Introduction to the Humanities Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the humanities, examining how literature, philosophy, art, music, and history reflect and shape human experience. Students will engage with classic and contemporary works from a variety of cultures, learning how to analyze and interpret creative expressions, understand diverse worldviews, and appreciate the enduring questions and themes that define human society. Through readings, discussions, and projects, students will develop critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical contexts that influence artistic and intellectual achievements.
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The Humanities Culture Continuity and Change Volume 1 3rd Edition by Henry M. Sayre
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Chapter 1: The Rise of Culture: From Forest to Farm
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Q1) The Olmec's giant mounds where the priests dwelled are thought to have possibly represented A)volcanoes.
B)pregnant wombs,
C)mountains.
D)female breasts.
Answer: A
Q2) Paleolithic cave paintings may have been intended to do all of the following EXCEPT
A)serve as magic charms to ensure successful hunting.
B)function as lunar calendars,predicting seasonal migration of the animals.
C)conjure game by depicting it.
D)commemorate the dead buried in the caves.
Answer: D
Q3) Why did the Neolithic era witness increased pottery creation?
A)More permanent settlements could support artists.
B)Tending crops provided more free time for art than hunting did.
C)Neolithic people had learned to control fire for use in kilns.
D)Fragile pottery was impractical for Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Mesopotamia: Power and Social Order in the
Early Middle East
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Q1) In the Epic of Gilgamesh,Ishtar sends the Bull of Heaven to destroy Gilgamesh and Enkidu because Gilgamesh
A)killed her friend,Humbaba.
B)declared war on her patron city.
C)refused her marriage proposal.
D)oppressed the people of Uruk.
Answer: C
Q2) The gods granted Utnapishtim immortality because he
A)baked bread for them.
B)survived the Great Flood.
C)was considered a virtuous man.
D)begged them fiercely.
Answer: B
Q3) The story of Gilgamesh is considered an epic because it
A)has both a narrative and a narrator.
B)describes a people's common heritage.
C)recounts an adventure in the underworld.
D)Includes both a protagonist and an antagonist.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and Sun
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Q1) Egyptian religion was primarily A)monotheistic.
B)atheistic.
C)henotheistic.
D)polytheistic.
Answer: D
Q2) The squares in the Egyptian grid system are based on the measure of
A)the pharaoh's hand.
B)an average foot's length.
C)the hieroglyph for ankh.
D)one clenched fist.
Answer: D
Q3) The Palette of Narmer was created as a A)surface for grinding pigments.
B)surface for mixing eye paint.
C)gift to a god or goddess.
D)shield for use in battle.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece: Trade,War,and Victory
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Q1) In Minoan art,the bull is associated with A)male virility and strength.
B)the Greek god Zeus.
C)an agriculture-driven economy.
D)the Egyptian god Tholos.
Q2) We know that the Cycladic and the Minoan cultures had contact with each other from
A)similar motifs in their frescoes.
B)DNA testing on tomb remains.
C)written records mentioning contact.
D)similar sewage systems in their cities.
Q3) The female equivalent of the kouroi,korai seemed to serve the function of, A)decorations for private homes.
B)votive offerings to Athena.
C)mannequins for clothing shops.
D)commemorative grave markers.
Q4) Compare the architecture of the Minoans and the Mycenaeans,drawing conclusions about what the architecture reveals about each culture.
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Q5) Compare Achilles to Odysseus,focusing on their characters,their skills,and their motivations.
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Chapter 5: Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World: The
School of Hellas
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Q1) Socrates was brought to trial and condemned to death for A)subversive behavior,impiety,and the corruption of Athens' youth.
B)engaging in homoerotic relationships with a politician.
C)speaking out against Athens' democratic system.
D)slandering the Sophists,and criticizing Pericles.
Q2) Socrates differed from the Sophists,most notably,in his emphasis on A)virtuous behavior.
B)humanism.
C)philosophical wisdom.
D)teaching.
Q3) Drama was originally associated with the cult of A)Mithras.
B)Isis.
C)Cybele.
D)Dionysus.
Q4) Consider the role drama-both comedy and tragedy-played in the Greeks' understanding and pursuit of eudaimonia,"the good or flourishing life."
Q5) Compare a Classical statue (Doryphoros)to a Hellenistic one (Apoxyomenos),focusing on form and effect.
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Chapter 6: Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty
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Q1) By the fifth century BCE,the Etruscans had become known throughout the Mediterranean for their A)skill as sculptors.
B)superior olive oil.
C)shipbuilding techniques.
