humanities 12

Question 1

All sad feelings seemed now driven from the house. . . there was life everywhere, movement all day long. In this sentence what is the significance of the three consecutive periods?

Answer 1

They indicate that a part of the quote has been omitted.
This is an example of the ellipsis. Within a sentence, three periods with a space after each period indicate that material has been purposefully omitted while quoting directly from the original.

Question 2

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Answer 2

allusion

Question 3

work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with finely detailed observation the customs, values, and mores of a highly developed and complex society.

Answer 3

Novel of manners
notable writers of novel of manners
Jane Austen
Notable writers of the novel of manners from the end of the 19th century into the 20th include Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, Edith Wharton, and John Marquand.[1]

Question 4

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Answer 4

alliteration

Question 5

The church of St. Peter in the Vatican in Rome was built according to which of the following architect’s design?

Answer 5

Michelangelo

Question 6

Type of stage that is typical in American theaters, this is a “picture frame” stage with a large space separating the audience from the stage

Answer 6

Proscenium stage

Question 7

Type of stage setting that is completely surrounded by the audience. This can also be described as theater-in-the-round?

Answer 7

arena stage

Question 8

Type of stage setting that is intimate and the theater space in which the audience typically is seated around three-quarters of the stage?

Answer 8

Thrust stage

Question 9

a space without a specific format that can be adjusted to any desired arrangement?

Answer 9

black box theater

usually used for experimental theater

Question 10

An area designed to accommodate 500-600 dancers and several thousand spectators. This dance area is circular in shape, resembling a large doughnut. The middle of the donut is the area where the dancer performs, the outer rim provides protection for the audience. The earth is the floor and they sky is the roof

Answer 10

dance arbor

Question 11

Many directions are given on a music score. when a dot is over a note, this indicates to play the note?

Answer 11

Staccato. to play the note sharply detached or separated

Question 12

durational direction used in musical notation which means to hold or sustain a note for its full length.

Answer 12

Tenuto

Question 13

dynamic marking to play a note very loud

Answer 13

Fortissimo

Question 14

dynamic marking in music to play a note soft

Answer 14

piano

Question 15

Count Basie, a jazz pianist/band leader, employed which style of playing in his accompaniment?

Answer 15

Comping, which is short for accompaniment, is the style of playing that Count Basie mastered. Often used in jazz, comping had a bounce, syncopation, and flexibility that allowed soloists the freedom to improvise. A pianist, he played vaudeville before eventually forming his own big band and helping to define the era of swing with hits like “One O’Clock Jump” and “Blue Skies.” In 1958, Basie became the first African-American male recipient of a Grammy Award.

Question 16

What is scat singing and who popularized it?

Answer 16

scat singing is used in jazz, it is a vocal technique that does not use words. Made popular by Louis Armstrong.
Ella Fitzgerald is considered to be one of the greatest scat singers in jazz history.

Question 17

Who was Louis Armstrong?

Answer 17

nicknamed “Satchmo”, “Satch”, and “Pops”, was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor who was among the most influential figures in jazz. also known for scat singing. Known for “What a Wonderful World,” “Hello, Dolly,” ”Star Dust” and “La Vie En Rose.”

Question 18

Which scale contains three flats in the key signature?

Answer 18

E flat major

Question 19

occurs when a line of poetry “runs on” to the next line, causing a slight pause in a mid-sentence or thought

Answer 19

enjambment

Question 20

two word phrase that describes an object through metaphors, common in Norse or Old English poetry, example from Beowulf when sky candle is used to described the sun

Answer 20

kenning

Question 21

lines that are repeated in song or a poem, the “chorus” of a song

Answer 21

refrain

Question 22

a story with a hidden meaning

Answer 22

allegory

Question 23

This ruler has decided to retire and distribute his wealth and his responsibilities among his children, but he requires loyalty oaths from them. The action described above takes place in which of the following plays?

Answer 23

King Lear

Question 24

What is Tartuffe by Moliere about?

Answer 24

Tartuffe is a wanderer whom Orgon takes into his home. Tartuffe impresses Orgon with his devout religious and moral beliefs and behavior. As a result of his carefully constructed persona, Tartuffe becomes adored by both Orgon, and his mother, Madame Pernelle.The main theme of Tartuffe is hypocrisy—pretending to be something one is not or claiming to believe something one does not. Some characters in the play are knowingly hypocrites—Tartuffe, the invisible Laurent, and Monsieur Loyal. Other characters—such as Orgon and his mother—do not recognize their own hypocrisy.

Question 25

What is Measure for Measure by Thomas Middleton and William Shakespeare?

