Humanities Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Humanities is an interdisciplinary course that explores the diverse ways in which human beings have sought to understand and express themselves and their world throughout history. By examining literature, philosophy, art, music, history, religion, and culture, the course encourages students to critically analyze the beliefs, values, and ideas that have shaped civilizations. Through reading, discussion, and creative projects, students develop skills in critical thinking, interpretation, and communication, gaining a deeper appreciation for cultural diversity and the complexities of the human experience.
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Reality Through the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Two-Dimensional Art
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Q1) What term denotes the measurable wavelength of a specific color?
A) tint
B) shade
C) hue
D) value
Answer: C
Q2) The popularity of oil paintings stems from what fact?
A) are inexpensive and can be easily purchased
B) have a long lifespan
C) are fast-drying
D) offer a wide range of color possibilities and can be reworked
Answer: D
Q3) Which artist is considered the driving force behind recognition of photography as a fine art?
A) Ansel Adams
B) Man Ray
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Alfred Stieglitz
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Sculpture
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Q1) The life-like sculptures of Duane Hansen depend on which of the following elements of art?
A) color
B) mass
C) form
D) texture
Answer: A
Q2) Sculptures that project by at least half their depth from their base are called
A) bas-relief
B) low relief
C) haut relief
D) mid-relief
Answer: C
Q3) The relationship of shapes is called
A) mass
B) form
C) proportion
D) unity
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Architecture
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Q1) In architecture a building's size and the relationship of the building and its decorative elements to the human form is called
A) balance
B) proportion
C) scale
D) repetition
Answer: C
Q2) When two tunnel vaults intersect at right angles,they form a
A) buttress
B) groin vault
C) tunnel vault
D) rib vault
Answer: B
Q3) The arch can define large spaces because
A) it can only be made of stone
B) it does not depend solely on the tensile strength of its materials
C) it acts as a bridge
D) it can carry heavy loads
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Music and Opera
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Q1) This form of popular music grew from an increased impatience with progress toward equality among black Americans in the 1990's.
A) rap
B) rock and roll
C) blues
D) jazz
Q2) Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is an example of what type of opera?
A) comique
B) buffa
C) grand
D) seria
Q3) Explain how Hildegard of Bingen's "O Viridissima Virga" illustrates freedom from strict metrical development.
Q4) Describe tone color (timbre)in music.Identify three instruments and the tone colors they produce.
Q5) The requiem mass is a special mass often comprising a musical program for A) a baptism
B) a wedding ceremony
C) the theater
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Chapter 5: Literature
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Q1) The use of language to take words beyond their literal meaning?
A) figures
B) imagery
C) rhythm
D) symbol
Q2) This form of literature includes accounts of the lives of saints and other religious figure.
A) sonnet
B) hagiography
C) biography
D) nonfiction novel
Q3) List the varieties of meter in poetic rhythm.Include a poem that exemplifies one of the types of meter.
Q4) Explain the use of allegory in Christina Rosetti's poem,Uphill (1858).
Q5) What form of nonfiction takes basic stories and expands them for illustrative purposes and to create interest?
A) speech
B) drama
C) biography
D) anecdote
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Chapter 6: Theatre
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Q1) The theatrical element that provides necessary background information.
A) plot
B) exposition
C) script
D) foreshadowing
Q2) The written document which contains the dialogue used by the actors.
A) plot
B) script
C) exposition
D) discovery
Q3) Designed as critiques of consumerist culture,these Performance Art pieces grew out of the Pop Art movement of the 1960's.
A) happenings
B) sentimental comedy
C) comedy of manners
D) reversals
Q4) Explain the importance of lighting design in theatrical performance.
Q5) Describe the hypothetical dynamic and structural development of a three-act play.
Q6) Describe the three types of theatre arrangements.
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Chapter 7: Cinema
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Q1) What is persistence of vision?
Q2) An editing technique in cinema that includes a rapid succession of images or a compression or elongation of time.
A) jump cut
B) form cut
C) montage
D) juxtaposition
Q3) Sergei M.Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin is one of the most influential films ever made due in part because it added this new dimension to film language:
A) camera angle
B) long shots
C) montage editing
D) bridging shot
Q4) In film,this person serves the function of converting the mise-en-scene from three-dimensional to two-dimensional space.