D)excellence in architecture.
Q2) A theory about the Aeneid is that Virgil wrote it as an instruction manual for Augustus Caesar.If this idea is true,what do you think Virgil hoped the new emperor would learn from this work?
Q3) Second-<sup> </sup>and first-century BCE Romans portrayed their ancestors with verism to
A)frighten their youth into respect.
B)contrast foolish youthful optimism against ambition.
C)show the wisdom and experience of age.
D)emphasize the Roman virtue of piety.
Q4) After the Romans expelled the Etruscan monarchy in 510 BCE,they instituted a A)dictatorship.
B)republic.
C)monarchy.
D)democracy.
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Chapter 7: Emerging Empires in the East: Urban Life and
Imperial Majesty in China and India
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Q1) Compare the Book of Songs compiled during the Zhou dynasty to the yuefu songs collected by the Han Music Bureau,focusing on source and content.
Q2) Sensuous form,vibrant color,ornament,and rich texture dominate Indian art to
A)attract the attention of the gods.
B)reflect the qualities of the Indus River.
C)capture the essence of the divine.
D)celebrate the various regions of India.
Q3) Explore the connections between dynastic change and the major philosophies of ancient China.
Q4) Cai Lun's invention of cellulose-based paper was particularly significant because it
A)eliminated papyrus importation from Egypt.
B)enabled the emperor to distribute his laws.
C)enabled China to develop widespread literacy.
D)allowed traders to record and share their maps.
Q5) Compare Buddha's Four Noble Truths with Confucius's teachings.
Q6) Compare the Chinese concept of balance to the Hindu tripartite of Brahman: Brahma,Vishnu,and Shiva.
Q7) Examine Daoism and Confucianism as reflections of ancient Chinese values.
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Chapter 8: The Flowering of Christianity: Faith and the
Power of Belief in the Early First Millennium
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Q1) In Boethius's estimation,the highest form of music was A)musica mundana.
B)musica humana.
C)a yet-unheard music that combined qualities of each of the three classes of music. D)musica instrumentalis.
Q2) Examine the role that music played in the early Christian church.
Q3) The Second Golden Age in Roman and Christian art was brought about by the A)rise of Islam.
B)fall of Rome.
C)death of Leo III.
D)rise of the Macedonians.
Q4) The Roman emperor Constantine actively supported Christianity in Constantinople by
A)tearing down the pagan temples.
B)declaring Christianity the city's sole religion.
C)openly favoring Christians as officials.
D)persecuting pagans who refused to become Christian.
Q5) Justify the Byzantine artists' movement away from Greek and Roman naturalism in their depictions of religious subjects.Reference specific works.
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Chapter 9: The Rise and Spread of Islam: a New Religion
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Q1) A natural feature of the Alhambra is the
A)abundant water.
B)distinctive red soil.
C)enclosure of trees.
D)mountainous backdrop.
Q2) Found in a mosque,a qibla serves to
A)support a flat roof.
B)provide a place for ablution.
C)indicate the direction of Mecca.
D)elevate the preacher.
Q3) The explosion in book availability in the Arabic world was enabled by the eighth-century
A)invention of the printing press.
B)development of schools in mosques.
C)introduction of the art of papermaking.
D)expansion of African trade routes.
Q4) Identify the contributions the Spanish Jews gave the world,and explain how Islam enabled them to thrive.
Q5) Analyze the portrayal of women in Islamic literature,referencing Nezami's Haft Parker and The Thousand and One Nights.
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Chapter 10: Fiefdom and Monastery, pilgrimage and Crusade: The Early Medieval World in Europe
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Q1) Explain the value of the Bayeux Tapestry as a primary source-a first-hand historical document.
Q2) Romanesque churches' portals were of special importance,because they
A)showcased individual stonemasons' skills.
B)defined the boundary between secular and sacred space.
C)reminded visitors of their mortality.
D)previewed the wonders that lay within the church.
Q3) The Song of Roland describes
A)Charlemagne's defeat of the Lombards.
B)Roland's marriage to Charlemagne's daughter.
C)Charlemagne's defeat of the Saracen Muslims.
D)Roland's conversion to Christianity.
Q4) What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church?
A)barrel vaults
B)soaring spires
C)stained-glass windows
D)turrets
Q5) Explain why Beowulf is not considered a Christian poem,even though it contains references to the Bible.
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Q6) List and briefly describe the main features of a Romanesque church.
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Chapter 11: Centers of Culture: Court and City in the Larger World
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Q1) Tibetan Buddhist monks created rolled-up cloth paintings called thangkas as A)record-keeping documents for the monastery.
