WGU C100 HUMANITIES PAPER ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Niccolò Machiavelli - ✔✔The Prince: defended the principle that "the ends justify the
means" . It is one of the best-known political treatises. His treatise advanced the
abandonment of conventional morality for the sake of power and authority. The Prince is
considered to represent the darker side of the Renaissance's belief in human possibility
and potential.
✔✔Renaissance Literature - ✔✔authors found themselves combining Christian and
classical learning into Christian humanism in order to reconcile the many conflicts
between the two.
✔✔Baldassare Castiglione - ✔✔The Courtier explores the process of fashioning one's
individual sense of self according to a set of socially acceptable standards.
Renaissance Literature.
✔✔William Shakespeare - author - ✔✔most famous writer in English by writing plays
and poems that examine such human emotions as loyalty, ambition, love, hate, greed,
and self-sacrifice. Renaissance Literature.
✔✔Renaissance Theater - ✔✔People of the arts allowed troupes to settle into a city,
build a playhouse, and take up theater as a profession. As a result, works became
longer, more complex, and critically discussed period themes.
✔✔soliloquy - ✔✔speech expressing your inner most thoughts. Heard by the audience
but not by any other characters. Renaissance
✔✔allegory - ✔✔represents abstract quality or idea, often religious or political.
Renaissance
✔✔dialect - ✔✔language of a certain group or people. Rensaissance
,✔✔blank verse - ✔✔verse written in iambic pentameter with no rhyme. Renaissance
✔✔prose - ✔✔language that flows naturally rather than to a beat. Renaissance.
✔✔William Shakespeare - theater - ✔✔credited with writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
The inevitability of fate and the power of miscommunication are particularly common
themes in his plays.
Because women were forbidden to act during his time, the female roles in his plays
were performed by young men.
The first 126 sonnets are addressed to an unnamed young man, while the rest of the
sonnets are addressed to a mysterious "dark lady." Renaissance Theater
✔✔Christopher Marlowe - ✔✔Doctor Faustus : the play whose treatment of religion
directly references the Protestant Reformation and the eternal struggle between good
and evil. He wrote the historical tragedy . Renaissance Theater.
✔✔Renaissance Art & Architecture - ✔✔architecture departed from medieval traditions
and reflected the merging of art and science.
✔✔Renaissance Art - ✔✔widespread use of oil painting as a medium and the
development of mathematical or linear perspective in painting.
✔✔Renaissance Artchitecture - ✔✔architecture featured the revival of the dome and the
fashioning of secular structures, including palaces, residences, theaters, and libraries.
✔✔Renaissance Artists - ✔✔Leonardo da Vinci (Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man, The Last
Supper), Michelangelo (statue of David, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), and Dürer
(realistic paintings).
✔✔Leonardo da Vinci - ✔✔Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper. Renaissance
Art.
✔✔Michelangelo - ✔✔Statue of David, The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Renaissance
Art.
✔✔Durer - ✔✔realistic Paintings. Renaissance Art.
✔✔Renaissance Music - ✔✔music was more secular than the music of the Middle
Ages, and it was characterized by the classical principles of simplicity, balance, order,
and clarity, as well as by the use of imitation.
, ✔✔Madrigal - ✔✔a polyphonic vocal work that set a pastoral poem to music. It used a
technique called "word painting," in which notes would ascend or descend depending
on the literal textual meaning. No instruments were used. Renaissance Music.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The expansion of trade routes on land and
sea allowed spices, precious gems, and fine silk to arrive from Asia.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The beauty, color, and luster of Islamic glass
and pottery inspired Italian glassmakers.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔African culture made an impact throughout
Europe, as African artists carved hunting scenes and motifs on ivory for European
royalty. African servants and slaves became a larger presence in areas of Europe.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The Spanish "Golden Age" resulted from
Spain's acquisition of gold and silver from the Americas.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The discovery of the printing press by
Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized mass communication throughout Europe.
✔✔Renaissance in Contemporary Life - ✔✔Today we refer to a person who has broad
knowledge and versatile talents spanning many intellectual and artistic disciplines as a
Renaissance man or woman.
This Period's focus on science and the human form has led to markedly more
successful medical practices and other scientific advancements.
Our modern-day focus on education, particularly in the Humanities, can be traced back
to the ideals.
✔✔Neoclassical Period - ✔✔Age of Enlightenment
✔✔Age of Englightenment - ✔✔period in which a notable shift towards rational thinking
and advancement occurred in science, philosophy, society and politics.
✔✔Neoclassical Period & Enlightenment - ✔✔Skepticism, Rationalism, Empiricism,
Order, Deism, Classicism,
✔✔Skepticism - ✔✔this type of philosophical school was prominent during the
Enlightenment to ensure that philosophers reached conclusions based on reason, not
prejudice.
