World Civilizations Practice Exam
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World Civilizations explores the development, interaction, and impact of major societies and cultures from ancient times to the modern era. The course examines key political, economic, social, and cultural transformations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, emphasizing both unique characteristics and common themes such as trade, migration, religion, technology, and conflict. Students gain a comparative understanding of how different civilizations have shaped human history and the interconnectedness of today's global community.
Recommended Textbook Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities 8th Edition by Lawrence S. Cunningham
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Chapter 1: Beginnings
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Q1) How did the art of Amarna differ from conventional Egyptian art?
A)It employed a stylized, artificial quality.
B)It was highly formal, apparently intended only for somber occasions.
C)It had greater lightness and naturalism.
D)It depicted female figures exclusively.
Answer: C
Q2) Where are some of the oldest paintings of humankind found?
A)Sub-Saharan Africa
B)Lascaux
C)Amarna
D)Egypt
Answer: B
Q3) Who was the central figure of Minoan religion?
A)a being that is half-man and half-wolf
B)a river god
C)a sun god
D)a fertility goddess
Answer: B
Q4) _______________________ Vertical shafts running down through Minoan palaces.
Answer: Light wells
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greece
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Q1) _______________________ Greek musical instrument.A seven-stringed lyre. Answer: Kithara
Q2) What two opposing aspects of Greek civilization were represented by Apollo and Dionysus?
A)Love vs.hate
B)Logic vs.emotion
C)Productivity vs.laziness
D)Joy vs.sorrow
Answer: B
Q3) Who is the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare?
A)Aphrodite
B)Athena
C)Sappho
D)Penelope
Answer: B
Q4) How did the Doric style differ from the Ionic style or order of architecture consider the base, capital, frieze)?
Answer: The Doric order architecture differed from the Ionic style or order of architecture in the following ways:
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Chapter 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
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Q1) What accounts for the powerful position of Athens during the first half of the Classical period?
A)Athenians' superior skill in craftsmanship
B)Athens's assistance in defeating the Persians
C)Athens's highly developed system of trade routes
D)Athenians' rejections of religious worship in favor of more practical concerns
Answer: B
Q2) What was the relationship between religion and theater in Classical Greece?
A)It provided a model for right moral conduct.
B)Theater was considered to be a religious ritual.
C)Religious leaders opposed the decadence of the theater.
D)Dramatists relied on the ecclesia for material.
Answer: B
Q3) To whom was the Parthenon dedicated?
A)Apollo
B)Zeus
C)Athena
D)Minerva
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Rome
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Q1) What elements of the Temple of Portunus did the Romans borrow from the Etruscans?
A)Ionic order for frieze and columns
B)Peripheral temple form and freestanding columns
C)Elevated podium and columned porch
D)Engaged columns and multiple staircases
Q2) What event marks the end of the Roman Republic?
A)The fall of the Persian dynasty
B)The expulsion of the Etruscans from Rome.
C)The fall of Athens
D)The Battle of Actium
Q3) What was the name of the large open space in the center of Rome used for meetings of the Senate and the assemblies of the people?
A)Pantheon
B)Tribune
C)Forum
D)Great Hall
Q4) _______________________ Epic poem about the founding of Rome
Q5) What reforms did Augustus implement?
Q6) _______________________ Elected representative of the plebeians
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Chapter 5: Ancient Civilizations of India and China
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Q1) How have events in the Book of Exodus been used to symbolize the plight and aims of later generations?
Q2) What person became the most important figure in the spread of the Christian church after the death of Jesus?
A)Peter
B)John
C)Matthew
D)Paul
Q3) Why were early Christians persecuted by the government of Rome?
A)They refused to worship the state gods.
B)They rebelled openly against the government.
C)They broke the law by engaging in sacrificial rites.
D)They encouraged vandalism against Roman properties.
Q4) Who were the two sons of Abraham that went on to found the Hebrew and Arab nations?
