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SA 3 -year 5 - Humanities

SA 3 - Year 5 - Humanities quiz focuses on historical explorers, their nationalities, and significant explorations. It assesses knowledge of figures like Marco Polo, Amerigo...

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 119 | Last updated: May 26, 2023

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Recognize the following explorer

Vasco Da Gama

James Cook

Marco Polo

Amerigo Vespucci

Advanced Info - Arts And Humanities Quiz

This Advanced Info - Arts and Humanities Quiz assesses knowledge on the scope, sub-disciplines, and resources of humanities. It covers literature, arts, history, philosophy, and...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 737 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

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Humanities can be defined as the discipline that includes: “branches of knowledge that investigate: human beings, their culture, and their self-expression”

False

True

Senior Humanities Intro Quiz

This quiz covers basic definition and characteristics of humanities, historiography, and primary and secondary sources

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 365 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
Which is NOT a major theme in the humanities?

Religion

Music

Architecture

History

Year 9 Fabulous Humanities Quiz

A fantastic humanities quiz for Year 9 students at GEMS Jumeirah College, Dubai

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 1421 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
In what year did the United Nations hold a meeting which would later be called the Earth Summit?

1992

1996

1990

ACT Reading Test 1 Passage 3 Humanities

Explore the profound impact of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on music and civilization in this ACT Reading Test. Assess your understanding of how Mozart\u2019s genius transcends mere...

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 1419 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2023

Sample Question
5 10 15 - 20 - 25 30 35 -- 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 Passage Ill HUMANITIES: This passage is adapted from Mozart: The Man and the Artist.f, as Revealed in His Own Words, by Friedrich Kerst, and translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel in 1905. The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart {1756-1791) was not only a musical genius but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical thought and an entire slate of mind that were unlike any previously experienced. A true child prodigy, he began composing al age live and rapidly developed his unmistakable style; by eighteen he was composing works capable of altering the mind-states of entire civilizations. Indeed, he and his predecessor Bach accomplished the Olympian feat of adding to the human concepts of civility and civilization. So these two were not just musical geniuses, but geniuses of the humanities Mozart's music embodies civilization. It encom passes all that is humane about an idealized civiliza- tion. And it probably was Mozart's main purpose to create and propagate a concept of a great civilization through his music. He wanted to show his fellow Europeans, with their garbage-polluted city streets. their violent leaders, and their stifling, nonhumane bureaucracies, new ideas on how to run their civilizations properly. He wanted them to hear and feel a sense of civilized movement. of the musical expressions of man moving as he would if uphold- ing the highest values of idealized societies. Mozart was called a Child of the Sun. Filled with a humor truly divine, he strolled freely through life, oblivious to the concerns of daily living. Music was his talisman, his magic flute with which he could exorcise all the petty terrors that beset him. Has such a man and artist-one who was completely resolved in his works. and therefore still appeals with all his glorious qualities after the lapse of a century-has Mozart still something to say to us? Much; very much. Through his music we are reminded of the man who could not forget the merry tune of the forest bird which he had heard as a boy. We gladly permit ourselves to be led, occasionally, out of the rude realities that surround us. into a beautiful world that knows no care but lies forever bathed in the sunshine of cloudless happiness. a world in which every loveliness dreamed of by fancy has taken life and form. It is because of this that we make pilgrimages to the masterpieces of the arts, that we give heed to the speech of Schiller, and listen to the music of Mozart. When wearied by the stress of life, we gladly rush to Mozart that he may tell us stories of that land of beauty and convince us that there are other and better occupations than the worries and combats of the fleeting hour. This is what Mozart has to tell us today, He has an individual mission to fulfill which will keep him immortal. There is something like the glory of daybreak in the tones of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute; il is wafted towards us like the morning breeze which dispels the shadows and invokes the sun. Mozart remains ever young: one reason is because death laid hold of him in the middle of his career. While all the wo-rid was still gazing expect- antly upon him, he vanished from the earth and left no hope deceived. As the Gem1an thinks of Beet- hoven when he speaks the word symphony, so the name of Mozart in his mind is associated with the conception of things youthful, bright. and sunny. Nineteenth-century German composer Robert Schu- mann was fully conscious of a purpose when he called out. "Do not put Beethoven in the hands of young people too early: refresh and strengthen them with the fresh and lusty Mozart." Another time he wrote: “Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?" In the mind of the great philosopher, Goethe. genius was summed up in the name of Mozart. Goethe spoke these significant words: “What else is genius than that productive power through which deeds arise and are lasting? All the creations of Mozart are of this class: within them there is a generative force which is transplanted from genera- tion to generation. and is not likely soon to be exhausted or devoured.”

History Of Romance Week 10

Please select the best answer of the options presented to you. You will be given credit for completing the quiz, but it will not be graded.

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 132 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
Miguel de Cervantes wrote in:

English

Latin

Italian

Spanish

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The 2010 South Dakota Festival of Books will be hosted September 24-26th in what South Dakota city?

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The Smithsonian offers a traveling exhibit through the South Dakota Humanities Council called Museum on Main Street. The first exhibit hosted in the state was “Between Fences,” which traveled to six communities in 2008-2009. What is the name of the Museum on Main Street exhibit slated for 2012?

2010 marks a new chapter for South Dakota Humanities Council. It is the first year we have planned all programming with a central theme in mind. What is the theme for 2010?

Until May 31, the South Dakota Humanities Council is offering a program that brings an art historian into your community’s school or library to speak about forty of the greatest American art masterpieces, including work from Grant Wood, Thomas Cole, and Frank Lloyd Wright.The program is called...?

Which one of these is the correct URL for the webpage dedicated to the South Dakota Festival of Books?

Where else, besides www.sdhumanities.org, can you find information about South Dakota Humanities Council online?