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TEST BANKJane WellsMuskingum UniversityTHEART OFBEINGHUMANEleventh EditionRichard Paul JanaroThelma C. Altshuler

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Janaro,The Art of Being Human11/eTest BankChapter 1MULTIPLE CHOICE1. Heraclitusdemonstrates the artistry of language when he offers a shorthand way of stating thatlife constantly changes in the phrasea. “A man cannot step into the same river twice.”b. “And yet he seemed busier than he was.”c. “There is a crack ineverything. That’s how the light gets in.”d. “To be or not to be—that is the question.”Answer: aQuestion Title: TB_01_01_Gifts of the Humanities_Understand_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: MediumPage number: 92. Concerning humanism, Renaissance scholars believed that people could become fully humanonly if theya. looked beyond Europe to the works of Asia and Africa.b. combatted the social injustices of the time.c. developed skills in critical thinking.d. studied the best works of classical Greece and Rome.Answer: dQuestion Title: TB_01_02_Being Fully Human_Remember_LO 1.1Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Define “the humanities.”Topic: Being Fully HumanSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 33. Redefining the humanities for the wider world meansa. learning about the great works of Greek and Roman culture.b. maximizing the number of years one can stay alive.c. being open-minded and receptive to ideas from around the globe.d. understanding that true beauty lies within us, not outside us.Answer: cQuestion Title: TB_01_03_Being Fully Human_Remember_LO 1.1

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Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Define “the humanities.”Topic: Being Fully HumanSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 3-44. Studying the humanities—especially poetry and literature—allows us toa. follow the rapid shifts that are part of everyday talk.b. acquire models for how to say things that prompt others to notice.c. memorize long passages from the works of great authors such as Shakespeare and OscarWilde.d. use social media and communicate casually.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_04_Gifts of the Humanities_Remember_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 85. Using the Socratic method means teaching bya. asking questions.b. delivering lectures.c. reciting witty sayings.d. studying classical models.Answer: aQuestion Title: TB_01_05_Gifts of theHumanities_Remember_LO1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 116. One of the goals of thinking about the humanities is to becomea. a classicist.b. a leader of a Socrates café.c. a Renaissance man.d. an infinite person.Answer: dQuestion Title: TB_01_06_Becoming an “Infinite” Person_Remember_LO 1.3

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Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain why Leonardo da Vinci is considered the perfect model ofthe “infinite” person.Topic: Becoming an “Infinite” PersonSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 127. Which poet wrote his poetry using informal language?a. Edgar Degasb. Geoffrey Chaucerc. Oscar Wilded. Taylor MaliAnswer: dQuestion Title: TB_01_07_Gifts of the Humanities_Remember_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 108. By beauty, we refer to artworks or other objects that area. adorned or decorated lavishly.b. naturally shining in ways other objects are not.c. pleasing and right in the arrangements of their parts.d. surprising, arresting, and bizarre.Answer: cQuestion Title: TB_01_08_Gifts of the Humanities_Remember_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic:Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 59. The process by which scholars analyze and interpret the works of others is known asa. humanism.b. critical thinking.c. scholarly discipline.d. the Socratic Method.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_09_Being Fully_Remember_LO 1.1Learning Objective: LO 1.1 What are the humanities?

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Topic: Being Fully HumanSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: easyPage number: 410. Concerning beauty, it may be said thata. a work portraying the grotesque or ugly cannot give pleasure.b. people might disagree about whether a particular work is beautiful.c. the arrangement of a work can be seriously flawed yet still be beautiful.d. the universal popularity of theMona Lisaproves that culture does not play a role in beauty.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_10_Gifts of the Humanities_Understand_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of theHumanitiesSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: ModeratePage number: 511. The pleasure that we have in response to beauty is said to bea. aesthetic.b. critical.c. humanistic.d. impersonal.Answer: aQuestion Title: TB_01_11_Gifts of the Humanities_Remember_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage number: 612. The humanities are important to the process of critical thinking because theya. offer a window into understanding how people thought long ago.b. show us the few models of excellence that are worthy of study and reflection.c. allow us to reflect on and consider what we read, see, and hear.d. show us the right way to think about life and art.Answer: cQuestion Title: TB_01_12_Being Fully Human_Understand_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 What are the humanities?Topic: Being fully human

