Fine Arts and Humanities Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the interrelationship between Fine Arts and the Humanities, delving into the ways visual arts, music, theater, literature, and philosophy have reflected, shaped, and critiqued cultures throughout history. Students will analyze major artistic movements, key works, and the historical contexts in which they were produced, fostering critical appreciation and understanding of creative human expression. Through lectures, discussions, and hands-on projects, the course encourages students to interpret and engage with diverse forms of artistic and intellectual achievement, broadening their perspective on the human condition and the value of cultural heritage.
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Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) List at least two poetic forms found in Petrarch's Canzoniere and explain what theme these poems espouse that became dominant in Renaissance lyric poetry.
Answer: Two poetic forms found in Petrarch's Canzoniere are the sonnet and the sestina. The sonnet is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, while the sestina is a 39-line poem with a complex pattern of repeating end words.
The dominant theme in Renaissance lyric poetry that is espoused in these poems is the concept of unrequited love and the anguish of longing. Petrarch's Canzoniere is filled with poems expressing his love for a woman named Laura, who does not return his affections. This theme of unrequited love and the pain of longing became a prominent motif in Renaissance lyric poetry, as poets sought to explore the complexities of human emotion and desire. The use of these poetic forms allowed poets to convey these themes with elegance and precision, contributing to the development of Renaissance poetry as a whole.
Q2) "Lorenzo the Magnificent" was a member of the Medici family of Florence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) __________ proposed the scientific method.
A) Francis Bacon
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Newton
E) Kepler
Answer: A
Q2) Blank verse refers to rhyming couple, each line of which has fourteen syllables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Iconoclasm is the systematic celebration of religious icons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is best known for his rejection of all elements of classical civilization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) René Descartres is known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and is well known for his dictum cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am").
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) __________ established the Jesuit order of Catholic priests.
A) St. Basil
B) St. Ignatius Loyola
C) St. John of the Cross
D) St. Philip of Neri
E) St. Matthew
Answer: B
Q3) Miguel de Cervantes developed the picaresque, a form of novel that details the life of a rogue or knave who wanders from adventure to adventure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon stands in the contrapposto pose derived from antiquity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Carolus Linnaeus developed the biological classification system used to identify species that is still in use today.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication on the Rights of Woman is an anti-revolutionary tract.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Give an example of a mock epic.
Q5) __________ occurred during the Enlightenment.
A) Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity
B) Leeuwenhoek's development of the microscope
C) Galileo's invention of the telescope
D) Kepler's description of the functioning of the eye
E) all of the above
Q6) Trace the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) William Blake's poetry focuses on __________ that are said to be contradictory states of the soul.
A) good and evil
B) hope and despair
C) innocence and experience
D) essence and nothingness
E) body and spirit
Q2) All of the following were English Realist novelists except __________.
A) Charles Dickens
B) Emily Brontë
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) George Eliot
E) Anthony Trollope
Q3) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were two proponents of the factory system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a favorite of the czarist regime.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How do Francisco Goya and Théodore Géricault compare as Romantic artists?
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Chapter 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) Albert Einstein proposed his "Theory of Relativity" in 1905, but it was not until 1919 that mathematical equations central to his theory could be confirmed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ washed his brush between strokes so that each color would be distinct, referring to his brushstrokes as "little planes."
A) Claude Monet
B) Paul Cézanne
C) Georges Seurat
D) Vincent van Gogh
E) none of the above
Q3) __________ was associated with the Symbolist movement.
A) Sarah Orne Jewett
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C) James Abbott McNeill Whistler
D) Kate Chopin
E) Stéphane Mallarmé
Q4) Explore Claude Debussy's "musical impressionism."
Q5) List the features of Art Nouveau and provide an example of this style.
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) Wu Zhen's Bamboo could be interpreted as a symbol of survival of Chinese under foreign rule.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Chinese often considered __________ the highest form of art.
A) poetry
B) prose
C) landscape painting
D) portraits
E) calligraphy
Q3) Summarize the primary beliefs of the Chinese and explain how these values have shaped specific works of art, music, and literature.
Q4) Explain what is meant by "the patriarchal nature" of Confucian society.
Q5) The Mongol ruling class of the Yuan dynasty kept the primary offices of governmental administration to themselves because they wanted to maintain their ethnic separateness.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the two styles of hsi-wen and what region of China is each associated with?
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) How did Confucianism impact the organization of society during the Edo period?
Q2) The Himeji Castle was built during the __________ period.
A) Muromachi
B) Nara
C) Edo
D) modern
E) Momoyama
Q3) Muromachi gardens were designed for __________.
A) exercise
B) meditation
C) social gatherings
D) love trysts
E) ceremonies
Q4) Trace the influence of Zen Buddhism on the arts and literature of Japan after the fifteenth century.
Q5) The Japanese anime film is taken as seriously as other films and is found in a variety of genres, including science fiction, adventure, and romances.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) What three important technological innovations made possible the colonization of Africa?
Q2) Chinua Achebe uses __________ to show the changing economic, political, and cultural situation in Africa.
A) novels
B) songs
C) poems
D) essays
E) plays
Q3) The "red rubber scandal" was exposed by Brazilians in the 1950s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Delineate the elements of magic realism in the literature of Latin America and provide an example of its use.
Q5) Describe the impetus for the Mexican mural movement.
Q6) Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits reconstructs in fictional form the history of her country: Chile.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Picasso painted Guernica in response to the __________.
A) stock market crash of 1929
B) injustice, racism, and inadequate housing encountered by blacks as they migrated north
C) bombing of a defenseless Basque village
D) beginning of World War II
E) Louisville Flood of 1937
Q2) James Joyce use a stream of consciousness technique to get readers into the character's minds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Brancusi's Bird in Space evokes __________.
A) the bird itself
B) space
C) time
D) a squawking parrot
E) the flight of the bird
Q4) The leader of the Fauves was Henri Matisse.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Le Corbusier is the nickname of the sculptor Alexander Calder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who were the Gutai artists and what influenced their art production?
Q3) Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.
Q4) Charlie Chaplin was a master filmmaker and actor of the silent era who was famous for his "little tramp" figure.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Sol LeWitt is classified as a Pop art sculptor.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut abandons the __________ of traditional religious architecture.
A) grid-like structure
B) bays
C) devotionality
D) concave and convex shapes
E) symmetry
Q7) What was the most significant effect of World War II and why?
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) M.Scott Momaday received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is meant by the term "Cyborg Surrealism," what artist do Benton and DiYanni associate the term with, and why?
Q3) Postmodernism is a celebration and continuation of the tenets of Modernism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Lisa Fifield has painted a large number of canvases devoted to the traditions and beliefs of __________ Americans.
A) Chinese
B) Latin
C) Native
D) African
E) European
Q5) The Great Wall of Los Angeles was begun in 1982.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define "Deconstruction" and give an example of its use.
Q7) What are the four identities that Andreas Huyssen demarcated?
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