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Humanities Exam

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The Frankish chieftain responsible for unifying early medieval Europe under Christian leadership was:
Charlemagne
Which of the following is the quintessential lyrical representation of the fighting nobility in the feudal age?
Song of RolandIn
the year 1215, the Magna Carta was signed into law in England by
King John
The poetry of the troubadours was performed:
exalting the passionate affection of a gentleman for a lady
The Normans brought feudalism to which of the following?
England
The most prominent medieval city was:
Paris
When medieval church architects employed rounded arches and a uniform system of stone vaults in the upper zones of the nave and side aisles, it was called:
Romaneque
Which of the following was considered the greatest of the so-called Scholastics, a Dominican theologian and teacher, and author of the major treatise Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
The medieval drama Everyman is an example of
morality play
The Divine Comedy is the adventure-packed journey through the realm of the dead written by
Dante
The artistic motif popular in the Medieval period where the Virgin Mary holds the dead Jesus is known as the:
Pieta
Wycliffe and his band of followers were called which of the following?
Lollards
In France, the French poet, priest, and composer Guillaume de Machaut was the leading proponent of:
ars nova
Giotto advanced the trend already evident in Late Gothic art toward:
Realism
Chaucer's collection of versified stories told by a group of pilgrims to entertain one another while traveling from London to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket is called:
the Canterbury Tales
The Platonic Academy was mostly financed by:
Medici
The Book of the Courtier, a work which triumphed firm advocacy for Renaissance patronage, was written by
Castiglione
Which one of the following applied his vast study of ancient literature to defend free will and the unlimited potential of the individual?
Pico della Mirandola
Besides being the founder of the Platonic Academy, Ficino is known for
translating Plato's works from Greek into Latin
The Medici were the most prominent family in:
Florence
The Renaissance architect, poet, painter, and engineer, who regarded himself first and foremost as a sculptor, was:
Michelangelo
Which of the following works was done by Raphael?
School of Athens
Which of the following was responsible for the colossal and innovative dome on the cathedral (il Duomo) in Florence, Italy
Brunelleschi
The first freestanding life-sized sculpture of a human since antiquity, which also utilized contrapposto, was created by which of the following?
Donatello
Which of the following works was done by Botticelli?
The Birth of Venus
Hinduism identifies the sacred not as a superhuman personality but as an objective all-pervading Cosmic Spirit called:
Brahman
India's oldest devotional texts are called the:
Vedas
The first great period of unity in China came about under:
the Qin Dynasty
Ancient China's greatest historian was:
Sima Qian
China's most notable thinker was:
Confucius
Out of the host of deities that characterize Hindu worship, three principal gods dominate: Brahma, ___
Vishnu and Shiva
Throughout the Chinese history, scholar officials constituted China's
Highest social class
In Japan, the skilled warriors who held land in return for military service to local landlords were called:
...
During the Tang Era, Confucianism remained China's foremost
moral philosophy
Both Daoists and Confucians regarded music as an expression of
the cosmic order
The Epic of Gilgamesh, the hero undertakes a long and hazardous quest in search of
everlasting life
Serving as a shrine and temple that symbolized the sacred mountain, and linked the realms of heaven and earth, was the
Ziggurat
the earliest Egyptian tombs were rectangular single-story mud-brick buildings called
Mastabas
Second only to the sun as the major natural force in Egyptian life was the
the Nile River
In Egypt, the collection of prayers and incantations that prepared a person for judgment after death is called:
The Book of the Dead
Like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and the Odyssey belong to the oral tradition of
a heroic age
The two annual festivals dedicated to Dionysus were the occasion for the performance of
tragedies and comedies
Socrates' teachings were an inspiration to his "pupil":
Plato
The oracle at Delphi marked for the Greeks the center of the universe and was a shrine dedicated to
Apollo
Our knowledge of the Peloponnesian Wars is based mainly on the account written by the great historian
Thucydides
The earliest Greek sculpture owed much to the influence of
ancient Egyptians
Skepticism, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism are all philosophies that
guided everyday existence
Of the three programs of architectural design developed by the ancient Greeks, the Parthenon makes us of
the Doric order
The work that best sums up the Hellenistic aesthetic is:
Laocoon and his sons
the era that followed the death of Alexander the Great is called
Hellenistic Age
Following the assassination of Julius Caesar, as struggle for power ensued between Mark Anthony and Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son
Octavian
While Rome's rich citizens grew richer and its poor citizen's poorer, the patricians
fiercely resisted efforts to redistribute wealth more equally
the commonsense tenets of Stoicism encouraged the Roman
sense of duty
the hero of Virgil's poem Aeneid is the mythical founder of the Roman people, the Trojan-born
Aeneas
Roman architecture and engineering were considered
one and the same discipline
The first ecumenical council of Christian churchmen was called by
Constantine
Through efforts of the best known of the apostles, the message of Jesus gained widespread appeal. This apostle was named:
Paul
By the second century, before Christ, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures appeared called the
Septuagint
The crowning of architectural glory and principal church of Constantinople was
Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom')
In the formulation of Christian dogma and liturgy in the West, the most important figures were four Latin scholars who lived between the fourth and sixth centuries:
Jerome, Ambrose, Gregory, and Augustine
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