A)Jacob and Joseph
B)Judah and Mohammed
C)Isaac and Ishmael
D)David and Solomon
Q5) _______________________ Central aisle of a basilica
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Chapter 6: The Rise of the Biblical Tradition
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Q1) What inspired Prince Vladimir to import Byzantine religious traditions into Russia?
A)A dream in which God instructed him to do so
B)The religious services held at Hagia Sophia
C)His discovery of Augustine's Confessions
D)The teachings of Thomas Aquinas
Q2) Why has there been a movement in modern Greece to purge Western influences in icon painting?
Q3) What was Justinian's major architectural achievement ?
A)The construction of the Galla Placidia Church
B)The rebuilding of San Vitale
C)The rebuilding of Hagia Sophia
D)The construction of the Arian Baptistery
Q4) What did Augustine believe would be the culmination of human history?
A)The City of Man would attain perfection and unity with God.
B)The City of Ma would be destroyed and the City of God would be saved.
C)The City of Man would gradually improve, but never reach perfection.
D)Human history would continue to repeat itself in endless cycles.
Q5) _______________________ A small church dedicated to a specific person or purpose
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Q6) _______________________The small colored cubes that make up a mosaic
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Chapter 7: Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium
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Q1) _______________________ A pilgrimage to Mecca
Q2) What city became the Muslim capital in Spain?
A)Madrid
B)Seville
C)Valencia
D)Córdoba
Q3) What is the purpose of minarets adjacent to a mosque?
A)To ward off temptation
B)To call the faithful to prayer
C)To guide the faithful to Mecca
D)To provide a private space for meditation
Q4) _______________________ Persian scholar and poet famous for his rubaiyat
Q5) How many sides are there to the Dome of the Rock?
A)three
B)six
C)eight
D)ten
Q6) _______________________ Decoration using complex interlaced lines
Q7) _______________________ Denomination that believes that successors of Muhammad must be descendants of Ali.
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Chapter 8: Islam
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Q1) What is the subject of the Bayeux Tapestry?
A)Beowulf's battle with Grendel
B)The Norman Invasion of England in 1066
C)The Battle of Roncesvalles in 778
D)The Rule of Saint Benedict
Q2) _______________________The room used by monks for the copying of manuscripts
Q3) What were the important economic developments of Charlemagne's reign?
Q4) What is the name for the semicircular space above the doors on a Romanesque church?
A)trumeau
B)tympanum
C)ambulatory
D)mandorla
Q5) _______________________Symbols used for notation in Gregorian chant
Q6) _______________________Chanson de geste about Charlemagne's Spanish campaign
Q7) What is the oldest and most famous of the chansons de geste?
A)Everyman
B)The Song of Roland
C)Quem Queritis
D)The Romance of the Rose
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Medieval Culture
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Q1) Who was the patron saint of wandering scholars?
A)Saint Denis
B)Villard de Honnecourt
C)Saint Golias
D)Guido of Arezzo
Q2) _______________________ Intellectual techniques using reason to draw logical conclusions.
Q3) What modern location is the medieval cathedral similar to?
A)The shopping mall
B)The courthouse square
C)The public school
D)The university
Q4) What did Francis of Assisi believe was necessary for a life of perfect freedom?
A)Anarchy
B)Total poverty
C)Sufficient wealth
D)Land ownership
Q5) How does Gothic sculpture differ from Romanesque sculpture?
Q6) _______________________ Marks on the body resembling the wounds of Christ.
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Q7) _______________________ A moral example used in preaching and theology.
Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) _______________________ Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes
Q2) What was the subject of the painting the Lamentation?
A)The body of Christ surrounded by the disciples
B)An unnamed father's loss of his child to the plague
C)St.Peter's remorse at having betrayed Christ
D)Dido's grief at being abandoned by Aeneas
Q3) _______________________Author of Lives of the Artists
Q4) What building is the city hall of Venice?
