The humanities can be the starting point for a journey into self-knowledge.
• Question 1 The humanities can be the starting point for a journey into self-knowledge.
True
False
• Question 2 Which of the following figures has been called both a “universal man” and a “Renaissance man” for his wide ranging contributions to both the humanities and the sciences, including the creation of the Mona Lisa and plans for an early version of an airplane?
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt
Vincent van Gogh
• Question 3 For some poets and writers in the late Middle Ages, nature was viewed as a sacred escape from the death and decay that the plague and poverty brought upon city life.
True
False
• Question 4 Which ancient Greek philosopher was famous for his method of teaching that emphasized asking a series of questions?
Aristotle
Diogenes
Socrates
Zeno
• Question 5 Which of the following passages from the Bible do environmentalists point to as evidence that humanity should be caretakers and not owners of the earth?
“So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
“God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’” (Genesis 1:28)
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15)
“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’” (Genesis 2:16-7)
• Question 6 Many Native American cultures have long traditions of deeply spiritual relationships with nature that emphasize oneness between humanity and nature.
True
False
• Question 7 Romanticism emphasizes reason over emotion, the head over the heart.
True
False
• Question 8 All are aspects of the humanities except :
Philosophy
Mathematics
Music
Literature
• Question 9 The pleasure that beauty inspires within us is called “aesthetic.”
True
False
• Question 10 Which of the following terms represents the portrayal of nature as “balanced, serene, and pleasing to the eye”?
Beautiful
Sublime
Picturesque
Naturalistic
HUM2023 Humanities
Week 2 Quiz
• Question 1 An emotional response to the humanities, which is named after an ancient Greek god is:
The Dionysian response
The Apollonian response
• Question 2 “Blank Verse” has
rhyme but no rhythm
rhythm but no rhyme
Alternating rhyme
Neither rhythm nor rhyme
• Question 3 How many lines does a Sonnet have?
14
7
12
10
• Question 4 Holden Caulfield is a hero in which of the following novels:
Ulysses
The Member of the Wedding
A Farewell to Arms
The Catcher in the Rye
• Question 5 Emily Dickinson had how many poems published in her life time?
3
7
10
12
• Question 6 Non-critical thinkers may be called:
Literalists
Figuratists
• Question 7 Which one of the following novels by John Steinbeck was about the westward migration of dispossessed Oklahoma farmers of the 1930’S?
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of our Discontent
Of Mice and Men
• Question 8 Which of the following is a novel written by James Fennimore Cooper?
The House of Seven Gables
Moby Dick
The Last of the Mohicans
Huckleberry Finn
• Question 9 The 1990 music drama “Miss Saigon” was based on which Opera?
Madame Butterfly
La Traviatta
Carmen
La Giaconda
• Question 10 Which of the following is considered the first Epic?
The Iliad
Aeneid
The Odyssey
Gilgamesh
HUM2023 Humanities
Week 3 Quiz
QUESTION 1“Lady Sings the Blues” is a song performed by which of the following blues singers?
QUESTION 2Which of the following musical techniques or styles was not used by J.S. Bach?
QUESTION 3Which of Beethoven’s symphonies is called “The Eroica”?
QUESTION 4Which of the following terms is not a musical term?
QUESTION 5When the melodic line of a piece of music is played against, not with, the accented beats of the rhythm accompaniment it is called what?
QUESTION 6The Beatles’ music was influenced by the culture and religion of which country?
QUESTION 7“Rap” had its origins in the 1970’s in the urban setting of which city?
QUESTION 8“Rock around the clock” was the theme song to which movie in the 1950’s?
QUESTION 9Which of the following singers is/was considered a “folk singer”?
QUESTION 10Which major American composer brought Jazz to Carnegie Hall in New York in the 1930’s?George Gershwin
HUM2023 Humanities
Week 4 Quiz
• Question 1 Which of the following film directors was considered “a master of suspense”?
