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Study Guide for Quiz # 4
Humanities 120

This quiz will cover Chapter 7 and 8 and the reading selections from St. Augustine, from the Qu’ran, and from Rumi.  Although you are responsible for all the material in the chapters, the quiz will focus on what has been emphasized in class - including the supplementary material I provided.   Most of the quiz will be objective - multiple choice and matches, but there will also be two short essays, and the sections on geography and possibly part of the section on art and architecture will not be multiple choice.  Some of the multiple choice questions will be taken directly from the review quiz on the web site for the text. 

  I recommend that you review the following:

 1.      Study the map on page 184 and 204.  I will give you a map and ask you to write in the names of some important areas, cities, and bodies of water.  In your studies, you should emphasize the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Black Sea, the Arabian peninsula, Rome, Ravenna, Constantinople, Damascus, Baghdad, Medina, Mecca, Cairo, Damascus, Granada, Cordova. This will not be multiple choice.

2.      Be prepared to name the culture within which various works of art of architecture were produced.  Your choices will be a. Roman/classical, b. Late Roman/Christian, c. Byzantine, d. Islamic, e. none of these.  You should also be prepared to identify Hagia Sofia, the Dome of the Rock, and the Alhambra by name.

3.      For each culture that we have discussed, review the major historical events.  (You do not have to worry about exact dates.)  For each culture, be sure that you understand the relationship between religious and philosophical ideas and art and literature.

4.      Be sure you can identify the following people: Diocletian, Constantine, Arius, Athanasius, Odoacer, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Leo III, Justinian, Anna Comnena, Charlemagne, Muhammad, Fatima, Ali, Abu Bakr, Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Khaldun, Muhammed Al Razi, Rumi.

5.      Be sure you know the cultural terms listed at the end of the chapters.

6.      Some themes of particular importance about which you should be prepared to write essays   include:

a.       The reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire

b.      The Iconoclastic controversy and its cultural significance

c.       The religious beliefs of St. Augustine

d.      The schism between Eastern and Western Christianity

e.       The Five Pillars of Islam and the relationship of Islam to Judaism and Christianity

f.        The cultural and scientific accomplishments that occurred during the Abassid Dynasty.

Author: Hollace Graff
Oakton Community College
Last Updated: November 17, 2003