WGU C100 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT 2026
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A PLUS
◉ What theme is found in multiple historical periods?
Answer: Individualism
◉ How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work?
Answer: Look for the unifying or main ideas.
◉ What is true of myths?
Answer: 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.
Answer: Dance
,◉ Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy
and comedy.
Answer: Theater
◉ Concerned with the interplay of form and function.
Answer: Architecture
◉ Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs.
Answer: Religion
◉ Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with
critical inquiry and reasoned argument?
Answer: Philosophy
◉ The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of
England fulfills which purpose of art?
Answer: Art as political propaganda
◉ What are the Humanities?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Love and the Hero
◉ Brotherly or selfless love
Answer: Agape
◉ A recurrent example or model of human behavior
Answer: Archetypes
◉ An experience of beauty that is its own justification
Answer: Aesthetic
◉ Passionate or sexual love
Answer: Eros
◉ A myth that is embraced by a majority of people throughout
history.
Answer: Monomyth
◉ Why is E.O. Wilson's theory of consilience important to the study
of the Humanities?
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A PLUS
◉ What theme is found in multiple historical periods?
Answer: Individualism
◉ How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work?
Answer: Look for the unifying or main ideas.
◉ What is true of myths?
Answer: 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.
Answer: Dance
,◉ Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy
and comedy.
Answer: Theater
◉ Concerned with the interplay of form and function.
Answer: Architecture
◉ Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs.
Answer: Religion
◉ Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with
critical inquiry and reasoned argument?
Answer: Philosophy
◉ The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of
England fulfills which purpose of art?
Answer: Art as political propaganda
◉ What are the Humanities?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Love and the Hero
◉ Brotherly or selfless love
Answer: Agape
◉ A recurrent example or model of human behavior
Answer: Archetypes
◉ An experience of beauty that is its own justification
Answer: Aesthetic
◉ Passionate or sexual love
Answer: Eros
◉ A myth that is embraced by a majority of people throughout
history.
Answer: Monomyth
◉ Why is E.O. Wilson's theory of consilience important to the study
of the Humanities?