A)Palazzo Pubblico
B)Doge's Palace
C)Palazzo della Signoria
D)The Duomo
Q5) What dramatic event in 1348 greatly reduced the population of Europe?
A)the influenza epidemic
B)the Thirty Years' War
C)the Florentine Wars
D)the bubonic plague
Q6) In what respects did the art of Cimabue and Duccio di Buoninsegna move beyond the Italo-Byzantine tradition?
Q7) How did the plague impact economic stability in fourteenth-century Europe?
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Chapter 11: The Fourteenth Century: a Time of Transition
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Q1) _______________________ Books that included psalms and passages to be recited at certain times during the day
Q2) From what class did most women who received a humanistic education come? What pressures did women scholars confront? Who in the text exemplifies the pressures women faced?
Q3) What is the frottola?
A)A Venetian secular ode to court life
B)A Florentine amusing or romantic song
C)A Roman religious hymn
D)A Sienese devotional poem
Q4) What two earlier "renaissances" were there in the 800s and 1100s?
A)Ninth-century Venice and the Byzantine Renaissance
B)Twelfth-century Paris and the Carolingian Renaissance
C)The eleventh-century Spanish and Netherlandish Renaissances
D)The Roman and Sicilian Renaissances of the eleventh century
Q5) What Florentine banker founded an academy for the study of Plato?
A)Cosimo de Medici
B)Lorenzo de' Medici
C)Piero de'Medici
D)Savonarola
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Chapter 12: The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) _______________________ Castiglione's ideal of effortless mastery
Q2) How does the content of Mannerist art compare with the content of other art of the Renaissance? Why are Pontormo's Deposition c.1528 and Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time c.1546 good examples of Mannerist art?
Q3) In the Sistine Chapel, what are the subjects of the famous ceiling frescoes?
A)Scenes and figures from Dante's poetry
B)Scenes and figures from the Bible
C)Scenes and figures from Greek mythology
D)Scenes and figures from Roman history
Q4) Which sculptor's Abduction of the Sabine Women uses a complex spiral composition?
A)Michelangelo Buonarroti
B)Benvenuto Cellini
C)Giovanni da Bologna
D)Leonardo da Vinci
Q5) Who was Sofonisba Anguissola? What is she known for and what did she depict in her work?
Q6) _______________________ A painting technique using strong contrasts of light and darkness
Q7) What were the characteristics of the Castiglione's ideal courtier?
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Chapter 13: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
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Q1) Which painting technique did Dürer learn in Italy?
A)chiaroscuro
B)sfumato
C)depth representation
D)linear perspective
Q2) _______________________ Literary form made popular in Italy by Ariosto
Q3) What religious views did Renaissance humanists and Protestant reformers often share?
Q4) What popular musical compositions did Thomas Morley write?
A)ballads
B)motets
C)madrigals
D)frottolas
Q5) Which family ruled England during the 16<sup>th</sup> century?
A)York
B)Stuart
C)Tudor
D)Henry
Q6) _______________________ Netherlandish painter of Hunters in the Snow
Q7) _______________________ Court painter and portraitist for Henry VIII
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in the North
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Q1) Which French philosopher is often called the "Father of Modern Philosophy"?
A)Sartre
B)Racine
C)Descartes
D)Moliere
Q2) _______________________ Musical composition contrasting a full orchestra with a small group of soloists
Q3) Who was Rubens' assistant before beginning his own career as an artist?
A)Heinrich Schütz
B)Annibale Carracci
C)Diego Velázquez
D)Anthony van Dyck
Q4) _______________________ Italian word for "slow," used to indicate musical tempo
Q5) How did Galileo study motion and learn how objects move in time and space?
A)by logical reasoning
B)by experimentation
C)by reading Greek texts
D)by asking for expert opinions
Q6) _______________________ Poetic form Milton used for Paradise Lost
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Q7) _______________________ Keyboard instrument, the forerunner of the modern piano
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Chapter 15: The Seventeenth Century: the Baroque Era
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Q1) Who was the first great French rococo painter d.1721?
