Strayer University - HUM 112 Week 4 Quiz

 Question 1

0 out of 2 points

Why did Charles Darwin publish The Descent of Man in 1871?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To prove the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race
Correct Answer:
To offer an ethical viewpoint of man's development

 Question 2

2 out of 2 points

Why did the southern Africans submit themselves to the prison-like conditions of
working in the diamond mines?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To earn money to buy Western weapons
Correct Answer:
To earn money to buy Western weapons

 Question 3

0 out of 2 points

Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To compensate for the subtractive process of mixing
Correct Answer:
To convey emotions through color combinations

 Question 4

0 out of 2 points

, In Still Life with Plaster Cast, what does Paul Cézanne seem to be suggesting by the
two viewpoints?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The human eye can be tricked into focusing on certain details
Correct Answer:
People do not view the world from a single point of view

 Question 5

0 out of 2 points

How did Louis Comfort Tiffany create his Art Nouveau stained glass?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Adding ground gemstones to the molten glass
Correct Answer:
Mixing different colors of glass together while hot

 Question 6

2 out of 2 points

As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why did Freud place so
much emphasis on interpreting a person's dreams?
Answer
Selected Answer:
They revealed suppressed desires
Correct Answer:
They revealed suppressed desires

 Question 7

0 out of 2 points

Why did Friedrich Nietzsche reject organized religion, going so far as to declare that
"God is dead"?
Answer
Selected Answer:
For suppressing people's creative thoughts