WGU C100 HUMANITIES QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Consilience - Accurate answers Consilience is the art and science of exploring the overlaps of what
are often considered quite different subjects, such as the science and Humanities, in search of
commonalities and places of agreement
True - Accurate answers Themes consist of unifying ideas that are repeated or developed
throughout a literary or artistic work
Humanism - Accurate answers The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all human
cultures. This consideration and examination began in the early Renaissance with the study of Greek and
Roman civilizations
Humanism - Accurate answers ethical system that centers on humans and their values and
emphasizes reason and the scientific method.
Myths - Accurate answers Myths are traditional stories of a people or culture that serve to explain
some natural phenomenon, the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites. Humans can pass on
their visions, values, and memories from generation to generation through myths
Beauty - Accurate answers Those qualities that give pleasure to the senses. They might be found
(for example) in nature, a human face, a musical composition, a painting, or a poem. Aesthetic pleasure
is that which beauty inspires in humans.
Aesthetic experience - Accurate answers Aesthetic experience is an experience of beauty that
inspires a feeling of pleasure, which is its own justification. We value the experience, whether in nature
or the arts, intrinsically—independently of other things. The stimulus for aesthetic experience may be
visual (a full moon, a painting, a dance movement, a person's face) or auditory (a song, the wind
whistling through the trees) or literary (a written narrative or verse).
Archetypes - Accurate answers are age-old models by which we comprehend human experience.
These original models—for example, "the hero" or "descent into the underworld" or "scapegoat"—are
transmitted from generation to generation through mythology and become part of our subconscious
They include mythic characters, events, symbols, and buried assumptions
Those original models that help us understand our experience are called - Accurate answers
Archetypes
Music - Accurate answers an artistic form of auditory expression that incorporates instruments or
human voices in a structured and continuous manner.
Cinema - Accurate answers an artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a vehicle for
storytelling and other creative expression.
,The visual arts - Accurate answers entail creation of primarily visual works, which can be two or
three dimensional. These include painting, illustration, photography, printmaking, and sculpture
Literature - Accurate answers Literature is an art form of the written word. It refers to an individual
literary work or collectively to the creative writing of a people, nation, or culture. Major forms of
literature include poetry, novels, plays, and short stories.
Theater - Accurate answers is a storytelling art. It often combines speech, music, gesture, dance,
stagecraft, and spectacle to perform a drama or musical before a live audience
Dance - Accurate answers is an art form involving a sequence of rhythmic movements or steps
usually performed to music. Historically dance has often served ritualistic as well as
entertainment purposes
Architecture - Accurate answers is the science and art of designing buildings and other structures
and is concerned with the aesthetic effect of structures in their surrounding environment
Philosophy - Accurate answers is the systematic investigation of fundamental questions concerning
such matters as existence, reality, consciousness, knowledge, truth, and justice. The main branches of
philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, logic, and the philosophy of the mind.
The definition of art changes from culture to culture. True or False? - Accurate answers True.
Different cultures often have different aesthetic values and different definitions of art.
Humans only started to produce art during the 3rd and 4th centuries. True or False? - Accurate
answers This is a false statement. Humans have produced art since the dawn of man.
Art can serve more than one function. True or False? - Accurate answers True. Art can serve
multiple functions, such as providing aesthetic pleasure, offering political and social commentary,
assisting in physical and emotional healing, creating historical artifacts from a specific time or place, and
enabling commerce in advertising products and services
The function of a single piece of art can change over time. True or False? - Accurate answers
True.The functions of a single piece of art can change over time as society changes (or expands) its
interpretation of the work.
At their best, the Humanities lead us to consider more than just our own personal histories. True or
False? - Accurate answers True. The Humanities allows us to gain a greater understanding of the
events and struggles that preceded us and continually occur around us.
Modern music in America emerged as a new form, with only limited roots in older styles of music from
England. True or False? - Accurate answers This statement is false. The roots of American gospel
music originate in Africa, and English ballads provide inspiration for American folk and country music.
Some struggles that people face are universal—they have concerned people at different points
throughout history. True or False? - Accurate answers True. Many of our current struggles
resemble those faced by people and societies that have preceded us. Studies in the Humanities can
, provide for a better appreciation of both our current concerns and the concerns and actions of those
that came before us.
Cultural exchange is something that began in the 20th century. True or False? - Accurate answers
Correct. This is a false statement. Cultural exchange has occurred since at least the beginning of
recorded history and continues to this day.
Humanism is solely a part of Western thinking. - Accurate answers This is a false statement. A
humanist tradition also emerged in the nonwestern world, reflected in such Eastern religions as
Confucianism and Buddhism.
E.O Wilson's idea of "consilience - Accurate answers "jumping together" of knowledge by the
linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation
Which of the following themes is found in multiple historical periods? - Accurate answers
Individualism
How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work? - Accurate answers Look for the unifying
or main ideas.
Part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the earliest human civilizations -
Accurate answers Dance
Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy and comedy - Accurate answers
theater
Concerned with the interplay of form and function. - Accurate answers Architecture
Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs. - Accurate answers Religion
Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with critical inquiry and reasoned argument? -
Accurate answers Philosophy
The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of England fulfills which purpose of art? -
Accurate answers Art as political propaganda.
What are the Humanities? - Accurate answers The study of the how the human race understands
and documents the human experience through creative contributions in art, music, literature,
philosophy, religion, dance, etc.
