Humanities: Renaissance to the Present Mock Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the major developments in art, literature, philosophy, and culture from the Renaissance period through to the present day. Students will examine key movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, considering how historical contexts have shaped human thought and creative expression. Through the analysis of influential texts, artworks, and intellectual trends, the course encourages a deeper understanding of the human experience and the enduring questions of identity, progress, and the relationship between individuals and society.
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Humanities Culture Continuity and Change Volume II 3rd Edition by Henry M. Sayre
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in Italy: the Church and Its Appeal
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Q1) The term "Baroque" was originally used in a derogatory way,because the new style A) was associated with the common people.
B) was very expensive to create.
C) defied the Council of Trent's directives.
D) was seen as too ornate and strange.
Answer: D
Q2) Fra Andrea Pozzo created the highly dramatic space in Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius by using A) chiaroscuro.
B) foreshortening.
C) tenebrism.
D) an invisible complement.
Answer: B
Q3) In her paintings,Elisabetta Sirani depicted Christianity's miracles as A) everyday events.
B) mythological events.
C) sexual experiences.
D) dramas of harmony.
Answer: A
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Chapter 22: The Secular Baroque in the North: the Art of Observation
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Q1) The Catholic and Protestant churches opposed the heliocentric theories of Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei for
A) contradicting certain biblical passages.
B) resembling the pagan myths about Apollo.
C) challenging belief in God as creator.
D) implying the existence of other solar systems.
Answer: A
Q2) Vanitas paintings remind viewers to
A) avoid the pleasures of everyday life.
B) appreciate beauty in nature.
C) focus on the spiritual, not the material.
D) celebrate abundance and pleasure.
Answer: C
Q3) What branch of mathematics did René Descartes found?
A) homological algebra
B) finite mathematics
C) calculus
D) analytic geometry
Answer: D
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Chapter 23: The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage
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Q1) What is the Spanish notion of pundonor,a favorite theme in Calderón's plays?
A) Men were obligated to avenge violations of their women's honor.
B) Duty to king and country took precedence over all other matters.
C) False accusations-violations of honor-led to dire consequences.
D) Men and women held differing views of the meaning of honor.
Answer: A
Q2) How did Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dramatize New Spain's diversity in her villancicos?
A) The female narrator wore native garments.
B) The soloists sang in three languages.
C) The Gregorian chant was sung in Nahuatl.
D) The religious drama was based on Aztec legends.
Answer: B
Q3) What new dance form,which quickly became the age's most popular,emerged from Louis's court?
A) ballet
B) bal-musette
C) canarie
D) minuet
Answer: D
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Chapter 24: The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: the
Claims of Reason
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Q1) Explain the scope and significance of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language.
Q2) A group of prominent manufacturers,inventors,and naturalists is credited with inaugurating the
A) Industrial Revolution.
B) Scientific Revolution.
C) American Revolution.
D) Age of Reason.
Q3) Which of the following was NOT included under Parliament's Bill of Rights?
A) No Catholic could ever rule England.
B) No Puritan or Roman Catholic could attend university.
C) No non-English monarch could rule England.
D) No British king could marry a Catholic.
Q4) In "A Modest Proposal" Jonathan Swift advocates butchering Irish children to
A) reduce the poverty of the Irish.
B) satirize the English treatment of the Irish.
C) decrease the number of Irish Protestants.
D) persuade the Irish poor to migrate to America.
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Q5) Referencing one work of art and one of literature,show how satire aimed to improve the English people.
Chapter 25: The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the
Continent: Privilege and Reason
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Q1) Citing examples from both the painting and music of the period,explain why people quickly tired of the Rococo style.
Q2) Voltaire's Candide learns to survive a world filled with stupidity and keep pessimism at bay by
A) tending to the small things and ignoring the world.
B) focusing on love to overcome life's dark side.
C) socializing extensively.
D) professing religious faith.
Q3) Compare the courts of Prussia's Frederick I and his son,Frederick the Great.
Q4) In the mid-eighteenth century,art criticism began in an effort to
A) satisfy the French appetite for knowledge.
B) give exposure to new artists and architects.
C) enable tourists to appreciate and understand art.
D) demonstrate French cultural superiority.
