C100 WGU Objective Assessment/C100 Humanities Final Questions and Answers, Graded A

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? Correct Answer: Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? Correct Answer: Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? Correct Answer: Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? Correct Answer: The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? Correct Answer: Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. Correct Answer: The Patheon Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the shadows represent? Correct Answer: Every Day Life Polytheism Correct Answer: Belief in Multiple Gods Ancient Greeks formed what kind of Government? Correct Answer: Democracy Classical Drama Consisted of ? Correct Answer: Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays The Republic Correct Answer: Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live. Oedipus Rex Correct Answer: A story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige, his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile. The Odyssey Correct Answer: Epic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods. The Parthenon Correct Answer: Emphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess Athena. Lysistrata Correct Answer: A play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the war. Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period? Correct Answer: Humanism (Classical)