DeVry HUMN 303 Final Exam

1. (TCO 1) Which of the following Greek terms can be translated as circle? (Points : 5)

        Kyklos

        Labrys

        Areté

        Tholos

  

Question 2.2. (TCO 2) Who was the Roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people? (Points : 5)

        Cicero

        Virgil

        Horace

        Ovid

  

Question 3.3. (TCO 5) Which of the following terms refers to an almond-shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists? (Points : 5)

        Tympanum

        Mandorla

        Trumeau

        Voussoir

  

Question 4.4. (TCO 5) Which of the following was considered the most pre-eminent Italian city-state in the 15th century? (Points : 5)

        Naples

        Rome

        Pisa

        Florence

  

Question 5.5. (TCO 1) Who was known as the Sun King? (Points : 5)

        Charles II

        Louis XIV

        Henry IV

        James I

  

Question 6.6. (TCO 2) Who is the author of Essay on Human Understanding, which contends that people are perfectly capable of governing themselves? (Points : 5)

        Thomas Hobbes

        Jonathan Swift

        John Locke

        John Milton

  

Question 7.7. (TCO 1) Who served as captain of the Endeavor as it sailed for the South Pacific in 1768? (Points : 5)

        Benjamin West

        Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

        Francis Parkinson

        James Cook

  

Question 8.8. (TCO 1) Which of the following authors is most closely associated with Lambert Strether, a key character in The Ambassadors? (Points : 5)

        Henry James

        Walt Whitman

        Kate Chopin

        Emily Dickinson

  

Question 9.9. (TCO 5) Which of the following paintings is considered something of a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon? (Points : 5)

        Dance II

        Joy of Life

        Houses at l’Estaque

        Violin and Palette

  

Question 10.10. (TCO 5) Which of the following led the forces that defeated the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (that continued from 1936 to 1939), and then ruled Spain in a totalitarian manner until 1975? (Points : 5)

        General Francisco Franco

        Joseph Goebbels

        Leon Trotsky

        Benito Mussolini

 

Discuss at least three ways in which Henry David Thoreau proved himself a nonconformist. Also, discuss one of Thoreau’s works and how it reflects his nonconformist attitude

  

Based on your hearing or reading of The Outside by Susan Glaspell, explain how the playwright uses the male characters of the play to reveal feminist themes. How do these men further Glaspell’s feminist message?

 

Given the modernist paintings we have studied (including Cubism, Fauvism, and expressionism), evaluate what distinguishes the modernist period from periods that came before. Use at least two examples of art we have studied in this course as the basis of your analysis