Humanities 1301-Chapter 14 – Flashcards
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In the Medieval period in India, the term "sati" meant
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the wife threw herself on her mate's funeral pyre
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Which of the following events in Indian history approximate events of the Western Middle Ages in Europe?
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the end of the Gupta dynasty to the Mongol invasion of India
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The devotion of an upper-caste Hindu woman to her husband was dramatically expressed in __________, a custom by which the wife threw herself on the funeral pyre of her late husband
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sati
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The dominant religion in India today is
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Hindu
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India's most ancient texts are
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the "Vedas"
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Today, approximately eighty-five percent of India's population is
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Hindu
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Which of the following correctly describes the major religion of India?
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unique in having no historical founder, multiple gods are perceived as multiple aspects of the one god, and has no monolithic authority center or hierarchy
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The fundamental Hindu belief is based on
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the divine, human, and animal as one
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An avatar is
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an incarnation
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According to the text, a direct interpersonal contact with the Hindu godhead can be achieved
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by gazing steadily at a visual representation
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Which of the following is NOT a member of the Hindu "trinity" as described in the text?
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Krishna
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Images of deities in Hinduism represent
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the god is present in the image
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The principal gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, express three aspects of Brahmanic power
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creation, preservation, and destruction
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Indian poetry makes use of several literary devices, such as the intentional similarity between vowel sounds, known as
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assonance
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The poetic language of ancient India is called
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Sanskrit
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Hindu perception of time is
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cyclical
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The Lord of the Dance is
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Shiva
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The architectural ideal of the early Buddhist and Hindu temples was to represent which of the following?
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the sacred mountain
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A particular melodic sequence in traditional Indian music would be called
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raga
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Sanskrit is the
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language of the educated classes
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Hinduism regards the physical union of male and female
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as symbolic of the eternal mingling of flesh and spirit
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The word __________ is used to describe music in the Indian language and means both "sound" and "rhythm"
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sangeeta
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The famous Venetian merchant who visited China in the thirteenth century was
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Marco Polo
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Sanskrit lyric poetry is
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the most erotic of all world literatures
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Which of the following was NOT allowed in lyric poetry?
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grief
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Under the rule of the __________ emperors from 618 C.E. to 907 C.E., China experienced a flowering of culture that was unmatched anywhere in the world.
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Tang
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The main route to official status in China throughout its long history has been
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the imperial examination system
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The Hindu temple symbolized the
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sacred mountain
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Which of the following does NOT represent the function of the Hindu temple?
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place for congregational worship
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The Hindu temple was like the Gothic cathedral in that
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it was a kind of "bible" in stone
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The sitar is
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a musical instrument
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Which of the following was NOT a Confucian teaching?
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commitment to celibacy
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The Tang dynasty achieved all but one of the following reforms. Which one was NOT one of the reforms?
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putting an end to the economic policies of their immediate predecessors
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The Song Era of China advanced all but one of the following. Which does NOT belong?
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heroism
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The text compares Chinese poetry to
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vocal music
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The earliest printed book is
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the "Diamond Sutra"
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Chinese painting draws heavily on
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everyday activities of men, women, and children
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alliteration
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a literary device involving the repetition of initial sounds in successive or closely associated words or syllables
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luohan
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a term for enlightened being, portrayed as a sage or mystic
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mithuna
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the Hindu representation of a male and a female locked in passionate embrace
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novel
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an extended fictional prose narrative
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opera
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a drama set to music and making use of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment
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pipa
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a short-necked lute
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porcelain
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a hard, translucent ceramic war made from clay fired at high heat
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samurai
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the warrior nobility of medieval Japan
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syncretism
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the effort or tendency to combine or reconcile differing beliefs
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tala
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a set rhythmic formula in Hindu music
