Humanities 3 Flashcards
Which Shakespeare play is considered by many critics to be the Bard’s finest study of guilt and conscience following a crime?
Macbeth. Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and tries to wash the imagine blood of Kind Duncan off her hands, and Macbeth himself sees the ghost of the bloodied Banquo during a public celebration, thereby providing one more clue to the populace that he and his wife were responsible for the death of the rightful king.
In which of the following tales is a house presented as a personification of a family?
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This work is famous for its personification of the fading fortunes of the Pyncheon family in Salem. The imploding and collapse of the structure at the end of the novel represents the end of the family that had been cursed during the witchcraft trials.
Which of the following is a twentieth-century novel about the Wild West written in the tradition of realistic movement?
The Oxbow Incident by Walter Van Tillburg Clark
Which of the following poets is known as an American original who experiments with extensive works of detailed images and free verse?
Walt Whitman
What was Mark Twain’s real name?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Which author often wrote poems about the ugliness and horror of the Industrial Revolution?
William Blake
In poetry, the term EPIC refers to?
A long poem written about heroic actions.
Which of the following plays focuses on a marriage built on a lie and problems with eyesight?
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
In which play does Gregers return home to find that Gina, who was once a maid in his family, is now married to Hjalmar. Gregers believed that Gina was impregnated by his father, Old Werle, who is slowly losing his eyesight.
Gregers believes that Gina and Hjalmar’s marries is based on a lie?
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Tartruffe is best described as a play about?
A man of considerable stature duped by a hypocrite. The play was written by Moliere
An insula refers to?
multi-storied Roman apartment block
An agora refers to?
Greek public meeting square
What is the western portion of a Carolingian church called?
Westwerk
What is a vertical groove on the surface of a column called?
flute
Berkeley’s famous dictum, “Esse est percipi” (To be is to be perceived), is associated most strongly with the outlook known as?
Idealism.
Berkeley is perhaps the clearest advocate of idealism in the history of philosophy.
Which jazz saxophonist was named “Bird”?
Charlie Parker
Which jazz tenor saxophonist is famous for his “Giant Steps”?
John Coltrane, it was the name of his album.
Which tenor saxophonist is famous for “The Girl from Impanema”?
Stan Getz
Who is considered the father of jazz tenor sax?
Coleman Hawkins
A collaboration between Aaron Copland and the dance-choreographer Agnes de Mille resulted in the creation of which ballet suite?
Rodeo
Which of the following novels of adventure presents the most detailed picture of eighteenth century English manorial and city life?
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
This novel is known for its wanton characterization and surprising turns of plot, it is considered by many to be one of the most picturesque of the picaresque (defined as life story of a rascal of low degree, consisting of a series of thrilling incidents)
Which of the following is among the most famous of English works by the group of writers called the “Decadents”?
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
The important literary concept of “pathetic fallacy” was first set forth in?
Ruskin’s Modern Painters. He actually introduced the phrase to denote a tendency of some poets and writers to credit nature with emotions of human beings as in “The cruel crawling foam” Nowadays, it has come to mean writing that is false in it emotionalism, even if the topic is not nature.
A reaction against utilitarianism - the theory of ethics formulated in England in the eighteenth century - can be seen in the nineteenth-century literature, such as?
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield.
Contained an opposing argument for utilitarianism, which was an argument from the previous century that said “The greatest happiness for the greatest number”. The theory was proposed by Jeremy Bentham, and was modified and promoted by James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill.
