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Культурология

Total questions: 148

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

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1.

The founder of modern theory of civilizations is:

a)

Arnold Toynbee

b)

  1. Nikolay Danilevsky

c)

  1. Oswald Spengler

d)

  1. Pitirim Sorokin

2.

  1. The supreme god of Olympus in Greek mythology:

a)

  1. Apollo

b)

  1. Poseidon

c)

  1. Zeus

3.

  1. The science about culture is:

a)

  1. Psychology

b)

  1. Anthropology

c)

  1. Culturology

4.

  1. A set of actions and words having miraculous properties in archaic culture is:

a)

  1. Legend

b)

  1. Ritual

5.

  1. The founder of culture evolutionist concept:

a)

  1. Leslie White

b)

  1. Edward Tylor

c)

  1. Clifford Geertz

6.

  1. Founder of cultural studies as a science:



(a)  

7.

  1. The main instrument of communication in culture:

a)

  1. Language

b)

  1. Symbols

c)

  1. Art

8.

  1. Function of culture where person learns and accumulates social experience:

a)

  1. Regulatory

b)

  1. Educational

c)

  1. Communicative

9.

  1. Author of the book A Study of History:

a)

  1. Arnold Toynbee

b)

  1. Nikolay Danilevsky

c)

  1. Oswald Spengler

10.

The main work of  Nicolay Danilevsky is?

a)

  1. Civilization and Its Discontents

b)

  1. Russia and Europe

c)

  1. Social Life of Nations

11.

P. Sorokin divided civilization on three types. There are:

a)

  1. Technological, Agrarian, Industrial

b)

  1. Ideational, Sensate, Idealistic

c)

  1. Materialistic, Spiritual, Pragmatic

12.

A social group whose members unite ethnic self-awareness and the consciousness of their genetic connection with other representatives of this group is

(a)  

13.

Scientists of cultural studies highlight three main types of signs. There are:

a)

  1. Icon, Index, Symbol

b)

  1. Myth, Legend, Ritual

c)

  1. Image, Sound, Word

14.

4. What type of society characterized by neighborhood, tribal mythology and traditions

a)

  1. Industrial

b)

  1. Post-industrial

c)

  1. Traditional

15.

Name the process where one ethnos lost itself inside another ethnos

(a)  

16.

Belief in the first ancestors which could be founders of the clan:

a)

  1. Totemism

b)

  1. Animism

c)

  1. Polytheism

17.

Belief in the first ancestors which could be founders of the clan:

a)

  1. Totemism

b)

  1. Animism

c)

  1. Polytheism

18.

The definition of myth about the origin of the world:

a)

  1. Heroic myth

b)

  1. Etiological myth

c)

  1. Cosmogonic myth

19.

Decipher the abbreviation UNESCO

a)

  1. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

b)

  1. Universal National Education Society for Culture Organization

c)

  1. United Nations Society for Culture and Education

20.

The name of books written by Homer

(a)  

21.

Name the author of the “Turksib” painting

a)

  1. T. Zhurgenov

b)

  1. L. D. Rudnev

c)

  1. V. Lebedev

22.

Which of them are fathers of tragedy?

a)

  1. Homer and Hesiod

b)

  1. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

c)

  1. Plato and Aristotle

23.

Leap year was introduced by


a)

  1. Alexander the Great

b)

  1. Julius Caesar

c)

  1. Augustus

24.

The name of the Rome' founder?


a)

  1. Remus

b)

Romulus

c)

Nero

25.

The country-founder of Olympic Games

a)

Italy

b)

Greece

c)

Egypt

26.

Myths which tell us about destruction and disappearance of humanity are:

 

a)

  1. A) Cosmogonic myths

b)

  1. B) Heroic myths

c)

  1. C) Eschatological myths

27.

People who were participants of battles in Coliseum in Ancient Rome

a)

  1. A) Soldiers

b)

  1. B) Gladiators

c)

  1. C) Senators

28.

27. Name the person who was a head of each tent for 10 soldiers in Ancient Rome

a)

  1. A) Centurion

b)

  1. B) Legionnaire

c)

  1. C) Prefect

29.

28. A philosophical concept based on the understanding of God as an absolute, where God is in the center of the Universe

a)

  1. A) Humanism

b)

  1. B) Theocentrism

c)

  1. C) Rationalism

30.

29. In which architectural style was built the tower of Notre Dam de Paris?

a)

  1. A) Romanesque

b)

  1. B) Gothic

c)

  1. D) Renaissance

31.

Who is the author of Mona Lisa painting?

a)

  1. Leonardo da Vinci

b)

  1. Raphael

c)

  1. Donatello

32.

Which university is the most ancient in Europe?


a)

  1. University of Bologna

b)

  1. University of Cambridge

33.

32. Names of the founders of comedy

a)

  1. Aristophanes, Menander

b)

  1. Plato, Aristotle

c)

  1. Homer and Hesiod

34.

