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Art and Culture explores the dynamic relationship between artistic expression and the development of human societies. This course examines how visual arts, music, literature, and performance both reflect and shape cultural identities, social values, and historical change across different time periods and regions. Students will analyze key artistic movements, influential works, and the social, political, and technological contexts that inform the creation and interpretation of art. Through critical discussion, research, and experiential learning, the course fosters an appreciation for diversity in artistic traditions and encourages students to engage thoughtfully with the cultural significance of art in everyday life.
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Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities 8th Edition by Lawrence S. Cunningham
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Chapter 1: Beginnings
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Q1) According to the text, what have archaeologists posited that Stonehenge was?
A)an ancient temple
B)a storage facility for weapons
C)a monument to a great leader
D)a solar calendar and observatory
Answer: D
Q2) _______________________ Assyrian king of ancient Mesopotamia.
Answer: Ashurbanipal
Q3) What development during the Neolithic period made possible the growth of communities and villages?
A)agriculture
B)writing
C)tool-making
D)masonry
Answer: A
Q4) _______________________ An upright stone slab decorated with relief carvings.
Answer: stele
Q5) _______________________ Egyptian god who was symbolic of death and rebirth.
Answer: Osiris
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greece
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Q1) What was the meander found on Greek geometric pottery?
A)A floral image
B)A crisscross pattern
C)A garland design
D)A maze pattern
Answer: D
Q2) What are the causes of the many contradictions in Classical Greek mythology?
Answer: A primary reason for the contradictions in Greek mythology stems from the relative isolation of the regions.In addition, because the myths were considered regional folklore, poets and artists felt a certain freedom to choose and manipulate details to suit their own expressive desires.Moreover, most of these tales were passed down orally many years before they were written.
Q3) Which Greek god represented supreme good?
A)Zeus
B)Orpheus
C)Apollo
D)none of the above
Answer: D
Q4) _______________________ Draped, standing, female figure.
Answer: Kore
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Chapter 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
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Q1) What does Plato illustrate in his Allegory of the Cave?
A)The destruction of the natural world
B)The limits of human sense perception
C)The importance of traditional religion
D)The value of supporting the visual arts
Answer: B
Q2) _______________________ The main character in Euripides' The Suppliant Women.
Answer: Theseus
Q3) What name is given to the period of history following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E.and until the rise of the Roman Empire)?
A)The Doric Period
B)The Delian Period
C)The Peloponnesian Period
D)The Hellenistic Period
Answer: D
Q4) _______________________ Female statues used as columns to support a roof
Answer: Caryatids
Q5) _______________________ Daughter of Agamemnon; rescued by Artemis
Answer: Iphigenia
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Chapter 4: Rome
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Q1) _______________________ Elected representative of the plebeians
Q2) Who followed Diocletian as ruler of the Late Roman Empire in the West from C.E.306-337?
A)Emperor Constantine
B)Emperor Pliny
C)Octavius Caesar
D)Pompey the Great
Q3) _______________________ Mythological queen of Carthage
Q4) Who was the first great Roman lyric poet?
A)Sappho
B)Catullus
C)Lesbia
D)Virgil
Q5) What are the two main periods of Roman history called?
A)The Caesarean and Augustan Periods
B)Republican and Imperial Rome
C)The Epicurean and Stoic Periods
D)Punic and Octavian Rome
Q6) What was significant about the Jus Civile?
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Q7) _______________________ Wars between the Romans and the Carthaginians.
Chapter 5: Ancient Civilizations of India and China
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Q1) _______________________ An underground cemetery
Q2) The English word "Bible" comes from the Greek name of what ancient city?
A)Babel
B)Byblos
C)Athens
D)Byzantium
Q3) What central doctrine of early Christianity became the basis on which believers proclaimed Jesus as Christ?
A)The belief in the Virgin Birth
B)The belief in the Resurrection
C)The belief in the forgiveness of sins
D)The doctrine of monotheism
Q4) What famous church was built in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Constantine?
A)Saint Mark's Cathedral
B)Saint Peter's Basilica
C)The Coliseum
D)Saint John's Cathedral
Q5) How have events in the Book of Exodus been used to symbolize the plight and aims of later generations?
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Chapter 6: The Rise of the Biblical Tradition
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Q1) In what year did Constantinople fall to the Turks?
A)1397
B)1453
C)1490
D)1505
Q2) Why has there been a movement in modern Greece to purge Western influences in icon painting?
Q3) _______________________ The official public worship sequence of the Christian church
Q4) For what type of art is the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia famous?
A)paintings
B)sculptures
C)mosaics
D)woodcarvings
Q5) Why did Justinian close the last surviving Platonic academy?
A)He believed it had become corrupted, but intended to reopen it in the future.
B)He considered it to be a pagan-based institution.
C)He had a personal vendetta against one of its teachers.
D)He considered the academy a useless given the illiterate populous.
Q6) _______________________ Triangular section of vaulting that supports a dome
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Chapter 7: Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium
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Q1) _______________________ Crier who calls Muslim worshipers to daily prayers
Q2) How many sides are there to the Dome of the Rock?