A)Boucher
B)Watteau
C)Fragonard
D)Hogarth
Q2) What Italian painter of the Rococo period depicted religious subjects on a grand scale?
A)Carriera
B)Tiepolo
C)Borghese
D)Canova
Q3) What was the purpose of Swift's A Modest Proposal?
A)To propose a realistic solution to poverty
B)To expose man's inhumanity to man
C)To criticize the English welfare system
D)To reveal the hypocrisy of the church
Q4) _______________________ Turbulent period in France from 1792-1795
Q5) _______________________ Italian word for "fast," used to indicate a lively musical tempo
Q6) _______________________ Controversial author of Candide
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Chapter 16: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) _______________________ Traditional Polish dances used by Chopin in his piano compositions.
Q2) What is the title of Richard Wagner's most monumental operatic work?
A)Aida
B)The Ring of the Nibelung
C)Norma
D)The Sorrows of Young Werther
Q3) What is Walt Whitman's most important work?
A)The Scarlet Letter
B)Leaves of Grass
C)Moby Dick
D)Ode to a Nightingale
Q4) _______________________ Theory of Charles Darwin about the origin of species
Q5) Who were the Transcendentalists?
A)A group of French poets whose work dealt with spiritual themes
B)A group of American writers inspired by the natural world
C)A group of English painters whose works portrayed nature
D)A group of French composers who sought to convey images through music
Q6) What is the story of Faust?
Q7) What contributed to the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century?
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Chapter 17: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography
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Q1) _______________________ French name given to the period 1870-1914
Q2) What does Edgar Degas' The Rehearsal suggest about the world of the ballet?
A)The loneliness of a life in theater
B)The glamour of the world of ballet
C)The pain and tedium experienced by ballet dancers
D)The eminence of dance in Parisian culture
Q3) What was the reaction of the Paris audience in 1913 to the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?
A)Delight
B)Sadness
C)Outrage
D)Indifference
Q4) What was Friedrich Nietzsche's view of the condition of western civilization in the 1880s and 1890s?
A)Humans were not able to live happily in a secular society.
B)The chaos of the times was due to industrialization.
C)Stability could be gained by a return to Classical models and ideals.
D)People were enslaved by religion and democracy.
Q5) _______________________ Writer who argued that the "will to power" was the only important human motivation
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Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914
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Q1) Which American opera, set in Catfish Row, blends jazz and classical music?
A)Porgy and Bess
B)Rhapsody in Blue
C)The Threepenny Opera
D)Desire Under the Elms
Q2) Where did the blues originate?
A)Paris
B)America's deep south
C)New York
D)The American midwest
Q3) _______________________ Overthrow of the Tsars and the emergence of Marxist government in Russia
Q4) According to Virginia Woolf, why have there not been more great women writers?
A)The expectations of family members
B)The lack of social and economic support
C)The lack of women in political positions
D)The insufficient number of women's universities
Q5) _______________________ School of design founded by Walter Gropius
Q6) _______________________ Musical form used in "King" Oliver's "West End Blues"
Q7) What impact did the "Great War" of 1914-1918 have on European society?
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Q1) What two major contemporary composers have continued to work with traditional elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm?
A)Reich and Stockhausen
B)Brittan and Shostakovich
C)Boulez and Glass
D)Weill and Gershwin
Q2) Which of the following was among the most prominent subjects of Andy Warhol's art?
A)celebrities
B)women
C)cities
D)landscapes
Q3) What two American poets wrote from a feminist perspective?
A)Kerouac and Ginsberg
B)Wiesel and Beckett
C)Sexton and Plath
D)Updike and Albee
Q4) What were the central characteristics and themes of Pop Art? How are these apparent in Andy Warhol's work?
Q5) How did the existentialist movement influence the ideas of modern society?
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