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Skill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level:ModeratePage number: 413. Leonardo da Vinci is considered a creative genius mainly because hea. discovered the circulation of the blood long before William Harvey.b. excelled in and combined different artistic and scientific disciplines.c. painted theMona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world.d. was the first to draw the human form using realistic proportions.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_13_Becoming an “Infinite” Person_Understand_LO 1.3Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain why Leonardo da Vinci is considered the perfect model ofthe “infinite” person.Topic: Becoming an “Infinite” PersonSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: ModeratePage number: 1214. Understanding the persistence of issues or the change of ideas over time is associated withwhich gift of the humanities?a. beautyb. a deeper sense of the pastc. ideasd. languageAnswer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_14_Gifts of the Humanities_Understand_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of thehumanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: ModeratePage number: 1115. The gift of the humanities that can be seen as offering a release from the structured pattern ofmeeting deadlines isa. beauty.b. ideas.c. beautiful movement.d. language.Answer: cQuestion Title: TB_01_15_Gifts of the Humanities_Understand_LO 1.2

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Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: ModeratePage number: 716. Geoffrey Chaucer and Oscar Wilde are noteworthy because they contributed to which gift ofthe humanities?a. beautiful movementb. beautyc. ideasd. languageAnswer: dQuestion Title: TB_01_16_Gifts of the Humanities_Apply_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Apply What You KnowDifficulty Level: DifficultPage number: 8-917. Studying the arrangement of colors on a canvas or the appeal of a face is a part of which giftof the humanities?a. beautiful movementb. beautyc. ideasd. languageAnswer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_17_Gifts of the Humanities_Apply_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Apply What You KnowDifficulty Level: DifficultPage number: 5-618. When people debate puzzling questions such why an object gives pleasure, or of the nature ofjustice, which gift of the humanities are they partaking in?a. beautyb. a deep sense of the pastc. ideasd. language

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Answer: cQuestion Title: TB_01_18_Gifts of the Humanities_Apply_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Apply What You KnowDifficulty Level: DifficultPage number: 1019. Being an “infinite” person can best be described asa. expanding our knowledge and our capacity for understanding ourselves and others.b. immersing ourselves in the experiences of those who came before us.c. increasing our aesthetic pleasure by experiencing many viewpoints of the beautiful.d. transforming intuitions into exciting ideas to develop our own thinking skills.Answer: aQuestion Title: TB_01_19_Becoming an “Infinite” Person_Apply_LO 1.3Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain why Leonardo da Vinci is considered the perfect model ofthe “infinite” person.Topic: Becoming an “Infinite” PersonSkill Level: Apply What You KnowDifficulty Level: DifficultPage number: 1220. Which statement best paraphrases Socrates’s definition of justice?a. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.b. In a just society, justice must be accepted and adhered to by all.c. It is the burden of theruling party to make laws that are in its own best interest.d. People can break the law if they feel it isn’t a just law.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_01_20_Gifts of the Humanities_ Apply_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill Level: Apply What You KnowDifficulty Level: DifficultPage number: 11

