HU 250 Purdue University Global World History Multiple Choice Questions
The ancient Law Code of Hammurabi provides extraordinary insight into what aspect of Babylonian culture? Question 1 options:RaceAfterlifeGenderManu CodesQuestion 2 (10 points) The
academic discipline of Archaeological Anthropology studies social and
cultural patterns by doing all the following except?
Question 2 options:Sifting through ruinsCensus analysisExcavating burial sitesCareful examination of artifacts Question 3 (10 points) According to anthropologists, the Kalahari San people practice what sort of religion?Question 3 options:Ecclesiastical religionMansin religionshamanistic religionSyncretism religionQuestion 4 (10 points) The 1896 Meiji Restoration in Japan brought what political development?Question 4 options:restoration of Tokugawa authorityliberalization of Japanese marketsarrival of Theodore Roosevelt's 'White Fleet'the end of the Song DynastyQuestion 5 (10 points) Researchers
who study a place by spending a significant amount of time in the field
in order to understand culture are called? Question 5 options:Social BehavioristsEthnographersCultural BehavioristsArchaeologists Question 6 (10 points) What is the academic study of human culture? Question 6 options:Psychology ArchaeologySocial AnthropologyCultural Anthropology Question 7 (10 points) An
academic examination of Ukrainian refugee lives in St. Paul, MN, is an
example of what anthropological discipline? Question 7 options:Cross cultural researchLinguistic analysisBiological anthropologyEmpiricism Question 8 (10 points) The theory in psychology that holds that seminal contributions to society are a result of individual accomplishments is? Question 8 options:DetenteFormative Determinism TheorySociocultural TheorySkinner's Operant TheoryQuestion 9 (10 points) “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree. Kilmer, Joyce. (1913). The Tyger. The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poe...Kilmer, J. (1913). Trees. Within the Poem, Trees, by Joyce Kilmer, the author uses what poetic style? Question 9 options:confessionalhaikunarrativeimage Question 10 (10 points) Woody GuthrieThis Land Is Your LandGuthrie, W. (Artist). (n.d.). This Land Is Your Land. This land is your land and this land is my landFrom California to the New York islandFrom the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you and meAs I went walking that ribbon of highwayAnd I saw above me that endless skywayI saw below me that golden valleyThis land was made for you and meI roamed and rambled and I've followed my footstepsTo the sparkling sands of her diamond desertsAll around me a voice was a-soundingThis land was made for you and meThere was a big high wall there that tried to stop meSign was painted, said "private property"But on the back side it didn't say nothingThis land was made for you and meWhen the sun come shining, then I was strollingAnd the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rollingA voice was chanting as the fog was liftingThis land was made for you and meThis land is your land and this land is my landFrom California to the New York islandFrom the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you and me Woody
Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land” folk song is widely considered by
linguistic anthropologists to be what type of song? Question 10 options:patrioticsocial protest Kentucky bluegrassAppalachian folkQuestion 11 (10 points) “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree. Kilmer, Joyce. (1913). The Tyger. The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poe...Kilmer, J. (1913). Trees. Within the Poem, Trees, by Joyce Kilmer, the author uses what rhyming schema? Question 11 options:general rhymeperfect rhymeEye rhymeDictatorial rhymeQuestion 12 (10 points) The
city of Chicago was at the epicenter of nineteenth century use of steel
in architecture. Along with New York, Chicago pioneered the Skyscraper –
a massively tall building created with an improved type of steel.
Tacoma Building, built in 1888, used steel to support the huge
building. According to architectural historians the Tacoma building did away with what architectural school dicate?Question 12 options:Neoclassical TemplateGreek classical facadeLoad bearing foyerNew York’s 2nd RuleQuestion 13 (10 points) Please examine Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and answer the following question. The Louvre, France's preeminent art museum, houses Eugene Delacroix's 1831 painting, Liberty Leading the People.
