrior who brought peace to his people.
B) show the two aspects-farming and military-of the United States.
C) show that Washington was a farmer before becoming a general.
D) reference the Roman farmer-poet Virgil and Augustus Caesar.
Q4) Describe the significance of Phyllis Wheatley's contribution to literature.
Q5) Describe the conditions Africans endured during the African diaspora.
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Q6) Compare Abigail Adams's views on gender equality to those of Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Chapter 27: The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature
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Q1) In his series of portraits of the insane,Théodore Géricault might have aimed to capture the
A) creative spark of madness.
B) downtrodden and forgotten.
C) shape of an insane person's head.
D) Romantic anti-hero.
Q2) In many of his paintings,John Constable included a cathedral to
A) remind viewers of the Church's importance.
B) symbolize God's permanence in nature.
C) celebrate his profession as a minister.
D) make his landscapes more likely to sell.
Q3) In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust,the title character sells his soul to the devil out of
A) disappointment with love.
B) lust for vast riches.
C) profound boredom.
D) desire to benefit mankind
Q4) Compare the human figures in Constable's The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach to Friedrich's The Wanderer above the Mists,focusing on placement,size,and detail.
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Q1) When French painter Paul Delaroche saw his first daguerreotype,he declared
A) "Painting is dead!"
B) "The world is black and white!"
C) "This is not art!"
D) "Realism is here!"
Q2) According to French philosopher Auguste Comte,society passes through what three stages on its quest for knowledge?
A) rural, urban, and suburban
B) theological, metaphysical, and positive
C) mythological, religious, and scientific
D) superstitious, religious, and enlightened
Q3) What is a possible reason for which Roger Fenton did not include the dead or wounded in his Crimean War photographs?
A) The British government forbade it.
B) He wasn't allowed on the battlefield.
C) The families requested him not to do so.
D) Newspapers would not print them.
Q4) Compare the subjects and themes of Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers and A Burial at Ornans,both of which drew criticism from French viewers.
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Chapter 29: Defining a Nation: American National Identity and
the Challenge of Civil War
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Q1) The first American to enjoy an international literary reputation was A) John Winthrop.
B) Herman Melville.
C) Mark Twain.
D) Washington Irving.
Q2) Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn in the runaway slave Jim for a reward?
A) Huck would be arrested for property theft.
B) Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in.
C) Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity.
D) Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage.
Q3) Describe Winslow Homer's A Visit from the Old Mistress,identifying and explaining the details that emphasize the divide between the Old and the New South.
Q4) Some modern readers find the racist language of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offensive.
Basing your claim on at least two clearly defined and supported points,argue whether the book should be edited to exclude such language.
Q5) Explain Louis Agassiz's theory about the different races and its appeal to many Americans.
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Chapter 30: Global Confrontation and Modern Life: the
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Q1) Liberalism was based upon the values of A) equality and freedom.
B) regional autonomy.
C) monarchial control.
D) working-class reform.
Q2) Compare a Wagner opera to an Offenbach operetta,focusing on why one was popular with the French and one was not.
Q3) Why did the Parisian workers revolt in June 1848?
A) Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself emperor.
B) Bread shortages led to massive inflation.
C) The government shut down the National Workshops.
D) The military seized control of the factories.
Q4) Compare the compositional elements of Suzuki Harunobu's Two Courtesans,Inside and Outside the Display Window and Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave,showing how each artist uses the Taoist principle of unity within diversity.
Q5) List three ways Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann redesigned Paris,describing the rationale for these changes.
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Q6) Define "leitmotif," and explain Wagner's use of it to unify his musical drama.
Q7) Define "literary naturalism," and provide two examples in Émile Zola's works.
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Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Q1) Camille Pissarro painted Red Roofs with the complementary colors red and green and orange and blue set side by side to
A) intensify the hue of each color
B) provide contrast with the brown trees
C) perfectly mimic nature.
D) imitate the play of light on nature.
Q2) Edgar Degas was attracted to the soft effects of pastels,because they
A) blur distinctions among figures.
B) create works more quickly.
C) simulate gaslight atmosphere.
D) blend light and dark colors.
Q3) Why does Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party seem to present an unreal world?
A) Men and women are shown as equals.
B) Many social classes are pictured together.
C) There is no overcrowding and pollution.
D) The scene depicts leisure without work.
Q4) Identify,define,and illustrate from specific works three characteristics of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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Q5) Identify and explain two ways Tchaikovsky's music furthered Russian nationalism.
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Chapter 32: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
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Q1) Not exactly well received during his time,Walt Whitman and his works continue to influence writers today.Identify and describe at least two ways Whitman changed American literature.
Q2) The "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression" were caused by A) speculation in cotton futures.
B) political quarrels in New York City.
C) failure of a Philadelphia banking firm.
D) a strike by Pennsylvania railroad workers.
Q3) One reviewer called Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass "a mass of rotten filth" because of its
A) anti-slavery sentiments.
B) statement of support for Native Americans
C) celebrations of sexuality.
D) free-verse writing style.
Q4) Describe the events that led up to and resulted from Wounded Knee,South Dakota,on December 29,1890.
Q5) Identify and define three of the four factors that contributed to what became to be known as the Chicago School of Architecture.
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Chapter 33: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern
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Q1) Which artist tried to incorporate Ogden N.Rood's theories Modern Chromatics?
A) Paul Cézanne
B) Gustav Klimt
C) Auguste Rodin
D) Georges Seurat
Q2) In Heart of Darkness,Joseph Conrad aims to show the A) brutality of Africans.
B) dehumanizing effects of colonialism.
C) paradox of being both a writer and a colonialist.
D) dangers of working in a diamond mine.
