World Humanities II Exam Review
Course Introduction
World Humanities II explores the major cultural, artistic, philosophical, and literary developments from the Renaissance to the modern era, examining how diverse global traditions have shaped and reflected historical change. Through the study of influential works from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, students will analyze themes such as identity, power, colonialism, and globalization. The course encourages critical thinking about cross-cultural interactions and the enduring impact of human creativity on society, fostering an appreciation of shared challenges and achievements across civilizations.
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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) Gianlorenzo Bernini decorated the baldachino's grooved columns with bronze vines in Saint Peter's Basilica to
A) symbolize the union of the Old and New Testaments.
B) create a sense of naturalism.
C) emphasize the blending of Classical and Italian design.
D) draw the viewers' eyes upward along the spirals.
Answer: A
Q2) 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
Q3) Why is Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons known as program music?
A) He composed it for one of the orphans' performances, or programs.
B) Its purely instrumental music is connected to a story or idea.
C) Its episodes contrast back and forth with the musical score.
D) The music follows the program and rhythms of speech.
Answer: B
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Chapter 22: The Secular Baroque in the North: the Art of Observation
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Q1) As a manner of inquiry,René Descartes advocated
A) the dialectic method.
B) deductive reasoning.
C) inductive reasoning.
D) the empirical method.
Answer: B
Q2) Johann Sebastian Bach's fugues can be viewed as sublime examples of Cartesian rationalism because of their
A) multiple instruments.
B) blending of words and strings.
C) single thematic idea.
D) mathematical clarity.
Answer: D
Q3) In Johannes Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace,the pearls might represent A) wealth.
B) foreign trade.
C) purity.
D) greed.
Answer: C
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Chapter 23: The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage
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Q1) The English King Charles I's court painter was
A) Anthony Van Dyck.
B) Titian.
C) Peter Paul Rubens.
D) Hans Holbein.
Answer: A
Q2) In Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV,why does Louis look out of place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?
A) He looks bewildered by the instruments.
B) He is the image of ostentatious excess.
C) He is much shorter than the scientists.
D) He is rendered obsolete by the scientists.
Answer: B
Q3) 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
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Chapter 24: The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: the
Claims of Reason
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Q1) Compare Hobbes's and Locke's ideas about the role of government.
Q2) Describe three ways the 1666 Great Fire of London improved London.
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) 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.
Q5) Explain how Milton's God and Satan reflect the ideas of Locke and Hobbes.
Q6) 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) Voltaire made himself unpopular with both the French and Prussian by
A) writing plays that involved questionable morals.
B) openly living with the Marquise du Châtelet, a married woman.
C) stating that the Prussian monarchy was better than the French.
D) criticizing the government and satirizing the rulers.
Q2) What is the famous opening line of Rousseau's Social Contract?
A) "I am not made like any of those I have seen."
B) "To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man."
C) "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
D) "The principle of all sovereignty resides in the nation."
Q3) In Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing,the young lady's lost shoe and bare foot symbolize
A) youth.
B) flirtatiousness.
C) lost virginity.
D) secrecy.
Q4) Identify and describe two ways Rococo painting differs from Baroque.
Q5) List and explain three reasons the French philosophes admired Qing China.
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Q6) Citing examples from both the painting and music of the period,explain why people quickly tired of the Rococo style.
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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) The Stamp Act that Britain imposed on the American colonies taxed
A) marriage licenses.
B) tea.
C) academic degrees.
D) postage stamps.
Q3) 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.
Q4) In The Wealth of Nations,Adam Smith takes a laissez-faire position on slavery,because
A) he owned several slaves.
B) slave labor reduced the cost of goods.
C) he noted that slavery was just another commodity.
D) he believed blacks to be inferior to the British.
Q5) Compare Abigail Adams's views on gender equality to those of Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Q6) Describe the significance of Phyllis Wheatley's contribution to literature. Page 10
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Chapter 27: The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature
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Q1) The Romantics were attracted to the sublime,foremost,because it
A) offered a new challenge that had not been explored.
B) offered an opportunity to explore a contrast against nature.
C) allowed them to explore that which is limitless and unbounded. D) allowed them to explore that which is both religious and spiritual.
Q2) In J.M.W.Turner's paintings,human figures are usually A) represented nude.
