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1. Discuss at least three ways in which Henry David Thoreau proved himself a nonconformist. Also, discuss one of Thoreau''s works and how it reflects his nonconformist attitude. 

2. Based on your hearing or reading of The Outside by Susan Glaspell, explain how the playwright uses the male characters of the play to reveal feminist themes. How do these men further Glaspell''s feminist message? 

3. Given the medieval works of art we have studied, evaluate how religion influenced the aesthetics of the period. Use at least two examples of art we have studied in this course as the basis of your analysis. 

1. (TCO 1) Which of the following Greek terms can be translated ascircle?

Kyklos 

Labrys 

Areté 

Tholos 

Question 2.2. (TCO 2) Who was the Roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people? Cicero 

Virgil 

Horace 

Ovid 

 

Question 3.3. (TCO 5) Which of the following terms refers to an almond-shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists? (Points : 5) 

Tympanum 

Mandorla 

Trumeau 

Voussoir 

 

Question 4.4. (TCO 5) Which of the following was considered the most pre-eminent Italian city-state in the 15th century? (Points : 5) 

Naples 

Rome 

Pisa 

Florence 

 

Question 5.5. (TCO 1) Who was known as the Sun King? (Points : 5) 

Charles II 

Louis XIV 

Henry IV 

James I 

 

Question 6.6. (TCO 2) Who is the author of Essay on Human Understanding, which contends that people are perfectly capable of governing themselves? (Points : 5) 

Thomas Hobbes 

Jonathan Swift 

John Locke 

John Milton 

 

Question 7.7. (TCO 1) Who served as captain of the Endeavor as it sailed for the South Pacific in 1768? (Points : 5)

Benjamin West 

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 

Francis Parkinson 

James Cook 

 

Question 8.8. (TCO 1) Which of the following authors is most closely associated with Lambert Strether, a key character in The Ambassadors? (Points : 5) 

Henry James 

Walt Whitman 

Kate Chopin 

Emily Dickinson 

 

Question 9.9. (TCO 5) Which of the following paintings is considered something of a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon? (Points : 5) 

Dance II 

Joy of Life 

Houses at l’Estaque 

Violin and Palette 

 

Question 10.10. (TCO 5) Which of the following led the forces that defeated the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (that continued from 1936 to 1939), and then ruled Spain in a totalitarian manner until 1975? (Points : 5) 

General Francisco Franco 

Joseph Goebbels 

Leon Trotsky 

 

(TCO 1) Which of the following ancient structures is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate? (Points : 5) 

The ancient city of Mycenae 

The palace of Minos at Knossos 

The ancient city of Troy 

The palace of Theramos at Akrotiri 

 

2. (TCO 2) Which of the following rivers is associated with the city of Rome? (Points : 5) 

The Tigris 

The Tiber 

The Euphrates 

The Arno 

 

3. (TCO 5) According to an ancient legend, who created the first Celtic cross by making the mark of a Latin cross through the circle on an ancient standing stone monument? (Points : 5) 

Augustine 

Columba 

Eadfrith 

Patrick 

 

4. (TCO 5) Who is credited for having coined the term platonic love? (Points : 5) 

Marsilio Ficino 

Sandro Botticelli 

Heinrich Isaac 

Pico della Mirandola 

 

 

 

5. (TCO 1) Who was known as the Sun King? (Points : 5) 

Charles II 

Louis XIV 

Henry IV 

James I 

 

6. (TCO 2) During the early 18th century, which of the following areas was most closely associated with London’s very poor? (Points : 5) 

The East End 

Mayfair 

Marylebone 

Paddington 

 

7. (TCO 1) Who is associated with such characters as Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and Roxanna? (Points : 5) 

Henry Fielding 

Daniel Defoe 

Samuel Johnson 

Alexander Pope 

 

8. (TCO 1) In which of the following literary pieces does Simon Legree play a significant role? (Points : 5) 

Hard Times 

The Bronze Horseman 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

Huckleberry Finn 

 

9. (TCO 5) Who wrote Remembrance of Things Past? (Points : 5) 

James Joyce 

Marcel Proust 

Ernest Hemingway 

T. S. Eliot 

 

10. (TC0 5) Who designed the headquarters for the Chinese Central Television in conjunction with the 2008 Beijing Olympics? (Points : 5) 

Itsuko Hasegawa 

Santiago Calatrava 

Rem Koolhaas 

Renzo Piano