HUMN 303 Week 8

HUMN 303 Week 8 | Final Paper | Devry University 

Week 8 Final Paper

This week you are required to submit your Part 1 Final.

Part 1 is attached to this announcement Final Part 1.docx, but it is also available under Week 8 files.

Be sure to submit this component before Midnight, Saturday, 4/21.

Name:

HUMN 303

Touretz

4/15/18

Final Part 1: Multiple Choice

Directions: Please answer all of the questions below to the best of your abilities. Once completed, please email me your completed sheet. I must have everyone’s completed work NO LATER than midnight, Saturday, 4/21/18.

1.      Why was Florence considered the preeminent Italian city-state of the fifteenth century?

a.   Florence was home to the Medicis, a wealthy and powerful family who supported the city’s   guilds and artists and influenced the city’s politics.

b.   Florence was a premier city for religious response to social unrest.

c.   Florence was known for ceramics and pottery, a growing industry with merchants of the         rising middle class.

d.   Florence was favored by Pope Eugenius IV, who conducted ordinations in St. Mark’s Square.

2.   Which of the following artists did the city of Florence commission to create a freestanding     statue of the Biblical hero David using a huge cracked block of marble that all other sculptors    had abandoned?

a.   Michelangelo

b.   Donatello

c.   Raphael

d.   Leonardo

3.   Martin Luther’s argument stated that moral virtue is not measured in good deeds but through             faith. How might this contradict the Church’s view?

a.   The Church encouraged works, deeds, and the sale of indulgences (monetary payment for      remission of sinful acts).

b.   The Church promoted the creation of visual art for didactic and liturgical purposes.

c.   The Church openly encouraged philosophies that bolstered liturgical goals.

d.   The Church promoted political agenda for the “godly” leadership of civic office.

4.   The Church’s response to the Reformation was the Counter-Reformation. As part of that        movement, which of the following Church organizations included among its guidelines Rule 13, which addresses renewed obedience to the authority of the Church?

a.   the Franciscans

b.   the Benedictines

c.   the Jesuits

d.   the Dominicans

5.   What is Locke’s assertion inEssay on Human Understanding?

a.   People are perfectly capable of governing themselves.

b.   The rules of established society inhibit creativity and true freedom.

c.   The separation of Church and State is essential to establishing a true democracy.

d.   Rational humanism is the guiding principle of progress.

6.   Why would King Louis XV attempt to prohibit the publication of the Encyclopédie?

a.   The Enclyclopédie is a compendium of knowledge, which he saw as empowering to the masses.

b.   If distributed, the political agenda behind the Enclyclopédiewould destabilize the monarchy.

c.   The work was inflammatory toward the Church.

d.   The work pressured local authorities to allow unauthorized distribution of printed material.

7.   The writing of Jane Austen, especially in Pride and Prejudice, reflects

a.   the limitation of gender roles in eighteenth-century society.

b.   an accurate view of domestic life for the working poor.

c.   the adventures of a female traveling alone.

d.   the hypocrisy of the Church of England.

8. Who wrote the General Principles of Relativity?

a.   Max Planck

b.   Niels Bohr

c.   Albert Einstein

d.   Ernest Rutherford

9. Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignonwas notoriously known as

a.   an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been understood.

b.   the scandalous painting that abstracted the female nude.

c.   an early demonstration of Futurist influence in painting.

d.   the work of a “madman” abstracting forms to make a statement regarding women.

10. The Dada Manifesto is

a.   a response to the chaos and irrationality of World War I.

b.   a statement about the conditions of the working class in Europe during World War I.

c.   a collection of letters from political activists regarding World War I.

d.   a treatise on the artist’s view of destruction resulting from World War I.