CSTU 101 COMPREHENSIVE RECENT EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔T/F: By the end of the nineteenth century, materialism and secularism had produced
a widespread pessimism about the future of western culture. - ✔✔False
✔✔Who is Jean-Francois Millet most closely associated with when it comes to realism
in painting? - ✔✔Gustave Courbet
✔✔Who is Charles Darwin most closely associated with when it comes to intellectual
developments? - ✔✔Karl Marx
✔✔Who is Leo Tolstoy most closely associated with when it comes to skepticism? -
✔✔Matthew Arnold
✔✔Who is Gustave Flaubert most closely associated with when it comes to realistic
writing? - ✔✔Charles Dickens
✔✔Which word best captures the mood of western culture at the dawning of the 20th
century? - ✔✔Optimism
, ✔✔What word best describes the response of writers and artists to the aftermath of the
Great War? - ✔✔Fragmentation
✔✔T/F: World War I probably impacted the cultural and intellectual life of the western
world more than World War II. - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F: In order to "reinvent" art in the modern age, Pablo Picasso returned to the
classical models of the Greco-Roman tradition for his inspiration. - ✔✔False
✔✔The Renaissance lasted roughly between what two dates? - ✔✔1400-1600
✔✔The Renaissance was rigidly ____________. - ✔✔Hierarchical
✔✔What was one casualty of the collapse of the medieval worldview? - ✔✔Sense of
Certainty
✔✔What was medieval certainty replaced by? - ✔✔Modern Skepticism
✔✔What term is defined as the belief that we must question everything and cannot
know anything for certain? - ✔✔Skepticism
✔✔What is one of the most significant intellectual developments of the modern western
world? - ✔✔Skeptical Spirit
✔✔What are two positive aspects to the modern skeptical mind? - ✔✔science & justice
✔✔A healthy skepticism led Copernicus to doubt what? - ✔✔geocentric
✔✔What is the modern legal system based on? - ✔✔Doubt
✔✔What are three negative aspects to the modern skeptical mind? - ✔✔no absolute
truth, all relative, no foundation for life.
✔✔In the journey from certainty to uncertainty, what were facts and values considered
to be during the medieval times? - ✔✔Both were considered to be certain.
✔✔In the journey from certainty to uncertainty, what were facts and values considered
to be during the modern times? - ✔✔Facts certain, values uncertain.
✔✔In the journey from certainty to uncertainty, what were facts and values considered
to be during the postmodern times? - ✔✔Both are uncertain.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔T/F: By the end of the nineteenth century, materialism and secularism had produced
a widespread pessimism about the future of western culture. - ✔✔False
✔✔Who is Jean-Francois Millet most closely associated with when it comes to realism
in painting? - ✔✔Gustave Courbet
✔✔Who is Charles Darwin most closely associated with when it comes to intellectual
developments? - ✔✔Karl Marx
✔✔Who is Leo Tolstoy most closely associated with when it comes to skepticism? -
✔✔Matthew Arnold
✔✔Who is Gustave Flaubert most closely associated with when it comes to realistic
writing? - ✔✔Charles Dickens
✔✔Which word best captures the mood of western culture at the dawning of the 20th
century? - ✔✔Optimism
, ✔✔What word best describes the response of writers and artists to the aftermath of the
Great War? - ✔✔Fragmentation
✔✔T/F: World War I probably impacted the cultural and intellectual life of the western
world more than World War II. - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F: In order to "reinvent" art in the modern age, Pablo Picasso returned to the
classical models of the Greco-Roman tradition for his inspiration. - ✔✔False
✔✔The Renaissance lasted roughly between what two dates? - ✔✔1400-1600
✔✔The Renaissance was rigidly ____________. - ✔✔Hierarchical
✔✔What was one casualty of the collapse of the medieval worldview? - ✔✔Sense of
Certainty
✔✔What was medieval certainty replaced by? - ✔✔Modern Skepticism
✔✔What term is defined as the belief that we must question everything and cannot
know anything for certain? - ✔✔Skepticism
✔✔What is one of the most significant intellectual developments of the modern western
world? - ✔✔Skeptical Spirit
✔✔What are two positive aspects to the modern skeptical mind? - ✔✔science & justice
✔✔A healthy skepticism led Copernicus to doubt what? - ✔✔geocentric
✔✔What is the modern legal system based on? - ✔✔Doubt
✔✔What are three negative aspects to the modern skeptical mind? - ✔✔no absolute
truth, all relative, no foundation for life.
✔✔In the journey from certainty to uncertainty, what were facts and values considered
to be during the medieval times? - ✔✔Both were considered to be certain.
✔✔In the journey from certainty to uncertainty, what were facts and values considered
to be during the modern times? - ✔✔Facts certain, values uncertain.
✔✔In the journey from certainty to uncertainty, what were facts and values considered
to be during the postmodern times? - ✔✔Both are uncertain.