Three main genres of music of Middle Ages period

a)

  1. Gregorian chant, Organum, Motet

b)

  1. Lied, Sonata, Cantata

c)

Jazz, Blues, Folk

35.

The myth definition about the human origin?

a)

  1. A) Cosmogonic myth

b)

  1. B) Anthropogonic myth

c)

  1. C) Heroic myth

36.

  1. Author of Attila the King of Huns opera:

a)

  1. A) G. Brusilov

b)

  1. B) P. Tchaikovsky

c)

  1. C) M. Musorgsky

37.

The branch of human activity, striving to satisfy one of the spiritual needs of man - the love of the beautiful

 

a)

  1. A) Science

b)

  1. B) Religion

c)

C) Art

38.

What is the style of art translated as fancy, strange?


a)

  1. A) Baroque

b)

  1. B) Mannerism

c)

  1. C) Rococo

39.

38. The style of art the "rocky" from French

a)

  1. A) Gothic

b)

  1. B) Baroque

c)

  1. C) Rococo

40.

39. Name the style of art uses ancient motifs, not as the main content of most works, but as separate inclusions

a)

  1. A) Neoclassicism

b)

  1. B) Romanticism

c)

  1. C) Mannerism

41.

40. In the European and American culture of XIX century the art style characterized by searching of ideal world

a)

  1. A) Realism

b)

  1. B) Romanticism

c)

  1. C) Impressionism

42.

41. Name the symbol romantic style?

a)

A) Nature

b)

B) Machine

c)

C) Industry

43.

42. Jane Austen's novel as one of the examples of romanticism period?

a)

A) Pride and Prejudice

b)

B) War and Peace

c)

C) Great Expectations

44.

Name the main novel of M. Auesov

(a)  

45.

A trend in literature and art, aiming at truthful reproduction of reality in its typical features?




(a)  

46.

Famous picture painted by Ivan Aivazovsky:

(a)  

47.

Name the founder of European realism in literature



a)

Honore de Balzac

b)

B) Victor Hugo

c)

C) Gustave Flaubert

48.

Name the Honore de Balzac's largest work

a)

Human Comedy

b)

B) Les Misérables

c)

C) Madame Bovary

49.

Name three parts of the Honore de Balzac's “Human comedy”

a)

A) Scenes of Private Life, Scenes of Provincial Life, Scenes of Parisian Life

b)

B) Romance, Tragedy, Comedy

c)

C) Past, Present, Future

50.

. Name the founder of realism in painting


a)

A) Gustave Courbet

b)

B) Eugene Delacroix

c)

C) Francisco Goya

51.

Name the main three figures-enlighteners of Kazakh literature of XIX century

 

a)

A) Abai Kunanbayev, Shoqan Walikhanov, Ilyas Zhansugurov

b)

B) Mukhtar Auezov, Gabit Musrepov, Olzhas Suleimenov

c)

C) Auezov, Abay, Baluan Sholak

52.

Name the author of “An initial guide in teaching the Kyrgyz to the Russian language”

a)

A) Ibray Altynsarin

b)

B) Abai Kunanbayev

c)

C) Shakarim Kudaiberdiuly

53.

What style of painting was representative by Pablo Picasso?

a)

A) Cubism

b)

B) Surrealism

c)

C) Expressionism

54.

52. The book ”Shamanism among Kazakhs” author

a)

A) V. Radlov

b)

B) A. Margulan

c)

C) Ch. Valikhanov

55.

Art that argued the world is deformed, meaningless and absurd?

a)

Futurism

b)

Surrealism

c)

Dadaism

56.

The phrase “It will be a lot of honor for those who explain the origin of the Kazakh people by research” belongs to:

a)

Shakarim Kudaiberdiuly

b)

Ch. Valikhanov

c)

Abai Kunanbayev

57.

The author of the "Nutcracker" ballet?

a)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

b)

B) Igor Stravinsky

c)

C) Sergei Prokofiev

58.

Which artistic movement promoted the monumental-heroic style of the Soviet man in painting?

a)

Futurism

b)

Constructivism

c)

Socialist Realism

59.

Who is the author of the "Magic flute" overture?

a)

Franz Schubert

b)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

60.

Who is the author of "Masgud" and "Iskandar" poems?

a)

Abai Kunanbayev

b)

Mukhtar Auezov

c)

Showman Valikhanov

61.

Who was the organizer of female education in Kazakh Steppe?

a)

Ibray Altynsarin

b)

B) Abai Kunanbayev

c)

C) Ch. Valikhanov

62.

60. In the nomad Kazakh musical culture performers of epic tales-zhyr


a)

A) Kuishy

b)

B) Akyn

c)

C) Jyrshy

63.

61. Who was the founder of the genre - kuy in Kazakh music?

a)

Dauletkerei

b)

Kurmangazi

c)

Abay

64.

