Rasmussen HUM2023 Week 5 Quiz Latest 2020 August

HUM2023 Humanities

Week 5 Quiz  

•             Question 1         Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer.                                               

True

                False

•             Question 2         Which French novelist wrote the novel “Les Miserables” in 1862, which called powerful attention to the poor in France?                                        

                Voltaire

                Rousseau

Victor Hugo

                Alexandre Dumas

•             Question 3         The concept of “yin and yang” comes from which tradition?                                       

Taoism

                Confucianism

                Hinduism

                Buddhism

•             Question 4         Who was the first major advocate of Stoicism?                                 

                Aristippus

                Socrates

                Plato

Zeno

•             Question 5         The Dalai Lama is the leader of which segment of Buddhism?                                     

                Mahayana Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

                Tantric Buddhism

                Zen Buddhism

•             Question 6         What does the word “Zen” refer to in Zen Buddhism?                                   

                Piety

                Obedience

                Renunciation

Meditation

•             Question 7         The fables of which Greek writer contain many stories and morals that stay with humanity from age to age?                                

                Sophocles

                Herodotus

Aesop

                Homer

•             Question 8         “The Great Spirit” is/was a concept in which society’s beliefs?                                   

                Ancient Egyptians

                Ancient Greeks

Native Americans

                Buddhists

•             Question 9         Which American poet was greatly influenced by the religious thought of India?                                 

                Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

                Robert Frost

                Carl Sandburg

•             Question 10       The concept of “Carpe Diem” is based on which theory of happiness?                                   

                Hedonism

                Epicureanism

                Stoicism

                Aristotle’s philosophy of happiness