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Humanities Survey II is an interdisciplinary course that explores significant cultural, artistic, philosophical, and historical developments from the Renaissance to the modern era. Students will examine influential works of literature, visual art, music, and philosophy, considering how these expressions reflect and shape societies across different periods and regions. Through readings, discussions, and multimedia resources, the course encourages critical thinking and a broader understanding of the human experience, focusing on the evolving ideas, movements, and values that have shaped modern civilization.
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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) On each side of his Cornaro Chapel sculptural program,Gianlorenzo Bernini included theater boxes to
A) allow visitors to have a better view of Saint Teresa.
B) create preferential seating for the Cornaro family.
C) emphasize his design's high drama.
D) provide extra seating for churchgoers.
Answer: C
Q2) In the Four Rivers Fountain,Gianlorenzo Bernini intended the obelisk to represent A) the triumph of the Roman Catholic Church over the world's rivers.
B) Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III's defeat of Egypt.
C) the domination of the Roman Catholic Church over paganism.
D) the Roman Catholic Church's position as the center of the world.
Answer: A
Q3) In The Calling of Saint Matthew,Caravaggio uses light to
A) transform the calling into a miracle.
B) identify which of the subjects is Matthew.
C) make Matthew's conversion seem threatening.
D) makes Jesus's entrance seem threatening.
Answer: A
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Q1) In The Little Street,Johannes Vermeer includes a half-whitewashed wall and a mortar-filled cracked façade to
A) show the tensions of domestic life.
B) divisions between Protestants and Catholics.
C) emphasize the differences between two houses.
D) acknowledge the disparity between classes.
Answer: A
Q2) What branch of mathematics did René Descartes found?
A) homological algebra
B) finite mathematics
C) calculus
D) analytic geometry
Answer: D
Q3) Why did Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck perform his fantasias as preludes to church services?
A) People would pay admission to hear these compositions.
B) Calvinists disallowed music during their services.
C) They were intended to serve as musical commentary on the service's text.
D) Calvinist doctrine required standard hymns during services.
Answer: D
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Chapter 23: The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage
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Q1) Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)is considered a complex painting,most notably because of
A) the number of figures in it.
B) its focus on individual actions.
C) the obscurity of its symbolism.
D) its competing focal points.
Answer: D
Q2) 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
Q3) According to Nicolas Poussin,a painting's subject matter should be drawn from A) the everyday life of moral people.
B) the Bible only.
C) the artist's imagination.
D) Classical mythology or Christian tradition.
Answer: D
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Chapter 24: The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: the
Claims of Reason
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Q1) Thomas Hobbes believed that most people willingly accepted a social contract to A) control their instincts and achieve peace.
B) achieve some measure of financial security.
C) maintain their position in a social hierarchy.
D) ensure that they all obey the government's laws.
Q2) List,define,and provide examples of two types of novels that developed in eighteenth-century England.
Q3) Compare Hobbes's and Locke's ideas about the role of government.
Q4) In his Marriage á la Mode series,engraver William Hogarth satirizes
A) Italian art.
B) French pornography.
C) lawyers.
D) a loveless couple.
Q5) In John Milton's Paradise Lost,the character that can be viewed as representing the Stuart monarchy and thus Hobbes's Leviathan is
A) Lucifer.
B) God.
C) Raphael.
D) Adam.
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Chapter 25: The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the
Continent: Privilege and Reason
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Q1) 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.
Q2) In Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing,the young man's position reflects that of A) Polyclitus's Doryphoros.
B) Adam in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.
C) Jesus in Leonardo's The Last Supper.
D) Plato in Raphael's The School of Athens.
Q3) According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau,people were born with natural goodness but lost it upon
A) philosophical study.
B) corruption by society and civilization
C) formal education.
D) exposure to organized religion.
Q4) Identify and explain at least two reasons that Louis XV and his court objected to the printing and distribution of the Encyclopédie.
Q5) List and describe the four sections of Johann Stamitz's orchestra.
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Chapter 26: The Rights of Man: Revolution and the
Neoclassical Style
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Q1) Explain the meaning and importance of Jefferson's alteration of John Locke's supporting of a government for the people to a government of and by the people.
Q2) France,Spain,and the Netherlands provided financial and naval support to the colonies in their war for independence to
A) secure trade rights with the colonies.
B) dilute British power.
C) prevent international war.
D) ensure continuance of religious freedom.
Q3) Discuss the role of women in the French Revolution.
Q4) Jacques-Louis David's overarching theme in both The Oath of the Horatii and The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons is
A) the weakness of females.
B) memento mori.
C) sacrifice for the state.
D) love of family.
Q5) Explain the meaning and importance of Jefferson's alteration of John Locke's argument for "life,liberty,and property" in Two Treatises on Government to "life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness."
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Chapter 27: The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature
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Q1) The night appealed to the Romantics more than the day,because they felt it was less A) knowable.
B) spiritual.
C) moral.
D) political.
Q2) List and describe three beliefs of the Romantic artists.
Q3) Ludwig van Beethoven concluded his Ninth Symphony with a
A) long, sustained crescendo.