• Question 2 Which early twentieth century Disney production introduced highly innovative color and artwork into the field of animated film and continues its popularity to the present day?
• Question 3 The Proscenium in a theater refers to what?
• Question 4 The song “As Time Goes by” was played in which of the following films?
• Question 5 In a film, the way that the camera is positioned in any given scene so it is clear which character is experiencing the action is called a
• Question 6 Aristotle divided tragedy into six parts. Which of the following is not one of the parts?
• Question 7 Which one of the following was not one of the Marx brothers?
• Question 8 Which American playwright wrote “Death of a Salesman” in 1949?
• Question 9 According to an Elizabethan stage convention, when an actor is alone on stage, speaking his thoughts aloud, this is called a
• Question 10 When a drama on stage or on film has exaggerated situations and emotions it is called what?
HUM2023 Humanities
Week 5 Quiz
• Question 1 Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer.
True
False
• Question 2 Which French novelist wrote the novel “Les Miserables” in 1862, which called powerful attention to the poor in France?
Voltaire
Rousseau
Victor Hugo
Alexandre Dumas
• Question 3 The concept of “yin and yang” comes from which tradition?
Taoism
Confucianism
Hinduism
Buddhism
• Question 4 Who was the first major advocate of Stoicism?
Aristippus
Socrates
Plato
Zeno
• Question 5 The Dalai Lama is the leader of which segment of Buddhism?
Mahayana Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism
Zen Buddhism
• Question 6 What does the word “Zen” refer to in Zen Buddhism?
Piety
Obedience
Renunciation
Meditation
• Question 7 The fables of which Greek writer contain many stories and morals that stay with humanity from age to age?
Sophocles
Herodotus
Aesop
Homer
• Question 8 “The Great Spirit” is/was a concept in which society’s beliefs?
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Greeks
Native Americans
Buddhists
• Question 9 Which American poet was greatly influenced by the religious thought of India?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
• Question 10 The concept of “Carpe Diem” is based on which theory of happiness?
Hedonism
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Aristotle’s philosophy of happiness
HUM2023 Humanities
Week 6 Quiz
QUESTION 1Who was the king of the gods in Roman mythology?
Juno
Apollo
Poseidon
Jupiter
QUESTION 2Early peoples acted out ceremonies to affect the behavior of the gods. What was this called?
Olympian chanting
Supplicant ceremony
Sympathetic magic
Ritual pleading
QUESTION 3Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of a hero according to Joseph Campbell?
A hero gives his or her life to something bigger than him/herself, to some higher end.
A hero performs a courageous act, either physical or spiritual.
A hero never has doubts about his or her actions
A hero is usually someone from whom something has been taken or who feels there’s something lacking in the normal experience available, or permitted, to members of his society.
QUESTION 4In Greek mythology, the souls of brave warriors were believed to reside in an eternal paradise called
Atlantis
Elysian Fields
Avalon
Shangri-La
QUESTION 5Oedipus the King is a play written by which ancient Greek playwright?
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
QUESTION 6Archetypes are mythic characters, events, symbols, and buried assumptions transmitted from one generation to another by the collective unconscious. Which psychologist developed this concept?
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Alfred Adler
Abraham Maslow
QUESTION 7Which English poet wrote “Prometheus Unbound” in the 1800’s?
John Milton
Percy Shelley
Lord Byron
Robert Browning
QUESTION 8In the 1959 Brazilian film, Black Orpheus , based on an ancient Greek myth, Orpheus is in love with a mythical woman who dies, and he follows her to the underworld . What is her name?
Aphrodite
Athena
Eurydice
Aurora
QUESTION 9Stonehenge, an ancient stone circle, was erected as a means of predicting the seasons. Where is it located?
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
England
QUESTION 10The hero is an archetype found in almost every culture. The Irish novelist James Joyce coined what term to convey the belief that the concept of a hero is pretty much the same everywhere?
Monomyth
Panamyth
Unimyth
Equimyth
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