B)instructional aids.
C)meditation aids.
D)lama genealogies.
Q2) The Benin built massive earthwork walls and moats around their capital city as A)protection from raiding elephants.
B)as a border to separate feuding clans from each other.
C)as barriers against the Niger River.
D)as a shield to protect themselves from angry gods.
Q3) What commodity did the Inca apparently value more than silver and gold?
A)jade
B)sand
C)water
D)textiles
Q4) Compare the Buddhist "Sunset" pagoda with the Hindu Kandarya Mahadeva temple,focusing on its design and symbolism.
Q5) Identify and explain the contradictions concerning women and education in the beliefs of the Heian Japanese.
Q6) Explain the uses of music in African societies. Page 14
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Chapter 12: The Gothic Style: Faith and Knowledge in an Age
of Inquiry
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Q1) Trace the development of the university,its curriculum,and its degree achievement.Compare the original university program with the one you are experiencing.
Q2) Summarize and explain Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica argument on the existence of God.
Q3) The largest issue that Thomas Aquinas attempts to prove in his Summa Theologica is the existence of
A)the Holy Spirit.
B)God.
C)heaven.
D)Mary's royal ancestry.
Q4) Why,in 1179,did the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris start admitting nonclerical students?
A)France had an excess of clergy.
B)A papal decree ordered their admittance.
C)The Church withdrew funding of the school.
D)Enrollment of clerical students was shrinking.
Q5) Explain how the Gothic cathedral influenced musical composition and performance.
Q6) Discuss the position and role of women and medieval education.
Q7) Compare Gothic cathedral architecture with Sainte-Chapelle's Radiant style. Page 16
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Chapter
Toward a New Humanism
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Q1) Why did Christine de Pizan become the first female professional writer in European history?
A)As a widow,she needed to support her family.
B)Her prominent physician father advised her to write.
C)She believed that God,in a vision,told her to write Joan of Arc's story.
D)Her husband arranged her first commission,a biography.
Q2) Before 1355,the most powerful guild in Siena was that of the A)masons.
B)notaries.
C)merchants.
D)carpenters.
Q3) Why did Siena experience population growth after 1125?
A)Its free commune status offered release from feudalism.
B)While other city-states warred,it remained peaceful.
C)It lay on a critical trade route between Florence and Venice.
D)Massive building projects provided jobs and housing.
Q4) Explain how Europe's devastating fourteenth-century plague outbreaks influenced the literature of Boccaccio and perhaps Chaucer.
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Q5) Explain Dante's use of numbers in the Divine Comedy,focusing on their symbolism.
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Chapter 14: Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy
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Q1) Savonarola was able to gain political power in Florence by A)lowering the taxes that had been imposed by the Medicis.
B)appealing to the Florentines' desire to reestablish a republic.
C)threatening to bring down the pope's wrath on the city.
D)distributing the deposed Medicis' wealth to the citizens.
Q2) What implicit lesson did Andrea Mantegna's Camera Picta send to Ludovico Gonzaga,ruler of Mantua?
A)Attracting skilled artists adds prestige to a ruler.
B)A large family is a ruler's greatest asset.
C)Angels will watch over and protect a ruler.
D)A ruler is always in the public eye.
Q3) Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by
A)casting each figure separately.
B)using foreshortening.
C)making extensive use of linear perspective.
D)showing figures from behind.
Q4) Explain Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man as a humanist manifesto,a document that Pope Innocent VIII considered heretical and even imprisoned Pico for writing.
Q5) Explain the Medici family's contributions to humanist scholarship and art.
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Chapter 15: The High Renaissance in Rome and Venice:
Papal Patronage and Civic Pride
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Q1) Almost all of Madalena Casulana's known musical works are A)in the form of the frottole.
B)polychoral.
C)composed for the toccata.
D)in the form of the madrigal..
Q2) The Venetians considered themselves blessed by Saint Mark,because A)he is the patron of sailors and fishermen.
B)he was a pacifist,as were the Venetians.
C)his relics resided in Venice's cathedral.
D)he supposedly performed miracles in Venice.
Q3) Identify Venice's three social classes,and within their context explain the significance of scuola membership.
Q4) The Prince has been called "a pioneering text in political science." Explain that statement,supporting your claim with specifics from Machiavelli's work.
Q5) In the School of Athens,Aristotle directs his palm down to A)call attention to Diogenes the Cynic on the step below him.
B)manipulate the viewer's gaze to the vanishing point at his feet.
