Humanities Midterm

This musician composed the oratorio Messiah, which is among the most familiar of all Baroque musical masterpieces.

• Handel

• Lully

• Monteverdi

• Scarlatti

This label identifies Biblical stories set to music.

• kantor

• oratorio

• harpsichord

• Fugue

This artist is often described as the first woman in the history of the Western world to make a significant contribution to the art of her time.

• Helene Fourment

• Hendrickje Stoffels

• Artemisia Gentileschi

• Marie de Medici

This English author wrote Leviathan and was the advocate of 'materialism.'

• Descartes

• Locke

• Spinoza

• Hobbes

This author is the first to write in the metaphysical style and exerted a strong influence on many younger poets.

• Donne

• Cervantes

• Milton

• Cranshaw

This French philosopher is associated with the phrase 'Cogito, ergo sum' and is often called the 'Father of Modern Philosophy.'

• Descartes

• Hobbes

• Pascal

• Spinoza

This painter was considered the greatest Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

• Caravaggio

• Ribera

• Velázquez

• El Greco

This musician composed the opera L'Orfeo.

• Lully

• Handel

• Monteverdi

• Scarlatti

Who are the main characters in Book I of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost?

• Mary and Jesus

• Satan and Michael

• God and Michael

• Satan and Beelzebub

According to Hobbes, in his philosophical work Leviathan, the three principles that cause men to quarrel are competition, diffidence, and

• glory

• education

• poverty

• work