HUM2020 Final Exam
(1) _________ believed truth could be found in mathematical perfection and wrote
The Republic.
A) Socrates
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Pythagoras
ANSWER: C) Plato
(2) _________ issued the Edict of Milan in 313 CE.
A) Augustus
B) Constantine
C) Diocletian
D) Justinian
ANSWER: B) Constantine
(3) _________ was the Greek term for "city-state":
A) Acropolis
B) Agora
C) Polis
D) Demos
ANSWER: C) Polis
(4) __________ were attracted to the Etruscan coast of Italy by abundant metal ore
that the Etruscans mined and controlled.
A) Romans
B) Greeks
C) Phoenicians
D) Carthaginians
ANSWER: B) Greeks
(5) ___________ rejected church control of access to salvation and published the 95
Theses:
A) John Calvin
B) Martin Luther
C) Erasmus
D) Thomas More
ANSWER: B) Martin Luther
(6) ___________ was a leader of non-violent protest in India as they struggled
against British rule.
A) Nehru
,B) Jinnah
C) Gandhi
D) Tagore
ANSWER: C) Gandhi
(7) ___________ was Speaker of England's House of Commons and the author of
Utopia:
A) Francis Bacon
B) Sir Thomas More
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Milton
ANSWER: B) Sir Thomas More
(8) ___________ wrote nine books of lyric poetry:
A) Sappho
B) Homer
C) Hesiod
D) Pindar
ANSWER: A) Sappho
(9) ____________ is best known for her large-scale installations of silhouettes cut
out of paper and applied to the gallery wall:
A) Cindy Sherman
B) Kara Walker
C) Barbara Kruger
D) Jenny Holzer
ANSWER: B) Kara Walker
(10) ____________ opened a portrait studio and took photos of Paris from his hot air
balloon:
A) Daguerre
B) Nadar
C) Atget
D) Cartier-Bresson
ANSWER: B) Nadar
(11) ____________ seems to have been Dürer's favorite author.
A) Erasmus
B) Petrarch
C) Martin Luther
D) Boccaccio
ANSWER: C) Martin Luther
,(12) ____________ was a central part of Carolingian culture and helped to preserve
much of the literature of the ancient world and to introduce agricultural
advances/new crops.
A) Feudalism
B) Scholasticism
C) Monasticism
D) Chivalry
ANSWER: C) Monasticism
(13) ____________ was a new, cheap source of fuel and replaced wood during the
industrial revolution.
A) Oil
B) Natural gas
C) Coal
D) Peat
ANSWER: C) Coal
(14) _____________ described her fascination with suicide in The Bell Jar.
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Anne Sexton
D) Emily Dickinson
ANSWER: B) Sylvia Plath
(15) ______________ interpreted the composite casket in the Victoria and Albert
Museum and suggested that it expresses the desire of the casket's male giver to
conquer, emotionally and physically, his fiance.
A) Susan Smith
B) Margaret Scott
C) Linda Nochlin
D) Carol Duncan
ANSWER: A) Susan Smith
(16) ______________ is the name given to the Mesopotamian stepped structure
with a temple on top.
A) Mastaba
B) Pyramid
C) Ziggurat
D) Stupa
ANSWER: C) Ziggurat
(17) ______________ prized nation, race, and ethnic pride over individual freedoms:
A) Socialism
B) Fascism
, C) Communism
D) Nationalism
ANSWER: B) Fascism
(18) ______________ used the threat of violence to force Japan to open their ports
in 1854.
A) Admiral Nelson
B) Matthew Perry
C) James Cook
D) Ferdinand Magellan
ANSWER: B) Matthew Perry
(19) _______________ are naturalistic renderings of well-known tourist attractions:
A) Vedute
B) Capricci
C) Bamboccianti
D) Tenebrism
ANSWER: A) Vedute
(20) _______________ drank hemlock, choosing suicide rather than banishment
from Athens when he was wrongly accused of "corrupting the youth" of Athens.
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Socrates
D) Pythagoras
ANSWER: C) Socrates
(21) _________________ published Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and opened
the subject of human sexuality to public discussion.
A) Carl Jung
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Alfred Adler
D) Wilhelm Reich
ANSWER: B) Sigmund Freud
(22) __________________ invented the concepts of Gesamtkunstwerk and the
leitmotif in his operas:
A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Richard Wagner
D) Ludwig van Beethoven
ANSWER: C) Richard Wagner
(1) _________ believed truth could be found in mathematical perfection and wrote
The Republic.
