Control questions to Unit III
1. What are the maim features of the Modern era? 2. How can you characterize the Renaissance? 3. What are the main ideas of the Enlightenment? 4. What is modernism? 5. What is post-modernism?
Тest
1.Historically, the name “cultural studies” derives from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of … a) Oxford b) Birmingham c) Harvard 2.Who suggested that " Culture is to society what memory is to individuals"? a) Toynbee b) Hoggart c) Kluckhohn 3. “The Decline of the West” was written by … a) Spengler b) Sorokin c) Danilevsky 4.The term “dialogism” was invented by … a) Bakhtin b) Nietzsche c) Lotman
5.What is binary opposition to Apollonian in Nietzsche’s conception? a) Platonic b) Titanic c) Dionysian 6. …. codes have an agreed and precisely defined paradigm of meanings for their paradigm of units. a) logical b) aesthetic c) presentational 7. According to … a paradigm is an accepted model or pattern. a) Adorno b) Popper c) Kuhn
8.A Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure was ‘father’ of … a) post-structuralism b) symbolism c) semiotics 9. “Myth is an energetic self-assertion of the individual, image of the personality” was said by … a) Propp b) Losev c) Barthes 10. … is an intellectual enterprise characterized by attention to the systems, relations and forms. a) Structuralism b) Formalism c) Positivism 11. Ideology as a theoretical concept comes from … a) Freudism b) Marxism c) Legism 12. The term ‘orientalism’ was invented by … a) Russo b) Said c) Kipling 13. Jose Ortega y Gassett wrote a book with a title: a) The Revolt of the Masses b) Mass society c) Mass and Elite
14. A German philosopher Karl Jaspers introduced a term… a) Axial age b) New age c) Axial time 15. In Greek culture the word Hellenistic means … a) from Hellespontus b) “Greek-like” c) relative to Helene 16. Wealthy Greeks had frequently friends over for a symposium or… a) a political meeting b) conference c) a dinner 17. The Romans believed that Romulus and Remus founded Rome in a) 867 BC b) 753 BC c) 323 BC 18. The Byzantines themselves calculated all dates from the … a) Christ’s birth b) foundation of Rome c) Creation of the world
19. In Rome the highest ….. office was that of Pontifex Maximus a) political b) military c) religious
20. In big byzantine cities people had access to enkyklios paideia which means… a) general education b) business activity c) military service
21. A course of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music in western European universities was named as… a) tetractys b) trivium c) quadrivium
22….. in the City of God identified with the difference between the heavenly and earthly cities. a) St.Thomas b) St.Anselm c) St. Augustine
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