Humanities Semester 1 Final Exam Flashcards
Who composed the 5th Symphony?
Beethoven
Beethoven nationality
German
Who composed the Unfinished Symphony?
Schubert
Schubert nationality
Austrian
Who composed the New World Symphony?
Dvorak
Dvorak nationality
Czech
Who composed the Grand March?
Verdi
Verdi nationality
Italitan
Who composed Tonight We Love?
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky nationality
Russian
Who composed the Toreador’s Song?
Bizet
Bizet nationality
French
Who composed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini?
Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff nationality
Russian
Who composed Swan Lake?
Tchaikovsky
Who composed the Blue Danube Waltz?
Strauss II
Strauss II nationality
Austrian
Who composed Bolero?
Ravel
Ravel nationality
French
Who composed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?
Mozart
Mozart nationality
Austrian
Who composed the Barber of Seville?
Rossini
Rossini nationality
Italian
Who composed Ride of the Valkyeries?
Wagner
Wagner nationality
German
Who composed Fanfare for the Common Man?
Copeland
Copeland nationality
American
Who composed the Hallelujah Chorus?
Handel
Handel nationality
German
Who composed the Wedding March?
Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn nationality
German
Who composed the Lullaby?
Brahms
Brahms nationality
German
Who composed Greensleeves?
Williams
Williams nationality
American
Who composed Ave Maria?
Schubert
Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include:
Chauvet, France; Lascaux, France; and Altamira, Spain.
In which of the following nations was the Willendorf Venus discovered?
Austria
Which of the following terms refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as Stonehenge?
megalith
Which of the following terms refers to the category of megalithic structure that includes Stonehenge?
cromlech
Who was the resident god at ur?
Sin
Which army captured Jerusalem, destroyed its temple, and deported many of the Hebrews?
Babylonian
Which ancient Egyptian leaders ruled circa 3,000 B.C.E. and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt?
Narmer
By what name do we know the new style of art that developed during the rule of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten?
Amarna style
Which of the following pairs of creatures is found on the jade disc known as Pi?
dragon and phoenix
Common among the people of Thera were:
elaborately decorated homes, clay pipes which
connected the toilets and bathes to sewers, and straw which was used to reinforce the walls of
their homes
Which of the following creatures did the inhabitants of Crete associate with male virility and strength?
bull
Legendary Minoan queen who gave birth to the Minotaur?
Pasiphae
Who was the wife of Odysseus?
Penelope
Which of the following terms translates as “top of the city” and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center?
acropolis
portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as public meeting
place, marketplace, and civic center
agora
columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.
entasis
part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards
demes
Which are included among those illustrated in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon
Trojans, giants, amazons, centaurs
___________ was among those who stabbed Julius Caesar.
Marcus Julius Brutus
________refer to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait
busts.
Imagines
In the sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta, _______ is pictured riding a dolphin.
Cupid
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars
Georgics
Augustus did not view the writings of ______ favorably, thus permanently banishing him from
Rome.
Ovid
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the _________ order, on the second floor the _______, and on the third floor, the ____________, was favored by the Romans.
Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian
circular opening at the top of the Pantheon
oculus
What did Hadrian conceive the oculus as?
“Eye of Jupiter”
land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome.
patricians
refer to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.
plebians
Which of the following words of Saxon origin can be translated as “camp”?
chester
Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the _______, or “life-price” of an individual.
wergeld
The epic poem _________ provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community
of monsters that have ravaged the land.
Beowulf
___________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul
in London
Augustine
______________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Bishop Eadfrith
___________ was made from ivory tusks of an elephant
Roland’s horn
The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the
refectory
The ____________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder.
barrel vault
The _______ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church.
voussoir
___________ was considered the center of the cult of the Virgin throughout the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries.
Chartres
_________ was considered the most cherished relic at the Chartres Cathedral.
Mary’s tunic
The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to ______________
tell the stories of the Gospel
One of the stained-glass windows at the Chartres Cathedral shows the genealogy of _______.
Christ
The window called ____________ depicts the Virgin Mary as descended from Jesse, the father of
King David, Thus fulfilling a prophecy in the book of Isaiah.
“Tree of Jesse”
In a gothic church, the _____________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.
flying buttress
The figure of Saint Theodore found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a
__________ position.
contrapposto
The trivium consisted of:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic
________ first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of
law.
Bologna
_______ was mandatory, and students studied ______ in all courses of their first four years of study.
Latin, Latin
_____________ played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris.
Robert de Sorbon
________ a logician and author of the treatise Sic et Non taught by the dialectical method.
Peter Abelard
_______ is widely recognized as the author of On the Diseases of Women.
Trotula
__________ wrote the Summa Theologiae and was one of the prominent spokesmen for
Scholasticism.
Thomas Aquinas
The Gothic church at __________ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.
Sainte-Chapelle
__________- is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good
Government.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
