CSTU UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE
●● Western culture
Answer: A set of shared culture generally in Europe and related areas
●● Humanities
Answer: What makes us human
●● Epic
Answer: A long narrative recounting heroism, centered on the hero with
a sense of national identity
●● Golden Age of Athens (Greece)
Answer: • Persian Wars - Destruction of Athens by the Persians,
followed eventually by Greek victory
• Pericles - Leader during the Golden Age
• Parthenon - Physical embodiment of the classical Greek spirit
, ●● Plato's Theory of Forms
Answer: Changing reality is founded on higher forms, which through
reasoning, we could get a glimpse of
●● Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Answer: Allegory of Plato's Theory of Forms. Essentially, men are
trapped in a cave all their life seeing only shadows. One breaks free and
sees life out of the cave, going back to show the others, but all they can
see is the cave.
●● Greek humanism
Answer: Human reason is the surest truth (a confidence in human power
and ingenuity)
●● Why has Homer been called the earliest shaper of the Greek outlook
and character?
Answer: Homer uses his epics to: Recognize universal order &
Emphasize individual excellence.
●● The Greek contribution to Western culture
Answer: • Art/Architecture
• Thought (philosophy)
• Freedom (political & moral)
• Humanism
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE
●● Western culture
Answer: A set of shared culture generally in Europe and related areas
●● Humanities
Answer: What makes us human
●● Epic
Answer: A long narrative recounting heroism, centered on the hero with
a sense of national identity
●● Golden Age of Athens (Greece)
Answer: • Persian Wars - Destruction of Athens by the Persians,
followed eventually by Greek victory
• Pericles - Leader during the Golden Age
• Parthenon - Physical embodiment of the classical Greek spirit
, ●● Plato's Theory of Forms
Answer: Changing reality is founded on higher forms, which through
reasoning, we could get a glimpse of
●● Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Answer: Allegory of Plato's Theory of Forms. Essentially, men are
trapped in a cave all their life seeing only shadows. One breaks free and
sees life out of the cave, going back to show the others, but all they can
see is the cave.
●● Greek humanism
Answer: Human reason is the surest truth (a confidence in human power
and ingenuity)
●● Why has Homer been called the earliest shaper of the Greek outlook
and character?
Answer: Homer uses his epics to: Recognize universal order &
Emphasize individual excellence.
●● The Greek contribution to Western culture
Answer: • Art/Architecture
• Thought (philosophy)
• Freedom (political & moral)
• Humanism