A) director
B) actor
C) lighting designer
D) set designer
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Chapter 8: Dance
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Q1) Explain why the work of the light designer is critical in dance.
Q2) What dance form is based having ceremonial functions,formal characteristics,and that may never be performed in public?
A) sacred
B) traditional
C) ritual
D) folk
Q3) Jazz dance relies heavily on
A) patterned rhythms
B) improvisation and syncopation
C) prescribed movements and actions
D) formalized, narrative elements
Q4) What kinds of patterns are formed when the action of a dancer's body has some relationship in time to every other movement?
A) tonal
B) formal
C) linear
D) rhythmic
Q5) What role does the choreographer play in dance.
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Chapter 9: Ancient Approaches
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Q1) What provided the focus of much of Egyptian art?
A) power of the pharaohs
B) everlasting life in the hereafter
C) seasons and cycles of nature
D) vivacity and humor of daily life
Q2) The most remarkable edifices of Egyptian culture around 2700 B.C.E.
A) pyramids of Giza
B) Great Sphinx
C) temple at Luxor
D) Theban rock tombs
Q3) What style of painting adorns the walls of the tomb of Nefertari-mi-en-Mat (c.1290-1229)?
A) haut relief
B) low relief
C) fresco
D) three-dimensional
Q4) What do the mask of Tutankhamen and the bust of Nefertiti have in common?
Q5) Compare the Assyrian ziggurat with the Egyptian pyramid.What is the basic difference?
Q6) Why is Sumerian writing different from other early cultures?
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Chapter 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World
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Q1) This architectural style was a physical extension of a philosophy of Light Divine by Abbot Suger.
A) Romanesque
B) Gothic
C) Renaissance
D) High Gothic
Q2) Roman sculpture is largely influenced by what culture?
A) Sumerian
B) Mesopotamian
C) Egyptian
D) Greek
Q3) The Song of Roland from France is a major literary accomplishment from what era?
A) Middle Ages
B) Renaissance
C) Hellenism
D) Romantic
Q4) Explain why the sculpture Nike of Samothrace is considered Hellenistic style.
Q5) Explain the meaning of the Surah 4 ("The Women")from the Qur'an.
Q6) Explain contrapposto.
Q7) How do the plays of Euripides differ from those of Sophocles or Aeschylus?
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Chapter 11: Artistic Styles in the Emerging Modern World
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Q1) What is linear perspective? Provide an example in your explanation.
Q2) Rembrandt's Night Watch focuses on
A) implication and emotion
B) odd proportions
C) subjective viewpoints
D) psychological expressions
Q3) Perhaps the most dominant artist of the High Renaissance.
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Botticelli
Q4) Thomas Jefferson built Monticello influenced by what architectural structure?
A) Greek temple
B) Roman temple
C) Gothic cathedral
D) Islamic mosque
Q5) Explain Rajput style painting.
Q6) What are the stylistic differences between Michelangelo's David,Raphael's David,and Bernini's David? Include personal responses to each.
Q7) Compare the architecture of the Pantheon with that of the Florence dome.
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Chapter 12: Artistry in an Age of Industry
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Q1) English Romantic author of Frankenstein.
A) John Keats
B) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) Lord Byron
Q2) African American artistic heritage emerged after the Civil War and is felt most strongly in what medium?
A) dance
B) theatre
C) music
D) painting
Q3) "The Old Ship of Zion" is an example of one of these.
A) folk songs
B) slave songs
C) camp meeting songs
D) spirituals
Q4) Why is Goya's painting,Execution of the Citizens of Madrid,May 3 categorized as a Romantic painting?
Q5) What is bel canto? Include an example.
Q6) Discuss both an Impressionist work of music and painting.How are they similar?
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Chapter 13: The Arts in a Modern, Postmodern, and Pluralistic World
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Q1) In visual art,theatre,cinema and literature,The Expressionists turned to non-naturalistic techniques to express:
A) societal conventions
B) moralistic viewpoints
C) subconscious thoughts and emotions
D) dream-like impressions
Q2) The best-known artist of Fauvism was:
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Henri Matisse
C) Georges Braque
D) Max Beckmann
Q3) Judy Chicago's,The Dinner Party,provides a good example of A) feminist art
B) ephemeral art
C) pop art
D) environmental art
Q4) Compare the aesthetics of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus School of Art to that of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.Include an example of each style.
Q5) Discuss the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on African American arts.
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