B) vocal chorus.
C) four-movement sonata.
D) waltz.
Q4) Which historic figure was considered the personification of the Romantic hero?
A) John Keats
B) Julius Caesar
C) Napoleon
D) Louis XVI
Q5) List three characteristics of the Romantic hero,showing how Napoleon fit this character type.
Q6) Identify and explain the main theme of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
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Q1) Define "literary realism," and list two examples by different authors.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Identify and provide examples of two ways French literary realism differed from British literary realism.
Q4) The French public and critics objected to Gustave Courbet's paintings because of his A) use of contemporary people in historical scenes.
B) use of political symbolism in landscape scenes.
C) wild, energetic brushstrokes.
D) depiction of commoners on a grand scale.
Q5) Eugène Delacroix was inspired to paint Liberty Leading the People by the A) storming of the Bastille.
B) American Revolution.
C) French workers rioting.
D) police shooting a sleeping family.
Q6) Describe the living and working conditions of nineteenth-century London.
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Chapter 29: Defining a Nation: American National Identity and
the Challenge of Civil War
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Q1) In A Harvest of Death,Gettysburg,PA,July 1863,Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardener deliberately blurred the foreground and background to A) conceal the still-raging battle.
B) allow families to identify their dead.
C) make the setting look more sublime.
D) draw attention to the central corpses.
Q2) Define Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs,and show how his friend Thoreau lived what Emerson preached.
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) Henry David Thoreau began his Walden Pond experiment to A) escape imprisonment.
B) live simply.
C) write a book.
D) preserve nature.
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Chapter 30: Global Confrontation and Modern Life: the
Quest for Cultural Identity
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Q1) Compare Japan's approach to Western contact to China's and Egypt's.
Q2) Describe the role cotton played in Europe's subjugation of at least three non-European countries.
Q3) According to Charles Baudelaire,the greatest job of a flâneur like himself and Édouard Manet was to
A) seduce women.
B) create poetry and art.
C) challenge authority.
D) shock the bourgeoisie.
Q4) Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx wanted to eliminate capitalism,believing it to A) depend too heavily on governmental support.
B) generate inadequate profits.
C) be inefficient in producing products for export.
D) be inherently unfair.
Q5) List three ways Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann redesigned Paris,describing the rationale for these changes.
Q6) 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.
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Chapter 31: The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in
Late Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Q1) What question functions as the theme of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment?
A) Can immoral means justify worthy ends?
B) Who has the right to pass judgment on others?
C) Are we our brothers' keepers?
D) Who is in control of a person's fate?
Q2) Gustave Caillebotte was defined as a member of the Impressionist group because of his paintings'
A) large formats.
B) daring compositions.
C) loose brushwork.
D) dark palette.
Q3) Compare the main themes of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Q4) Nineteenth-century Russian collectors favored French and German work over Russian art,because they
A) recognized the genius of the Impressionists.
B) believed Russia to be hopelessly backward.
C) appreciated a sense of rebellion.
D) found Russian art to be too steeped in religion.
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Chapter 32: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
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Q1) The Plains tribes began performing the Ghost Dance in 1889 to A) make the white people disappear.
B) prepare for battle at Wounded Knee.
C) bring about peace with the white people. D) honor those who died from smallpox.
Q2) Describe the events that led up to and resulted from Wounded Knee,South Dakota,on December 29,1890.
Q3) Define and show with at least three specific examples the ways artists in the latter part of the nineteenth century viewed women.
Q4) Walt Whitman's poetry contains all of the following EXCEPT A) irregular rhythmic patterns.
B) assonance.
C) repetitive phrasing. D) frequent rhymes.
Q5) Identify and describe Frederick Law Olmsted's contributions to the American landscape.Considering your hometown,can you see any of Olmsted's influences?
Q6) 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.
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Chapter 33: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern
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Q1) Define "pointillism," and explain Georges Seurat's use of it to reflect and to create mood.
Q2) The Symbolists presented the human experience by A) describing the reality of peoples' behavior
B) suggesting instead of quantifying meaning.
C) using simple, ordinary themes and motifs
D) relating everyday life to biblical life.
Q3) Identifying at least two artists as examples,explain the effect on their art of the Symbolists' need to retire from society in order to create works.
Q4) The Society of Men of Letters refused to accept Auguste Rodin's Monument to Balzac for
A) being too large for the designated site.
B) portraying Balzac erotically.
C) being cast in bronze, an expensive material.
D) not being a realistic portrayal.
Q5) List and describe three ways the European colonialism of Africa affected the African people.
Q6) List and define three characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement,giving examples of each.
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Chapter 34: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World
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Q1) Identify and explain the three characteristics of Imagist poetry.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of critic F.S.Flint's "rules" for an Imagist poem?
A) The subject must involve something beautiful.
B) There must be direct treatment of the "thing."
C) Every word must contribute to the presentation.
D) The rhythm must be in sequence of the musical phrase.
Q3) Eadweard Muybridge photographed a trotting horse in rapid succession to A) analyze the optimal positioning of a jockey.
B) determine if all four feet ever are off the ground.