A) Socrates
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Pythagoras
ANSWER: C) Plato
(2) _________ issued the Edict of Milan in 313 CE.
A) Augustus
B) Constantine
C) Diocletian
D) Justinian
ANSWER: B) Constantine
(3) _________ was the Greek term for "city-state":
A) Acropolis
B) Agora
C) Polis
D) Demos
ANSWER: C) Polis
(4) __________ were attracted to the Etruscan coast of Italy by abundant metal ore
that the Etruscans mined and controlled.
A) Romans
B) Greeks
C) Phoenicians
D) Carthaginians
ANSWER: B) Greeks
(5) ___________ rejected church control of access to salvation and published the 95
Theses:
A) John Calvin
B) Martin Luther
C) Erasmus
D) Thomas More
ANSWER: B) Martin Luther
(6) ___________ was a leader of non-violent protest in India as they struggled
against British rule.
A) Nehru
,B) Jinnah
C) Gandhi
D) Tagore
ANSWER: C) Gandhi
(7) ___________ was Speaker of England's House of Commons and the author of
Utopia:
A) Francis Bacon
B) Sir Thomas More
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Milton
ANSWER: B) Sir Thomas More
(8) ___________ wrote nine books of lyric poetry:
A) Sappho
B) Homer
C) Hesiod
D) Pindar
ANSWER: A) Sappho
(9) ____________ is best known for her large-scale installations of silhouettes cut
out of paper and applied to the gallery wall:
A) Cindy Sherman
B) Kara Walker
C) Barbara Kruger
D) Jenny Holzer
ANSWER: B) Kara Walker
(10) ____________ opened a portrait studio and took photos of Paris from his hot air
balloon:
A) Daguerre
B) Nadar
C) Atget
D) Cartier-Bresson
ANSWER: B) Nadar
(11) ____________ seems to have been Dürer's favorite author.
A) Erasmus
B) Petrarch
C) Martin Luther
D) Boccaccio
ANSWER: C) Martin Luther
,(12) ____________ was a central part of Carolingian culture and helped to preserve
much of the literature of the ancient world and to introduce agricultural
advances/new crops.
A) Feudalism
B) Scholasticism
C) Monasticism
D) Chivalry
ANSWER: C) Monasticism
(13) ____________ was a new, cheap source of fuel and replaced wood during the
industrial revolution.
A) Oil
B) Natural gas
C) Coal
D) Peat
ANSWER: C) Coal
(14) _____________ described her fascination with suicide in The Bell Jar.
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Anne Sexton
D) Emily Dickinson
ANSWER: B) Sylvia Plath
(15) ______________ interpreted the composite casket in the Victoria and Albert
Museum and suggested that it expresses the desire of the casket's male giver to
conquer, emotionally and physically, his fiance.
A) Susan Smith
B) Margaret Scott
C) Linda Nochlin
D) Carol Duncan
ANSWER: A) Susan Smith
(16) ______________ is the name given to the Mesopotamian stepped structure
with a temple on top.
A) Mastaba
B) Pyramid
C) Ziggurat
D) Stupa
ANSWER: C) Ziggurat
(17) ______________ prized nation, race, and ethnic pride over individual freedoms:
A) Socialism
B) Fascism
, C) Communism
D) Nationalism
ANSWER: B) Fascism
(18) ______________ used the threat of violence to force Japan to open their ports
in 1854.
A) Admiral Nelson
B) Matthew Perry
C) James Cook
D) Ferdinand Magellan
ANSWER: B) Matthew Perry
(19) _______________ are naturalistic renderings of well-known tourist attractions:
A) Vedute
B) Capricci
C) Bamboccianti
D) Tenebrism
ANSWER: A) Vedute
(20) _______________ drank hemlock, choosing suicide rather than banishment
from Athens when he was wrongly accused of "corrupting the youth" of Athens.
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Socrates
D) Pythagoras
ANSWER: C) Socrates
(21) _________________ published Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and opened
the subject of human sexuality to public discussion.
A) Carl Jung
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Alfred Adler
D) Wilhelm Reich
ANSWER: B) Sigmund Freud
(22) __________________ invented the concepts of Gesamtkunstwerk and the
leitmotif in his operas:
A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Richard Wagner
D) Ludwig van Beethoven
ANSWER: C) Richard Wagner
