Humanities 19

Question 1

What do Frederico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, and Akira Kurosawa have in common?

Answer 1

They are all influential filmmakers

Question 2

Which playwright wrote the Theban plays that tell the tragic story of Oedipus and his family?

Answer 2

Sophocles

Question 3

During which literary period were the following novels written?

I. Middlemarch

II. A Tale of Two Cities

III. Wuthering Heights

Answer 3

Victorian Era

Question 4

It includes free-standing three-dimensional sculptures.
It is often characterized by colorful stained glass.
It makes use of flying buttresses and pointed arches.
It is focused on filling dark buildings with sunlight.

Answer 4

Characteristic of Gothic architecture

Question 5

What period did the following belong to:
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Claudio Monteverdi

Answer 5

Baroque composers

Question 6

What was the main point of Thomas Paine’s 1776 work Common Sense?

Answer 6

America should rebel against England.

Question 7

Which novel was written as a protest response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the United States?

Answer 7

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 8

Traditional east Asian music is characterized by the use of the _____ scale.

Answer 8

pentatonic

Question 9

The 1884 painting by Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, uses which of the following painting techniques or styles?

Answer 9

pointillism

Question 10

Which classic author inspired the structure, themes, and plot of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses?

Answer 10

Homer

The Odyssey

Question 11

Which of the following is a ballet about a man named Franz falling in love with a life-like female doll?

Answer 11

Coppelia

Question 12

Ancient peoples frequently made _____, which were sculptures made into a flat medium with the figures only coming out from the flat background slightly, to honor kings or record legends.

Answer 12

bas-reliefs

Question 13

Which Victorian era sisters initially wrote under pseudonyms to hide the fact that they were women?

Answer 13

Bronte Sisters

Question 14

Which composer emphasized the words of songs through techniques like imitative polyphony?

Answer 14

Josquin de Prez

Question 15

Mark is listening to a music performance that he really likes. However, he’s having some difficulty describing it. The music is chanted and sung with complex lyrics, yet the melody seems to be rather light and simple. Which of the following BEST describes this music?

Answer 15

A mele

Question 16

Wisdom from the past is a theme in American Romantic literature. It is demonstrated in which of the following works?

Answer 16

'’Paul Revere’s Ride’’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 17

Which elements greatly influenced Victorian literature?

Answer 17

Explosive population growth, technological innovations, advancements in science, the Industrial Revolution, and poor working conditions

Question 18

‘Madrigals’ belong to which musical category?

Answer 18

Secular music

Madrigals are secular multi-voice songs sung without accompaniment.

Question 19

key traits of music in East Asia?

Answer 19

It is based on a pentatonic scale. Some of its key traits are linearity and transparency. It is also highly known for a very low use of abstraction in music.

Question 20

‘The Lost Generation’ was a group of American expatriates living abroad that included which two important literary figures?

Answer 20

Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein
The most famous writers of the Lost Generation were Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, and T.S. Eliot.

Question 21

Sartoris and The Sound and the Fury both take place in _____, the birthplace of their author William Faulkner.

Answer 21

the American South

Faulkner was born and raised in Mississippi

Question 22

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is an example of free verse, a literary technique which can be described as _____.

Answer 22

poetry without meter or rhyme

Question 23

The transcendentalist perspective is reflected in which of Herman Melville’s works?

Answer 23

'’Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street’’

Question 24

Mark Twain wrote about his experiences in Hannibal, Missouri as a child. His accurate and in-depth descriptions of place made him one of the first _____.

Answer 24

Regionalists

Mark Twain is considered the first Regionalist, a writer who focused on accurate representation of a specific region.

Question 25

Which Modernist author wrote The Great Gatsby?

Answer 25

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 26

John Steinbeck’s notable work of Modern American literature is called _____.

Answer 26

The Grapes of Wrath

Question 27

Henry David Thoreau considered Walden Pond a place of true introspection and a place to be self-reliant. The resulting novel Walden encompassed these notions, important to which literary movement?

