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This course introduces students to the broad fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, exploring how people interpret and shape the human experience through culture, history, society, and thought. Students will engage with disciplines such as literature, philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, and political science to develop critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills. Emphasizing diverse perspectives, the course investigates major themes like identity, power, ethics, and social change, encouraging learners to reflect on their roles within a complex, interconnected world.
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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) Where are some of the oldest paintings of humankind found?
A)Sub-Saharan Africa
B)Lascaux
C)Amarna
D)Egypt
Answer: B
Q2) What is the Greek myth of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth?
Answer: The Labyrinth was in Knossos, Crete, and in it was a Minotaur-half man and half bull-to whom seven boys and girls were regularly sacrificed.According to legend, Theseus killed the Minotaur, freed the children, and escaped with King Minos' daughter, Ariadne.
Q3) What colossal statue stands next to the pyramids at Giza?
A)The Stele of Aton-rah
B)The Sphinx
C)Demeter
D)Gilgamesh
Answer: B
Q4) _______________________ Vertical shafts running down through Minoan palaces.
Answer: Light wells
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greece
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Q1) What characterizes early Greek music?
A)It was instrumental, performed only for kings and nobility.
B)It was choral, performed by large groups at private concerts.
C)It was polyphonic, with several interweaving melodies.
D)It was monophonic, made up of single melodies.
Answer: D
Q2) What Greek epic poem recounts the story of Achilles and the Trojan War?
A)The Odyssey
B)The Iliad
C)The Aeneid
D)The Epic of Gilgamesh
Answer: B
Q3) What role did mythology serve in the lives of the Greeks?
A)Mythology was understood to represent an accurate and incontrovertible recounting of historical fact.
B)Mythology was understood to represent the direct word of God.
C)Mythology was understood to help humans understand their own lives.
D)Mythology was purely a vehicle for entertainment.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
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Q1) What is the subject of the frieze on the Altar to Zeus at Pergamum?
A)The battle of the gods and giants
B)The creation of the world
C)The rise to power of Alexander the Great
D)The war between Athens and Sparta
Answer: A
Q2) Which political leader is most associated with the achievements of the Athenian Golden Age?
A)Sophocles
B)Doryphoros
C)Pericles
D)Aeschylus
Answer: C
Q3) What was the subject of the Canon by Polyclitus?
A)a mathematical formula for human proportions
B)a design for a previously unknown weapon
C)the proportions of celestial bodies
D)the makeup of the ideal state
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Rome
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Q1) What reforms did Augustus implement?
Q2) What people occupied Rome from 616 to 510 B.C.E.?
A)Carthaginians
B)Persians
C)Egyptians
D)Etruscans
Q3) _______________________ Mythological queen of Carthage
Q4) What was the significance of the Battle of Actium 31 B.C.E.)in the history of the Roman Republic?
A)Seneca became the leader of the Roman army.
B)Cleopatra was given Roman citizenship.
C)Carthage temporarily annexed parts of the Roman Republic.
D)Octavian became supreme ruler of Rome.
Q5) Which writer and orator defended the Roman Republic by putting down a plot against the government?
A)Terence
B)Virgil
C)Cicero
D)Lucretius
Q6) What was significant about the Jus Civile?
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Chapter 5: Ancient Civilizations of India and China
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Q1) What is the Septuagint?
A)A Latin version of the Greek Old Testament
B)A translation into Sanskrit of the Greek Old Testament
C)A Greek version of the Hebrew Old Testament
D)A translation into Latin of the Greek New Testament
Q2) What famous church was built in Jerusalem during the reign of the Emperor Constantine?
A)The Church of Notre Dame
B)Hagia Sophia
C)The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
D)Saint Peter's Basilica
Q3) Who were the two sons of Abraham that went on to found the Hebrew and Arab nations?
A)Jacob and Joseph
B)Judah and Mohammed
C)Isaac and Ishmael
D)David and Solomon
Q4) _______________________ Wall painting on moist plaster
Q5) _______________________ One of many gods is chosen to be worshipped
Q6) _______________________ Common form of Greek spoken throughout Roman empire
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Chapter 6: The Rise of the Biblical Tradition
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Q1) 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.
Q2) _______________________ A word that literally "image breaking" and refers to the destruction of religious pictures and statues
Q3) What was Justinian's major architectural achievement ?
A)The construction of the Galla Placidia Church
B)The rebuilding of San Vitale
C)The rebuilding of Hagia Sophia
D)The construction of the Arian Baptistery
Q4) What city was the center of imperial life in the Roman Empire in the fifth and early sixth centuries?
A)Venice
B)Constantinople
C)Rome
D)Ravenna
Q5) _______________________ Triangular section of vaulting that supports a dome
Q6) What is the significance of the icon in the Orthodox Church?
