Global Humanities
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Course Introduction
Global Humanities explores the rich tapestry of human culture, thought, and expression across different regions and eras, emphasizing the interconnectedness of societies and the shared challenges facing humanity. Through the study of literature, philosophy, history, art, and religion from diverse cultures, this course encourages critical perspectives on global issues such as identity, power, migration, and ethics. Students develop an appreciation for cultural diversity and are equipped with analytical tools to engage thoughtfully with texts and ideas, fostering a nuanced understanding of our complex, interdependent world.
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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) __________ was the first architect to detail the principles of linear perspective in his treatise De pictura.
A) Antonio da Sangallo
B) Donato Bramante
C) Leon Battista Alberti
D) Michelozzo di Bartolommeo
E) Filippo Brunelleschi
Answer: C
Q2) The composer __________ significantly shaped Early Renaissance music.
A) Guillaume Dufay
B) Gilles Birchois
C) Alexander Agricola
D) Nicolas Gombert
E) Adrian Willaert
Answer: A
Q3) "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) The theme of earthly __________ is(are) the focus of the central panel of Bosch's triptych Garden of Earthly Delights.
A) ignorance
B) possessions
C) betrayal
D) pleasures of the flesh
E) mind
Answer: D
Q2) A disputation was part of the learning process at Universities and refers to debates held weekly between Faculty and students.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Alla prima is painting without preparing a preliminary drawing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________ contended that the human mind is at birth a tabula rasa.
A) John Locke
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) René Descartes
D) Thomas Hobbes
E) Gottfried Leibniz
Answer: A
Q2) __________ painted The Night Watch in 1642 to represent the Amsterdam civic guard.
A) Pieter de Hooch
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Judith Leyster
D) Clara Peeters
E) Rembrandt van Rijn
Answer: E
Q3) French theater eschewed the three unities of time, place, and action that were the basis of other Baroque countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) __________ is a style that emerged as artists turned away from the Rococo and back toward ancient classical ideals.
A) Neoclassicism
B) Mannerism
C) Baroque
D) Renaissance
E) Post-Impressionist
Q2) François Boucher was a favorite of the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Adam Smith was an ardent opponent of the Industrial Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What do Jane Austen's novels advocate?
Q5) Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock set the standard for serious poetry.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Give an example of a mock epic.
Q7) How does the Neoclassical garden compare to the gardens of the Baroque era?
Q8) What does the term "Enlightenment" refer to?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) Romantic artists were not interested in the __________.
A) fantastic world of dreams
B) exotic world of the Orient
C) beauty of nature, often seen in its wilder aspects
D) symmetry of machine-made products
E) life in the women's quarters of harems
Q2) Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary as a comprehensive attack on Romantic sensibility.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther is his contribution to the Sturm und Drang movement that espoused Enlightenment objectivity, rationality, and restraint.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A leitmotif is a long musical passage popularized by Richard Wagner.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Trace the role of photography in the development of Realism.
Q6) 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) What were the chief scientific and technological developments of the late nineteenth-century?
Q2) List the three principal aims of Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of the city of Paris.
Q3) Compare and contrast Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building to Antoní Gaudí's Casa Mila in terms not only of style, but also of underlying cultural values.
Q4) Delineate the primary characteristics of Japanese prints and name a European or American artist who was influenced by them.
Q5) James Abbot McNeill Whistler advocated an art that was concerned with morality, education, or narrative rather than appealing to the aesthetic sense.
A)True
B)False
Q6) All of the following painters are considered Impressionists except __________.
A) Edgar Degas
B) Mary Cassatt
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
E) Berthe Morisot
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) Summarize the primary beliefs of the Chinese and explain how these values have shaped specific works of art, music, and literature.
Q2) Due to its apt reflection of the political, religious, economic, and aesthetic element of mid-Qing elite life, The Dream of the Red Chamber is considered by some to be the most important Chinese literary text of the eighteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why was calligraphy so revered in Chinese culture?
Q4) Zhu Da was from an impoverished family and focused on the representation of humans in his works.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What purpose did Scholars' Rocks serve?
Q6) Explain what is meant by "the patriarchal nature" of Confucian society.
Q7) What is the significance of the subject matter of Wu Zhen's Bamboo ?
Q8) Analyze one work that expresses the creators and features of literati painting.
Q9) Calligraphy was not a prestigious form in Chinese art.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a style of Japanese art called ukiyo-e arose, which became especially associated with __________.
A) haiku
B) Japanese gardens
C) woodblock prints
D) landscape painting
E) garden design
Q2) Trace the influence of Zen Buddhism on the arts and literature of Japan after the fifteenth century.
Q3) What are the differences between Noh and Kabuki?
Q4) "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is an example of a Zen __________.
A) shoin
B) cha-no-yu
C) samurai
D) koan
E) shogun
Q5) What is koto music, how did it develop, and what is its importance in Japan?
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Q6) What happened after 1600 in terms of literature?
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) With what are the most prevalent forms of popular music in Latin America associated?
Q2) Jorge Luis Borges often merges the "real" with the imaginary so that his readers become disoriented and are forced to reconsider the relationship between __________.
A) this and that
B) husband and wife
C) fiction and reality
D) here and now
E) life and death
Q3) John Maxwell Coetzee is a Nigerian painter.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What developments began the decline of slavery in the early 1800s?
Q5) Sonny Okosun's blend of African and Western sounds are based on the Ghanaian music known as highlife.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the impetus for the Mexican mural movement.
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Igor Stravinsky composed the ballet score to __________.
A) The Nutcracker
B) The Rite of Spring
C) Swan Lake
D) Sleeping Beauty
E) A, B, and D
Q2) What were the root causes of the Russian Revolution?
Q3) Discuss the influence of African and African-American culture in art, music, and literature during between 1914 and 1940.
Q4) The American artist __________ had a primary interest in natural forms and colors and subject matter such as flowers and animal bones.
A) Georgia O'Keeffe
B) Alfred Stieglitz
C) Sergei Eisenstein
D) Alexander Calder
E) Charles Demuth
Q5) How does Surrealism differ from Dada? Present one Surrealist and one Dada work that to support a thesis.
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) __________ introduced the philosophy of Existentialism.
A) Thomas Hobbes
B) René Descartes
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jacques Derrida
E) John Locke
Q2) In Learning from Las Vegas, the architect Robert Venturi suggests that the eclectic rearrangement of a variety of styles, signs, and symbols composes a new kind of unity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sol LeWitt is classified as a Pop art sculptor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Marisol Escobar's work is created in the Minimalist style.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the impact of existentialist thought on twentieth-century art and literature in America and Europe?
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) In Judy Chicago's sculptural installation, The Dinner Party the individual place settings were set for __________.
A) apostles of Jesus
B) women who had been abused
C) mythological figures
D) a coven of witches
E) women Chicago considered the most important women in Western art and history
Q2) __________ photographed herself in a variety of "self-portraits," whose variety and artificiality serve to announce that the "self" is a fictionalized construction.
A) Judy Chicago
B) Cindy Sherman
C) Lisa Fifield
D) Eleanor Antin
E) Susan Rothenberg
Q3) The Guerrilla Girls was a groundbreaking play of the 1970s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List as many aspects of Postmodernism as possible.
Q5) Define "Deconstruction" and give an example of its use.
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