Deck 2: The Humanities and Critical Thinking

Question 1

____ 7. Figuratists often use colorful, fanciful, metaphoric language.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

____ 10. Yogi Berra, the baseball legend, also has a Ph.D. in philosophy.

Answer 2

False

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 3

6

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ A noncritical thinker is often one of these.

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Baseball-playing folk philosopher

Question 6

____ 11. The Creation of Adam was painted on a ceiling.

Question 7

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Changing your mind after enjoying the movie the night before

Question 8

____ 5. The first step in a personal critical response is not to jump to hasty conclusions.

Question 9

____ 9. Noel Coward was known for his wit, but Winston Churchill got the better of him.

Question 10

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ He is associated with the vibrant energy of the earth

Question 11

____ 3. A work must belong to the present day in order for us to truly appreciate it.

Question 12

____ 1. There is little to be gained from reading professional critics.

Question 13

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Best viewed in the context of 1939

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Called the film The Sound of Music "a sugarcoated lie"

Question 15

____ 2. The music drama Miss Saigon is based on The Sound of Music.

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Reports the details of what happened

Question 17

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Had a clever comeback to an insulting invitation.

Question 18

____ 4. Poet William Wordsworth lived in New York in the SoHo district during the American Revolution.

Question 19

____ 6. "The World Is Too Much with Us" is often hailed as Shakespeare's finest sonnet.

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. literalist
2. Popcorn Syndrome
3. figuratist
4. Noel Coward
5. e. e. cummings
6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit
of Music
7. Madame Butterfly
8. Miss Saigon
9. Winston Churchill
10. Giacomo Puccini
11. Dionysus
12. Apollo
13. Pauline Kael
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Yogi Berra
___ Its context is the war in Vietnam in the 1960s.

Question 21

According to the text, the older one gets, the more precious this becomes:

A) one's money
B) ones' property
C) one's children
D) one's athletic ability
E) one'smind

Question 22

When you tell yourself a convenient and palatable version of an uncomfortable event, you are

A) literalizing.
B) moralizing.
C) rationalizing.
D) analyzing.
E) assuming.

Question 23

Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon have what in common?

A) Both are set in the context of the Vietnam War.
B) Both were written by Giacomo Puccini.
C) Both are based on the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
D) Both heroines fall in love with and are betrayed by U.S. military men.
E) Both plots are romances with happy endings.

Question 24

Alienationinvolves

A) not finishing a book that one decides is not worth the time.
B) being unwilling to read a work by an author whose opinions differ from one's own.
C) pretending the author is someone one has never heard of.
D) turning off the critical approach and surrendering to the emotions.
E) refusing to respond empathetically.

Question 25

____ 14. The process of rationalizing consists of carefully analyzing the nature of a problem.

Question 26

The analysis of the Wordsworth poem includes a discussion of

A) the Vietnam War.
B) imagery.
C) literalists and figuratists.
D) ice skating.
E) the Popcorn Syndrome.

Question 27

Apollo is

A) a Greek follower of Socrates.
B) the Greek god of the sun, light, and truth.
C) the Greek equivalent of Beethoven.
D) Nietzsche's favorite Greek composer.
E) the Greek god representing the emotional and spontaneous.

Question 28

According to Nietzsche, which of the following represents a desirable response to viewing a stage production of The Oresteia?

A) absorbing moral instruction
B) alienation of the emotions
C) an analytical involvement of scene by scene
D) teaching the play as an example of exciting theater
E) encouraging students to research the play carefully rather than just watching it and getting what they can from it.

Question 29

____ 13. A context is a framework of circumstances and relatonships.

Question 30

When discussing the e. e. cummings poem, the chapter indicates that cummingsa. demonstrates an Apollonian use of grammar. b. delivers a clear Dionysian message. c. appreciates nature. d. is alienated from his subject matter.e. has written a popcorn entertainment.

Question 31

____ 15. The artist Norman Rockwell is famous for interpreting middle-class life.

Question 32

Which of the following responses to a work of art does notrepresent critical thinking?

A) putting aside instinctive emotional experience the work provides
B) forgetting how the work relates only to you
C) doing research to find out how the work fared when it was new
D) defining what it is you want to determine
E) evaluating the work in its proper context

Question 33

The hypothetical problem of the missing dollar helps us

A) keep an accurate account of our getting and spending.
B) understand bellhops and their motives.
C) put situations into a Dionysian perspective.
D) remember to listen for contradictions and inconsistencies.
E) see that economics is one of the disciplines of the humanities.

Question 34

The illustration by Norman Rockwell was included in the chapter to show how much we learn from examining

A) historical context.
B) the importance of the artist's home environment.
C) the variety of brushstrokes used by the artist.
D) how the work of other artists contributes to the making of any given work of art.
E) buried assumptions behind the subject matter.

Question 35

Indulging in "popcorn fun" is

A) an Apollonian pleasure.
B) a recommended way to stretch our mental capacities.
C) a legitimate way to spend some time.
D) an exercise in critical thinking.
E) strictly forbidden.

Question 36

Recommended as the first step in solving a problem:

A) determine whether a problem exists
B) consult an expert on the subject
C) rationalize all possibilities before proceeding
D) look for logical fallacies
E) resolve it into an Apollonian/Dionysian dualism

Question 37

Each of the following is characteristic of an Apollonian individual except:

A) clarity.
B) spontaneity.
C) discipline.
D) reason.
E) control.

Question 38

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" is

A) a famous statement made by Karl Marx in Das Kapital.
B) a line written beneath a painting by van Gogh that has inspired much controversy.
C) the final words of the Chorus in The Oresteia.
D) a line from a sonnet by Wordsworth.
E) a warning by an early twentieth-century environmentalist.

Question 39

____ 12. A sonnet is a demanding poetic form in which the poet is limited to fourteen lines.