Humanities Survey
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Course Introduction
This Humanities Survey course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key themes, works, and movements in literature, philosophy, visual arts, music, and history from ancient civilizations to the modern era. Students will examine how human cultures have defined and expressed themselves across time and place, analyzing significant texts, creative masterpieces, and philosophical ideas that have shaped societies. Through critical reading, discussion, and comparative analysis, the course aims to develop a deeper appreciation for the richness and diversity of human experience, while fostering skills in critical thinking, cultural literacy, and effective communication.
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Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) __________ was the first great figure of Italian Renaissance letters.
A) Dante Alighieri
B) Petrarch
C) Niccolò Macchiavelli
D) Baldassare Castiglione
E) none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) The technique found in Lorenzo Ghiberti's The Creation of Adam and Eve in which events are presented simultaneously that took place sequentially is called
A) verisimilitude
B) vanishing point
C) chiaroscuro
D) continuous narration
E) sfumato
Answer: D
Q3) Properzia de' Rossi was from Cremona.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) The scholar and Christian humanist __________ refused to support King Henry VIII's split with the Roman Church.
A) Philip II
B) Thomas More
C) Charles V
D) Mary of Hungary
E) Eleanor of Aquitaine
Answer: B
Q2) The Essays written by __________ are a stunning example of Renaissance individualism grounded in humanism.
A) Erasmus
B) Martin Luther
C) Montaigne
D) William Shakespeare
E) Kit Marlowe
Answer: C
Q3) Iconoclasm is the systematic celebration of religious icons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) __________, a child prodigy who was selling works by the age of ten, is one of the most celebrated still life painters of the Baroque in France.
A) Diego Velázquez
B) Mary Beale
C) Rembrandt van Rijn
D) Louise Moillon
E) Clara Peeters
Answer: D
Q2) Born in Germany, __________ was a Flemish Baroque painter who became extremely successful in Antwerp, possessing a studio containing over two hundred painters and students by 1611.
A) Pieter de Hooch
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Judith Leyster
D) Rembrandt van Rijn
E) Rachel Ruysch
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Angelica Kauffmann's Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures is a model of Rococo style and technique.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Enlightenment was a period in which a group of intellectuals called philosophes believed that through reason, humanity could achieve a perfect society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ composed the famous opera Don Giovanni.
A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) Antonio Vivaldi
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Ludgwig von Beethoven
E) Johannes Brahms
Q4) How was the Neoclassical style used to promote the ideals of the French Revolution?
Q5) Using a single building, painting, or musical composition explain why Rococo style appealed to the upper classes.
Q6) What does the term "Enlightenment" refer to?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) Giuseppe Verdi was Italy's most important Romantic composer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was Wagner's contribution to music of the nineteenth-century?
Q3) Select a text by either Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau to explain the Transcendentalist view of nature.
Q4) Beethoven's Symphony No.6 ("The Pastoral") is an example of __________.
A) an aria
B) absolute music
C) program music
D) a capella music
E) both A and B
Q5) Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary as a comprehensive attack on Romantic sensibility.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List as many interests of the Romantics as possible and provide examples of each from art, music, or literature.
Q7) Trace the role of photography in the development of Realism.
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Chapter 6: Impressionism
and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) Baron Haussmann was responsible for the __________.
A) "grands boulevards" of Paris
B) Eiffel Tower in Paris
C) The Statue of Liberty
D) Art Nouveau presence in Paris
E) "Batignolles" group
Q2) All of the following painters are considered Impressionists except __________.
A) Edgar Degas
B) Mary Cassatt
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
E) Berthe Morisot
Q3) What do the differences between Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles suggest about varying attitudes of the late nineteenth century?
Q4) Albert Einstein proposed his "Theory of Relativity" in 1905, but it was not until 1919 that mathematical equations central to his theory could be confirmed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explore Claude Debussy's "musical impressionism."
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) Why was calligraphy so revered in Chinese culture?
Q2) Under the rule of the so-called Yongle Emperor the palace enclosure where the emperor and his court lived was called the __________.
A) Imperial City
B) Forbidden City
C) Gate of Heavenly Peace
D) Gate of Supreme Harmony
E) The Garden of Imperial Delights
Q3) In the Beijing opera, the performer's roles are divided into four major categories of which __________ is not a category.
A) male
B) painted male face
C) female
D) clown
E) painted female face
Q4) What is the significance of the subject matter of Wu Zhen's Bamboo ?
Q5) Examine the unique political and cultural situation of Hong Kong.
Q6) Describe how Ming furniture mingles form and function.
Q7) Analyze one work that expresses the creators and features of literati painting.
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Summarize the Japanese approach to architecture during the Muromachi and Momoyama periods.
Q2) The establishment of classes during Edo period was influenced by Confucianism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the differences between Noh and Kabuki?
Q4) The fiction of modern Japan reflects a strong concern with __________.
A) achievement
B) religion
C) cultural and individual identity
D) ancient tales
E) philosophy
Q5) A geisha in training is called a maika.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Zazen is a form of music practiced in the rural areas of the country.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Trace the influence of Zen Buddhism on the arts and literature of Japan after the fifteenth century.
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) John Maxwell Coetzee is a Nigerian painter.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "red rubber scandal" was exposed by Brazilians in the 1950s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Chinua Achebe uses __________ to show the changing economic, political, and cultural situation in Africa.
A) novels
B) songs
C) poems
D) essays
E) plays
Q4) How did colonialism encourage the rapid expansion of Islam?
Q5) Fernando Botero is a Columbian artist whose figures look "swollen" and satirize the Latin American elite.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is the role of African music, and what is its most distinctive feature?
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) James Joyce use a stream of consciousness technique to get readers into the character's minds.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Still Life with Chair Caning is an excellent example of the __________ style developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque that was to have such influence on early twentieth-century avant garde art movements.
A) Fauvist
B) Surrealist
C) Cubist
D) Regionalist
E) Futurist
Q3) Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of __________.
A) Realism
B) Futurism
C) Fauvism
D) German Expressionism
E) Vorticism
Q4) How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?
Q5) What were the root causes of the Russian Revolution?
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) Compare Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 and Helen Frankenthaler's Mauve District to explain what unified the diverse works of the Abstract Expressionists.
Q2) "Less is more," the motto of __________ is a sentiment that is typical of the architects of mid twentieth-century International style.
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Walter Gropius
C) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
D) Gerritt Rietveld
E) Le Corbusier
Q3) __________ introduced the philosophy of Existentialism.
A) Thomas Hobbes
B) René Descartes
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jacques Derrida
E) John Locke
Q4) How should one define the International Style of architecture and which work serves as the paradigm of this style?
Q5) What are the major principles of the Bauhaus?
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) Explore the participation of recognition of female artists in the past twenty years in the United States.
Q2) The Guerrilla Girls was a groundbreaking play of the 1970s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Great Wall of Los Angeles was begun in 1982.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________ photographed herself in a variety of "self-portraits," whose variety and artificiality serve to announce that the "self" is a fictionalized construction.
A) Judy Chicago
B) Cindy Sherman
C) Lisa Fifield
D) Eleanor Antin
E) Susan Rothenberg
Q5) List the key differences between western and non-western art as delineated by Benton and DiYanni.
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Q6) What are the four identities that Andreas Huyssen demarcated?
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