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World Humanities explores the diverse cultures, philosophies, histories, and artistic achievements that have shaped human civilization from ancient times to the present. Through the study of literature, art, music, religion, and social movements across different regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania students gain an understanding of the interconnectedness of global societies. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis, cultural comparison, and the ways in which human expression reflects and influences societal values, identities, and transformations throughout history.
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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 was national unity maintained in ancient Egypt despite the differences between the regions of the Upper and Lower Nile?
Answer: National unity was maintained through a strong central government controlled by the pharaoh, whose power was further consolidated by the belief in his divinity.Moreover, this power was cemented by a priesthood which disseminated the national religion throughout the Upper and Low Nile regions through a strict adherence to traditional rituals and arts.
Q2) How do scholars traditionally divide the history of ancient Egypt?
A)into two major periods
B)into three major periods
C)into four major periods
D)Into six major periods
Answer: C
Q3) _______________________ An upright stone slab decorated with relief carvings.
Answer: stele
Q4) _______________________ Family of languages including Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
Answer: Semitic
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greece
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Q1) What characterizes early Greek music?
A)It was instrumental, performed only for kings and nobility.
B)It was choral, performed by large groups at private concerts.
C)It was polyphonic, with several interweaving melodies.
D)It was monophonic, made up of single melodies.
Answer: D
Q2) What role did mythology serve in the lives of the Greeks?
A)Mythology was understood to represent an accurate and incontrovertible recounting of historical fact.
B)Mythology was understood to represent the direct word of God.
C)Mythology was understood to help humans understand their own lives.
D)Mythology was purely a vehicle for entertainment.
Answer: C
Q3) Which philosopher tried to explain all phenomena in terms of one or more material elements?
A)Thales
B)Anaxagoras
C)Pythagoras
D)Empedocles
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
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Q1) _______________________ A primitive system of justice which requires "blood for blood."
Answer: Vendetta
Q2) What was the subject of the Canon by Polyclitus?
A)a mathematical formula for human proportions
B)a design for a previously unknown weapon
C)the proportions of celestial bodies
D)the makeup of the ideal state
Answer: A
Q3) How did the actions of Athens create strife within the Delian League?
Answer: The Athenians used money from the treasury of the Delian League to build the Parthenon; however, these funds were supposed to be held and used for the welfare of all the Greek states.This was seen by the member states as an indication of Pericles's imperialistic designs and thus contributed to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
Q4) Why are Greek tragedies still read and performed?
Answer: Greek tragedies are read and performed today because they deal with human experiences which still have emotional and intellectual power and relevance.
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Chapter 4: Rome
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Q1) What principal school of philosophy in Rome believed that the proper goal of life was pleasure?
A)Stoicism
B)Imperialism
C)Plebianism
D)Epicureanism
Q2) What was the function of the Pont du Gard?
A)It was a pedestrian bridge.
B)It was an aqueduct.
C)It was an equestrian bridge.
D)It was a military outpost.
Q3) According to Epicurus, why should humans be able to live free from superstitious fear of the unknown and not have to fear the threat of divine retribution?
Q4) _______________________ Mythological queen of Carthage
Q5) 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
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Chapter 5: Ancient Civilizations of India and China
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Q1) What was a common symbol of early Christianity?
A)An anchor
B)A crucifix
C)A lion and a lamb
D)A fountain in a garden
Q2) What was the "Babylonian Captivity"?
A)The period immediately before the coming of Christ
B)The enslavement of the Babylonian people
C)The imprisonment of the Babylonian people
D)A period of Hebrew exile
Q3) What is responsorial singing?
A)Singing in which the choir responds to the congregation's lines
B)Singing in which two sections of the congregation alternate in chanting lines from psalms
C)Singing in which the congregation chants beneath cantor's line
D)Singing in which the congregation responds to cantor's lines
Q4) _______________________ Common form of Greek spoken throughout Roman empire
Q5) _______________________ Hallway that crosses the nave
Q6) What factors contributed to the success of the spread of Christianity?
Q7) _______________________ An underground cemetery
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Chapter 6: The Rise of the Biblical Tradition
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Q1) Which church leader presides in a cathedral?
A)Bishop
B)Priest
C)Monk
D)Cardinal
Q2) 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
Q3) _______________________ An elaborate octagonal church located in Ravenna
Q4) Why has there been a movement in modern Greece to purge Western influences in icon painting?
Q5) What major religious division is evident in the two baptisteries of Ravenna?
