Sunday, December 25, 2011
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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
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
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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