✔✔rationalism - ✔✔Role of reason over senses to gain knowledge. This philosophy
also put an emphasis on the role of reason as the key to knowledge.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Niccolò Machiavelli - ✔✔The Prince: defended the principle that "the ends justify the
means" . It is one of the best-known political treatises. His treatise advanced the
abandonment of conventional morality for the sake of power and authority. The Prince is
considered to represent the darker side of the Renaissance's belief in human possibility
and potential.
✔✔Renaissance Literature - ✔✔authors found themselves combining Christian and
classical learning into Christian humanism in order to reconcile the many conflicts
between the two.
✔✔Baldassare Castiglione - ✔✔The Courtier explores the process of fashioning one's
individual sense of self according to a set of socially acceptable standards.
Renaissance Literature.
✔✔William Shakespeare - author - ✔✔most famous writer in English by writing plays
and poems that examine such human emotions as loyalty, ambition, love, hate, greed,
and self-sacrifice. Renaissance Literature.
✔✔Renaissance Theater - ✔✔People of the arts allowed troupes to settle into a city,
build a playhouse, and take up theater as a profession. As a result, works became
longer, more complex, and critically discussed period themes.
✔✔soliloquy - ✔✔speech expressing your inner most thoughts. Heard by the audience
but not by any other characters. Renaissance
✔✔allegory - ✔✔represents abstract quality or idea, often religious or political.
Renaissance
✔✔dialect - ✔✔language of a certain group or people. Rensaissance
,✔✔blank verse - ✔✔verse written in iambic pentameter with no rhyme. Renaissance
✔✔prose - ✔✔language that flows naturally rather than to a beat. Renaissance.
✔✔William Shakespeare - theater - ✔✔credited with writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
The inevitability of fate and the power of miscommunication are particularly common
themes in his plays.
Because women were forbidden to act during his time, the female roles in his plays
were performed by young men.
The first 126 sonnets are addressed to an unnamed young man, while the rest of the
sonnets are addressed to a mysterious "dark lady." Renaissance Theater
✔✔Christopher Marlowe - ✔✔Doctor Faustus : the play whose treatment of religion
directly references the Protestant Reformation and the eternal struggle between good
and evil. He wrote the historical tragedy . Renaissance Theater.
✔✔Renaissance Art & Architecture - ✔✔architecture departed from medieval traditions
and reflected the merging of art and science.
✔✔Renaissance Art - ✔✔widespread use of oil painting as a medium and the
development of mathematical or linear perspective in painting.
✔✔Renaissance Artchitecture - ✔✔architecture featured the revival of the dome and the
fashioning of secular structures, including palaces, residences, theaters, and libraries.
✔✔Renaissance Artists - ✔✔Leonardo da Vinci (Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man, The Last
Supper), Michelangelo (statue of David, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), and Dürer
(realistic paintings).
✔✔Leonardo da Vinci - ✔✔Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper. Renaissance
Art.
✔✔Michelangelo - ✔✔Statue of David, The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Renaissance
Art.
✔✔Durer - ✔✔realistic Paintings. Renaissance Art.
✔✔Renaissance Music - ✔✔music was more secular than the music of the Middle
Ages, and it was characterized by the classical principles of simplicity, balance, order,
and clarity, as well as by the use of imitation.
, ✔✔Madrigal - ✔✔a polyphonic vocal work that set a pastoral poem to music. It used a
technique called "word painting," in which notes would ascend or descend depending
on the literal textual meaning. No instruments were used. Renaissance Music.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The expansion of trade routes on land and
sea allowed spices, precious gems, and fine silk to arrive from Asia.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The beauty, color, and luster of Islamic glass
and pottery inspired Italian glassmakers.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔African culture made an impact throughout
Europe, as African artists carved hunting scenes and motifs on ivory for European
royalty. African servants and slaves became a larger presence in areas of Europe.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The Spanish "Golden Age" resulted from
Spain's acquisition of gold and silver from the Americas.
✔✔Renaissance Cultural Exchange - ✔✔The discovery of the printing press by
Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized mass communication throughout Europe.
✔✔Renaissance in Contemporary Life - ✔✔Today we refer to a person who has broad
knowledge and versatile talents spanning many intellectual and artistic disciplines as a
Renaissance man or woman.
This Period's focus on science and the human form has led to markedly more
successful medical practices and other scientific advancements.
Our modern-day focus on education, particularly in the Humanities, can be traced back
to the ideals.
✔✔Neoclassical Period - ✔✔Age of Enlightenment
✔✔Age of Englightenment - ✔✔period in which a notable shift towards rational thinking
and advancement occurred in science, philosophy, society and politics.
✔✔Neoclassical Period & Enlightenment - ✔✔Skepticism, Rationalism, Empiricism,
Order, Deism, Classicism,
✔✔Skepticism - ✔✔this type of philosophical school was prominent during the
Enlightenment to ensure that philosophers reached conclusions based on reason, not
prejudice.
✔✔rationalism - ✔✔Role of reason over senses to gain knowledge. This philosophy
also put an emphasis on the role of reason as the key to knowledge.
