humanities 15

Question 1

The troubadours of the Middles ages are best described as

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poet-musicians

Question 2

the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

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feudalism

Question 3

Who proposed that our world, our reality, was just a reflection?

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Plato

It’s a shadow of another world, composed by perfect ideas and forms.

Question 4

Who reinterpreted Plato’s ideas and was the founder of NeoPlatonism?

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Plotinis.

Question 5

Who was the founder of Scholasticism?

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St. Anselm.
11th century, basically the application of Aristotle’s principles. the principle of the fair middle.
The principle that there is a supreme Entity that Aristotle called the First Engine,
or the First Force that was the cause of all effects
and had not a cause in itself.

Question 6

believed that the existence of God could be proven in five ways, mainly by: 1) observing movement in the world as proof of God, the “Immovable Mover”; 2) observing cause and effect and identifying God as the cause of everything; 3) concluding that the impermanent nature of beings proves the existence of a necessary being, God, who originates only from within himself; 4) noticing varying levels of human perfection and determining that a supreme, perfect being must therefore exist; and 5) knowing that natural beings could not have intelligence without it being granted to them it by God. Subsequent to defending people’s ability to naturally perceive proof of God

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St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 7

He believed that tragedy causes the proper purgation of those emotions of pity and fear which it has aroused.

The author and concept referred to in the sentence above are

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Aristotle . . . catharsis

Question 8

He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty

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apollo

Question 9

The god of revelry and wine, he later became patron of the theater

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Dionysus

Question 10

A short narrative used to answer a difficult moral question or to offer a moral truth is called

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parable

Question 11

Aristotle considered that only these two literary genres were worth of attention because they had a mimetic or figurative relation with the world, as opposed to a diegetic or directly representative relation

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tragedy and epic poetry

Question 12

Socrates was ordered to drink hemlock because

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he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods

Question 13

The philosopher that proposed the existence of a world of ideas truer than the world of material appearance was

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plato

Question 14

linearity of forms, simplicity, proportion and symmetry

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Classicism

Question 15

Play by Sophocles where Jocasta marries her son?

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Oedipus Rex

Question 16

In the Iliad, Achilles kills Hector because

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Hector had killed Achilles’s friend Patroclus

Question 17

Odysseus escaped from Polyphemus the cyclops

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by deceiving him and piercing his only eye

Question 18

Who traveled to the Black Sea to seize the Golden Fleece

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Jason and the Argonauts

Question 19

Which Roman poet made of Aeneas the hero who foresaw the grandeur of Rome

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Virgil

Wrote The Aeneid

Question 20

Who was famous for writing poems on topics such as carpe diem and beatus ille

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Horace

Question 21

Saint Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have said, “Beware the man of one book.” Such an expression is commonly called

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an aphorism

Question 22

Dante Alighieri chooses Virgil as his guide in their descent into Inferno because

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Virgil represented the light of reason before the revelation of God

Question 23

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” is a line that belongs to

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Dante’s Divine Comedy

Question 24

This philosopher adapted Plato’s ideas and founded Neo-Platonism

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Plotinus

Question 25

Saint Augustine is considered a Neo-Platonic Christian because

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he envisioned the City of Men as a bad replica of the City of God

Question 26

Which Renaissance painter painted the Birth of Venus?

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Botticelli

Question 27

The Decameron was written by

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 28

Which Shakespearean plays was used as the basis for a libretto for a Verdi opera?

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Othello

Question 29

Sometimes called a religion, sometimes referred to as “the religion of no religion,” sometimes identified simply as “a way of life,” its development can be traced from its origins in India in the sixth century B.C.E., to Japan in the twelfth century C.E. by way of China and Korea, and to the United States in the twentieth century.

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Zen Buddhism

Question 30

The rediscovery of classical texts and ideas, an emphasis on reason, and the development of linear perspective in art were characteristic of which of the following movements in Europe?

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the Renaissance

Question 31

Which of the following satirizes the eighteenth-century doctrine “whatever is, is right” in this “best of all possible worlds”?

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Voltaire’s Candide

Question 32

Rationalism and empiricism are represented by these two philosophers

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Descartes (rationalism) and Locke (empiricist)

Question 33

an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe l'oeil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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roccoco or late baroque

Question 34

This question refers to the following symphony. Mozart’s Symphony in D major, No. 35, is divided into the following four parts. ``` Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto Finale: presto The parts are known as ```

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movements

Question 35

This question refers to the following symphony. Mozart’s Symphony in D major, No. 35, is divided into the following four parts. ``` Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto Finale: presto Which two parts have the fastest tempos? ```

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1 and 4

Question 36

A composer and organist of the Baroque period, he created such works as the Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations, and the Well-Tempered Clavier. The composer described is

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Bach

Question 37

The terms “adagio,” “cadenza,” and “opus” are all associated with

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music

Question 38

Choral music without instrumental accompaniment is known as

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a capella

Question 39

An aria is usually found in, and associated with, which of the following genres of the arts?

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opera

Question 40

During his travels, his overexcited imagination invariably blinds him to reality; he thinks windmills are giants, flocks of sheep are armies, and galley slaves are oppressed gentlemen.

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Don Quixote by Baroque writer Cervantes

Question 41

who, although he is sometimes called a tragic hero, is also recognized as the villain of John Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost?

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satan

Question 42

Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and The Bourgeois Gentleman are all comedies written by

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Moliere

Question 43

Artists associated with this nineteenth-century movement created images based on emotion, imagination, and the irrational.

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Romanticism

Question 44

He composed in a wide variety of musical genres, including nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, and an opera. The composer is

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 45

Renowned for his waltzes, mazurkas and studios, this composer represented the spirit of romantic nationalism

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Frédéric Chopin

Question 46

Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which do Delacroix and Brahms belong?

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Romantic

Question 47

Which is the setting for most of the events in A Tale of Two Cities?

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France during the French Revolution

Question 48

Which is the setting for events in War and Peace?

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by Tolstoy about Russia during the Napoleonic Wars

Question 49

Fagin, Pip, and Ebenezer Scrooge are characters created by

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Dickens

Question 50

The development of photography in the 19th century had which of the following effects on the arts?

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It gave rise to the realist movement, which emphasized a kind of photographic objectivity in the depiction of its subjects.

Question 51

It was a school of the early twentieth century whose adherents designed buildings and objects in a functional style consistent with the era of mass production. Its use of industrial materials served as a basis for the International Style. The school described above is known as

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Bauhaus

Question 52

a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color. a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction. MUSIC a style of composition (associated especially with Debussy) in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the whole-tone scale.

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``` Impressionism 19-20th century Famous Impressionist painter Degas Monet Manet Renoir ```

Question 53

a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880s against Impressionism. It was led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat.

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Post Impressionism

Question 54

Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which do Debussy and Renoir belong?

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impressionist

Question 55

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are associated with which art movement?

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cubism

Question 56

a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

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surrealism

Question 57

Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, and To the Lighthouse are all works written by

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Virginia Woolf

Question 58

Which of the following terms describes a literary or dramatic form of discourse in which a character reveals thoughts in a monologue?

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soliloquy

Question 59

Which of the following composers was Picasso’s closest musical contemporary?

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Igor Stravinsky

Question 60

Which philosopher wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which became the inspiration for a tone-poem of the same name by Richard Strauss?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 61

La Dolce Vita, La Strada, and 8 1∕2 are films directed by

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Federico Fellini

Question 62

Who wereGeorges Melies and the Lumiere Brothers?

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Pioneers of cinematography

Question 63

all of the heroes in Shakespeare's tragedies have a weakness in personality that eventually leads to their downfall.

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fatal flaw