CSTU 101 - EXAM 1 (LIBERTY U)
QUESTIONS & ACTUAL ANSWERS
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Culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ What we make of the world
Western culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ A set of shared culture generally in Europe and
related areas
Humanities - Correct Answer ✔✔ What makes us human
Epic - Correct Answer ✔✔ A long narrative recounting heroism, centered on the hero
with a sense of national identity
Golden Age of Athens (Greece) - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Persian Wars - Destruction of
Athens by the Persians, followed eventually by Greek victory
• Pericles - Leader during the Golden Age
• Parthenon - Physical embodiment of the classical Greek spirit
Plato's Theory of Forms - Correct Answer ✔✔ Changing reality is founded on higher
forms, which through reasoning, we could get a glimpse of
Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Correct Answer ✔✔ Allegory of Plato's Theory of Forms.
Essentially, men are trapped in a cave all their life seeing only shadows. One breaks
free and sees life out of the cave, going back to show the others, but all they can see is
the cave.
Greek humanism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Human reason is the surest truth (a confidence
in human power and ingenuity)
Why has Homer been called the earliest shaper of the Greek outlook and character? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Homer uses his epics to: Recognize universal order & Emphasize
individual excellence.
The Greek contribution to Western culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Art/Architecture
• Thought (philosophy)
• Freedom (political & moral)
• Humanism
QUESTIONS & ACTUAL ANSWERS
RATED 100% CORRECT
Culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ What we make of the world
Western culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ A set of shared culture generally in Europe and
related areas
Humanities - Correct Answer ✔✔ What makes us human
Epic - Correct Answer ✔✔ A long narrative recounting heroism, centered on the hero
with a sense of national identity
Golden Age of Athens (Greece) - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Persian Wars - Destruction of
Athens by the Persians, followed eventually by Greek victory
• Pericles - Leader during the Golden Age
• Parthenon - Physical embodiment of the classical Greek spirit
Plato's Theory of Forms - Correct Answer ✔✔ Changing reality is founded on higher
forms, which through reasoning, we could get a glimpse of
Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Correct Answer ✔✔ Allegory of Plato's Theory of Forms.
Essentially, men are trapped in a cave all their life seeing only shadows. One breaks
free and sees life out of the cave, going back to show the others, but all they can see is
the cave.
Greek humanism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Human reason is the surest truth (a confidence
in human power and ingenuity)
Why has Homer been called the earliest shaper of the Greek outlook and character? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Homer uses his epics to: Recognize universal order & Emphasize
individual excellence.
The Greek contribution to Western culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Art/Architecture
• Thought (philosophy)
• Freedom (political & moral)
• Humanism
