HUM2023 Week 1 | General Education in Education - Rasmussen university

HUM2023 Humanities Week 1 Quiz

• Question 1 The humanities can be the starting point for a journey into self-knowledge.

True False

• Question 2 Which of the following figures has been called both a “universal man” and a “Renaissance man” for his wide ranging contributions to both the humanities and the sciences, including the creation of the Mona Lisa and plans for an early version of an airplane?

Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Rembrandt Vincent van Gogh

• Question 3 For some poets and writers in the late Middle Ages, nature was viewed as a sacred escape from the death and decay that the plague and poverty brought upon city life.

True False

• Question 4 Which ancient Greek philosopher was famous for his method of teaching that emphasized asking a series of questions?

Aristotle Diogenes Socrates Zeno

• Question 5 Which of the following passages from the Bible do environmentalists point to as evidence that humanity should be caretakers and not owners of the earth?

“So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) “God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’” (Genesis 1:28) “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15) “And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’" (Genesis 2:16-7)

• Question 6 Many Native American cultures have long traditions of deeply spiritual relationships with nature that emphasize oneness between humanity and nature.

True False

• Question 7 Romanticism emphasizes reason over emotion, the head over the heart.

True False

- Question 8 All are aspects of the humanities except :

Philosophy Mathematics Music Literature

• Question 9 The pleasure that beauty inspires within us is called "aesthetic."

True False

• Question 10 Which of the following terms represents the portrayal of nature as “balanced, serene, and pleasing to the eye”?

Beautiful Sublime Picturesque Naturalistic