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Chapter 7: Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium
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Q1) What city became the Muslim capital in Spain?
A)Madrid
B)Seville
C)Valencia
D)Córdoba
Q2) What is the original language of the Qur'an?
A)Arabic
B)Hebrew
C)Persian
D)Latin
Q3) What is the name of the Islamic Legal code?
A)The Law of Muhammad
B)Al- Khwarizmi
C)Sharia
D)Sûra
Q4) What is the meaning of the word "Islam"?
A)obedience to Muhammad
B)submission to God
C)acceptance of the Sharia legal code
D)commitment to charitable acts
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Chapter 8: Islam
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Q1) What are the themes of the morality play Everyman?
Q2) Why was Charlemagne's "palace school" at Aachen important?
Q3) 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.
Q4) Who was the author of the most famous "Rule" in western monasticism?
A)Roswitha
B)Saint Benedict of Nursia
C)Saint Francis of Assisi
D)Hildegard of Bingen
Q5) What was the Divine Office?
A)The order of the Mass
B)The schedule of monastic worship
C)The position of the Bishop
D)The position of Priest
Q6) What were the important requirements of the monastic life as set forth by Saint Benedict?
Q7) How did the Quem Queritis trope affect the development of western drama?
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Medieval Culture
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Q1) _______________________ Fraternal associations of craftsmen or merchants.
Q2) From c.1150 to 1300, what city was the intellectual and cultural center of Western civilization?
A)Venice
B)London
C)Paris
D)Florence
Q3) _______________________ Multiple melodies moving in contrast to one another.
Q4) What medieval text influenced Chaucer's prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale?
A)Carmina Burana
B)Summa Theologica
C)The Song of Roland
D)The Romance of the Rose
Q5) Which medieval cathedral is famous for its 173 stained glass windows?
A)Notre Dame
B)Chartres
C)La Sainte Chapelle
D)Saint Dominique of Lucia
Q6) What factors explain the rise of formal educational institutions in twelfth-century Europe?
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Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) Who composed the Messe de Notre Dame?
A)Francesco Landini
B)Guillaume Dufay
C)Guillaume de Machaut
D)Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Q2) Who did author Giorgio Vasari consider to be the first Renaissance artist?
A)Filippo Brunelleschi
B)Duccio di Buoninsegna
C)Giotto di Bondone
D)Cimabue
Q3) _______________________ In a polyphonic work, a voice given a single, repeating line
Q4) _______________________ Artistic technique of creating illusion of three-dimensionality through light and shadow
Q5) _______________________ Songs for two or three voices with no accompanying instruments
Q6) ______________________ Embellishment or improvising upon noted music with sounds not written on the page
Q7) _______________________ Refers to the 1300s in Italy
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Q8) _______________________ Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes
Chapter 11: The Fourteenth Century: a Time of Transition
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Who invented printing with movable type?
A)Girolamo Savonarola
B)Johannes Gutenburg
C)Aldus Manutius
D)Leonardo da Vinci
Q3) _______________________ Flemish painter of Giovanni and His Wife
Q4) In the 1500s, who was the most important Christian humanist in Europe?
A)Aldus Manutius
B)Niccolò Machiavelli
C)Desiderius Erasmus
D)Giorgio Vasari
Q5) What two earlier "renaissances" were there in the 800s and 1100s?
A)Ninth-century Venice and the Byzantine Renaissance
B)Twelfth-century Paris and the Carolingian Renaissance
C)The eleventh-century Spanish and Netherlandish Renaissances
D)The Roman and Sicilian Renaissances of the eleventh century
Q6) _______________________ Four-lobed frame used in the Baptistery competition
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Chapter 12: The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) What was the most famous book by Benvenuto Cellini?
A)A Game of Chess
B)The Pastoral Life
C)The Autobiography
D)The Book of the Courtier
Q2) _______________________ A technique used in painting to organize figures through triangular forms
Q3) How did Raphael arrange the figures in Madonna of the Meadow?
A)In a column
B)In a pyramidal arrangement
C)In circular fashion
D)In a quadrangle
Q4) What musical techniques did Josquin des Prez develop?
A)Overlapping voices and expressive use of lyrics
B)Elaborate keyboard and lute accompaniments
C)Virtuosic use of traditional Gregorian chant melodies
D)Composition for multiple choirs
Q5) _______________________ A painting technique using strong contrasts of light and darkness
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Q6) What musical innovations came from Venetian composers in the sixteenth century?
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Chapter 13: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
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Q1) What religious views did Renaissance humanists and Protestant reformers often share?
Q2) Which Elizabethan composer wrote ayres for lute and voice?
