WGU C100 Humanities Final Study Guide 151
Questions with Verified Answers
Oedipus Rex - CORRECT ANSWER What play was written by the Greek dramatist
Sophocles?
Homer - CORRECT ANSWER What Poet wrote Iliad?
Post and Lintel - CORRECT ANSWER Greek Architecture was based on what
structure?
The Parthenon - CORRECT ANSWER The Greek building most revered for its use of
Ratio and Perspective is?
Amphitheater - CORRECT ANSWER Geek plays generally shown in a ?
The Patheon - CORRECT ANSWER Roman Engineering allowed the
______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries.
Every Day Life - CORRECT ANSWER Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the
shadows represent?
Belief in Multiple Gods - CORRECT ANSWER Polytheism
,Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER Ancient Greeks formed what kind of
Government?
Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays - CORRECT ANSWER Classical Drama
Consisted of ?
Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live. -
CORRECT ANSWER The Republic
A story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige,
his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile. -
CORRECT ANSWER Oedipus Rex
Epic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest
virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods. - CORRECT ANSWER The
Odyssey
Emphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess Athena.
- CORRECT ANSWER The Parthenon
A play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the
war. - CORRECT ANSWER Lysistrata
Humanism (Classical) - CORRECT ANSWER Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for
Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period?
, It Utilizes vertical and Horizontal Symetry - CORRECT ANSWER Why is the statue
Kouros a notable Greek Sculpture?
The development of Western Philosophy and ideas of the Modern Scientific
Method. - CORRECT ANSWER Which innovation during the classical period was
based on balance and reason?
Greeks lived in democratic run states.
Romans had larger centralized Republic and eventually empire. - CORRECT
ANSWER What is the Primary difference between Greek and Roman Societies?
An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling. - CORRECT ANSWER Aesthetic
Experience
Architecture is considered with an aesthetic effect of structures and their
enviroment. - CORRECT ANSWER Why is architecture considered and art?
It can act as political and social commentary. - CORRECT ANSWER How can art
function beyond it Aesthetic Value?
Music, religion, literature and Arcitech. - CORRECT ANSWER Which disiplines fall
within the realm of Humanities?
Traditional Stories that serve to explain some phenomena, the origin of humanity
or customs or religious rights. - CORRECT ANSWER Myths
Questions with Verified Answers
Oedipus Rex - CORRECT ANSWER What play was written by the Greek dramatist
Sophocles?
Homer - CORRECT ANSWER What Poet wrote Iliad?
Post and Lintel - CORRECT ANSWER Greek Architecture was based on what
structure?
The Parthenon - CORRECT ANSWER The Greek building most revered for its use of
Ratio and Perspective is?
Amphitheater - CORRECT ANSWER Geek plays generally shown in a ?
The Patheon - CORRECT ANSWER Roman Engineering allowed the
______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries.
Every Day Life - CORRECT ANSWER Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the
shadows represent?
Belief in Multiple Gods - CORRECT ANSWER Polytheism
,Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER Ancient Greeks formed what kind of
Government?
Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays - CORRECT ANSWER Classical Drama
Consisted of ?
Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live. -
CORRECT ANSWER The Republic
A story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige,
his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile. -
CORRECT ANSWER Oedipus Rex
Epic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest
virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods. - CORRECT ANSWER The
Odyssey
Emphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess Athena.
- CORRECT ANSWER The Parthenon
A play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the
war. - CORRECT ANSWER Lysistrata
Humanism (Classical) - CORRECT ANSWER Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for
Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period?
, It Utilizes vertical and Horizontal Symetry - CORRECT ANSWER Why is the statue
Kouros a notable Greek Sculpture?
The development of Western Philosophy and ideas of the Modern Scientific
Method. - CORRECT ANSWER Which innovation during the classical period was
based on balance and reason?
Greeks lived in democratic run states.
Romans had larger centralized Republic and eventually empire. - CORRECT
ANSWER What is the Primary difference between Greek and Roman Societies?
An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling. - CORRECT ANSWER Aesthetic
Experience
Architecture is considered with an aesthetic effect of structures and their
enviroment. - CORRECT ANSWER Why is architecture considered and art?
It can act as political and social commentary. - CORRECT ANSWER How can art
function beyond it Aesthetic Value?
Music, religion, literature and Arcitech. - CORRECT ANSWER Which disiplines fall
within the realm of Humanities?
Traditional Stories that serve to explain some phenomena, the origin of humanity
or customs or religious rights. - CORRECT ANSWER Myths