C)indicate that knowledge comes from study of the natural world.
D)emphasize his Nicomachean Ethics,which conflicts with Plato's Republic.
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Chapter 16: The Renaissance in the North: Between Wealth and Want
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Q1) Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights was intended to be a conversation piece,a work designed to invite discussion of its meaning.If you were involved in a debate about this work's meaning,what would your response to it be?
Q2) Compare the portrayal of the Fountain of Life in Jan and Hubert van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece with the fountain in the center panel of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights.
Q3) Explain the tension between the clergy and those without money represented in the Heptameron's tale of the Spanish widow.
Q4) A major advantage of tapestries as decorations is that they
A)provided employment for peasant women
B)were highly transportable
C)served as a means for hiding gold and silver in the threads.
D)were an inexpensive form of art that members of the lower classes could own.
Q5) Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece underscores the Northern European preoccupation with A)death.
B)disease.
C)witchcraft.
D)salvation by faith alone.
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Chapter 17: The Reformation: a New Church and the Arts
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Q1) Describe at least two ways in which Luther's Reformation had political as well as religious implications.
Q2) Satire aims to convey the contradiction between A)law and practice.
B)real and ideal situations.
C)faith and tangible evidence.
D)the moral and the secular.
Q3) Why was Thomas Müntzer so critical of Martin Luther about the Peasant War?
A)Müntzer supported the Catholic Church's doctrines.
B)Luther refused to support the peasants' rebellion.
C)Müntzer claimed that God told him Luther was a liar.
D)Luther despised Jews,most of whom were peasants.
Q4) Identify and describe the reasons for the Church's objections to the Bible being made accessible to the masses.
Q5) The printing press enabled quick distribution of François Rabelais's A)pamphlets.
B)newspapers.
C)illustrated books.
D)woodcuts.
Q6) Describe life in sixteenth-century Geneva under John Calvin's direction.
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Chapter 18: Encounter and Confrontation: the Impact of Increasing Global Interaction
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Q1) Hernán Cortés was surprised by the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán's A)primitiveness.
B)heavy fortifications.
C)sophistication.
D)island location.
Q2) Yoshimitsu and later Ashikaga shoguns associated themselves with the arts to A)establish themselves as superior to the Mongols.
B)lend their shogunates authority and legitimacy.
C)win the favor of the Japanese people.
D)compete with the Chinese emperors.
Q3) Europeans were unable to match Chinese porcelain's quality until the early 1700s because of
A)lack of Chinese lacquer trees
B)inadequately hot kilns
C)lack of kaolin clay
D)inferior cobalt ore
Q4) Describe the plan of Zhu Di's Forbidden City,emphasizing the symbolism used in its design and construction.
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Q5) Provide two examples from Mogul India's art and architecture that show the influence of Western contact.
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Chapter 19: England in the Tudor Age: This Other Eden
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Q1) Why did Mary I order mass executions of Protestants when she assumed the throne in 1553?
A)Like her mother,she was a devout Catholic.
B)She hoped to gain Rome's aid in defeating the invading French.
C)She blamed the Protestants for her brother's death.
D)She wanted to appease her Catholic husband,Philip of Spain.
Q2) List at least three characteristics of Thomas More's ideal society and then show how England during the early sixteenth century was the opposite of this utopia.
Q3) Why was portraiture so popular in Tudor England?
A)Portraits represented the new sense of middle-class wealth.
B)Henry had banned artists from painting religious scenes.
C)The English wished to emulate Renaissance Italians.
D)Portraits show the humanist emphasis on individualism.
Q4) Until James Burbage opened his Shoreditch theater,who supported the acting companies?
A)audiences
B)Queen Elizabeth
C)Parliament
D)noblemen
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Chapter 20:
The Early Counter-Reformation and Mannerism: Restraint and Invention
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Q1) The Italian word mano,from which the term "Mannerist" is derived,means A)right.
B)man.
C)hand. D)skill.
Q2) The Church permitted Benventuto Cellini's creation the erotic Saltcellar,because it A)made of precious materials.
B)was privately commissioned.
C)functional,not purely decorative.
D)small in size.
Q3) For what innovation in Don Quixote was Miguel de Cervantes acclaimed by his contemporaries?
A)satirizing chivalric romances
B)using everyday speech in dialogue
C)making his protagonist a commoner
D)giving his protagonist a sidekick
Q4) List and explain three reforms the Council of Trent mandated.
Q5) Identify at least three characteristics of Mannerist style in visual art.
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