A)Between Muslims and Christians
B)Between Orthodox and Arian Christians
C)Between Catholic and Protestant Christians
D)Between Jews and Christians
Q6) _______________________ Italian schools where Greek refugee scholars taught and wrote
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Chapter 7: Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium
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Q1) _______________________ A pilgrimage to Mecca
Q2) Who is considered the founder of Islam?
A)Abdul
B)Elijah
C)Muhammad
D)Allah
Q3) _______________________ Decoration using complex interlaced lines
Q4) What is interesting about the site of The Great Mosque of Damascus?
A)The site was once a pagan burial ground.
B)The site was once a Christian basilica.
C)The site once housed a Platonic academy.
D)The site is in the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty.
Q5) What was the focus of Averröes' scholarly work?
A)To find a cure for small pox
B)To reconcile Greek philosophy with Islam
C)To discredit Greek philosophy
D)To study the nature of poison
Q6) Why are mosques decorated with abstract art and calligraphy rather than pictorial representations?
Q7) _______________________ The pulpit in an Islamic mosque
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Chapter 8: Islam
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Q1) What were two characteristics of the architecture between 1000 and 1150?
A)domed ceilings and lack of external decoration
B)marble passageways and Corinthian columns
C)spiral staircases and flying buttresses
D)heavy stone arches and elaborate external sculpture
Q2) Why can early medieval drama be described as "liturgical drama"?
A)It was based on religious themes.
B)It was performed in the cathedral.
C)It was performed at the monastery.
D)It was performed during Mass.
Q3) _______________________The covered interior gardens and walkways in a monastery
Q4) _______________________A book of psalms
Q5) What type of chant grew out of the Roman musical tradition?
A)Benedictine Chant
B)Gregorian Chant
C)Mozarabic Chant
D)Ambrosian Chant
Q6) What were the important economic developments of Charlemagne's reign?
Q7) _______________________Location of Charlemagne's palace school
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Medieval Culture
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Q1) Which are the oldest universities in Europe?
A)Notre Dame de Belle Verriere and the University of London
B)The Venetian Academy and the University of Arezzo
C)University of Bologna, The University of Paris, Oxford and Cambridge
D)The Academy at Florence, the Universitas at Rome, and the University of Paris
Q2) Why did medieval universities require their student to participate in note-taking and copying?
A)Because books were so expensive
B)To emphasize patience and discipline
C)Because students fell asleep in class
D)To improve short-range vision
Q3) What was the subject of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed?
A)Christian history
B)Aristotle's philosophical ideas
C)The meaning of the Hebrew bible
D)A primer on the natural sciences
Q4) _______________________ Musical compositions with three voices, often singing in different languages.
Q5) How did the cathedral play an integral part in the lives of the townspeople?
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Q6) _______________________ External masonry supports for Gothic cathedrals.
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Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) 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
Q2) _______________________Author of Lives of the Artists
Q3) What shift occurred in the role of the musician and composer in the fourteenth century?
Q4) What style is exemplified by Simone Martin's Annunciation?
A)The Byzantine Style
B)The International Style
C)The Florentine Style
D)The Venetian Style
Q5) 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
Q6) _______________________ Short poem of fourteen lines
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Q7) _______________________ Medieval verse tales with comic, ribald themes
Chapter 11: The Fourteenth Century: a Time of Transition
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT designed by Brunelleschi?
A)The dome of Florence Cathedral
B)Palazzo Rucellai
C)The loggia of Ospedale degli Innocenti
D)Pazzi Chapel
Q2) 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
Q3) _______________________ Four-lobed frame used in the Baptistery competition
Q4) According to Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860), how did the values and beliefs of the Renaissance differ from those of the Middle Ages?
Q5) Which city was the most important center of the early Italian Renaissance?
A)Venice
B)Naples
C)Florence
D)Rome
Q6) _______________________ Famous book by Machiavelli
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Chapter 12: The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) 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
Q2) What musical techniques did Josquin des Prez develop?
A)Overlapping voices and expressive use of lyrics
B)Elaborate keyboard and lute accompaniments
C)Virtuosic use of traditional Gregorian chant melodies
D)Composition for multiple choirs
Q3) Which composer is considered the "bridge" between the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
A)Palestrina
B)Strozzi
C)Giorgione
D)Josquin
Q4) _______________________ Castiglione's ideal of effortless mastery
Q5) _______________________ Awe-inspiring power, emotional intensity, and intractable will
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Chapter 13: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
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Q1) What is considered to be Christopher Marlowe's greatest masterpiece?
A)Romeo and Juliet
B)The Spanish Tragedy
C)Utopia
D)Dr.Faustus
Q2) What European musical form were English anthems based upon?
