Saturday, December 24, 2011

HUMANITIES 123 TEST







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HUM123  EXAM                    


1.      _____ was one of the first writers to bring Renaissance core values to the stage by creating human characters with psychological complexity and emotions.
A)    Dante
B)    Sophocles
C)    Shakespeare
D)    Kafka

2.       The play King Lear explores themes of
A)    Aging
B)    Betrayal
C)    Reconciliation
D)    Madness
E)    All of the above
F)     None of the above


3.      Which character speaks these lines and to whom: “I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less”?
A)    Goneril
B)    Regan
C)    Kent
D)    Cordelia

4.      The play King Lear is a _____________ because the protagonist is lead to his destruction through his own actions and dies.
A)    tragedy
B)    comedy
C)    farce
D)    joke

5.      The Popol Vuh is the ___________ of the ________________ people.
A)    bible, Aztec
B)    creation story, Quiche Maya
C)    Sumerian king list, Mesopotamian
D)    dictionary, Native American

6.      _____________ , a ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_____________ translated the oldest existing manuscript during the 18th century in Guatemala.
A)    Francisco Ximenes, Dominican missionary
B)    Francisco Ximenes, violent crusader
C)    Diego Rivera, mural artist
D)    Diego Rivera, missionary

7.      Part II of the Popol Vuh tells the story of the ____twins, whose names are _________&______.
A)    hero, One Monkey and Howler
B)    hero, Hunter and Jaguar Deer
C)    evil, Xibalba and One Death
D)    evil, Grandmother and Howler

8.      Portions of the stories, written down after the Spanish conquest of the Americas, show interesting parallels to the _______ religion.
A)    Hindu
B)    Pagan
C)    Atheist
D)    Christian

9.      _____wrote the Metamorphosis, a ___________ about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a bug.
A)    Franz Kafka, novella
B)    Franz Kafka, epic poem
C)    William Kafka, play
D)    William Kafka, song

10. ___________’s transformation is into an insect is more_________ than literal, reflecting his alienation and feelings about his life.
A)    George Subra, spiritual
B)    Greg Sinna, religious
C)     ­­­­­­­­­­­Gregor Samsa, symbolic
D)    Gene Simmons, musical

11. The author’s conflicted relationship with his ______influences the text and was a source of interest for those who study the work of psychoanalyst ________.
A)    mother, Sigmund Freud
B)    brother, Karl Marx
C)    grandmother, Pavlov
D)    father, Sigmund Freud

12. Growing up in Prague, his double minority experience as a ______________ suffering from tuberculosis might have inspired him to write about characters that experience isolation and torment.
A)    German speaking Jew
B)    Polish speaking Catholic
C)    Spanish speaking German
D)    Mute puppy killing maniac



13. This a painting by ________ and an example of the ________ style.


http://www.osnatfineart.com/images/van-gogh-vincent-starry-night.jpg



A)    Claude Monet, Impressionist
B)    Manet, Impressionist
C)    Salvador Dali, Surrealist
D)    Vincent Van Gogh, Expressionist

14.  This 19th century movement emphasized the inner reality of individuals over objective reality.  Its forms are often exaggerated, distorted and fantastical with swirling forms and a sense of movement.
A)    Existentialism
B)    Expressionism
C)    Classicism
D)    Freudianism

15.  As I Lay Dying is a 20th century novel by __________author ________________.
A)    British, William Faulkner
B)    American, William Faulkner
C)    Italian, Dante Alighieri
D)    British, William Hogarth

16.  His ________________ writing style employs ____________________to narrate the story using 15 different characters.
A)    Groundbreaking, animals
B)    Hard to read, nonsense
C)    Modernist, stream of consciousness
D)    Alienist, stream of consciousness

17. The novel addresses the struggles and emotions of the _______ family as they struggle to bring their mother’s body to the town of ______ for burial.
A)    Bundy, Springfield
B)    Buddy, Litchfield
C)    Bundren, Jefferson
D)    Bundren, Adams

18. The Persistence of Memory (shown below), captures the essence of the ______ movement which stressed the importance of imagination and dreams over conscious control and depicted objects as they could not appear in real life.
A)    Realism
B)    Abstraction
C)    Surrealism
D)    Exoticism

19.  After WWII, writings by Camus and Sartre popularized _________ , a philosophical movement dealing with human existence and free will.
A)    Freudianism
B)    Eroticism
C)    Subjectivism
D)    Existentialism


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20. Jazz began in ______ and is a distinctly _________ musical style.
A)    New Orleans, American
B)    New York, American
C)    Chicago, America
D)    Paris, French

21.  The Maple Leaf Rag was composed by__________1899 and recorded in 1916.
A)    Janis Joplin
B)    John Phillips Sousa
C)    Louis Armstrong
D)    Scott Joplin
E)    None of the above

22. ___________ became the jazz center of America in the 1920’s when Louis Armstrong arrived on the scene with “King” Oliver.
A)    Chicago
B)    New York
C)    New Orleans
D)    Mississippi


