Humanities 3

Question 1

Which Shakespeare play is considered by many critics to be the Bard’s finest study of guilt and conscience following a crime?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

In which of the following tales is a house presented as a personification of a family?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Which of the following is a twentieth-century novel about the Wild West written in the tradition of realistic movement?

Answer 3

The Oxbow Incident by Walter Van Tillburg Clark

Question 4

Which of the following poets is known as an American original who experiments with extensive works of detailed images and free verse?

Answer 4

Walt Whitman

Question 5

What was Mark Twain’s real name?

Answer 5

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Question 6

Which author often wrote poems about the ugliness and horror of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 6

William Blake

Question 7

In poetry, the term EPIC refers to?

Answer 7

A long poem written about heroic actions.

Question 8

Which of the following plays focuses on a marriage built on a lie and problems with eyesight?

Answer 8

The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

Question 10

Tartruffe is best described as a play about?

Answer 10

A man of considerable stature duped by a hypocrite. The play was written by Moliere

Question 11

An insula refers to?

Answer 11

multi-storied Roman apartment block

Question 12

An agora refers to?

Answer 12

Greek public meeting square

Question 13

What is the western portion of a Carolingian church called?

Answer 13

Westwerk

Question 14

What is a vertical groove on the surface of a column called?

Answer 14

flute

Question 15

Berkeley’s famous dictum, “Esse est percipi” (To be is to be perceived), is associated most strongly with the outlook known as?

Answer 15

Idealism.

Berkeley is perhaps the clearest advocate of idealism in the history of philosophy.

Question 16

Which jazz saxophonist was named “Bird”?

Answer 16

Charlie Parker

Question 17

Which jazz tenor saxophonist is famous for his “Giant Steps”?

Answer 17

John Coltrane, it was the name of his album.

Question 18

Which tenor saxophonist is famous for “The Girl from Impanema”?

Answer 18

Stan Getz

Question 19

Who is considered the father of jazz tenor sax?

Answer 19

Coleman Hawkins

Question 20

A collaboration between Aaron Copland and the dance-choreographer Agnes de Mille resulted in the creation of which ballet suite?

Answer 20

Rodeo

Question 21

Which of the following novels of adventure presents the most detailed picture of eighteenth century English manorial and city life?

Answer 21

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)

Question 22

Which of the following is among the most famous of English works by the group of writers called the “Decadents”?

Answer 22

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question 23

The important literary concept of “pathetic fallacy” was first set forth in?

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Which of the following writers participated energetically in the Celtic Revival of the eighteenth century?

Answer 25

James Macpherson. He invented, recorded, and reinterpreted Gaelic pieces preserved in the Scottish highlands and published translations of the great early Celtic poem Ossian.

Question 26

Which famous poets wrote:
Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —

Answer 26

Emily Dickinson, the use of the long dash often gives her away, it’s one of her trademarks

Question 27

Which famous poet wrote:
As soon as April pierces the root
The drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot

Answer 27

Geoffrey Chaucer

This is the famous opening from The Canterbury Tales.

Question 28

Who is said to be the father of English poetry?

Answer 28

Chaucer (1400)

Question 29

Which famous poet wrote:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky

Answer 29

William Wordsworth

Question 30

Which famous poet wrote:
Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden fruit whose mortal taste

Answer 30

John Milton.

This is the opening line of Paradise Lost

Question 31

Which famous poet wrote:
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill

Answer 31

Wallace Stevens

poem called Anecdote of the Jar

Question 32

Who wrote this opening line:

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from an uneasy dream he found himself transformed into a gigantic insect

Answer 32

Franz Kafka’s opening line from Metamorphosis

Question 33

The best definition for the original use of scapegoat is?

Answer 33

a victim sacrificed for the redemption of the tribe being driven into the wilderness

Question 34

Which of the following types of ancient Roman architecture most directly influenced the development of early Christian church planning?

Answer 34

Basilica

Question 35

Dance was originated by?

Answer 35

savage hunters

Question 36

The logical fallacy involved in concluding that the universe itself must have a cause because every event in the universe has a cause is?

Answer 36

The fallacy of composition

Question 37

The themes of many musical compositions are often that of folk music. Which composer is most famous for his folk music settings for wind ensembles?

Answer 37

Percy Grainger

Question 38

Which of the following is considered among the “American Ethnic” body of literature?

Answer 38

Philip Roth’s Goodbye Columbus
It was a big hit in the 1950’s ushering in the age of the American Ethnic novelist. The novel is about a rocky young romance within a suburban New York Jewish-American context. It’s both an American success story and a recollection of transformation for generations between immigrant and native born.

Question 39

One of the most famous and prophetic descriptions of settlements in young America was?

Answer 39

Letters from an American Farmer by Alexis de Tocqueville

This novel is considered one of the most perceptive and accurate portraits of the newly independent American nation.

Question 40

Which modern novel describes the difficulties faced by African-Americans in the 20th century America?

Answer 40

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Question 41

Which nineteenth century novel was used as an accurate travel guide well into this century?

Answer 41

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Question 42

Which novel recalls a time of medieval chivalry?

Answer 42

Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

Written in the 19th century, it deals with the 13th century

Question 43

It has been said that Victorian poetry is essentially a continuation of the poetry of the romantic movement. This can be seen in?

Answer 43

Arnolds veneration of Wordsworth

Veneration: great respect

Question 44

Which is one of the most hilarious stores from Huckleberry Finn - one which demonstrates both the accepting nature and eventual canniness of the heartland Americans?

Answer 44

The Duke and the Dauphin
Twain relates the story of a bogus pretender to the French throne and his accompli who perform what they hope will pass as Shakespeare to frontier audiences. Initially taken by the idea, the settlers get wise to their scam and chase them out of town.

Question 45

For what purpose was the Taj Mahal in India originally built?

Answer 45

it was built by Shah Jahan as a house for his wife

Question 46

What is this an example of:
On the one-ton temple bell
a moonmoth, folded into sleep,
sits still

Answer 46

A haiku

A Japanese poem that contains 17 syllables

Question 47

What does bathos mean?

Answer 47

An abrupt fall from the beautiful to the funny. The previous sentence is an example of bathos: an abrupt turn from the serious and poetic to the regular and silly. Rather than likening the woman to a beautiful bird, she is compared, surprisingly, to a tired, old peacock.

Question 48

Which poet gave us the term “negative capability”?

Answer 48

John Keats. Romantic poet John Keats in 1817 to characterize the capacity of the greatest writers to pursue a vision of artistic beauty even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty.

Question 49

In literary terms, what does the Greek anagnorisis mean?

Answer 49

Recognition or discovery.the startling discovery that produces a change from ignorance to knowledge. … Anagnorisis usually involves revelation of the true identity of persons previously unknown

Question 50

What best describes Mark Antony’s intent in the public oration that he makes regarding Julius Caesar’s death?

Answer 50

The public is aided in its discovery of the villain