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 unable to dance or jump high

B. none of the answers

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

D. being physically more beautiful and charismatic than other ethnicities

Question #2

19th century social theory

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

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

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

D. none of the answers

Question #3

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are famous for

A. are responsible for the theory of evolution.

B. writing the Communist Manifesto

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

D. none of the answers

Question #4

In The Subjection of Women Mill argues

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

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

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

D. none of the answers

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. whether or not to play hide and seek.

C. none of the answers

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. none of the answers

B. an optimistic and idealized view of human nature.

C. a pessimistic and critical view of human nature.

D. the emotions of humanity that reflected Romanticism.

Question #7

Realist painters preferred

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

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

C. none of the answers

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