A)Gregorian chants
B)motets
C)Protestant hymns
D)Catholic masses
Q3) Which Elizabethan composer wrote ayres for lute and voice?
A)Thomas Morley
B)John Dowland
C)William Byrd
D)John Dunstable
Q4) Who suggested that the Earth and planets orbit the sun?
A)Vesalius
B)Copernicus
C)da Vinci
D)Paracelsus
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Chapter 14: The High Renaissance in the North
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Q1) What was the name of the predominant European art style of the 1600s?
A)Renaissance
B)Baroque
C)Rococo
D)Arcadian
Q2) What was the Ptolemaic view of the universe and why was this view supported by the Catholic Church?
Q3) Which work is considered the greatest novel in the Spanish language?
A)Il Gesù
B)Tartuffe
C)Don Quixote
D)La Primavera
Q4) Which Dutch artist is best known for his quiet scenes of ordinary domestic life?
A)van Dyck
B)Rubens
C)Vermeer
D)Sweelinck
Q5) What was the response of the Roman Catholic Church to Protestant criticism of its belief in purgatory, transubstantiation, and celibacy for the clergy? What is meant by the doctrine of "transubstantiation"?
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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) Whose play The Marriage of Figaro was interpreted as an attack on the lifestyle of the ruling classes?
A)Beaumarchais
B)Fragonard
C)Hogarth
D)Swift
Q3) _______________________ Economic principle of letting the market determine prices
Q4) What was the view of human nature held by Jonathan Swift?
A)That humans were both irrational and intelligent
B)That humans were essentially selfish and base
C)That humans were rational and innovative
D)That humans were fundamentally weak
Q5) What was Jonathan's Swift's best-known novel? What two aspects of human nature are represented by Swift's Houyhnhnms and Yahoos?
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Chapter 16: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) What is the story of Faust?
Q2) Which French Realist novelist wrote over 90 novels and stories, in which he uses many of the same characters?
A)Balzac
B)Flaubert
C)Hugo
D)Tolstoy
Q3) Which art style came after Romanticism?
A)Transcendentalism
B)Luminism
C)Nationalism
D)Realism
Q4) _______________________ German literary movement that rebelled against Neoclassicism's structure and order
Q5) What are the principal characteristics of Romanticism?
Q6) Who are two early developers of photography?
A)Niépce and Daguerre
B)Constable and Copley
C)Friedrich and Heade
D)Hawthorn and Melville
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Chapter 17: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography
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Q1) Which European city was the center of artistic activity in the later nineteenth century?
A)London
B)Paris
C)New York
D)Rome
Q2) How did Déjeuner sur l'Herbe break with the stylistic traditions of the past?
A)The figures were placed in broad, flat color fields.
B)The painting included both male and female nudes.
C)The painting used a pyramidal arrangement for the figures.
D)The painting's subjects were expressionless.
Q3) Why was Ibsen such an important Norwegian dramatist? What themes do his plays explore?
Q4) _______________________ Strauss' term for "symphonic poem"
Q5) 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
Q6) _______________________ Impressionist composer of Claire du Lune
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Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914
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Q1) What African-American movement emerged in New York City in the 1920s?
A)The rise of the speakeasy
B)The Harlem Renaissance
C)The Black Power Movement
D)The Civil Rights Movement
Q2) What were the subjects of Sergei Eisenstein's films? What innovations did Eisenstein introduce through his filmmaking?
Q3) _______________________ Picasso's allegorical painting of the bombing of a Basque town
Q4) Which Czech author wrote The Trial and The Castle?
A)Tolstoy
B)Proust
C)Dostoyevsky
D)Kafka
Q5) Which of the following did Duchamp present as one of his artistic creations?
A)A telephone
B)A urinal
C)A Greek statue
D)A melted clock
Q6) _______________________ Musical form used in "King" Oliver's "West End Blues"
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Q1) _______________________ Algerian-born French existentialist writer
Q2) What type of non-western music has influenced the work of the minimalist composer Philip Glass?
A)American Indian chant
B)Polynesian percussion and song
C)Ukrainian music written for the Ud
D)Indian tabla and sitar music
Q3) What is distinctive about Mark Rothko's paintings?
A)They borrow heavily from Greek art.
B)They arrange figures in pyramidal form.
C)They focus on natural settings.
D)They use large fields of solid color.
Q4) What type of art is exemplified by Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty?
A)found art
B)ready-made
C)land art
D)combine
Q5) _______________________ term adopted by existentialists to describe the meaninglessness of human existence
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