B) small in size.
C) large and placed in the foreground.
D) drawn in chalk over the paint.
Q3) In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust,the title character sells his soul to the devil out of
A) disappointment with love.
B) lust for vast riches.
C) profound boredom.
D) desire to benefit mankind
Q4) Explain the sublime's appeal to the Romantics,exemplifying your response with at least two works of visual art or literature.
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Q5) List three characteristics of the Romantic hero,showing how Napoleon fit this character type.
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Q1) How long did imprinting an image on a metal plate-a daguerreotype-take?
A) 1 to 2 minutes
B) 3 to 5 minutes
C) 8 to 10 minutes
D) 15 to 20 minutes
Q2) 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.
Q3) Many people moved to London between 1800 and 1880 to A) take advantage of better schools for their children.
B) escape religious persecution.
C) afford the cheaper housing the city offered.
D) be near the factories where they were employed.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 29: Defining a Nation: American National Identity and
the Challenge of Civil War
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Q1) Define Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs,and show how his friend Thoreau lived what Emerson preached.
Q2) Why,in 1877,did Southern African Americans lose many of the freedoms they had gained from the Civil War?
A) Jim Crow organized the Ku Klux Klan.
B) The newly elected president was a Southerner.
C) The Supreme Court struck down the Emancipation Act.
D) Union troops withdrew from the South.
Q3) Identify two slave narratives,and analyze how they and their authors contributed to the abolitionist movement.
Q4) Some people found Louis Agassiz's theory of origin more appealing than Charles Darwin's,because Agassiz
A) offered a Christian idea.
B) explained white superiority.
C) explained natural selection.
D) offered a godless theory.
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
Quest for Cultural Identity
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Q1) Mehmet Ali presented France with an obelisk from Luxor Temple A) for the help of the French in industrializing Egypt.
B) in gratitude for helping him become Egypt's viceroy.
C) for France's military support in his invasion of Turkey. D) as payment for money borrowed from France.
Q2) Naturalism differs from literary realism in that it is more A) objective.
B) erotic.
C) optimistic.
D) subjective.
Q3) How did Richard Wagner accomplished his new "music drama" with A) song cycles.
B) rondo form.
C) multiple arias.
D) leitmotifs.
Q4) Compare Japan's approach to Western contact to China's and Egypt's.
Q5) Identify and explain two ways Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)was designed not to please but to shock the French Salon-in other words,to fulfill Manet's role as a flâneur.
Q6) Define "leitmotif," and explain Wagner's use of it to unify his musical drama. Page 15
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Chapter 31: The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in
Late Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Q1) Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party can be viewed as a response to Émile Zola's challenge for the Impressionists to create more complex paintings because of the
A) strong outlines of each of the figures.
B) interlocking triangles connecting the figures.
C) use of identifiable people for the figures.
D) imitation of a Rubens genre painting.
Q2) Identify and discuss at least two ways Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party can be viewed as a response to Émile Zola's challenge that the Impressionists should make more complex paintings.
Q3) What innovation enabled the Impressionists to paint en plein air?
A) tinted eyewear
B) portable easel
C) colored chalk
D) paint in tubes
Q4) Compare the main themes of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Q5) List and discuss three events that contributed to the less-than-optimistic mood in France in the 1870s.
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Chapter 32: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
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Q1) Emily Dickinson's poetry resembles Walt Whitman's in its A) focus on life in the city.
B) unconventional verse.
C) celebration of the individual.
D) unorthodox subjects.
Q2) John Singer Sargent specialized in portraits of A) women in domestic and intimate settings.
B) the aristocracy and the wealthy.
C) women in passive situations.
D) impoverished people in America's cities.
Q3) On the Trail of Tears,the Cherokee forcibly marched to their new home in A) Mississippi.
B) Georgia.
C) Oklahoma.
D) Alabama.
Q4) Describe and analyze the role and importance of art-both visual and performance-for the Plains tribes.
Q5) 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) Sigmund Freud placed a great deal of emphasis on interpreting dreams,believing them to
A) reveal suppressed desires.
B) be more logical than reality.
C) foretell the future.
D) indicate both mental and non-mental illness.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the meaning of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
Q4) 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.
Q5) Identify and explain at least two reasons for Paris's position as the fin de siècle's center for artistic and literary change.