Answer 25

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure centers around the fate of Claudio, who is arrested by Lord Angelo, the temporary leader of Vienna. Angelo is left in charge by the Duke, who pretends to leave town but instead dresses as a friar to observe the goings-on in his absence.The theme of Measure for Measure is the temperance of justice with mercy. Merciful justice is juxtaposed throughout with strict enforcement of the law. The duke, Isabella, Escalus, Mariana, and the Provost all advocate mercy. … Measure for Measure has been called satirical of hypocritical, self-righteous Puritanism.

Question 26

What is the play King Lear by William Shakespeare about?

Answer 26

King Lear is an aging monarch with no male heir. He decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters and their husbands. He requires them to give speeches proving their love for him. The evil sisters Goneril and Regan use exaggerated flattery, but the good sister Cordelia speaks plainly and simply.King Lear presents a bleak vision of a world without meaning. Lear begins the play valuing justice, the social order, and the value of kingship, but his values are undermined by his experiences. Lear ends up believing that justice, order and kingship are just flattering names for raw, brutal power.

Question 27

What is the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare about?

Answer 27

A Synopsis of Hamlet. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is home from school to mourn the death of his father, King Hamlet, who has died two months earlier. Hamlet is disgusted by the marriage of his newly widowed mother, Queen Gertrude, to his Uncle, King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius, who now has the throne.When Laertes asks forgiveness, pointing blame to Claudius, and Hamlet realizes that he’s been betrayed again, Hamlet stabs his uncle with the poisoned blade. By the end of Act V, Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, and Laertes are all dead; Fortinbras is handed the Crown of Denmark thus according with Hamlet’s last request.Hamlet Summary. The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.

Question 28

What is the play Macbeth about by William Shakespeare?

Answer 28

A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia.

Question 29

What is the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett about?

Answer 29

Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters.
A tragicomedy

Question 30

Everyman is one among a number of morality plays. Abstractions such as beauty, strength, discretion, and five wits are personified as Everyman’s companions. Within the context of the preceding sentences, which is the most precise meaning of morality?

Answer 30

Ethics

Though both evil and good exist within morality plays, the focus is on the choice one must make between the two.

Question 31

The use of concrete as a construction material was first widely exploited during which of the following periods?

Answer 31

Ancient Rome

Concrete was one of the most significant contributions the ancient Romans made to the history of architecture.

Question 32

Which of the following choreographers was the first contributor to modern dance?

Answer 32

Isadora Duncan. She was the first choreographer to rebel against formality and to practice expression of oneself through free bodily movements.

Question 33

Who was Agnes de Mille?

Answer 33

She was an American dancer and choreographer.
Her first significant work was Rodeo with the score done by Aaron Copland. Her work on Rodeo, in which she danced the lead role herself, was highly acclaimed and led to her being hired for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, where she blended classical and modern dance.

Question 34

Who was Martha Graham?

Answer 34

She was an influential American dancer, teacher, and choreographer of modern dance whose ballets and other works were intended to “reveal the inner man.”Martha Graham influenced dance by breaking away from classical ballet and creating new techniques which dramatically changed dance. … She broke the rules of ballet and created a new language of dance. She used techniques of contracting and releasing, emotion and the use of the floor.Some of Graham’s most impressive and famous works include “Frontier,” “Appalachian Spring,” “Seraphic Dialogue” and “Lamentation.” All of these works utilized the Delsartean principle of tension and relaxation—what Graham termed “contraction and release.”

Question 35

Who was Ruth St. Denis?

Answer 35

She was an American modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was the co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts and the teacher of several notable performers.
Created Denishawn with husband Ted Shawn.

Question 36

Who was Isadora Duncan?

Answer 36

was an American pioneer of dance and is an important figure in both the arts and history. Known as the “Mother of Modern Dance,” Isadora Duncan was a self-styled revolutionary whose influence spread from American to Europe and Russia, creating a sensation everywhere she performed.
She was known as the first contributor to modern dance.

Question 37

Who was Ted Shawn?

Answer 37

originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating Denishawn with former wife Ruth St. Denis. He was also responsible for the creation of the well known all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers.was also responsible for the creation of the well known all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. With his innovative ideas of masculine movement, he was one of the most influential choreographers and dancers of his day.

Question 38

In Metaphysics is the belief that there are two kinds of reality: material (physical) and immaterial (spiritual)

Answer 38

dualismIn Philosophy of Mind, Dualism is the position that mind and body are in some categorical way separate from each other, and that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical in nature.Examples of epistemological dualism are being and thought, subject and object, and sense datum and thing; examples of metaphysical dualism are God and the world, matter and spirit, body and mind, and good and evil.