A)three
B)six
C)eight
D)ten
Q3) What is interesting about the site of The Great Mosque of Damascus?
A)The site was once a pagan burial ground.
B)The site was once a Christian basilica.
C)The site once housed a Platonic academy.
D)The site is in the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty.
Q4) _______________________ A sophisticated form of Arabic script
Q5) What is the name of the body of literature which consists of authoritative commentaries on the Qur'an and explanations of oral traditions?
A)The Shari'a
B)The Taj Mahal
C)The Alhambra
D)The Hadith
Q6) Who is Rabia? What did she do? What did she believe?
Q7) _______________________ A pilgrimage to Mecca
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Chapter 8: Islam
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Q1) _______________________Location of Charlemagne's palace school
Q2) What is an "illuminated" book?
A)A compilation of religious teachings
B)A lavishly decorated book
C)A book written by a scholar of Greek philosophy
D)A book thought to have been directly inspired by the word of God
Q3) What was Carolingian minuscule?
A)A scale-model design for a house of worship
B)A small, portable manuscript
C)A common type of illuminated book
D)A precise and rounded form of calligraphy
Q4) Why can early medieval drama be described as "liturgical drama"?
A)It was based on religious themes.
B)It was performed in the cathedral.
C)It was performed at the monastery.
D)It was performed during Mass.
Q5) How did the Quem Queritis trope affect the development of western drama?
Q6) Why was Charlemagne's "palace school" at Aachen important?
Q7) _______________________Grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic
Q8) _______________________The covered interior gardens and walkways in a monastery Page 10
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Medieval Culture
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Q1) Who invented the system of musical notation that we use today?
A)Guillaume Dufay
B)Guido d'Arezzo
C)Perotin
D)Boethius
Q2) What was the subject of the stained glass window "Notre Dame de Belle Verrière"?
How is the depiction of Mary in glass a religious metaphor?
Q3) Why did medieval universities require their student to participate in note-taking and copying?
A)Because books were so expensive
B)To emphasize patience and discipline
C)Because students fell asleep in class
D)To improve short-range vision
Q4) _______________________ Method for reconciling conflicting theological opinions.
Q5) How does Gothic sculpture differ from Romanesque sculpture?
Q6) What was innovative about organum?
A)It combined Italian and Latin verse.
B)It used French in liturgical chant.
C)It introduced polyphony.
D)It combined the lute and the human voice.
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Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) What style is exemplified by Simone Martin's Annunciation?
A)The Byzantine Style
B)The International Style
C)The Florentine Style
D)The Venetian Style
Q2) What shift occurred in the role of the musician and composer in the fourteenth century?
Q3) What dramatic event in 1348 greatly reduced the population of Europe?
A)the influenza epidemic
B)the Thirty Years' War
C)the Florentine Wars
D)the bubonic plague
Q4) _______________________ Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes
Q5) What book, published in 1550, documents the relationship between Giotto and Dante?
A)The Good City
B)The Lives of the Artists
C)The Decameron
D)The Great Awakening
Q6) _______________________ Short poem of fourteen lines
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Chapter 11: The Fourteenth Century: a Time of Transition
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Q1) What was the subject of Donatello's most famous near-life size sculpture?
A)Adam
B)Moses
C)Abraham
D)David
Q2) _______________________ Famous book by Machiavelli
Q3) From what class did most women who received a humanistic education come? What pressures did women scholars confront? Who in the text exemplifies the pressures women faced?
Q4) What famous painting of Sandro Botticelli celebrates the spring?
A)The Birth of Venus
B)Madonna of the Rocks
C)La Primavera
D)Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
Q5) What is the subject of The Praise of Folly?
A)A celebration of the comedic arts
B)A satirical criticism of society
C)A call to live for the moment
D)An account of a traveling actors' troupe
Q6) _______________________Artistic style of Fabriano's paintings
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Chapter 12: The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) _______________________ Castiglione's ideal of effortless mastery
Q2) How did Venetian painters differ from painters in southern Italy during the Renaissance?
A)Venetians painted religious subjects, while southern painters focused on secular subjects.
B)Venetians painted frescoes, while southern painters focused on oil painting.
C)Venetians emphasized color, while southern painters focused on line.
D)Venetians painted nudes, while southern painters focused on clothed figures.
Q3) How did Cellini's life compare with the ideal set forth by Castiglione?
Q4) In Raphael's School of Athens who are the two philosophers in the center?
A)Epicurus and Thales
B)Socrates and Plato
C)Socrates and Aristotle
D)Plato and Aristotle
Q5) Which Pope commissioned Bramante in 1506 to rebuild St.Peter's Basilica?
A)Pope Julius II
B)Pope Leo X
C)Pope Clement VII
D)Pope Adrian VI
Q6) _______________________ Financial support given for artistic projects
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Chapter 13: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
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Q1) What were Luther's criticisms of Roman Catholicism? What reforms or changes did he believe the church should institute?
Q2) Who was the most famous French composer of chansons in the 1500s?
A)Clement Janequin
B)Thomas Tallis
C)Clement Marot
D)Henrich Isaac
Q3) Which painting technique did Dürer learn in Italy?