Q6) List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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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) The relationship between Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse can best be described as one of mutual
A) detest.
B) competitiveness.
C) warmth.
D) Indifference.
Q3) Identify and define two characteristics of the Futurists,supporting your definitions with specifics about the artists and art of that group.
Q4) The chief theme of Wassily Kandinsky's Composition VII is A) a great deluge.
B) the biblical apocalypse.
C) the Russian Revolution.
D) the Passion of Christ.
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Generation and a New Imagination
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Q1) In literature and art,the Surrealists attempted to capture A) the mind's innate, inherited contents.
B) thought not controlled by reason.
C) the imprint of early sexual feeling.
D) the moral base that forms conscience.
Q2) Virginia Woolf disapproved of James Joyce's Ulysses for its A) use of obscenity.
B) absence of punctuation.
C) working-class focus.
D) excessive length.
Q3) In The Waste Land,T.S.Eliot describes modern love as A) spiritual and inspiring.
B) violent and physical.
C) hopeful and healing.
D) mechanical and tedious.
Q4) Define "Dadaism," and identify the reasons for its rise,supporting your ideas with at least one specific Dada work.
Q5) Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.
Q6) List and define Freud's three competing drives of human personality. Page 21
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Age: Making It New
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Q1) Whites were stunned during the 1919 "Red Summer" riots,because blacks A) fought back.
B) fled.
C) passively resisted.
D) carried guns.
Q2) How did New York's white population supported the Harlem cultural resurgence by
A) investing in black-owned businesses.
B) financing the revitalization of Harlem apartments.
C) buying blacks' art and frequenting the clubs.
D) supporting black-owned publication houses.
Q3) Why did Charles Steeler title his painting of the Ford factory Classic Landscape?
A) The title is meant ironically.
B) The title refers to classic cars.
C) The factory evokes Classical Greek and Roman architecture.
D) The factory forms evoke timeless natural forms.
Q4) Recalling Gertrude Stein's pronouncement that "You are all a lost generation" (Chap.35),show how that sense of alienation appears in the main characters of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
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Chapter 37: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression,
holocaust and Bomb
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Q1) Focusing on one work of literature and one film discussed in the chapter,analyze the artistic response to the horrors of World War II.
Q2) 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.
Q3) In Franz Kafka's The Trial,the protagonist Josef K.is arrested and tried for A) being a communist.
B) being Jewish.
C) murder.
D) an unknown reason.
Q4) John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath brought attention to injustice against A) Mexican refugees.
B) European Jews.
C) migrant workers.
D) blacks in the American South.
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Define "existentialism," and give two reasons for its appeal to post-World War II people.
Q3) What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of atheistic existentialism?
A) "Only in suffering can a man make a leap of faith."
B) "A man's eternal hell is other people."
C) "The path up and down are one in the same."
D) "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
Q4) 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.
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Q5) List and explain two characteristics of Theater of the Absurd,illustrating your points with specific plays.
Chapter 39: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and
Identity in the 1960s and 1970s
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Q1) Compare the statements made about "penis envy" in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus."
Q2) In the late 1960s,many American artists began protesting against museums because
A) they disliked having their works enclosed within four walls.
B) the government funded the majority of museums.
C) museums were refusing to display their antiwar works.
D) they associated the museums with support of the war.
Q3) For the first time,the electronic synthesizer allowed composers to create
A) stereo and surround sound.
B) music without performers.
C) the sound of pure vibration.
D) a natural echo chamber.
Q4) 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.
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) Prague's Dancing House is designed to evoke
A) Renaissance palaces.
B) the city's totalitarian past.
C) a distorted mirror image of its neighbor.
D) the work of Robert Venturi.
Q2) Identify and explain how two video presentations discussed in the chapter fit with the characteristics of postmodernism.
Q3) In his "Gentle Manifesto," architect Robert Venturi defines the postmodern aesthetic as one of
A) clean and simple geometries.
B) harmony with its surroundings.
C) difficult unity of inclusion.
D) docile space for modern people.
Q4) Frank Gehry used industrial materials such as corrugated metal and concrete blocks to surround his house to
A) keep his neighbors away.
B) create a sense of unease in its viewers.
C) provide contrast with the house's frame construction.
D) inexpensively expand the house's living space.
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