Q5) In The Signboard of Gersaint,Jean-Antoine Watteau modeled the dog after the work of
A) Nicolas Poussin.
B) Titian.
C) Peter Paul Rubens.
D) William Hogarth.
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Chapter 26: The Rights of Man: Revolution and the
Neoclassical Style
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Q1) Describe the conditions Africans endured during the African diaspora.
Q2) Mary Wollstonecraft criticized Jean-Jacques Rousseau for his
A) not allowing women equal inheritance rights.
B) not granting women equal rights to sue for divorce.
C) support of keeping women as men's domestic slaves.
D) proposition that women are flaws in nature.
Q3) Napoleon rejected Antoino Canova's statue of him as Mars,because he
A) needed to remove himself from a military image.
B) had ordered himself portrayed as Augustus, not Mars.
C) desired to be portrayed as taller, not his actual height.
D) thought displaying himself as a nude was inappropriate.
Q4) Why did Thomas Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?
A) Hilltops were deemed most secure in the event of war.
B) A hilltop would be safe from the floods common to that area.
C) Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples.
D) A hilltop provided the best view of the Virginia countryside.
Q5) Compare the British Neoclassical architecture of Robert Adam to that of the American Thomas Jefferson.
Q6) Discuss the role of women in the French Revolution.
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Chapter 27: The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature
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Q1) In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,the creature embarks on a quest for revenge against Dr.Frankenstein for
A) creating him from dead body parts.
B) abandoning him to fend for himself.
C) not giving him a soul.
D) leaving him in the Arctic Ocean.
Q2) The Romantics worldview was most informed by
A) empirical observation.
B) divinely revealed truth.
C) objective reality.
D) subjective experience.
Q3) The term "Romanticism" was originally coined by A) William Wordsworth.
B) Friedrich von Schlegel.
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D) Immanuel Kant.
Q4) List three characteristics of the Romantic hero,showing how Napoleon fit this character type.
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Q5) Identify and explain three techniques Goya uses in The Third of May,1808,to convey his message about the horrors of war.
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Q1) How did lithography revolutionize printmaking?
A) Inks on prints no longer bled.
B) Artists could draw more detail.
C) Prints became quick and cheap to produce.
D) Prints could be made in color.
Q2) Following the end of Napoleon's reign in 1815,France's government was A) a republic.
B) a monarchy.
C) an anarchy.
D) a democracy.
Q3) Identify and explain at least two reason for the failure of Robert Owen's New Harmony utopian experiment.
Q4) Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is based on the true story of A) an impoverished family.
B) a prostitute.
C) a factory worker.
D) an unfaithful wife.
Q5) Identify and provide examples of two ways French literary realism differed from British literary realism.
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Q6) Define "literary realism," and list two examples by different authors.
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Chapter 29: Defining a Nation: American National Identity and
the Challenge of Civil War
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Q1) Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn in the runaway slave Jim for a reward?
A) Huck would be arrested for property theft.
B) Jim threatens to kill Huck if he turns him in.
C) Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity.
D) Miss Watson would send Huck to an orphanage.
Q2) In Herman Melville's Moby Dick,the white whale seems to symbolize A) a vanishing way of life.
B) the Promethean hero's natural image.
C) the natural world's uncontrollable elements.
D) an evil force that must be dominated.
Q3) During the Civil War,Winslow Homer work on assignment as A) a literary journalist.
B) an illustrator.
C) a photographer.
D) a medic.
Q4) List,describe,and illustrate two ways photography changed Americans' views on war.
Q5) Describe Winslow Homer's A Visit from the Old Mistress,identifying and explaining the details that emphasize the divide between the Old and the New South.
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Chapter 30: Global Confrontation and Modern Life: the
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Q1) George Sand challenged sexual stereotypes by A) writing novels about female sexual desire.
B) using a man's name and dressing as a man.
C) marrying more than once.
D) having herself appointed to the French cabinet.
Q2) Define "literary naturalism," and provide two examples in Émile Zola's works.
Q3) Compare Japan's approach to Western contact to China's and Egypt's.
Q4) Compare the two views of nineteenth-century women that George Sand presents in her novel Lélia.