Answer 27

Transcendentalism

Question 28

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel _____ played a role in starting _____.

Answer 28

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Civil War

Question 29

The idea that one should develop an individual relationship with God and nature and reject organized religion is characteristic of what literary movement?

Answer 29

transcendentalism

Question 30

F. Scott Fitzgerald developed a long friendship with whom?

Answer 30

Ernest Hemingway

Question 31

Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that _____ individuals were needed in the social spheres of religion, arts, culture, and society.

Answer 31

Self-Reliant

Question 32

Which Dark Romantic author is known for using extremely long, drawn-out sentences?

Answer 32

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 33

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s _____ was a call to arms inviting Americans to foster change through their individuality and strengths.

Answer 33

‘Self-Reliance’

Question 34

‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ and ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ are examples of the _____ of Ernest Hemingway.

Answer 34

short stories

Question 35

In The Catcher in the Rye, the passing of Holden Caulfield’s brother instills in him a desire to do what?

Answer 35

Protect innocent things from harm

Question 36

Stream-of-consciousness is a style used by William Faulkner and who else?

Answer 36

James Joyce

Question 37

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe are considered _____.

Answer 37

Dark Romantics

Question 38

The Great Depression was the setting for which famous American novel?

Answer 38

The Grapes of Wrath

Question 39

Which is the oldest of the Classical orders?

Answer 39

Doric

Question 40

How did Samuel Beckett influence later playwrights?

Answer 40

He allowed actors and directors to interpret plays in new ways.

Question 41

What is catharsis?

Answer 41

The evocation of pity and fear in the audience.

Question 42

Why did Sidney argue against the notion that poets can lead society astray?

Answer 42

He felt poets cannot lie because they actually affirm nothing.
In The Defense of Poesy, Philip Sidney argues that fiction cannot lead anyone astray because poets do not affirm anything and therefore they do not lie.

Question 43

What kind of move is a ‘pirouette’?

Answer 43

a turn

Question 44

Which of the following lines from Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is an example of free indirect discourse?

Answer 44

‘What a lark! What a plunge!’
Note that free indirect discourse sort of means a third person representation of a person’s thoughts, but without the ‘he said,’ ‘he thought’, ‘he considered’ tags. An example of a basic free indirect discourse is ‘What a lark! What a plunge!’ Notice that this line is not used with ‘he or she said’. It’s basically a voice and thoughts, getting into an untagged narrative.

Question 45

A painter known for his scenes of the American West

Answer 45

Frederick Remington

Question 46

The American poet who wrote such works as Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and The Santa Fe trail?

Answer 46

Vachel Lindsay

Question 47

The Globe Theater

Answer 47

was built in 1599
depended on natural lighting
was closed on all sides but open on top
had a stage that extended into the audience area

Question 48

Most jazz has a standrad

Answer 48

theme and variation

Question 49

A single melody with subordinate harmonyy

Answer 49

homophonic

Question 50

A Roman writer of comedy

Answer 50

Plautus

Plautus and Terence were the great Roman writers of comedy

Question 51

“How do I love thee? Let me count the way” is from?

Answer 51

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question 52

The authors of the U.S. Constitution drew most heavily from the work of a 17th century English philosopher, particularly from his Two Treatises on Government. The philosopher’s name is?

Answer 52

John Locke

Question 53

Instrumentation of a classical string quartet?

Answer 53

two violins, a viola, and a cello

Question 54

Three score and ten is what age

Answer 54

70

Three score is 3 times 20 = 6- +10

Question 55

What term describes a curved line connecting two or more notes that are to be played legato?

Answer 55

a slur
Legato: indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance

Question 56

The third degree of a major scale is given when name?

Answer 56

Mediant

Question 57

An a prior truth is one known to be?

Answer 57

independent of experience

Question 58

The belief that a human being has an absolute power to choose his or her own destiny is the hallmark of?

Answer 58

existentialism