Question 39

the claim that people’s common-sense understanding of the mind is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist.

Answer 39

Eliminative materialism: believes that the souls can be eliminated, that a person is nothing more than a complex material object. Since, on this view, souls do not exist, there can be "incarnation" of the soul in a body and hence no reincarnation. 
Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism) is the radical claim that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist and have no role to play in a mature science of the mind. Descartes famously challenged much of what we take for granted, but he insisted that, for the most part, we can be confident about the content of our own minds. Eliminative materialists go further than Descartes on this point, since they challenge the existence of various mental states that Descartes took for granted.

Question 40

the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. Behavior is caused by muscles that contract upon receiving neural impulses, and neural impulses are generated by input from other neurons or from sense organs.

Answer 40

epiphenomenalism: believes that the soul and body are distinct but inseparable, much as the bubbling of a brook is distinct but not separable from the book.
Epiphenomenalism. … Because mental events are a kind of overflow that cannot cause anything physical, yet have non-physical properties, epiphenomenalism is viewed as a form of property dualism.

Question 41

a school in psychology which states that the human behavior and our mental state is actively adapting to our external environment. …

Answer 41

functional psychology
Believe that the soul is really just a kind of state or condition of the body, a functional state or the condition of its behaving in a certain way.
Evolution can be seen as an example of functional psychology. the essence of functional psychology can be seen the trails of human evolution.

Question 42

the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.

Answer 42

behaviorism
Believe that the soul is really just a kind of state or condition of the body, a functional state or the condition of its behaving in a certain way.

Question 43

If a philosopher believes in reincarnation, that philosopher’s general view in the philosophy of mind will be known as?

Answer 43

Dualism
Reincarnation presupposes that a soul united with one body can become united with another. This belief in turn assumes that souls and bodies are not only distinct but separable. The view that a person consists of a body and a separable soul is dualism.

Question 44

A scale composed of half steps is known as?

Answer 44

Chromatic scale

Question 45

A scale composed of all whole steps?

Answer 45

whole tone scale

Question 46

Often recalled as a medieval horror story of giants and demons, this magnificent epic was intended to outline the importance of leading a spiritual life.

Answer 46

The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is the famous medieval epic of a journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise- replete with unforgettable references to frightening Satanic beasts (including Satan himself) and horrific landscapes. It is also viewed by scholars as Dante’s spiritual autobiography - a story with a happy ending in which every person might attain redemption and the vision of God through Christianity.

Question 47

What was The Pilgrims Progress?

Answer 47

The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious, theological fiction in English literature. Is perhaps closest to Dante’s famous epic, in that it also presents an allegory of the life of a Christian in this world and was written 400 years after Dante’s The Divine Comedy.
A religious allegory by the seventeenth-century English author John Bunyan. Christian, the central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Along the way he faces many obstacles, including the Slough of Despond.
The work is a symbolic vision of the good man’s pilgrimage through life. At one time second only to the Bible in popularity, The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most famous Christian allegory still in print.

Question 48

What was The Canterbury Tales?

Answer 48

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
The Canterbury Tales consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Harry Bailey, the Host, had proposed a scheme in the General Prologue whereby each pilgrim was to narrate two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more while returning.
Characters: The Pardoner, The Wife of Bath, The Miller, The Knight, The Narrator
The Canterbury Tales is considered Chaucer’s masterpiece and is among the most important works of medieval literature for many reasons besides its poetic power and entertainment value

Question 49

What was The Song of Roland?

Answer 49

The Song of Roland is an 11th century epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature
The poem’s probable author was a Norman poet, Turold The epic itself went on to become widely popular and was later romanticised as a conflict between Christians and Muslims during the Crusades.

Question 50

What was Beowulf?

Answer 50

The Old English epic poem Beowulf tells the story of a young Geatish warrior who comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the King of the Danes, whose kingdom is being terrorized by a monster named Grendel. Beowulf uses his epic strength and bravery to slay Grendel in Hrothgar’s mead hall, Heorot, and then to slay Grendel’s vengeful mother in her underwater lair. Beowulf’s fame spreads, and he returns home to Geatland laden with treasure for his king, Hygelac. Beowulf later becomes the king of the Geats and rules for a peaceful fifty years. When a dragon begins to pose a threat to Geatland, Beowulf and his servant Wiglaf set off to defeat it. Beowulf succeeds in slaying the dragon, but dies in the process.
Author unknown
Being the oldest surviving English poem from the Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf gives the reader insight into the history of England and what eventually became British Literature.