Delacroix painted this work as a direct reference to the ill-fated,
anti-monarchical Paris uprising of 1830. Within the painting Delacroix
showcases 'liberty' leading the young and the old, the working and
professional classes, against the repressive, old regime. The painting
is large, oil on canvas work that measures 8ft tall by 10 ½ feet wide. In Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People historians understand the tricolor flag as a symbol of?Question 13 options:Equality, nationality, and LibertyLouis XVILiberty, fraternity, and equalityFraternity, equality, nationalityQuestion 14 (10 points) Confucius,
China's foremost ancient philosopher lived during the waning moments of
the Chou Dynasty. During these ‘waning moments’ – approx. one hundred
years – central control over the empire’s vast territories decreased
considerably. Confucius is best known for a series of books, titled, The Analects. Within The Analects Confucius devotes significant space towards the study of virtue. Among other facets of virtue Confucius explains:Ren: the capacity for humanity and goodnessChün-Tzu: the better personLi: rites and traditionsWen: cultured, refined, and civilized Match the following quote to the above virtues as understood by Confucius.Book
3.26: The Master said, "High station filled without indulgent
generosity; ceremonies performed without reverence; mourning conducted
without sorrow-wherewith should I contemplate such ways?"Question 14 options:RenChün-TzuLiWenQuestion 15 (10 points) Confucius,
China's foremost ancient philosopher lived during the waning moments of
the Chou Dynasty. During these ‘waning moments’ – approx. one hundred
years – central control over the empire’s vast territories decreased
considerably. Confucius is best known for a series of books, titled, The Analects. Within The Analects Confucius devotes significant space towards the study of virtue. Among other facets of virtue Confucius explains:Ren: the capacity for humanity and goodnessChün-Tzu: the better personLi: rites and traditionsWen: cultured, refined, and civilized Match the following quote to the above virtues as understood by Confucius.Book
14.25: The Master said, "In ancient times, men learned with a view to
their own improvement. Nowadays, men learn with a view to the
approbation of others."Question 15 options:RenChün-TzuLiWenQuestion 16 (10 points) Please examine Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and answer the following question. The Reina Sofía, Spain’s Museum of Modern art, houses Pablo Picasso’s famous painting titled Guernica that
he created in 1937. Picasso’s painting was exhibited at the Paris World
Fair in the Spanish Exhibition of 1937. Picasso painted this work as a
protest after the bombing of a small town called Guernica in the Western
area of his beloved country of Spain. Spanish fascists with the help of
Hitler’s air force bombed the small town killing many people and
animals, and leaving it in ruins. The painting is a large, oil on canvas
work that measures 11 feet tall by 25 ½ feet wide. The Louvre, France's preeminent art museum, houses Eugene Delacroix's 1831 painting, Liberty Leading the People.
Delacroix painted this work as a direct reference to the ill-fated,
anti-monarchical Paris uprising of 1830. Within the painting Delacroix
showcases 'liberty' leading the young and the old, the working and
professional classes, against the repressive, old regime. The painting
is large, oil on canvas work that measures 8ft tall by 10 ½ feet wide. According to art historians both Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Picasso’s Guernica are:Question 16 options:Gothic paintingsEcclesiastical paintingsSocial protest paintingsCross cultural paintingsQuestion 17 (10 points) Confucius,
China's foremost ancient philosopher lived during the waning moments of
the Chou Dynasty. During these ‘waning moments’ – approx. one hundred
years – central control over the empire’s vast territories decreased
considerably. Confucius is best known for a series of books, titled, The Analects. Within The Analects Confucius devotes significant space towards the study of virtue. Among other facets of virtue Confucius explains:Ren: the capacity for humanity and goodnessChün-Tzu: the better personLi: rites and traditionsWen: cultured, refined, and civilized Match the following quote to the above virtues as understood by Confucius.Book
7.6: The Master said, "Let the will be set on the path of duty. Let
every attainment in what is good be firmly grasped. Let perfect virtue
be accorded with. Let relaxation and enjoyment be found in the polite
arts."Question 17 options:RenChün-TzuLiWenQuestion 18 (10 points) Confucius,
China's foremost ancient philosopher lived during the waning moments of
the Chou Dynasty. During these ‘waning moments’ – approx. one hundred
years – central control over the empire’s vast territories decreased
considerably. Confucius is best known for a series of books, titled, The Analects. Within The Analects Confucius devotes significant space towards the study of virtue. Among other facets of virtue Confucius explains:Ren: the capacity for humanity and goodnessChün-Tzu: the better personLi: rites and traditionsWen: cultured, refined, and civilized Match the following quote to the above virtues as understood by Confucius.Book
15.23: Tzu-kung asked, saying, "Is there one world which may serve as a
rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not
reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not
do to others."Question 18 options:RenChün-TzuLiWenQuestion 19 (10 points) Please read Rudyard Kipling's The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly and George Orwell's Shooting An Elephant and answer the following question:
The subject matter of both tales is a classic example of what literary genre?Question 19 options:Short storyNovellaFableTragedyQuestion 20 (10 points) Please read Rudyard Kipling's The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly and answer the following question: In Kipling’s The Arrest Of Lieutenant Golightly the author concludes with this paragraph: “Golightly
spent the greater part of that summer in trying to get the Corporal and
the two soldiers tried by Court-Martial for arresting an ‘officer and a
gentleman.’ They were, of course, very sorry for their error. But the
tale leaked into the regimental canteen, and thence ran about the
Province.” One can infer from this quoted passage that:Question 20 options:The personal vanity of Golightly was besmirchedThe two officers were eventually tried and found guiltyThis is a cautionary tale of cleanliness and empireGolightly later quit the regiment