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C100 WGU Objective Assessment
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What is the relationship between the humanities and technology?
Ans: a) Technology has led to an increase in globalization by making the
world smaller and connecting people together through social networks
via the internet.
b) Technology has increased our ability to preserve, document and share
works of art, literature, and music in a way that is unprecedented.
What theme is found in multiple historical periods?
Ans: Individualism
How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work?
Ans: Look for the unifying or main ideas.
What is true of myths?
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Ans: a) They are traditional stories of a people or culture that are told to
explain natural phenomena and to record values and belief systems from
generation to generation.
b) They utilize archetypes and symbols to find a deeper understand of life.
Part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the
earliest human civilizations.
Ans: Dance
Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy and
comedy.
Ans: Theater
Concerned with the interplay of form and function.
Ans: Architecture
Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs.
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Ans: Religion
Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with critical
inquiry and reasoned argument?
Ans: Philosophy
The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of England
fulfills which purpose of art?
Ans: Art as political propaganda
What are the Humanities?
Ans: The study of how the human race understands and documents the
human experience through creative contributions in art, music, literature,
philosophy, religion, dance, etc.
What are examples of universal themes?
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Ans: Love and the Hero
Brotherly or selfless love
Ans: Agape
A recurrent example or model of human behavior
Ans: Archetypes
An experience of beauty that is its own justification
Ans: Aesthetic
Passionate or sexual love
Ans: Eros
A myth that is embraced by a majority of people throughout history.
C100 WGU Objective Assessment
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
What is the relationship between the humanities and technology?
Ans: a) Technology has led to an increase in globalization by making the
world smaller and connecting people together through social networks
via the internet.
b) Technology has increased our ability to preserve, document and share
works of art, literature, and music in a way that is unprecedented.
What theme is found in multiple historical periods?
Ans: Individualism
How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work?
Ans: Look for the unifying or main ideas.
What is true of myths?
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Ans: a) They are traditional stories of a people or culture that are told to
explain natural phenomena and to record values and belief systems from
generation to generation.
b) They utilize archetypes and symbols to find a deeper understand of life.
Part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the
earliest human civilizations.
Ans: Dance
Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy and
comedy.
Ans: Theater
Concerned with the interplay of form and function.
Ans: Architecture
Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs.
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Ans: Religion
Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with critical
inquiry and reasoned argument?
Ans: Philosophy
The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of England
fulfills which purpose of art?
Ans: Art as political propaganda
What are the Humanities?
Ans: The study of how the human race understands and documents the
human experience through creative contributions in art, music, literature,
philosophy, religion, dance, etc.
What are examples of universal themes?
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Ans: Love and the Hero
Brotherly or selfless love
Ans: Agape
A recurrent example or model of human behavior
Ans: Archetypes
An experience of beauty that is its own justification
Ans: Aesthetic
Passionate or sexual love
Ans: Eros
A myth that is embraced by a majority of people throughout history.
