Humanities II Exam Solutions
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Humanities II explores the major cultural, artistic, literary, and philosophical developments from the Renaissance to the modern era. Through a multidisciplinary approach, students analyze key texts, artworks, and historical movements that have shaped human thought and society. The course emphasizes critical thinking and comparative analysis, encouraging students to examine the relationships between cultural expression and historical context, and to understand the enduring influence of the humanities on contemporary issues.
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The Humanistic Tradition The Early Modern World to the Present 7th Edition Volume II by Gloria K.
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Chapter 20: The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style
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Q1) Explain the rise of mannerism and the baroque style.
Q2) In sixteenth-century Latin America,where ________ political authority went largely unchallenged,Catholicism went hand in hand with colonization.
A)local
B)French
C)Dutch
D)Spanish
Q3) Discuss the Jesuits and their role in the Catholic Church of this era.
Q4) ________ anticipated the baroque style by its figural distortions,irrational space,bizarre colors,and general disregard for the "rules" of Renaissance painting.
A)Mannerism
B)Impressionism
C)Dadaism
D)Romanticism
Q5) How was the spirit of Catholic reform expressed in literature and art?
Q6) Compare those features shared by baroque art and music.
Q7) Discuss the significance of opera as a reflection of the baroque spirit.
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Chapter 21: Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style
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Q1) Like Versailles in France,which of the following were highlighted by the text as epitomizing the wealth,absolute authority,and artistic vision of a privileged minority and autocratic rule?
A)the Imperial Mosque at Isfahan
B)the Red Fort at Old Delhi
C)the Taj Mahal in Agra
D)All these answers are correct.
Q2) To provide musical entertainments for state dinners,balls,and operatic performances,Louis established a
A)permanent orchestrA.
B)national chorus.
C)guild of musicians.
D)new system of arranging written music.
Q3) As court painter to King Charles I of England,________ produced elegant,idealized portraits of his patrons.
A)Velázquez
B)van Dyck
C)Goya
D)Rubens
Q4) What was the significance of Molière as a comic dramatist?
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Chapter 22: The Baroque in the Protestant North
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Q1) Define Calvinism and its linkage to the emerging Dutch republic.How would Calvinism as a state religion affect the self-identity of the Dutch?
Q2) A written constitution,elected representation,and universal manhood suffrage were some of the benefits that Great Britain realized from
A)the Boer War.
B)the Revolutionary War.
C)the English Civil War.
D)the Hundred Years' War.
Q3) Give examples of the religious compositions of Handel and Bach.
Q4) Describe the unique characteristics of Protestant devotionalism as reflected in the art of Rembrandt.
Q5) The musical genre in which a long sacred or epic text is performed in concert by a narrator,soloists,chorus,and orchestra is called A)operA.
B)oratorio.
C)tone poem.
D)All these answers are correct.
Q6) Highlight the literary achievements of both Donne and Milton.
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Chapter 23: The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning
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Q1) Discuss the impact of the Scientific Revolution on European art and music.
Q2) Which of the following was the Swiss-born chemist who was first to base medical remedies on combinations of minerals rather than botanicals?
A)Andreas Vesalius
B)Philippus Ambrosius Paracelsus
C)Claudius Ptolemy
D)Johannes Kepler
Q3) List the central figures of the Scientific Revolution and their contributions.
Q4) Explain the fundamental ideas of Bacon,Descartes,and Locke.
Q5) The idea of God as a master mechanic of the universe who does not interfere or has turned his back on humanity is called
A)atheism.
B)agnosticism.
C)deism.
D)transference.
Q6) Discuss deism and how it formed a bridge of faith between religion and science in this age.
Q7) Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning.
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Chapter 24: The Enlightenment
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Q1) Which of the following is considered a writer whose works formed the wellspring of philosophical thought in the era and was highly influential upon Jefferson as well as Montesquieu?
A)John Locke
B)Thomas Hobbes
C)Adam Smith
D)Diderot
Q2) According to Hobbes,the collective safety of society lay in its willingness to submit to a higher authority,which Hobbes called
A)God's designates.
B)the Church.
C)the Leviathan.
D)the new clergy.
Q3) Outline the development of the novel form of literature.
Q4) Which of the following is England's legendary Neoclassical poet of the Enlightenment?
A)Milton
B)Poe
C)Pope
D)Defoe
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Chapter 25: The Limits of Reason
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Q1) Examine the revolt against reason in the writings of Rousseau and Kant in a short essay.
Q2) ________'s Candide remains the classic statement of comic skepticism in Western literature.
A)Kant
B)Voltaire
C)Rousseau
D)Hogarth
Q3) The visible symbol of the old French regime occupied by the crowds of Paris during the early days of the French Revolution was the
A)Cathedral of Notre Dame.
