Strayer University - HUM 112 Week 5 Quiz

 Question 1
0 out of 2 points

During America's
Great Depression,
approximately
how much of the
national workforce
was unemployed?
Answer
Selected Answer:
One-fourth
Correct Answer:
One-third

 Question 2
0 out of 2 points

As discussed in
the chapter's
"Continuity and
Change" section,
what economic
factor
distinguishes the
Bauhaus-design
Seagram Building
in New York City?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The building occupies less land due to its height
Correct Answer:
Every vertical foot above ground is rentable

 Question 3
2 out of 2 points

Why did the
bourgeois German
youth flock to the
Wandervogel

, movement?
Answer
Selected Answer:
To recapture a premodern past
Correct Answer:
To recapture a premodern past

 Question 4
2 out of 2 points

Why did the
Germans level the
Basque town of
Guernica in 1937?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Take out a bridge used by Spanish rebels
Correct Answer:
Take out a bridge used by Spanish rebels

 Question 5
0 out of 2 points

Why did the Nazis
decry and later
burn Expressionist
still lifes?
Answer
Selected Answer:
For being created by Jewish artists
Correct Answer:
For not representing Nature realistically

 Question 6
2 out of 2 points

Why most likely
did composer
Sergei Prokofiev
write the

, simplistic
symphonic fairy
tale Peter and the
Wolf?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Satisfy Soviet authorities who called his music too complicated
Correct Answer:
Satisfy Soviet authorities who called his music too complicated

 Question 7
0 out of 2 points

How many Jews
are estimated to
have been
exterminated at
Auschwitz-
Birkenau?
Answer
Selected Answer:
444,000
Correct Answer:
1-2.5 million

 Question 8
2 out of 2 points

Why did Adolph
Hitler claim Jews
were to blame for
what he perceived
as Germany's
post-World War I
moral decline?
Answer
Selected Answer:
Their association with communism
Correct Answer:
Their association with communism