C100 WGU Objective Assessment 2025
Questions and Answers
What is the relationship between the humanities and technology? - ANSWER✔️✔️-a) Technology
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.
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
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,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
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, Why is E.O. Wilson's theory of consilience important to the study of the Humanities? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-It reinforces interdisciplinary study and facilitates the exchange of information
necessary to create a more holistic understanding of who we are.
How was Humanism reflected in the non-western world? - ANSWER✔️✔️-Ancient Chinese
culture embraced principles in Confucianism and Buddhism that mirrored Humanist principles.
How does studying the Humanities increase cross-cultural communication? - ANSWER✔️✔️-It
helps us to interact with and understand a variety of people from different times and different places
through their creative contributions.
How does studying the portrayal of love over time enhance one's understanding of humanity? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-The study of love in all its form (eros, agape, and platonic love) illustrates a
distinction in types of love that has captured the attention of artists.
What is the difference between a myth and a monomyth? - ANSWER✔️✔️-Myths can include a
wide variety of narratives and archetypes. The monomyth focuses on the hero's journey.
Emphasized the themes of order and balance in its construction as a temple to the goddess Athena,
patron of Athens. - ANSWER✔️✔️-The Parthenon
Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live a good, balanced life.
- ANSWER✔️✔️-The Republic
An epic poem narrating the story of an ideal Greek hero who combined all the greatest virtues of
Greek culture, as well as showing his interaction with the Greek pantheon of gods. -
ANSWER✔️✔️-The Odyssey
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Questions and Answers
What is the relationship between the humanities and technology? - ANSWER✔️✔️-a) Technology
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.
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
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,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
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, Why is E.O. Wilson's theory of consilience important to the study of the Humanities? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-It reinforces interdisciplinary study and facilitates the exchange of information
necessary to create a more holistic understanding of who we are.
How was Humanism reflected in the non-western world? - ANSWER✔️✔️-Ancient Chinese
culture embraced principles in Confucianism and Buddhism that mirrored Humanist principles.
How does studying the Humanities increase cross-cultural communication? - ANSWER✔️✔️-It
helps us to interact with and understand a variety of people from different times and different places
through their creative contributions.
How does studying the portrayal of love over time enhance one's understanding of humanity? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-The study of love in all its form (eros, agape, and platonic love) illustrates a
distinction in types of love that has captured the attention of artists.
What is the difference between a myth and a monomyth? - ANSWER✔️✔️-Myths can include a
wide variety of narratives and archetypes. The monomyth focuses on the hero's journey.
Emphasized the themes of order and balance in its construction as a temple to the goddess Athena,
patron of Athens. - ANSWER✔️✔️-The Parthenon
Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live a good, balanced life.
- ANSWER✔️✔️-The Republic
An epic poem narrating the story of an ideal Greek hero who combined all the greatest virtues of
Greek culture, as well as showing his interaction with the Greek pantheon of gods. -
ANSWER✔️✔️-The Odyssey
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