23. The term _______________ refers to the progressive art, architecture, literature, music and design that emerged in the early 20th century.
A)    Cubism
B)    Nepotism
C)    Modernism
D)    Disillusionment

24.  Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by ______ revolutionized the direction of painting after almost 500 years of art based on Renaissance ideals.
A)    Pablo Picasso
B)    Georges Braque
C)    Salvador Dali
D)    Cezanne

25. This controversial painting shows the beginnings of what would become _______________.
A)    Pointillism
B)    Exoticism
C)    Abstract expressionism
D)    Cubism


"Les Demoiselles d’Avignon"



26. _____________was the cultural movement led by African American writers, artists, musicians and intellectuals between WW1 and WW2 in New York City.
A)    The Italian Renaissance
B)    The Harlem Renaissance
C)    The Great Migration
D)    The Great Depression

27. ______ encouraged African Americans to answer this question: “What self identity does an African American affirm who must hold in balance his identity as being African, his place in American life and the racism he endures.”
A)    Cab Calloway
B)    Duke Ellington
C)    W.E.B. Dubois
D)    Alain Locke

28. Born in 1899 in Kansas, Aaron Douglas went on to become a ______ & ______.
A)    writer, symphony conductor
B)    painter, African American Modernist
C)    actor, famous Parisian
D)    famous jazz musician, entertainer

29.  The murals created for the New York Public Library are characteristic of his style and show the influence of _______, ________, and __________.
A)    African sculpture, jazz music, abstract geometric forms influenced by Cubism
B)    Paris, ballets and burlesque dancers
C)    None of the above
D)    Both A & B

30. This is a painting by:
A)    Archibald Motley
B)    W.E.B Dubois
C)    Langston Hughes
D)    Aaron Douglas
E)    None of the above
31. The figure at the center of the composition represents:
A)    The creativity and freedom of expression afforded the modern African American or “New Negro”
B)    An emblem of African heritage, African American culture and national identity
C)     The intellectual and artistic achievements of Africans and African Americans
D)    All of the above




32. The existentialist philosopher _______ stated in Being and Nothingness (1943), “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
A)    Nietzsche
B)    Sartre
C)    Heidegger
D)    Kierkegaard
33. _______ 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus introduced the idea of the absurd.
A)    Sartre’s
B)    Camus’
C)    Kierkegaard
D)    Nietzsche
E)    None of the above
34. According to Duke Ellington, his childhood was
A)    Blessed
B)    Impoverished and abusive
C)    Wealthy and decadent
D)    None of the above
35. What instrument did Louis Armstrong buy with his advance from the Karnofskys?
A)    A piano
B)    A tuba
C)    A cornet
D)    A saxophone
36. As it broke rules musically and socially, how was jazz viewed by many Americans in the 1920’s?
A)    As a much needed musical variation
B)    As a disease infecting the country
C)    As a positive cultural change
D)    As the music of God

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37. During the 1920’s, where was jazz music played and heard?
A) speakeasies
B)    saloons
C)    on the radio
D)    at home

38. When was No Exit first performed?
A)    May 1944 just before the liberation of Paris
B)    Never, it wasn’t produced until very recently
C)    In 1918 at the end of WW1
D)    Between WW1 and WW2

39. Some contemporary popular culture examples of existentialist themes include:
A)    Fight Club
B)    Donnie Darko
C)    The Immortals
D)    Both A and B
E)    None of the above

40. What do jazz music, modernist art and modernist literature have in common?
A)    All are created by the same people
B)    All are completely new art forms that depart dramatically from tradition
C)    All are inspired by Satan
D)    None of the above

41. What did Cubism as an art form do?
A)    Challenge traditional notions of representation
B)    Look at the subject from different angles all the same time
C)    Break with ideas about illusionism which had been important since the Renaissance
D)    All of the above

42. Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is associated with the ________ movement in art.
A)    Surrealism
B)    Cubism
C)    Dada
D)    Fauvism

43. The ___________ refers to the relocation of black Americans from the South to the North in search of better opportunities.
A)    Great Migration
B)    Great Exodus
C)    Great Move North
D)    Great Expectations

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44. Existentialist themes include:
A)    the importance of choice
B)    meaning and absurdity
C)    anxiety regarding life and the future
D)    all of the above

45. Four of the existentialist thinkers we covered in class are:
A)    Freud, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre
B)    Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre and Camus
C)    Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre and Socrates
D)    Plato, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre


A) Braque      B. Matisse      C. Degas       D. Picasso
47.  What is the significance of Guernica?
A) the first and only time the artist got “political”
B) an artistic statement about the atrocities of war
            C) a record of the bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque region of Spain
            D) a depiction of human and animal suffering amidst violence and chaos
            E) all of the above

48) What styles is the painting influenced by?
A) Cubism and Surrealism
B) Dada and Cubism
C) Abstract Expressionism and Romanticism
D) Cubism and Neoclassicism



49. What was Duke Ellington’s first composition called?
A) When the Saints Go Marching In
B) Soda Fountain Rag
C) It Don’t Mean a Thing
D) Mood Indigo

50. What was it played on?
A) Saxophone
B) Piano
C) Cornet
D) Drums







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