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SHORT ANSWER1. How is dance an expression of “beautiful movement”?Dance gives pleasure or enjoyment because it is movement “done right” or arranged properly.Question Title: TB_01_21_Gifts of the Humanities_Understand_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty level:ModeratePage number: 72. Define the term “humanism.”Beginning in the early Renaissance, humanism initially stated that one could become fullyhuman only by studying the achievements of Greek and Roman culture. The meaning of the termhas now expanded to include the creative and intellectual contributions of all cultures.Question Title: TB_01_22_Being Fully Human_Understand_LO 1.1Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Define ‘the humanities.”Topic: Being Fully HumanSkill level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty level: ModeratePage number: 33. Briefly explain why the humanities are unlimited or “infinite.”The humanities are unlimited because they encompass all the creative and intellectualcontributions of all the men and women from all the cultures across the past, present, and future.Question Title: TB_01_23_ Becoming an “Infinite Person”_Understand_LO 1.3Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain why Leonardo da Vinci is considered the perfect model ofthe “infinite” person.Topic: Becoming an “Infinite Person”Skill level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty level: ModeratePage number: 12-134. Why were the humanities disciplines expanded during the Renaissance?The humanities disciplines were expanded because more cultures (for example, those ofItaly,France, Spain, and England) were included and more art forms (music, theater, and dance) beganto flourish.Question Title: TB_01_24_ Being Fully Human_Understand_LO 1.1

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Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Define “the humanities.”Topic: Being Fully HumanSkill level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty level: ModeratePage number: 35. Explain how the humanities offer us a “deeper sense of the past.”Humans are themselves an accumulation of what has gone before; who we are in the present isstill informed by the lives and works of people from the past.Question Title: TB_01_25_ Gifts of the Humanities_Understand_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty level: ModeratePage number: 11-12ESSAYQUESTIONS1. Look carefully at Isamu Noguchi’sWater Stone(Fig. 1.2). How does such a work evoke thequestions or issue of “beauty” as defined in the chapter? In your answer, list three elements ofthe painting that might engage or repel viewers aesthetically in determining whether it isbeautiful or not.I. Respond to personal preference of beauty.II. Include the idea that beauty is the result of an arrangement of elements.III. List at least three of these aesthetic elements: color, texture, medium, movement, andrepresentation.Question Title: TB_01_26_ Gifts of the Humanities_Analyze_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkilllevel: Analyze itDifficulty level: Difficult2. Reread the discussion of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry movement’s concept of theSocrates café. If you were to attend a Socrates café, what puzzling question of past or presentwould you like to hear discussed and why, based on the purpose of this café?I. Present a question or topic appropriate for Socrates café.II. Explain the question or topic.III. Describe why the topic is puzzling and appropriate.Question Title: TB 01.27_Gifts of the Humanities_Analyze_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize the gifts of the humanities.

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Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill level: Analyze itDifficulty level: Difficult3. The section on a deeper sense of the past suggests that there is a relationship between theworks of other ages and those of the present day. The chapter presents a number of artworksfrom the past. Choose one and talk about the extent to which the issues or the standards of beautyin the work persist in works of today with which you are familiar.I. Choose a work.II. Describe the issues or features of that work.III. Describe how the same issues or standards are applicable in a modern work.Question Title: TB 01.28_Gifts of the Humanities_Analyze_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2Summarize the gifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill level: Analyze itDifficulty level: Difficult4. Think about the section entitled “Becoming an ‘Infinite Person.’” Describe in your own wordswhat it means to be a Renaissance person. Based on your knowledge of your culture in thepresent day, define what disciplines or skills a modern “Renaissance person” might need tomaster, and explain why you picked those particular disciplines or skills.I. Describe a Renaissance man or womana. diverse range of interestsb. broad achievementsII. List the attributes of a modern person that would make her or him a modern equivalent of aRenaissance man or woman.III. Explain why these attributes are important features of modern society.Question Title: TB_01.29_Becoming an “Infinite Person”_Analyze_LO 1.3Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain why Leonardo da Vinci is considered the perfect model ofthe “infinite” person.Topic: Becoming an “Infinite Person”Skill level: Analyze it.Difficulty level: Difficult5. Name a work of the humanities that offers one of the greatest gifts to humanity. Consider theclassifications within the section entitled “Gifts of the Humanities” and explain how it offerssuch a gift.I. Identify a significant work of art or culture.II. Choose a classification from the gifts of the humanities.III. Explain how the work exhibits or embodies that feature.

