East Los Angeles College » Humanities » Humanities 060 - People & Their World » Fall 2021

Question #1

What is the “White man’s Burden” according to Kipling?

A. being physically more beautiful and charismatic than other ethnicities

B. due to racial superiority the white man as imperialist has the duty to civilize the inferior humans in the world.

C. being unable to dance or jump high

D. none of the answers

Question #2

19th century social theory

A. none of the answers

B. looks to utilize Protestantism to establish a theocracy in the United States

C. focuses on how to address the social consequences of industrial capitalism

D. details how a gentleman and lady should socialize in modern society

Question #3

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are famous for

A. are responsible for the theory of evolution.

B. none of the answers

C. being the most successful comedy duo in the world.

D. writing the Communist Manifesto

Question #4

In The Subjection of Women Mill argues

A. that women are naturally inclined to being the slaves of men sexually.

B. none of the answers

C. that the legal subordination of one gender to another is wrong and hinders human progress.

D. that women are naturally the inferior gender and should , therefore, dedicate their lives to serving and pleasing men.

Question #5

In the excerpt found in the text Huck struggles with what dilemma?

A. whether or not he should go to work that day.

B. none of the answers

C. whether or not to play hide and seek.

D. whether or not to help a fugitive slave, which is illegal during that time period

Question #6

The Russian novelists Dostoevsky and Tolstoy focused their work on

A. an optimistic and idealized view of human nature.

B. a pessimistic and critical view of human nature.

C. the emotions of humanity that reflected Romanticism.

D. none of the answers

Question #7

Realist painters preferred

A. to show the viewer life as it should or could be rather than how it actually is.

B. to depict reality as being based in daydreams and one’s imagination.

C. concrete, matter-of-fact depictions of everyday life.

D. none of the answers