C) study the length of the horse's stride.
D) create a series of frames for a motion picture.
Q4) According to the Futurists,the defining characteristic of modern urban life is A) politics.
B) art.
C) war .
D) speed.
Q5) Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.
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Q6) List and explain three reasons early motion pictures appealed to people.
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Chapter 35: The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost
Generation and a New Imagination
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Q1) According to its founders,the term "Dada" A) meant "newness."
B) meant "nonconformity."
C) was meaningless.
D) had numerous meanings.
Q2) Mustard gas killed its victims by A) burning them.
B) choking them.
C) causing failures in blood circulation.
D) causing failures of the nervous system.
Q3) The Russian Suprematists sought to discover what most minimally made a painting. Explain their response to that idea,and then provide your definition of what qualifies as a painting.
Q4) Irish poet William Butler Yeats compared the postwar era to the A) Reign of Terror. B) apocalypse.
C) Spanish Inquisition.
D) Dark Ages.
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Q5) Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.
Age: Making It New
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Q1) Skyscrapers predominantly symbolize
A) manufacturing skill.
B) corporate power and prestige.
C) male dominance.
D) freedom.
Q2) Why were between 75 percent and 90 percent of the films shown in Europe made in America?
A) Europeans were fascinated with American culture.
B) Banks refused to loan money to post-war European studios.
C) European lacked skill in filmmaking.
D) American films were more profitable than European ones.
Q3) Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic architectural designs are inspired by A) nature.
B) the Cubists.
C) the Neo-Gothic style.
D) machines.
Q4) Define W.E.B.Du Bois's "double consciousness" of African Americans,and show how that "double consciousness" presents itself in two of the following from the 1920s-1930s: literature,visual art,music.
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Chapter 37: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression,
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Q1) Joseph Stalin killed up to 10 million kulaks (peasant farmers)and sent millions of others to labor camps between 1929 and 1933 for
A) refusing to collectivize.
B) causing a meat shortage.
C) leaving their farms for factory jobs.
D) exporting grain to Germany.
Q2) Night is a memoir about
A) the Holocaust.
B) the Great Depression.
C) the Mexican Revolution.
D) the bombing of Nagasaki.
Q3) Pablo Picasso allowed that Guernica could be on permanent display in a museum in his native Spain when
A) Picasso himself was dead.
B) the Spanish people regain civil liberties.
C) Francisco Franco was dead.
D) Spain became a republic.
Q4) Describe a Le Corbusier building according to his "Five Points of a New Architecture."
Q5) Identify and analyze two events that aided Hitler's rise to power in Germany.
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Culture of Consumption
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Q1) Lawrence Ferlinghetti,owner of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore,was charged with obscenity for
A) publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
B) hosting an Allan Kaprow Happening.
C) selling copies of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
D) hosting Beat poetry readings.
Q2) The organization known as "The Club" excluded communists,homosexuals,and women,claiming them to be
A) incapable of producing serious art.
B) capable of bringing negative attention to The Club.
C) prone to make political statements.
D) the three groups that take over.
Q3) In the 1960s,Roy Lichtenstein based his paintings on A) comic strips.
B) movie posters.
C) advertisements for prepared foods.
D) pictures of glamorous models in magazines.
Q4) Identify and explain two ways the art of the Abstract Expressionists introduced a new aspect-the creation of meaning shifting from artist to audience.
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Chapter 39: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and
Identity in the 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) Who defined "blackness" as a mark of authenticity in "Black Orpheus"?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Amiri Baraka
Q2) John Adams's Nixon in China is the first opera ever to use
A) a staged media event as the basis for its dramatic structure.
B) music produced solely on an electronic synthesizer.
C) repeating dance sequences set to different music.
D) performers who transformed their voices electronically.
Q3) In The Feminist Mystique,Betty Friedan rejects Sigmund Freud's idea that women envy men for its
A) assumption that women are inferior to men.
B) emphasis on female sexuality.
C) denial of the chance for inequality to be eliminated.
D) acceptance that culture determines gender roles.
Q4) Identify and describe two ways African Americans used passive resistance in their quest for civil rights during the 1960s.Then detail the immediate results of this protest technique.
Q5) Summarize the role popular music played in the youth rebellion of the 1960s.
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Chapter 40: Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a
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Q1) Explain at least two ways Santiago Calatrava's plans for the Port Authority Trans Hudson station is a fitting memorial to those who lost their lives on its proposed World Trade Center site.
Q2) According to Robert Venturi,Las Vegas is the model for postmodern urban form because its structures
A) are not homogenous.
B) are of a grand scale.
C) are arranged chaotically.
D) reflect multiple cultures.
Q3) In literature,the postmodern hero differ from his or her predecessors by
A) having been rejected by society for not conforming.
B) embracing his or her ordinariness and lack of purpose.
C) having no definable goal and merely wandering through life.
D) accepting that the search for meaning is never-ending.
Q4) Which artist moves deftly between abstraction and photography-based representational painting?
A) Gerhard Richter
B) Louise Lawler
C) Pat Steir
D) Takashi Murakami
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