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Humanities Semester 1 Final Exam Flashcards

1
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Who composed the 5th Symphony?

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Beethoven

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Beethoven nationality

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German

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Who composed the Unfinished Symphony?

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Schubert

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Schubert nationality

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Austrian

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5
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Who composed the New World Symphony?

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Dvorak

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Dvorak nationality

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Czech

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7
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Who composed the Grand March?

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Verdi

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Verdi nationality

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Italitan

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9
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Who composed Tonight We Love?

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Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky nationality

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Russian

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11
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Who composed the Toreador’s Song?

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Bizet

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12
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Bizet nationality

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French

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13
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Who composed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini?

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Rachmaninoff

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14
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Rachmaninoff nationality

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Russian

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15
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Who composed Swan Lake?

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Tchaikovsky

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16
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Who composed the Blue Danube Waltz?

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Strauss II

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Strauss II nationality

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Austrian

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18
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Who composed Bolero?

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Ravel

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19
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Ravel nationality

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French

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20
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Who composed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?

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Mozart

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21
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Mozart nationality

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Austrian

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22
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Who composed the Barber of Seville?

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Rossini

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23
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Rossini nationality

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Italian

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24
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Who composed Ride of the Valkyeries?

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Wagner

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25
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Wagner nationality

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German

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26
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Who composed Fanfare for the Common Man?

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Copeland

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27
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Copeland nationality

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American

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28
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Who composed the Hallelujah Chorus?

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Handel

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29
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Handel nationality

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German

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30
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Who composed the Wedding March?

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Mendelssohn

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31
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Mendelssohn nationality

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German

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32
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Who composed the Lullaby?

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Brahms

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33
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Brahms nationality

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German

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34
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Who composed Greensleeves?

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Williams

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35
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Williams nationality

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American

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36
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Who composed Ave Maria?

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Schubert

37
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Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include:

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Chauvet, France; Lascaux, France; and Altamira, Spain.

38
Q

In which of the following nations was the Willendorf Venus discovered?

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Austria

39
Q

Which of the following terms refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as Stonehenge?

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megalith

40
Q

Which of the following terms refers to the category of megalithic structure that includes Stonehenge?

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cromlech

41
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Who was the resident god at ur?

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Sin

42
Q

Which army captured Jerusalem, destroyed its temple, and deported many of the Hebrews?

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Babylonian

43
Q

Which ancient Egyptian leaders ruled circa 3,000 B.C.E. and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt?

A

Narmer

44
Q

By what name do we know the new style of art that developed during the rule of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten?

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Amarna style

45
Q

Which of the following pairs of creatures is found on the jade disc known as Pi?

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dragon and phoenix

46
Q

Common among the people of Thera were:

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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

47
Q

Which of the following creatures did the inhabitants of Crete associate with male virility and strength?

A

bull

48
Q

Legendary Minoan queen who gave birth to the Minotaur?

A

Pasiphae

49
Q

Who was the wife of Odysseus?

A

Penelope

50
Q

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?

A

acropolis

51
Q

portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as public meeting
place, marketplace, and civic center

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agora

52
Q

columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.

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entasis

53
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part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards

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demes

54
Q

Which are included among those illustrated in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon

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Trojans, giants, amazons, centaurs

55
Q

___________ was among those who stabbed Julius Caesar.

A

Marcus Julius Brutus

56
Q

________refer to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait
busts.

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Imagines

57
Q

In the sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta, _______ is pictured riding a dolphin.

A

Cupid

58
Q

The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars

A

Georgics

59
Q

Augustus did not view the writings of ______ favorably, thus permanently banishing him from
Rome.

A

Ovid

60
Q

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.

A

Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian

61
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circular opening at the top of the Pantheon

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oculus

62
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What did Hadrian conceive the oculus as?

A

“Eye of Jupiter”

63
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land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome.

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patricians

64
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refer to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.

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plebians

65
Q

Which of the following words of Saxon origin can be translated as “camp”?

A

chester

66
Q

Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the _______, or “life-price” of an individual.

A

wergeld

67
Q

The epic poem _________ provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community
of monsters that have ravaged the land.

A

Beowulf

68
Q

___________ is credited with building a cathedral at Canterbury and a church dedicated to St. Paul
in London

A

Augustine

69
Q

______________ designed the Lindisfarne Gospels.

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Bishop Eadfrith

70
Q

___________ was made from ivory tusks of an elephant

A

Roland’s horn

71
Q

The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the

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refectory

72
Q

The ____________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder.

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barrel vault

73
Q

The _______ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church.

A

voussoir

74
Q

___________ was considered the center of the cult of the Virgin throughout the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries.

A

Chartres

75
Q

_________ was considered the most cherished relic at the Chartres Cathedral.

A

Mary’s tunic

76
Q

The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to ______________

A

tell the stories of the Gospel

77
Q

One of the stained-glass windows at the Chartres Cathedral shows the genealogy of _______.

A

Christ

78
Q

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.

A

“Tree of Jesse”

79
Q

In a gothic church, the _____________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.

A

flying buttress

80
Q

The figure of Saint Theodore found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a
__________ position.

A

contrapposto

81
Q

The trivium consisted of:

A

Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic

82
Q

________ first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of
law.

A

Bologna

83
Q

_______ was mandatory, and students studied ______ in all courses of their first four years of study.

A

Latin, Latin

84
Q

_____________ played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris.

A

Robert de Sorbon

85
Q

________ a logician and author of the treatise Sic et Non taught by the dialectical method.

A

Peter Abelard

86
Q

_______ is widely recognized as the author of On the Diseases of Women.

A

Trotula

87
Q

__________ wrote the Summa Theologiae and was one of the prominent spokesmen for
Scholasticism.

A

Thomas Aquinas

88
Q

The Gothic church at __________ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.

A

Sainte-Chapelle

89
Q

__________- is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good
Government.

A

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

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