Humanities 1301
Introduction to the
Humanities
Quiz 3
Chapter 15
1. In his preface to the Decameron, Boccaccio relates the effects of the Black Death on the people of ________.2. The celebrated document of English constitutional history called the ________ proclaimed that the king could not levy new taxes without the consent of the nobility.
3. The Hundred Years’ War introduced the use of ________ in Western warfare.
4. The ________ was a rift between the French and Italian factions of the College of Cardinals that led to each one naming its own pope.
5. The heroine of a story in the Decameron by Boccaccio, ________ is accused of adultery but successfully argues her case before the town magistrate, despite admitting to the accusation.
6. Considered to be the world's first feminist writer, ________ was the widow of a French nobleman who became a professional writer to support her family.
7. In his collection of stories called the ________, Chaucer depicted a variety of characters making a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket.
8. The first snowscape in Western art appears in the "Book of Hours" called Tres Riches Heures, produced by the ________ for their patron, the Duke of Berry.
Chapter 16
1. Revived by the Renaissance humanists, the ________ was a Roman program of study that covered grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and moral philosophy.2. Like the city-states of ancient Greece, those of the early Italian Renaissance were engaged in a fierce ________ rivalry.
3. ________ is called the 'Father of Humanism'; he also perfected the 14-line lyric poetic form called the ________.
4. ________ translated the entire body of Plato's work from Greek into Latin, making it available to Western Europe for the first time since the decline of the Roman Empire in the West.
5. In his Oration, Pico proclaims the central importance of the freedom of ________.
6. ________ is a central Italian city that was the center of humanist studies in the 16th century.
7. An air of nonchalance and grace in the act of performing refined skills and abilities is called ________.
8. Marinella, in her Nobility of Women, points to the errors of ________ as the basis for misogyny.
9. A political thinker and student of history, ________ is known for his treatise on the ideal political leader, called The Prince.
Chapter 17
1. Neoplatonist views held that objects of physical beauty moved the ________ to desire union with God.2. The dome for the Florence Cathedral was designed by the architect ________.
3. The Dutch Renaissance painter ________ painted the double portrait of the Italian banker Arnolfini and his new bride.
4. The Florentine painter called ________ was the first artist to master the Renaissance artistic device called linear perspective.
5. The ________ is a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci that serves as a metaphor for the Renaissance view that the ________ (the "lesser" human world) is a mirror of the ________ (the "greater" divine world).
6. The master portrait artist of the High Renaissance was ________, whose depictions of the Madonna and Child were often theatrical and idealized.
7. A set of aesthetic principles that included spatial clarity, decorum, balance, and grace, the ________ dominated Western art from the Renaissance to the late 19th century.
8. Florentine artists were known for their use of ________ in the design and articulation of their work, but the Venetian artists were known for their subjective use of ________.
9. The Franco-Flemish composer ________ often used popular tunes as the basis of his sacred music.
Chapter 18
1. The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is called the ________.2. The African continent has more than ________ different native languages.
3. The griot of the epic story Sundiata, ________, shares with Socrates the conviction that ________ ruins people's memory.
4. The dominant element in African music is ________.
5. The 'book of travels' (ribla) written by ________, the 14th-century Muslim scholar and traveler, preserves the only remaining eyewitness account of the Mali empire at its height of power.
6. The ________ is a small wooden fetish object used by the Hopi people to channel the powers of the 'spirit beings'.
7. The nine-day Navajo healing ceremony known as the ________ combines the creation of sand paintings with the recitation of song cycles to restore good health.
8. The civilization of the ________, the native people of today's southern Mexico and northern Central America, lasted several hundred years, beginning about 250 C.E.
9. ________ is the ancient earth mother of the Aztec gods.
10. Native American myths and folktales feature themes similar to those of ________.
Chapter 19
1. The ________, a technological development perfected by the German goldsmith ________, revolutionized learning and communication in the European world.2. Through his strong vocal opposition to questionable Church practices, ________, a German monk and teacher of theology at the University of Wittenberg, precipitated the Protestant Reformation.
3. Driven by the principles of the Reformation, anti-ceremonial Protestants called ________ destroyed many religious art works.
4. One of the finest graphic artists of all time, ________ was the leader of Northern Renaissance printmaking, and internationally famous for his woodcuts and engravings.
5. In the widespread witch hunts of the 16th century, four out of every five of those executed as witches (a word that did not originally imply a specific gender reference) were ________ -- especially those who were single, old or eccentric.
6. One of the earliest Western novels was written by ________, author of Don Quixote.
7. One of the premises of Thomas More's political views, as expressed in the work called ________, is that an insufficient amount of the necessities of life leads inevitably to moral decay.
8. The high esteem accorded to the playwright ________ rests especially upon his later tragedies -- Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear.