Deck 16: The Interrelationships of the Humanities

Question 1

One course that is never included in the humanities is

A) history
B) ethics
C) psychology
D) chemistry

Answer 1

chemistry

Question 2

The historian

A) clarifies values
B) studies values
C) creates values
D) ignores values

Answer 2

studies values

Question 3

The artist

A) clarifies values
B) studies values
C) creates values
D) ignores values

Answer 3

clarifies values

Question 4

Studying the arts in medical school can help doctors to

A) remain calm under pressure
B) improve their motor skills
C) finely hone their visual abilities
D) understand Greek

Question 5

Which of the following theories claims that it is the object that incited interest?

A) objectivist
B) relational
C) subjectivist
D) normative

Question 6

The pleasure of enjoying good food is an example of a(n)

A) intrinsic value
B) extrinsic value
C) intrinsic-extrinsic value
D) value fact

Question 7

Value facts are the province of

A) the arts
B) the sciences
C) business
D) mothers of infants

Question 8

Which of the following theories claims that it is interest that projects value on something?

A) objectivist
B) relational
C) subjectivist
D) normative

Question 9

Theology is

A) an art
B) a science
C) part of the humanities
D) a religion

Question 10

Normative values are

A) ideals
B) value facts
C) the values of theology
D) verified by scientists

Question 11

The arts are closely related to which of the other humanities?

A) history
B) philosophy
C) theology
D) all of the above

Question 12

Factual values are verified

A) through art
B) through history
C) experimentally
D) experientially

Question 13

Despite their differences in beliefs, religious people generally agree

A) on value facts
B) on the importance of art
C) that religious values are ultimate
D) in the prime importance of the world of our sense experience

Question 14

The relational theory of value claims that value emerges

A) when a work of art is very expensive
B) from the relation between an interest and an object.
C) from the interest the object excites
D) when the subject is interested in the object

Question 15

By studying Raphael's Madonna della Sedia, what could a historian discover about the norms of the people of the Renaissance that would not be revealed in the facts of history?