A)Thomas Morley
B)John Dowland
C)William Byrd
D)John Dunstable
Q3) What was the Index of the Roman Catholic Church?
A)a list of all of the church's land holdings
B)a list of Christian saints throughout history
C)a listing of common prayers
D)a list of forbidden books
Q4) Who suggested that the Earth and planets orbit the sun?
A)Vesalius
B)Copernicus
C)da Vinci
D)Paracelsus
Q5) _______________________ Speech made by a character in a play, unheard by others
Q6) What were Luther's criticisms of Roman Catholicism? What reforms or changes did he believe the church should institute?
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in the North
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Q1) What is the greatest novel in the Spanish language?
A)Don Juan
B)El caballero loco
C)El día ordinario
D)Don Quixote
Q2) Which French painter saw his work as a protest against the excesses of the Baroque?
A)Moli re
B)La Tour
C)Vermeer
D)Poussin
Q3) _______________________ Roman Catholic movement formed in reaction to rise of Protestantism
Q4) _______________________ Italian word for "slow," used to indicate musical tempo
Q5) Which French philosopher is often called the "Father of Modern Philosophy"?
A)Sartre
B)Racine
C)Descartes
D)Moliere
Q6) _______________________ Novel telling a story involving a rogue or adventurer
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Chapter 15: The Seventeenth Century: the Baroque Era
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Q1) What was Jonathan's Swift's best-known novel? What two aspects of human nature are represented by Swift's Houyhnhnms and Yahoos?
Q2) Which English painter of the Rococo period was best known for his portraits and landscapes?
A)Gainsborough
B)Watteau
C)Hogarth
D)David
Q3) Which English writer championed women's rights and challenged traditional ideas about education?
A)Wollstonecraft
B)Swift
C)Pope
D)Dryden
Q4) _______________________ Musical form in three sections: Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation
Q5) _______________________ Turbulent period in France from 1792-1795
Q6) _______________________ Artist of Marriage à la Mode series of paintings
Q7) _______________________ Military leader who crowned himself Emperor of France
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Chapter 16: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Which French Romantic painter is remembered for The Massacre at Chios?
A)Girodet-Trioson
B)Delacroix
C)Honoré Daumier
D)Gustave Courbet
Q2) Which Romantic artist used his paintings to criticize the Spanish court and to explore the darker side of life, including his own suffering?
A)Ingres
B)Velázquez
C)Goya
D)Chateaubriand
Q3) Which art style came after Romanticism?
A)Transcendentalism
B)Luminism
C)Nationalism
D)Realism
Q4) What is the story of Faust?
Q5) _______________________ Lighthearted musical genre used by Beethoven in the third movement of his "Eroica" symphony
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Chapter 17: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography
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Q1) Which European city was the center of artistic activity in the later nineteenth century?
A)London
B)Paris
C)New York
D)Rome
Q2) Why was Ibsen such an important Norwegian dramatist? What themes do his plays explore?
Q3) _______________________ German for "Blue Rider," describes artists who focused on abstract forms and pure colors
Q4) What Russian novelist (1831-1881)was able to combine both realism and psychological understanding in his Crime and Punishment?
A)Honoré de Balzac
B)Leo Tolstoy
C)Dmitri Shostakovich
D)Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Q5) _______________________ Formal name for the right to vote
Q6) _______________________ Technique using tiny dots of color to create an image
Q7) _______________________ Schönberg first used this technique in his compositions
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Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914
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Q1) What is the subject of many of Frida Kahlo's paintings?
A)herself
B)animals
C)flowers
D)children
Q2) _______________________ Overthrow of the Tsars and the emergence of Marxist government in Russia
Q3) What were the subjects of Sergei Eisenstein's films? What innovations did Eisenstein introduce through his filmmaking?
Q4) Which artist's paintings combine images from his Jewish heritage with Cubist techniques?
A)Theo Van Doesburg
B)Marc Chagall
C)Charles Demuth
D)Constantin Brancusi
Q5) Where did the blues originate?
A)Paris
B)America's deep south
C)New York
D)The American midwest
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Q1) According to Sartre, what was the purpose of existentialism?
A)To preserve past traditions.
B)To help people live in an absurd world.
C)To create a standard system of ethics.
D)To strengthen people's religious faith.
Q2) What major public outdoor memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin?
A)Holocaust Memorial
B)The Oklahoma City National Memorial
C)Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
D)Vietnam Women's Memorial
Q3) What two major contemporary composers have continued to work with traditional elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm?
A)Reich and Stockhausen
B)Brittan and Shostakovich
C)Boulez and Glass
D)Weill and Gershwin
Q4) ______________________ Danish existential philosopher (1813-1955)
Q5) _______________________ Russian composer who used traditional musical elements in innovative ways
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