Question 1
0 out of 2 points
Why did Charles Darwin publish The Descent of Man in 1871?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To prove the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race
Correct Answer:
To offer an ethical viewpoint of man's development
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Why did the southern Africans submit themselves to the prison-like conditions of
working in the diamond mines?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To earn money to buy Western weapons
Correct Answer:
To earn money to buy Western weapons
Question 3
0 out of 2 points
Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To compensate for the subtractive process of mixing
Correct Answer:
To convey emotions through color combinations
Question 4
0 out of 2 points
, In Still Life with Plaster Cast, what does Paul Cézanne seem to be suggesting by the
two viewpoints?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The human eye can be tricked into focusing on certain details
Correct Answer:
People do not view the world from a single point of view
Question 5
0 out of 2 points
How did Louis Comfort Tiffany create his Art Nouveau stained glass?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Adding ground gemstones to the molten glass
Correct Answer:
Mixing different colors of glass together while hot
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why did Freud place so
much emphasis on interpreting a person's dreams?
Answer
Selected Answer:
They revealed suppressed desires
Correct Answer:
They revealed suppressed desires
Question 7
0 out of 2 points
Why did Friedrich Nietzsche reject organized religion, going so far as to declare that
"God is dead"?
Answer
Selected Answer:
For suppressing people's creative thoughts
0 out of 2 points
Why did Charles Darwin publish The Descent of Man in 1871?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To prove the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race
Correct Answer:
To offer an ethical viewpoint of man's development
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Why did the southern Africans submit themselves to the prison-like conditions of
working in the diamond mines?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To earn money to buy Western weapons
Correct Answer:
To earn money to buy Western weapons
Question 3
0 out of 2 points
Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To compensate for the subtractive process of mixing
Correct Answer:
To convey emotions through color combinations
Question 4
0 out of 2 points
, In Still Life with Plaster Cast, what does Paul Cézanne seem to be suggesting by the
two viewpoints?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The human eye can be tricked into focusing on certain details
Correct Answer:
People do not view the world from a single point of view
Question 5
0 out of 2 points
How did Louis Comfort Tiffany create his Art Nouveau stained glass?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Adding ground gemstones to the molten glass
Correct Answer:
Mixing different colors of glass together while hot
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why did Freud place so
much emphasis on interpreting a person's dreams?
Answer
Selected Answer:
They revealed suppressed desires
Correct Answer:
They revealed suppressed desires
Question 7
0 out of 2 points
Why did Friedrich Nietzsche reject organized religion, going so far as to declare that
"God is dead"?
Answer
Selected Answer:
For suppressing people's creative thoughts
