C100 WGU Objective Assessment/C100 Humanities Final Questions and Answers, Graded A
What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? Correct
... [Show More] Answer: Oedipus Rex
What Poet wrote Iliad? Correct Answer: Homer
Greek Architecture was based on what structure? Correct Answer: Post and Lintel
The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? Correct Answer: The Parthenon
Geek plays generally shown in a ? Correct Answer: Ampitheater
Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. Correct Answer: The Patheon
Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the shadows represent? Correct Answer: Every Day Life
Polytheism Correct Answer: Belief in Multiple Gods
Ancient Greeks formed what kind of Government? Correct Answer: Democracy
Classical Drama Consisted of ? Correct Answer: Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays
The Republic Correct Answer: Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live.
Oedipus Rex Correct Answer: A story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige, his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile.
The Odyssey Correct Answer: Epic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods.
The Parthenon Correct Answer: Emphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess Athena.
Lysistrata Correct Answer: A play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the war.
Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period? Correct Answer: Humanism (Classical)
Why is the statue Kouros a notable Greek Sculpture? Correct Answer: It Utilizes vertical and Horizontal Symetry
Which innovation during the classical period was based on balance and reason? Correct Answer: The development of Western Philosophy and ideas of the Modern Scientific Method.
What is the Primary difference between Greek and Roman Societies? Correct Answer: Greeks lived in democratic run states.
Romans had larger centralized Republic and eventually empire.
Aesthetic Experience Correct Answer: An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling.
Why is architecture considered and art? Correct Answer: Architecture is considered with an aesthetic effect of structures and their enviroment.
How can art function beyond it Aesthetic Value? Correct Answer: It can act as political and social commentary.
Which disiplines fall within the realm of Humanities? Correct Answer: Music, religion, literature and Arcitech.
Myths Correct Answer: Traditional Stories that serve to explain some phenomena, the origin of humanity or customs or religious rights.
Philosophy Correct Answer: Logic, aesthetics and epistemology are branches of ?
Functions of Art? Correct Answer: Art can assist physical and emotional healing.
Art can be used to enable commerse-advertising and sales.
Art provides Aesthetic pleasure.
Love and the Archetype of hero are examples of? Correct Answer: Universal Themes
Chronological Timeline of events allows you to? Correct Answer: See connections between cause and effect.
Unifying ideas that are developed or repeated? Correct Answer: Themes
What are 2 things that are true about humanities and technology? Correct Answer: 1. Technology has increased our ability to preserve documents and shared works.
2. The internet increased the value of art.
Which theme is found in multiple historical periods? Correct Answer: Individualism
How do we identify literary artists work? Correct Answer: Look for unifying or main ideas
What are 2 things that are true of myths? Correct Answer: 1. They are traditional stories of people or culture.
2. They utilize Archetypes and symbols.
Architecture Correct Answer: Concerned with the interplay of form and function.
Religion Correct Answer: Can include ethics, values and beliefs.
Dance Correct Answer: Part of a public ceremony or ritual. entertainment.
Theater Correct Answer: Stems from early Greeks. Tradgety or comedy.
Which discipline of Humanities is primarily concerned with critical inquiry and reasonable argument? Correct Answer: Philosophy
The Bayeux Tapestry deception of Norman Conquest of England fulfills which purpose of art? Correct Answer: Art as a Political Propaganda
Humanities Correct Answer: How the human race understands and documents the human experience.
How do visual arts and architecture of Greeks and Romans differ? Correct Answer: 1. Much of the structures in Greece are focused on honoring Deities and Elevating the human form.
Greeks relied on Post and Lintel.
2. Rome used art to predominantly glorify the Roman empire. Romans developed columns and arches to design larger buildings.
What reflects the theme in the classical period? Correct Answer: Greek philosophers questioned the truth of ancient religious myths in which gods acted unjustly.
How did Aristotle reflect the theme of the Classical Period? Correct Answer: Aristotle investigated qualities that led to human excellence and made for a good life.
What cultural exchange took place in the Classical period? Correct Answer: The Greeks borrowed the Alphabet of the Phoenicians and used Egyptian influence in their sculptures.
What were 2 main means of cultural exchange during the Classical Period? Correct Answer: 1. Greece and Romes proximity to the Mediterranean Sea facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas.
2. Silk Road provided access to Asia.
What 2 aspects of life today are directly influenced by the classical period? Correct Answer: 1. Democracy
2. U.S. National Monuments
How does "Brother Where art Thou" represent Classical influence? Correct Answer: The Protagonists journey draws on a number of Motifs, themes, and characters from "The Odyssy"
In his work, The Republic", Plato describes how to best create a fair and orderly society? Correct Answer: People are able to think rationally but they are pre-disposed to act in their own best interest so they should be ruled by a Philosophy King.
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