WGU C100 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT (OA)LATEST 2022/2023 (LATEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)
What is the aesthetic experience?
a. a feeling of pleasure that justifies itself
b. a rejection of individualized art
c. a comparison of beauty
d. an objective experience (correct answers)a. a feeling of pleasure that justifies itself
Which topic is studied by the humanities?
a. Patterns causes, and conditions of human health
b. the demographic make-up of mass human social organizations
c. how humans interact with their surrounding environment
d. the cultures and beliefs that make up the experience of being human (correct answers)d. the cultures
and beliefs that make up the experience of being human
Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge?
a. epistemology
b. logic
c. ethics
d. metapysics (correct answers)a. epistemology
What is a clear example of the creation of aesthetic beauty in a humanities discipline?
a. a welder fabricates components for construction of a new high-rise building
b. an artist feels inspired by nature and paints a picture of the mountain landscape
c. a worker assembles parts of an automobile on a production line.
d. a chemist creates a new method of hexane extraction in the laboratory (correct answers)a. a welder
fabricates components for construction of a new high-rise building
Eros is:
,Non-sexual love emphasized by ancient Greeks
Passionate love favored by Greek poets
A romantic love emphasized in the medieval period (correct answers)Passionate love favored by Greek
poets
Platonic is:
Non-sexual love emphasized by ancient Greeks
Passionate love favored by Greek poets
A romantic love emphasized in the medieval period (correct answers)Non-sexual love emphasized by
ancient Greeks
Courtly is:
Non-sexual love emphasized by ancient Greeks
Passionate love favored by Greek poets
A romantic love emphasized in the medieval period (correct answers)A romantic love emphasized in the
medieval period
How does technology impact the visual arts?
a. technology allows fewer people to access the arts
b. technological progress provides the primary inspiration for artists
c. technological innovations reduce our ability to experience the visual arts
d. technology allows us to archive, reproduce and share artwork in many ways (correct answers)d.
technology allows us to archive, reproduce and share artwork in many ways
Which classical theme critiqued the belief that only the gods could create models of morality?
a. Democracy
b. polytheism
, c. balance
d. humanism (correct answers)d. humanism
What are three techniques used by ancient Greek playwrights Sophocles and Aristophanes?
a. Surprise, illustration, and illumination
b. Double entredre, stealing and deception
c. revelation, secrecy and a chorus
d. foreshadowing, discovery, and reversal of fortune (correct answers)d. foreshadowing, discovery, and
reversal of fortune
Why is Sappho's classical poem "A Lament for Adonis" considered lyrical poetry?
a. it reveals a tragic flaw
b. it expresses feelings of romantic love
c. it recounts a hero's journey
d. it satirizes political issues (correct answers)b. it expresses feelings of romantic love
The dialogue among female characters from Aristophane's classical play Lysistrata:
a. The women's decision to contest their husbands' warmongering activities suggests that women were
equal to men in classical society
b. the women are fed up with the warmongering activities of their husbands and decide to boycott
domestic chores which is a rejection of the role of wives in Greek society.
c. the women decide to refuse to have sex with their husbands until the war is called off which
challenges traditional ideas of the role of wives in classical society.
d. the women's decision to organize and collectively refuse sex demonstrates that women gamer a
higher social status than men in classical Greek society. (correct answers)c. the women decide to refuse
to have sex with their husbands until the war is called off which challenges traditional ideas of the role
of wives in classical society.
Which TWO characteristics of classical epic poetry are shared by Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid?
they explore the effects of industrialization on Greek & Roman culture
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