Questions and Answers
1. What is the relationship between the humanities and technology✔✔✔
a) Tech-nology has led to an increase in globalization by making the world
smaller and connecting people together through social networks via the internet.
b) Technology has increased our ability to preserve, document and share works of
art, literature, and music in a way that is unprecedented.
2. What theme is found in multiple historical periods✔✔✔ Individualism
3. How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work✔✔✔ Look
for theunifying or main ideas.
4. What is true of myths✔✔✔ a) They are traditional stories of a people or
culture that are told to explain natural phenomena and to record values and belief
systemsfrom generation to generation.
b) They utilize archetypes and symbols to find a deeper understand of life.
,5. Part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the earliest
human civilizations.: Dance
6. Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy and com-
edy.: Theater
7. Concerned with the interplay of form and function.: Architecture
8. Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs.: Religion
9. Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with critical
inquiry and reasoned argument✔✔✔ Philosophy
10. The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of the Norman Conquest of England
fulfills which purpose of art✔✔✔ Art as political propaganda
11. What are the Humanities✔✔✔ The study of how the human race
understands and documents the human experience through creative contributions
in art, music,literature, philosophy, religion, dance, etc.
, 12. What are examples of universal themes✔✔✔ Love and the Hero
13. Brotherly or selfless love: Agape
14. A recurrent example or model of human behavior: Archetypes
15. An experience of beauty that is its own justification: Aesthetic
16. Passionate or sexual love: Eros
17. A myth that is embraced by a majority of people throughout history.: Mon-
omyth