Deck 1: The Humanities: a Shining Beacon

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ "Humanity will not only survive, it will prevail."

Answer 1

15

Question 2

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ Water Stone

Answer 2

10

Question 3

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ Mona Lisa

Answer 3

5

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ justice as absolute

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ ice skater

Question 6

____ 9. An ancient Greek philosopher was among the first to warn of water pollution when he wrote that "you cannot step twice into the same river."

Question 7

____ 10. Mississippi Monday is the title of a novel about what happened in a small town after the stock market crash of 1929.

Question 8

____ 6. The study of the humanities allows us to forget about the past and focus on achieving our personal goals for the future.

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ Paintings of dancers

Question 10

____ 7. The portrait of Mona Lisa can be found in Paris.

Question 11

____ 8. An infinite person restricts the freedom of others.

Question 12

____ 2. Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnestdramatizes the life of writer Ernest Hemingway.

Question 13

____ 3. The humanities continue to be about males who contributed to the development of Western civilization.

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ rebirth

Question 15

____ 4. Degas was a French artist who frequentlychose ballet dancers as his subject matter.

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ The Importance of Being Earnest

Question 17

____ 5. An ancient Greek play raises the question of whether the law, even in a democracy, judges everyone equally.

Question 18

____ 1. The pleasure that beauty inspires in us is called aesthetic pleasure.

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ a pleasing arrangement of parts

Question 20

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Renaissance
3. Alexander Pope
4. beauty
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Kim Yu-na
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. Mississippi Monday
9. Taylor Mali
10. Isamu Noguchi
11. William Shakespeare
12. Edgar Degas
13. epic tragedy
14. Socrates
15. William Faulkner
___ uomo universale

Question 21

The best way to experience Naguchi's Water Stone is to

A) join a tour group led by an expert art historian who would enlighten you about the historical period in which the work was created.
B) sit and listen to it.
C) take home a replica of it for private analysis, undisturbed by museum noise.
D) compare it to similar works in the exhibit before attempting to evaluate it.
E) view it in the company of a large group in which everyone is enjoying its humor.

Question 22

Where can the Naguchi Water Stone be found?

A) the Louvre in Paris
B) the Metropolitan in New York
C) the Prado in Madrid
D) the Guggenheim in Bilboa
E) in none of the above places

Question 23

Described as a storehouse of witty lines:

A) The Canterbury Tales
B) Dateline
C) The Oresteia
D) Mississippi Monday
E) The Importance of Being Earnest

Question 24

In what century was the Mona Lisa painted?

A) 13th
B) 16th
C) 18th
D) 19th
E) 12th

Question 25

Which is not listed in the chapter as a discipline of the humanities?

A) music
B) literature
C) none of these choices
D) opera
E) drama

Question 26

Heraclitus is famous for having said that a person cannot

A) be in two places at the same time.
B) love more than two women at any one time.
C) catch up to and pass a tortoise in a race.
D) step twice into the same river.
E) remember more than five words in a sequence.

Question 27

Which statement aboutbeauty most closely approximates the discussion in the chapter?

A) A woman who wants to appear beautiful should apply cosmetics to emphasize her best features.
B) Everyone agrees on the specifics of what is beautiful.
C) Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is no longer considered aesthetically pleasing today.
D) An arrangement of parts that seems wrong to us attracts us as being beautiful.
E) If we want to expand our pleasure in beauty, we need to experience many forms of it.

Question 28

During the Renaissance the humanities were

A) guidelines for a carefree, pleasure-filled life free from authority.
B) studied only in the monasteries and were virtually unknown in society at large.
C) the study of what would be possible in the future.
D) an intensive focus on the social injustices of the time.
E) partly the study of classical art, literature, and philosophy.

Question 29

"To be or not to be" begins one of the most famous speeches in all of drama. It is delivered by

A) Romeo.
B) Hamlet.
C) Cyrano de Bergerac.
D) Willy Loman.
E) Doctor Faustus.

Question 30

The humanities widens our understanding of all of these things except:

A) the past.
B) human behavior.
C) the way to financial security.
D) the workings of the creative mind.
E) the present.