B)palace at Versailles.
C)Bastille.
D)University of Paris.
Q4) Discuss the original purpose and the nature of transatlantic slave trade.
Q5) Explain the reasons for and consequences of the revolutions in America and in France.
Q6) Explain the role of satire as a literary instrument for attacking false values.
Q7) Defend Voltaire's Candide as literary satire.
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Chapter 26: Eighteenth-Century Art,music,and Society
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Q1) Flutes,clarinets,and oboes belong to which of the following orchestral groups?
A)strings
B)percussion
C)brass
D)woodwinds
Q2) Which of the following was a female painter who produced portraits for an almost exclusively female clientele?
A)Watteau
B)Boucher
C)Vigée-Lebrun
D)Fragonard
Q3) Describe Neoclassicism as a vehicle for noble idealism and authority in Western art.
Q4) Archeological investigations encouraged new interest in ________ artifacts and produced a more accurate picture of Classical culture than had been available previously.
A)biblical
B)Middle Eastern
C)Greco-Roman
D)Asiatic
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Chapter 27: The Romantic View of Nature
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Q1) Walt Whitman,Thoreau,and Emerson are all considered ________ writers.
A)right-wing
B)industrial
C)transcendentalist
D)novelistic
Q2) Chronicle the rise of the Romantic landscape in Western art.
Q3) In this industrial-based society,goods were increasingly made at factories rather than
A)by machine.
B)in community centers.
C)in sweatshops.
D)in homes.
Q4) Exalting the natural landscape as the source of sublime inspiration and moral truth,Wordsworth and his English contemporaries initiated the ________ movement.
A)Romantic
B)baroque
C)Enlightenment
D)Progressive
Q5) Define the European Romantic poets and explain their attitudes towards nature.
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Chapter 28: The Romantic Hero
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Q1) Which of the following would be considered a Gothic novel?
A)Gone With the Wind
B)Frankenstein
C)Vanity Fair
D)Robin Hood
Q2) The act of exalting the sovereign state above all else is called which of the following?
A)xenophobia
B)bicameralism
C)nationalism
D)fascism
Q3) The most famous antislavery novel in America was which of the following?
A)The Underground Railroad
B)Little Nell
C)Uncle Tom's Cabin
D)Gone With the Wind
Q4) Examine the concept of the heroic personality as manifested in the fictional figures of Prometheus,Frankenstein,and Faust.
Q5) Discuss the significance of historical heroes (such as Napoleon and Douglass)in nineteenth-century culture.
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Chapter 29: The Romantic Style in Art and Music
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Q1) Examine the principal exponents of heroic and nationalistic themes in the visual arts: Gros,Géricault,Goya,Delacroix,Bartholdi,and Rude.
Q2) List the major trends in nineteenth-century architecture.
Q3) The Italian composer Verdi and Germany's Wagner are still famous for exploiting ________ in their compositions.
A)nationalistic themes
B)new instrumentation
C)chromatic scales
D)dissonance
Q4) Which of the following was the pupil of Jacques-Louis David,but rejected Neoclassicism in favor of more realistic scenes of France's emperor in theatrical settings?
A)Gros
B)Goya
C)Géricault
D)Delacroix
Q5) Examine the principal exponents of the Romantic style in music: Beethoven,Schubert,Berlioz,and Chopin.
Q6) Discuss the significance and definition of Romantic dance and opera.
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Chapter 30: Industry,Empire,and the Realist Style
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Q1) Society should operate entirely in the interest of the needs of the people,communally and cooperatively,rather than competitively,according to which of the following?
A)liberalism
B)conservatism
C)utilitarianism
D)socialism
Q2) ________ is a social theory forwarded by Jeremy Bentham,stating governments should work to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
A)Liberalism
B)Conservatism
C)Utilitarianism
D)Socialism
Q3) The most popular English novelist of this period of history was which of the following?
A)Ibsen
B)Zola
C)Flaubert
D)Dickens
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Chapter 31: The Move Toward Modernism
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Q1) Which of the following painters lived for many years in Tahiti?
A)Degas
B)Duncan
C)Gauguin
D)Rodin
Q2) Which of the following was an innovative pioneer of modern dance?
A)Degas
B)Rodin
C)Duncan
D)Bergson
Q3) The use of many tiny dots to generate the impression of a solid form is called A)impressionism.
B)pixilation.
C)pointillism.
D)abstraction.
Q4) What are some of the influences of non-Western cultures (Oceania,Africa,and Japan)on Western art and design?
Q5) Describe Symbolism and Impressionism as styles in the arts of the West.
Q6) Explain how postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's-sake spirit.
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Q7) Discuss the impact of science and technology on late nineteenth-century culture.