A)chiaroscuro
B)sfumato
C)depth representation
D)linear perspective
Q4) Which Elizabethan composer wrote ayres for lute and voice?
A)Thomas Morley
B)John Dowland
C)William Byrd
D)John Dunstable
Q5) _______________________ Elizabethan audience members who stood near the stage
Q6) _______________________ A painting consisting of three separate panels
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Q7) _______________________ Court painter and portraitist for Henry VIII
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in the North
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Q1) Which Dutch artist is best known for his quiet scenes of ordinary domestic life?
A)van Dyck
B)Rubens
C)Vermeer
D)Sweelinck
Q2) How did Galileo study motion and learn how objects move in time and space?
A)by logical reasoning
B)by experimentation
C)by reading Greek texts
D)by asking for expert opinions
Q3) What was Borromini's most important contribution to the architecture of Rome?
A)San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
B)The Sistine Chapel
C)St.Mark's Cathedral
D)Il Duomo Nuevo
Q4) What was the name of the military religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola? Why was it so successful?
Q5) _______________________ Musical composition contrasting a full orchestra with a small group of soloists
Q6) _______________________ Italian word for "slow," used to indicate musical tempo
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Chapter 15: The Seventeenth Century: the Baroque Era
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Q1) _______________________ Military leader who crowned himself Emperor of France
Q2) What was the purpose of Swift's A Modest Proposal?
A)To propose a realistic solution to poverty
B)To expose man's inhumanity to man
C)To criticize the English welfare system
D)To reveal the hypocrisy of the church
Q3) Who was the first great French rococo painter d.1721?
A)Boucher
B)Watteau
C)Fragonard
D)Hogarth
Q4) _______________________ Musical form in three sections: Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation
Q5) What was the view of human nature held by Jonathan Swift?
A)That humans were both irrational and intelligent
B)That humans were essentially selfish and base
C)That humans were rational and innovative
D)That humans were fundamentally weak
Q6) _______________________ Controversial author of Candide
Q7) _______________________ King who said "Après moi le déluge" After me, the flood) Page 18
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Chapter 16: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) What of the following were parts of the basis for the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang?
A)The rejection of the ideals of the French Romantic literary movement
B)The inspiration of German society with a sense of unity and nationalism
C)The rejection of the neoclassical ideas of reason, order, and balance
D)The compilation of German folklore and mythology
Q2) What important French Realist novelist described the banal life of bourgeois middle-class Emma Bovary?
A)Flaubert
B)Balzac
C)Hugo
D)Tolstoy
Q3) _______________________ German term for a musical theme assigned to a specific character, idea or object
Q4) What contributed to the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century?
Q5) What did Richard Wagner mean by Gesamtkunstwerk?
A)The Higher Realm
B)Super Consciousness
C)Complete Art Work
D)Total Immersion
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Chapter 17: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography
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Q1) What was the main focus of the women's movement during the late 19<sup>th</sup> century?
A)Equal pay for equal work
B)Freedom from domestic responsibilities
C)The right to vote
D)Equal representation in government
Q2) How do Mary Cassatt's paintings show the influence of Japanese art?
A)They portray scenes of Japanese landscapes
B)They use flat planes and broad areas of color
C)They use pen and ink to create simple images
D)They focus on moments of meditation
Q3) What term for this period reflects the new mood of cheerfulness in the great cities of Europe?
A)The Edwardian period
B)The Belle Époque
C)The Victorian period
D)The Modern Era
Q4) _______________________ Impressionist composer of Claire du Lune
Q5) _______________________ Technique using tiny dots of color to create an image
Q6) _______________________ Strauss' term for "symphonic poem"
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Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914
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Q1) Which of Picasso's paintings protested the bombing of a Spanish town?
A)Three Musicians
B)Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
C)Guernica
D)L.H.O.O.Q.
Q2) _______________________ Technique of sharp juxtaposition of film shots
Q3) What subject did Grant Wood focus on in his paintings?
A)Abstract shapes and lines
B)Biblical stories
C)Rural American scenes
D)Himself
Q4) What are two important examples of film as propaganda?
A)Olympia and Peter Grimes
B)Peter Grimes and Ivan The Terrible
C)Potemkin and Triumph of the Will
D)Ivan the Terrible and War Requiem
Q5) _______________________ School of design founded by Walter Gropius
Q6) _______________________ Musical form used in "King" Oliver's "West End Blues"
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Q7) _______________________ Film director of Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky
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Q1) ______________________ Danish existential philosopher (1813-1955)
Q2) What were the central characteristics and themes of Pop Art? How are these apparent in Andy Warhol's work?
Q3) Which French writer and thinker (1905-1980)is most directly associated with this existentialism?
A)Camus
B)Descartes
C)Sartre
D)Braque
Q4) How does Pierre Boulez' Second Piano Sonata exemplify the ideal of structuralism? What is the effect of this compositional framework?
Q5) _______________________ art that uses images from mass media and contemporary culture
Q6) What type of art is exemplified by Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty?
A)found art
B)ready-made
C)land art
D)combine
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Q7) _______________________ painting style that uses large blocks of color
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