Q5) Explain the differences between liberalism and nationalism,and show how these two ideologies figured into two of the conflicts that defined the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Q6) Naturalism differs from literary realism in that it is more A) objective.
B) erotic.
C) optimistic.
D) subjective.
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Q7) Define "leitmotif," and explain Wagner's use of it to unify his musical drama.
Q8) Identify and describe the arguments Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels made against a capitalistic system.
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Chapter 31: The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in
Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Q1) What event provides the focal point of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace?
A) Alexander II's emancipation of Russian serfs
B) the Russian Civil War
C) the Crimean War
D) Napoleon's invasion of Russia
Q2) In The Subjection of Women,what does John Stuart Mill call "the legal subordination of one sex to another"?
A) "considered immoral by other people"
B) "the limits of power which can be legitimately exercised"
C) "one of the chief hindrances to human improvement"
D) "new obstacles in our already encumbered road"
Q3) William Morris's design company fostered the movement of
A) Art Nouveau.
B) Purism.
C) Arts and Crafts.
D) Neo-Romanticism.
Q4) Supporting your claims with works from specific artists,define three characteristics of the French Impressionists' art.
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Q5) Identify and explain two ways Tchaikovsky's music furthered Russian nationalism.
Chapter 32: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
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Q1) Compare the views of Americans abroad as presented by Henry James in his novels and by John Sargent Singer in The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.
Q2) The "Panic of 1873" and subsequent four-year "Long Depression" were caused by A) speculation in cotton futures.
B) political quarrels in New York City.
C) failure of a Philadelphia banking firm.
D) a strike by Pennsylvania railroad workers.
Q3) In The Agnew Clinic,why does Thomas Eakins show no blood Dr.Agnew's patient?
A) Dr. Agnew requested this.
B) Blood would distract viewers.
C) Women are in the painting.
D) Eakins's wife, Susan, requested this.
Q4) In reference to Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,John Ruskin criticized James Abbott McNeill Whistler for A) copying the French style.
B) relying too heavily on green.
C) flinging paint.
D) altering objective truth.
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Chapter 33: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern
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Q1) List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Q2) Explain the innovations Claude Debussy used in his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (The Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)to suggest the presence of meaning in order to express the inexpressible.
Q3) In Still Life with Plaster Cast,Paul Cézanne's use of two viewpoints seems to suggest his view that
A) a painting is best created while moving about.
B) perspective can be symbolic, charged with feelings.
C) people do not view the world from a single point of view.
D) the human eye can be tricked into focusing on certain details.
Q4) Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the meaning of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
Q5) Louis Comfort Tiffany created his Art Nouveau stained glass by A) adding ground gemstones to the molten glass.
B) dusting glass with gold and silver powder.
C) mixing different colors of glass together while hot.
D) placing small dots of different colors very near each other.
Q6) Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the perspectival technique of Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Plaster Cast.
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Chapter 34: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World
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Q1) The Birth of a Nation established director D.W.Griffith as a film master because of the A) invention of intertitles.
B) adept use of music.
C) sophisticated plot.
D) use of cinematic space.
Q2) Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein represents a shift in art form
A) the literal to the conceptual.
B) the conceptual to the symbolic.
C) the symbolic to the abstract.
D) the abstract to the surreal.
Q3) Early silent films appealed especially to working-class,immigrant audiences
A) The films included intertitles.
B) The films featured working-class actors.
C) The audience did not need to understand English.
D) Most of the films were set in exotic locales.
Q4) Identify and define two characteristics of the Futurists,supporting your definitions with specifics about the artists and art of that group.
Q5) Identify and explain the three characteristics of Imagist poetry.
Q6) List and explain three reasons early motion pictures appealed to people.
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Generation and a New Imagination
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Q1) The Nazi government banned Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front for being too
A) antimilitaristic.
B) violent.
C) crass.
D) nationalistic.
Q2) Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.
Q3) When Marcel Duchamp submitted Fountain to the exhibition of the New York Society of Independent Artists,the exhibition committee
A) hid the work behind a curtain.
B) rejected the work from the exhibition.
C) gave the work prominent placement in the show.
D) exhibited the work but refused to label it as being by Duchamp.
Q4) The Dada poets composed nonsensical sound poems to A) recite in pubic protests.
B) imitate the sounds of modern warfare.