Q3) Southern Africans submitted themselves to the prison-like conditions of working in the diamond mines to
A) escape the poverty of their tribes.
B) earn money to buy Western weapons.
C) smuggle out some of the diamonds they found.
D) avoid being enslaved by warring tribes.
Q4) Define "pointillism," and explain Georges Seurat's use of it to reflect and to create mood.
Q5) List and define three characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement,giving examples of each.
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Chapter 34: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World
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Q1) The Birth of a Nation established director D.W.Griffith as a film master because of the A) invention of intertitles.
B) adept use of music.
C) sophisticated plot.
D) use of cinematic space.
Q2) The German Die Brücke artists are associated with A) jarring color contrasts and jagged, linear compositions.
B) heavily political content.
C) frequent use of collage.
D) juxtapositions of traditional scenes with violent images.
Q3) Why were Thomas Edison's early films for the Kinetoscope rather limited?
A) Only one person at a time could view them.
B) The price to view them was too much for the working class.
C) Lapses between slides made the films long.
D) Only black-and-white images showed up on film.
Q4) List and explain three reasons early motion pictures appealed to people.
Q5) Identify and explain the three characteristics of Imagist poetry.
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Q6) Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.
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Chapter 35: The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost
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Q1) According to its founders,the term "Dada"
A) meant "newness."
B) meant "nonconformity."
C) was meaningless.
D) had numerous meanings.
Q2) In The Waste Land,T.S.Eliot describes modern love as A) spiritual and inspiring.
B) violent and physical.
C) hopeful and healing.
D) mechanical and tedious.
Q3) The Nazi government banned Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front for being too A) antimilitaristic.
B) violent.
C) crass.
D) nationalistic.
Q4) List and define Freud's three competing drives of human personality.
Q5) List and explain three ways in which World War I's trench warfare produced a sense of fragmentation,alienation,and futility.
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Age: Making It New
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Q1) Ernest Hemingway's character Nick Adams,a war veteran,goes fishing by himself in northern Michigan to A) escape a jealous wife.
B) drink himself to death.
C) win a competition.
D) heal from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Q2) Identify and explain two reasons for America's infatuation with its distinct invention,the skyscraper.
Q3) Frank Lloyd Wright found the International Style too A) artificial.
B) massive.
C) European.
D) uniform.
Q4) Hollywood,California become the center of the movie industry because of A) plentiful cheap labor.
B) proximity to varied terrain.
C) abundant sunshine.
D) a large existing manufacturing industry.
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Q5) Compare the architecture philosophies of the International Style and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Chapter 37: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, holocaust
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Q1) Identify and analyze two events that aided Hitler's rise to power in Germany.
Q2) In total,the final death toll of World War II was
A) 10 million.
B) 20 million.
C) 40 million.
D) 50 million.
Q3) Pablo Picasso allowed that Guernica could be on permanent display in a museum in his native Spain when
A) Picasso himself was dead.
B) the Spanish people regain civil liberties.
C) Francisco Franco was dead.
D) Spain became a republic.
Q4) In Franz Kafka's The Trial,the protagonist Josef K.is arrested and tried for A) being a communist.
B) being Jewish.
C) murder.
D) an unknown reason.
Q5) Describe and analyze the ritualized bullfighting metaphor that Pablo Picasso uses in his Guernica.
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Q1) What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of atheistic existentialism?
A) "Only in suffering can a man make a leap of faith."
B) "A man's eternal hell is other people."
C) "The path up and down are one in the same."
D) "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
Q2) What question did the Minimalists seem to ask with their works?
A) Why must art include imagery?
B) What makes a work of art?
C) How can art be made new?
D) What role does a viewer play?
Q3) Lawrence Ferlinghetti,owner of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore,was charged with obscenity for
A) publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
B) hosting an Allan Kaprow Happening.
C) selling copies of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
D) hosting Beat poetry readings.
Q4) Explain John Cage's notions about music as reflected in 4'33" (4 minutes 33 seconds).Justify your position as to whether this piece qualifies as "music."
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Chapter 39: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and
Identity in the 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) Supporting your claims with specific works,show how two of the following female visual artists of the 1960s explored and aimed to redefine gender roles: Judy Chicago,Eleanor Antin,Cindy Sherman.
Q2) Compare the statements made about "penis envy" in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus."
Q3) Identify and describe two ways African Americans used passive resistance in their quest for civil rights during the 1960s.Then detail the immediate results of this protest technique.
Q4) For the first time,the electronic synthesizer allowed composers to create A) stereo and surround sound. B) music without performers. C) the sound of pure vibration.
D) a natural echo chamber.
Q5) As re-created in Jeff Wall's photograph based on Invisible Man,Ralph Ellison's narrator needs light to A) keep away the nightmares. B) brighten his existence.
C) keep the rats at bay.
D) confirm his reality.
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Chapter 40: Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a
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Q1) Santiago Calatrava designed the Port Authority Trans Hudson station at the World Trade Center site to resemble a
A) stepped-terrace memorial garden.
B) rainbow.
C) series of monoliths of graduated heights.
D) a bird being released by a child's hands.
Q2) Referencing one poem and one novel discussed in the chapter,explain the "open interpretation" that characterizes postmodern literature.
Q3) Identify and explain two ways computers have changed the understanding and creation of architecture and visual art,supporting your response with descriptions of specific works covered in the chapter.
Q4) How does Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia qualify as "green architecture"?
A) Ten pavilions function as wind scoops, cooling the interior.
B) Open, unfinished pavilions collect rainwater.
C) The open center is used for cultivating bamboo for construction.
D) Its southern orientation provides passive solar heating.
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