Chapter 32: The Modernist Assault
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Q1) The Russians Kandinsky and Malevich,and the Dutchman Mondrian were all pioneers of which of the following artistic movements?
A)nonobjective art
B)abstraction
C)assemblage
D)futurism
Q2) Discuss antitraditional forms of expression in music and dance.
Q3) One of the central tenets of modernism,________ sought to arrive at a more concentrated emotional experience through visual art.
A)op art
B)pop art
C)mannerism
D)abstraction
Q4) The plain-speech American poet who penned "The Road Not Taken" is which of the following?
A)Sanders
B)Frost
C)Tennyson
D)Pound
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Chapter 33: The Freudian Revolution
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Q1) The positive modification and redirection of primal urges is termed A)reward.
B)contraindication.
C)sublimation.
D)behavioral reinforcement.
Q2) Primal patterns from the realm of the shared layer of human psyche such as myths,dreams,and fairy tales are called A)mythemes.
B)signposts.
C)guides.
D)archetypes.
Q3) Edvard Munch's The Scream exemplifies which of the following schools of painting?
A)the baroque
B)op Art
C)expressionism
D)abstract art
Q4) Explain Jungian psychology and how his theories differed from those of Freud.
Q5) Explain the basic theories of Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis.
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Chapter 34: Total War,Totalitarianism,and the Arts
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Q1) Describe totalitarianism as exercised in Nazi Germany,Russia,and China.
Q2) Explain the impact of totalitarianism on literature,painting,photography,and music.
Q3) The famous Depression-era photographer whose images of the downtrodden,such as Migrant Mother,remain icons of this period of history is named
A)Joseph Heller.
B)James Jones.
C)Dorothea Lange.
D)Lee Miller.
Q4) Which of the following WWI poets produced The Waste Land,which became the single most influential poem in early modern literature?
A)Yeats
B)Eliot
C)Owens
D)Twain
Q5) Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War I.
Q6) Give specific examples of the impact of World Wars I and II on literature,the visual arts,and music.
Q7) Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War II.
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Chapter 35: The Quest for Meaning
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Q1) The American behavioral psychologist ________ anticipated a society in which the behavior of human beings might be scientifically engineered for the benefit of both the individual and the community.
A)Orwell
B)Bradbury
C)Huxley
D)Skinner
Q2) ________'s landmark work,The Seventh Seal,is an allegorical tale of despair in the face of impending death.
A)Segal
B)Giacometti
C)Hopper
D)Bergman
Q3) In the medium of ________,characters undergo little or no change,dialogue contradicts actions,and events follow no logical order.
A)theater of the absurd
B)Bauhaus
C)cubist theater
D)absurd opera
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Chapter 36: Liberation and Equality
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Q1) Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music.
Q2) In 1992,AIDS activists assembled which of the following artistic media in Washington,D.C. ,to protest governmental inaction with regard to the AIDS crisis?
A)a sit-down tableau
B)a mobile
C)a giant quilt
D)hundreds of coffins
Q3) ________ is a form of piano composition and performance featuring highly syncopated rhythms and simple,appealing melodies.
A)the blues
B)jazz
C)ragtime
D)swing
Q4) Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail was addressed to which of the following?
A)the governor of Alabama
B)the membership of the SCLC
C)a group of local white clergymen
D)his wife,Coretta Scott King
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Chapter 37: The Information Age
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Q1) A classic kind of total art,________,was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006).Kaprow,who coined the name for this conceptual genre,called it "a performance that occurs in a given time and space."
A)the Happening
B)the Be-in
C)performance art
D)total art
Q2) The decade of the Holocaust and the devastation of World War II prompted the postmodern shift from an industrial Age (dominated by farming and manufacturing)to a(n)
A)computer age.
B)service-sector age.
C)information age.
D)neo-Renaissance age.
Q3) Arthur C.Clarke,H.
A)nonfiction
B)suspense
C)science fiction
D)poetry
Q4) Explain the basic features of postmodern literature and magic realism.
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Chapter 38: Globalism
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Q1) Paul Taylor's 1999 chorographical spoof of the Ku Klux Klan is named which of the following?
A)Dance....Now!
B)Three Sheets
C)Oh,You Kid
D)Nothing Better To Do
Q2) Edward Osborn Wilson's early work in evolutionary biology examined parallels between ants and other animal societies,including those of human beings;and more recently he has proposed a new type of interdisciplinary research which he calls "________," that works to improve the human condition.
A)globalism
B)devolution
C)humanistic reconstructuralism
D)scientific humanism
Q3) Explain the dominance of globalism in the contemporary arts.
Q4) It is widely believed that ________ will be the next great global power.
A)India
B)the People's Republic of China
C)Iran
D)Korea
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