C) protest nationalism's empty rhetoric.
D) accompany their art in galleries.
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Chapter 36: New York, skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz
Age: Making It New
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Q1) Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic architectural designs are inspired by A) nature.
B) the Cubists.
C) the Neo-Gothic style. D) machines.
Q2) Compare Charles Sheeler's Classical Landscape with Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Hills and Bones.
Q3) Double consciousness is an idea most closely associated with the work of A) Langston Hughes.
B) W.E.B. Du Bois.
C) Countee Cullen.
D) Zora Neale Hurston.
Q4) All of the following were major early film stars EXCEPT
A) Mary Pickford.
B) Douglas Fairbanks.
C) Catherine Barkley.
D) Charlie Chaplin.
Q5) Identify and explain two reasons for America's infatuation with its distinct invention,the skyscraper.
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Chapter 37: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, holocaust
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Q1) By alienating audiences with his epic theater,Bertolt Brecht aimed to
A) expose the excesses of a capitalistic society.
B) make them view the characters critically.
C) shock them into turning to Marxism.
D) force them to identify with the main character.
Q2) Why did the Nazis dislike the Bauhaus style?
A) The designs were not functional for the working class.
B) Bauhaus artists rejected traditional German values.
C) Walter Gropius was a known communist.
D) Its openness lacked adequate privacy.
Q3) Adolph Hitler claimed that intellectuals,particularly Jews,were to blame for what he perceived as Germany's post-World War I moral decline,because of their A) involvement in the art scene.
B) association with communism.
C) sympathy for the French.
D) control of most lending banks.
Q4) Compare the portraits of women in Frida Kahlo's The Broken Column and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother.
Q5) Identify and analyze two events that aided Hitler's rise to power in Germany.
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Q1) In Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different,So Appealing?,why does Richard Hamilton position a canned ham in front of the nearly nude stripper?
A) The can mimics the stripper's curves.
B) The placement is a chance occurrence.
C) Like the ham, the stripper, he wanted to claim, is not quite "real."
D) Both, he wanted to show, are consumable flesh-"meat."
Q2) What question did the Minimalists seem to ask with their works?
A) Why must art include imagery?
B) What makes a work of art?
C) How can art be made new?
D) What role does a viewer play?
Q3) Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum as a spiral with a ramp and an open rotunda in the middle so that A) visitors could see what they had viewed and what was to come.
B) the building would survive longer.
C) visitors would not tire from climbing many stairs.
D) natural light would amply permeate the picture galleries.
Q4) List and explain two characteristics of Theater of the Absurd,illustrating your points with specific plays.
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Chapter 39: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in
the 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) Yale University's architecture graduate students commissioned Claes Oldenburg to create Lipstick (Ascending)on Caterpillar Tracks as
A) an antiwar statement.
B) a protest against women in the military.
C) a practical joke.
D) a protest against a modern art exhibition.
Q2) Malcolm X differed from Martin Luther King,Jr.in his
A) lack of elected office.
B) advocacy for violence, if necessary.
C) advocacy for rights for blacks.
D) role in inaugurating hip-hop.
Q3) Television's An American Family star Lance Loud created controversy in the mid-1970s by
A) being open about his homosexuality.
B) getting divorced.
C) demonstrating support for abortion.
D) posing nude for Andy Warhol.
Q4) Compare the statements made about "penis envy" in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus."
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Chapter 40: Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a
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Q1) In his poem "If We Get It," David Antin leaves meaning open to interpretation by A) using indeterminate words.
B) making contradictory statements.
C) omitting all punctuation.
D) using irregular meter and rhyme
Q2) Identify and explain how works by two painters discussed in the chapter exemplify cultural misunderstandings.
Q3) Olafur Eliason's installation The Weather Project was initially criticized as being "mere" entertainment for A) using rather ordindary materials.
B) attracting so many visitors to view it.
C) for disturbing visitors with its melancholy
D) for showing visitors the construction elements
Q4) Define Robert Venturi's point that postmodern architecture should represent a "difficult whole," and identify and describe two examples from the book of how this "difficult whole" is presented.
Q5) Identify and explain two ways computers have changed the understanding and creation of architecture and visual art,supporting your response with descriptions of specific works covered in the chapter.
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