Which of the following are examples of universal themes in this Module? - Accurate answers love
and the hero
recurrent example or model of human behavior - Accurate answers Archetypes
An experience of beauty that is its own justification - Accurate answers Aesthetic
Passionate or sexual love - Accurate answers Eros
ANSWERS
Consilience - Accurate answers Consilience is the art and science of exploring the overlaps of what
are often considered quite different subjects, such as the science and Humanities, in search of
commonalities and places of agreement
True - Accurate answers Themes consist of unifying ideas that are repeated or developed
throughout a literary or artistic work
Humanism - Accurate answers The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all human
cultures. This consideration and examination began in the early Renaissance with the study of Greek and
Roman civilizations
Humanism - Accurate answers ethical system that centers on humans and their values and
emphasizes reason and the scientific method.
Myths - Accurate answers Myths are traditional stories of a people or culture that serve to explain
some natural phenomenon, the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites. Humans can pass on
their visions, values, and memories from generation to generation through myths
Beauty - Accurate answers Those qualities that give pleasure to the senses. They might be found
(for example) in nature, a human face, a musical composition, a painting, or a poem. Aesthetic pleasure
is that which beauty inspires in humans.
Aesthetic experience - Accurate answers Aesthetic experience is an experience of beauty that
inspires a feeling of pleasure, which is its own justification. We value the experience, whether in nature
or the arts, intrinsically—independently of other things. The stimulus for aesthetic experience may be
visual (a full moon, a painting, a dance movement, a person's face) or auditory (a song, the wind
whistling through the trees) or literary (a written narrative or verse).
Archetypes - Accurate answers are age-old models by which we comprehend human experience.
These original models—for example, "the hero" or "descent into the underworld" or "scapegoat"—are
transmitted from generation to generation through mythology and become part of our subconscious
They include mythic characters, events, symbols, and buried assumptions
Those original models that help us understand our experience are called - Accurate answers
Archetypes
Music - Accurate answers an artistic form of auditory expression that incorporates instruments or
human voices in a structured and continuous manner.
Cinema - Accurate answers an artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a vehicle for
storytelling and other creative expression.
,The visual arts - Accurate answers entail creation of primarily visual works, which can be two or
three dimensional. These include painting, illustration, photography, printmaking, and sculpture
Literature - Accurate answers Literature is an art form of the written word. It refers to an individual
literary work or collectively to the creative writing of a people, nation, or culture. Major forms of
literature include poetry, novels, plays, and short stories.
Theater - Accurate answers is a storytelling art. It often combines speech, music, gesture, dance,
stagecraft, and spectacle to perform a drama or musical before a live audience
Dance - Accurate answers is an art form involving a sequence of rhythmic movements or steps
usually performed to music. Historically dance has often served ritualistic as well as
entertainment purposes
Architecture - Accurate answers is the science and art of designing buildings and other structures
and is concerned with the aesthetic effect of structures in their surrounding environment
Philosophy - Accurate answers is the systematic investigation of fundamental questions concerning
such matters as existence, reality, consciousness, knowledge, truth, and justice. The main branches of
philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, logic, and the philosophy of the mind.
The definition of art changes from culture to culture. True or False? - Accurate answers True.
Different cultures often have different aesthetic values and different definitions of art.
Humans only started to produce art during the 3rd and 4th centuries. True or False? - Accurate
answers This is a false statement. Humans have produced art since the dawn of man.
Art can serve more than one function. True or False? - Accurate answers True. Art can serve
multiple functions, such as providing aesthetic pleasure, offering political and social commentary,
assisting in physical and emotional healing, creating historical artifacts from a specific time or place, and
enabling commerce in advertising products and services
The function of a single piece of art can change over time. True or False? - Accurate answers
True.The functions of a single piece of art can change over time as society changes (or expands) its
interpretation of the work.
At their best, the Humanities lead us to consider more than just our own personal histories. True or
False? - Accurate answers True. The Humanities allows us to gain a greater understanding of the
events and struggles that preceded us and continually occur around us.
Modern music in America emerged as a new form, with only limited roots in older styles of music from
England. True or False? - Accurate answers This statement is false. The roots of American gospel
music originate in Africa, and English ballads provide inspiration for American folk and country music.
Some struggles that people face are universal—they have concerned people at different points
throughout history. True or False? - Accurate answers True. Many of our current struggles
resemble those faced by people and societies that have preceded us. Studies in the Humanities can
, provide for a better appreciation of both our current concerns and the concerns and actions of those
that came before us.
Cultural exchange is something that began in the 20th century. True or False? - Accurate answers
Correct. This is a false statement. Cultural exchange has occurred since at least the beginning of
recorded history and continues to this day.
Humanism is solely a part of Western thinking. - Accurate answers This is a false statement. A
humanist tradition also emerged in the nonwestern world, reflected in such Eastern religions as
Confucianism and Buddhism.
E.O Wilson's idea of "consilience - Accurate answers "jumping together" of knowledge by the
linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation
Which of the following themes is found in multiple historical periods? - Accurate answers
Individualism
How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work? - Accurate answers Look for the unifying
or main ideas.
Part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the earliest human civilizations -
Accurate answers Dance
Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy and comedy - Accurate answers
theater
Concerned with the interplay of form and function. - Accurate answers Architecture
Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs. - Accurate answers Religion
Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with critical inquiry and reasoned argument? -
Accurate answers Philosophy
The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of England fulfills which purpose of art? -
Accurate answers Art as political propaganda.
What are the Humanities? - Accurate answers The study of the how the human race understands
and documents the human experience through creative contributions in art, music, literature,
philosophy, religion, dance, etc.
Which of the following are examples of universal themes in this Module? - Accurate answers love
and the hero
recurrent example or model of human behavior - Accurate answers Archetypes
An experience of beauty that is its own justification - Accurate answers Aesthetic
Passionate or sexual love - Accurate answers Eros
