Exam 1 Humanities

Question 1

THIS 6-LETTER WORD IS SYNONYMOUS WITH “TONE COLOR” IN MUSIC AND IS FREQUENTLY MISPRONOUNCED

Answer 1

Timbre

Question 2

THIS EARLY FORMATION OF STONE WAS THOUGHT TO BE AN EARLY SOLAR CALENDAR.

Answer 2

Stonehenge

Question 3

THIS TINY BUT MIGHTY FIGURINE WAS THOUGHT TO BE A FERTILITY FIGURE.

Answer 3

Venus of Willendorf

Question 4

THIS CAVE IS THE LOCATION OF THE EARLIEST PAINTINGS BY HUMANKIND.

Answer 4

Cave of Lascaux

Question 5

THIS COLOSSAL SCULPTURE STANDS NEXT TO THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZEH.

Answer 5

Great Sphinx

Question 6

THIS EARLY FORM OF WRITING IS CHARACTERIZED BY WEDGE-SHAPED FORMS.

Answer 6

Cuneiform

Question 7

THIS IS THE NAME FOR A MAZE-SHAPED PATTERN ON GREEK POTTERY.

Answer 7

Meander

Question 8

THIS TERM REFERS TO SELF-CONTAINED CITY-STATES.

Answer 8

Polis

Question 9

THIS DOCTRINE POSITS THAT MUSIC CAN INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOR OF HUMANS.

Answer 9

Doctrine of Ethos

Question 10

THIS ALLEGORICAL TALE BY PLATO ILLUSTRATES THE LIMITS OF HUMAN SENSES AND PERCEPTION.

Answer 10

Allegory of the Cave

Question 11

THIS WAR WAS CAUSED BY ATHENS’S MISUSE OF DELIAN LEAGUE FUNDS.

Answer 11

Peloponnesian War

Question 12

THIS GROUP OCCUPIED ROME FROM CA. 700 BCE

Answer 12

Etruscans

Question 13

THIS PHILOSOPHY BELIEVED THAT THE GOAL OF LIFE WAS PLEASURE.

Answer 13

Epicureanism

Question 14

THIS ROMAN UPPER CLASS WAS REPRESENTED IN THE SENATE.

Answer 14

Patricians

Question 15

ROMANS TOOK THE COLUMNS FROM GREEK ARCHITECTURE, AND CONTRIBUTED THIS NEW ARCHITECTURAL TRADEMARK.

Answer 15

Arches

Question 16

THIS PHILOSOPHY BELIEVED PEOPLE SHOULD ACCEPT ALL CIRCUMSTANCES TO REINFORCE VIRTUES OF MANLINESS AND COURAGE.

Answer 16

Stoicism

Question 17

THIS EMPEROR ISSUED A DECREE OF TOLERANCE FOR CHRISTIANITY IN 312 CE.

Answer 17

Constantine

Question 18

THE FIRST TWO LETTERS OF THE GREEK WORD FOR CHRIST ARE REFERRED TO BY THIS MONOGRAM.

Answer 18

Chi-Rho

Question 19

EARLY CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED IN THIS LOCATION FOR REFUSING TO WORSHIP THE STATE DEITIES.

Answer 19

Rome

Question 20

THIS EARLY JEWISH TRADITION IMPACTED THE MUSIC OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Answer 20

The chanting of texts.

Question 21

EXCAVATORS FOUND IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE VARIETY OF RELIGIONS IN THE 3RD C. AT THIS SITE.

Answer 21

Dura Europos

Question 22

THIS FIGURE IS CONSIDERED THE FOUNDER OF ISLAM.

Answer 22

Muhammad

Question 23

THIS BUILDING IS THE EARLIEST ACHIEVEMENT OF ISLAMIC ARCHIECTURE.

Answer 23

The Dome of the Rock

Question 24

THIS COMMON FEATURE IN ISLAMIC ART REFERS TO PATTERNS OF GEOMETRIC SHAPES FIT TOGETHER.

Answer 24

Tesselation

Question 25

MOSQUES ARE DECORATED WITH THESE TWO FEATURES RATHER THAN PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS.

Answer 25

Abstract art, calligraphy

Question 26

THIS IS THE PLACE OF THE FOUNDER OF ISLAM’S BIRTH.

Answer 26

Mecca

Question 27

THIS MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE WAS THE REASON FOR THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BULLS IN MINOAN CULTURE.

Answer 27

Minotaur

Question 28

ACANTHUS LEAVES ARE FOUND ON THIS TYPE OF GREEK COLUMN.

Answer 28

Corinthian

Question 29

THIS TYPE OF ART PROVIDED A WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF THE SACRED IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH.

Answer 29

Icon

Question 30

THIS TYPE OF INSTRUMENT HAS 7 STRINGS AND WAS USED IN ANCIENT CULTURES SUCH AS GREECE AND EGYPT.

Answer 30

Lyre

Question 31

THIS GROUP SUCCEEDED THE MINOANS IN ANCIENT AND ARCHAIC GREECE.

Answer 31

Mycenaeans