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Question Title: TB 01.30_Gifts of the Humanities_Analyze_LO 1.2Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Summarize thegifts of the humanities.Topic: Gifts of the HumanitiesSkill level: Analyze itDifficulty level: Difficult

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Janaro,The Art of Being Human11/eTest BankChapter 2MULTIPLE CHOICE1. The Wordsworth poem that begins “The world is too much with us,late and soon/Getting andspending, we lay waste our powers” is a personal, critical response to the idea ofa. art as the illusion that there is no art.b. jumping to conclusions.c. living for only financial gain.d.speculating beyond what we know.Answer: cQuestion Title: TB_02_01_A Guide to Critical Viewing, Professional andPersonal_Remember_LO 2.4Learning Objective: LO 2.4_Differentiate between the role of a professional critic and that of theindividual responding to a creative work.Topic: A Guide to Critical Viewing, Professional and PersonalSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage Number: 27-282. According to the chapter, the first step to solving a problem is determininga. if the problem is definable.b. whether a problem exists.c. whether the problem has a solution.d. whose problem it is.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_02_02_Exercising the Mind_Remember_LO 2.3Learning Objective: LO 2.3 Identify three ways to exercise the mind and become a criticalthinker.Topic: Exercising the MindSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage Number: 223. As an act of critical thinking, rationalizing is aa. good exercise because it makes painful things more palatable.b. good exercise because it recognizes the context of all actions.c. bad exercise because it focuses too much on the context of events.d. bad exercise because it makes us feel better about uncomfortable events.

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Answer: dQuestion Title: TB_02_03_Exercising the Mind_Understand_LO 2.3Learning Objective: LO 2.3 Identify three ways to exercise the mind and become a criticalthinker.Topic: Exercising the MindSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: ModeratePage Number: 244. When it comes to critical thinking, the Apollonian refers toa. attention to craft or technique of any endeavor.b. emotional or intuitive responses to what we see.c. long-range speculation based on former experience.d. reasoned, rational, coherent thought about what we see.Answer: dQuestion Title: TB_02_04_Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to theHumanities_Remember_LO 2.2Learning Objective: LO 2.2 Distinguish between Apollonian and Dionysian responses to thehumanities.Topic: Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage Number: 175. When it comes to critical thinking, the Dionysian refers toa. attention to the craft or technique of any endeavor.b. emotional or intuitive responses to what we see.c. long-range speculation or “sight” based on former experience.d. reasoned, rational, coherent thought about what we see.Answer: bQuestion Title: TB_02_05_Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to theHumanities_Remember_LO 2.2Learning Objective: LO 2.2 Distinguish between Apollonian and Dionysian responses to thehumanities.Topic: Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to the HumanitiesSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage Number: 176. The hypothetical problem of the missing dollar helps us

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a. listen for contradictions and inconsistencies.b. understand the challenges of mathematics.c. keep an accurate account of our getting and spending.d. apply Apollonian principles to a situation.Answer: dQuestion Title: TB_02_06_Exercising the Mind_Remember_LO 2.3Learning Objective: LO 2.3 Identify three ways to exercise the mind and become a criticalthinker.Topic: Exercising the MindSkill Level: Remember the FactsDifficulty Level: EasyPage Number: 227. Which of the following is a major component of exercising one’s critical mind?a. challenging assumptionsb. the popcorn syndromec. the empathetic responsed. the alienation effectAnswer: aQuestion Title: TB_02_07_Exercising the Mind_Understand_LO 2.3Learning Objective: LO 2.3 Identify three ways to exercise the mind and become a criticalthinker.Topic: Exercising the MindSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: ModeratePage Number: 238. Critical thinking about adaptions ofMiss Saigon, which reimaginesMadame Butterfly,mightreasonably lead us to understand howa. human behavior does not change even though society does.b. originals are almost always better than their spinoffs.c. originals grow old if not refreshed.d. the adaptation might fit changing historical contexts and circumstances.Answer: dQuestion Title: TB_02_08_Exercising the Mind_Understand_LO 2.3Learning Objective: LO 2.3 Identify three ways to exercise the mind and become a criticalthinker.Topic: Exercising the MindSkill Level: Understand the ConceptsDifficulty Level: Moderate

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