Rasmussen HUM2023 Week 6 Quiz Latest 2020 August

HUM2023 Humanities

Week 6 Quiz  

QUESTION 1Who was the king of the gods in Roman mythology?

                                Juno

                                Apollo

                                Poseidon

                                Jupiter

QUESTION 2Early peoples acted out ceremonies to affect the behavior of the gods. What was this called?

                                Olympian chanting

                                Supplicant ceremony

                                Sympathetic magic

                                Ritual pleading

QUESTION 3Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of a hero according to Joseph Campbell?

                                A hero gives his or her life to something bigger than him/herself, to some higher end.

                                A hero performs a courageous act, either physical or spiritual.

                                A hero never has doubts about his or her actions

                                A hero is usually someone from whom something has been taken or who feels there's something lacking in the normal experience available, or permitted, to members of his society.

QUESTION 4In Greek mythology, the souls of brave warriors were believed to reside in an eternal paradise called

                                Atlantis

                                Elysian Fields

                                Avalon

                                Shangri-La

QUESTION 5Oedipus the King is a play written by which ancient Greek playwright?

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides

Aristophanes

QUESTION 6Archetypes are mythic characters, events, symbols, and buried assumptions transmitted from one generation to another by the collective unconscious. Which psychologist developed this concept?

                                Sigmund Freud

                                Carl Jung

                                Alfred Adler

                                Abraham Maslow

QUESTION 7Which English poet wrote “Prometheus Unbound” in the 1800’s?

                                John Milton

                                Percy Shelley

                                Lord Byron

                                Robert Browning

QUESTION 8In the 1959 Brazilian film, Black Orpheus , based on an ancient Greek myth, Orpheus is in love with a mythical woman who dies, and he follows her to the underworld . What is her name?

                                Aphrodite

                                Athena

                                Eurydice

                                Aurora

QUESTION 9Stonehenge, an ancient stone circle, was erected as a means of predicting the seasons. Where is it located?

                                Ireland

                                Scotland

                                Wales

                                England

QUESTION 10The hero is an archetype found in almost every culture. The Irish novelist James Joyce coined what term to convey the belief that the concept of a hero is pretty much the same everywhere?

                                Monomyth

                                Panamyth

                                Unimyth

                                Equimyth