The main work of Al-Faraby


a)

The Virtuous City

b)

B) Book of Healing

c)

C) Kitab al-Musiqa

65.

The first woman-kuishy in kazakh culture?

a)

Aiman

b)

B) Karlygash

c)

C) Sholpan

66.

67. The phrase "Man is a thinking reed” belongs to?

a)

A) Blaise Pascal

b)

B) Descartes

c)

C) Aristotle

67.

The personal correspondence of prominent figures become popular

a)

Diary

b)

Epistolary literature

c)

Biography

68.

The author of the "Black square on a white background"

a)

Piet Mondrian

b)

Kazimir Malevich

c)

Wassily Kandinsky

69.

What kind of style has proclaimed thesis "beyond reality"?

a)

Cubism

b)

Futurism

c)

Surrealism

70.

Name the founder of Surrealism style in painting

a)

Pablo Picasso

b)

Max Ernst

c)

Salvador Dalí

71.

Name the author of the “Manifesto of Futurism”

a)

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

b)

Umberto Boccioni

c)

Kazimir Malevich

72.

The idealistic philosophical doctrine that denies the possibility of knowing the objective world and its laws?

a)

Realism

b)

Idealism

c)

Pragmatism

73.

Direction/ideology recognizes the truth only that gives practically useful results

a)

Pragmatism

b)

Idealism

c)

Cubism

74.

The mechanical combination in one teaching of diverse views, ideas, principles or theories?

a)

Pluralism

b)

Monism

c)

Eclecticism

75.

Three main composers of classical Kazakh music of XX century?

a)

Akhmet Zhubanov, Yevgeny Brusilovsky, and Mukan Tulebaev

b)

Kurmangazy, Qurmangazy, Dauletkerei

c)

M. Auezov, Ch. Valikhanov, Abai

76.

What is national brand?

(a)  

77.

А process of the individual features country brand creation?

a)

A) Branding

b)

B) Advertising

c)

C) Marketing

78.

The phrase "linguistic equality should be one of the first achievements of the revolution “belongs to?

a)

J.Stalin

b)

V.Lenin

79.

The concept of calling and responding was given by philosopher?


a)

Martin Buber

b)

Noam Chomsky

c)

Ferdinand D.S

80.

Name the author of the book “Clash of civilizations”

a)

Samuel P. Huntington

b)

Arnold J. Toynbee

c)

Martin Heidegger

81.

Why ancient Greeks had a lot of Water Gods?

a)

A) Because Greece had very little water and water gods symbolized luck

b)

B) Because water was considered dangerous and unpredictable, and Greeks depended on the sea for travel and trade

c)

C) Because water gods were believed to live in the sky

82.

How “Goat song” translated from Greek?  


a)

Trágos (male goat) and ōdē (song)

b)

Dráma (act) and aoidós (singer)

c)

Thánatos (death) and logia (speech)

83.

How educated, intelligent women called in Ancient Greece?


a)

Hetaira

b)

Gynaikes

c)

Metoikos

84.

Who was the founder of history as science?

a)

A.

Thucydides

b)

Б.

Herodotus

c)

В.

Xenophon

85.

Who brought the animal style in ART?

a)

Scythians and Sarmatians

b)

Hittites

c)

Goths and Vandals

86.

Name three type of schools emerged in the Middle Ages

a)

Academy Schools, Guild Schools, and Roman Schools

b)

Monastic Schools, Cathedral Schools, and Universities

c)

Seminaries, Parish Schools, and Military Academies

87.

What architectural style was used in the Tower of Pisa in Italy build?

a)

A. Venetian Renaissance

b)

Б.

Pisan Romanesque

c)

В.

Lombard Gothic

88.

The motto “God, woman and king” belongs to

a)

A) Knights (Code of Chivalry)

b)

B) Philosophers

89.

The author of the “Romeo and Juliette tragedy?

a)

A.

Ben Jonson

b)

Б.

Christopher Marlowe

c)

В.

William Shakespeare

90.

What​type of culture proclaims striving for success, individualism and the possession of private property

a)

A) Traditional culture

b)

B) Collectivist culture

c)

B) Collectivist culture

C) Western (American) culture / Protestant work-ethic culture

91.

Name the main goal of POP culture?

a)

A.

To encourage critical thinking and philosophical debate

b)

Б.

To document daily life and political events for historical record

c)

В.

To provide mass entertainment, commercial profit, and social inclusion

92.

Name the "Big Five" absolute leaders in the global recording industry

a)

Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI, BMG

b)

Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer

93.

Name the results of mass culture influence on consciousness

a)

Uniformity, stereotypes, passive consumption mindset

b)

Deep philosophical thinking

94.

Name the most important thing in show-business

a)

Popularity and profit (commercial success)

b)

Religion

95.

What is the highest condition of a person in Buddhism?

a)

Karma

b)

Nirvana

c)

Mandala

96.

What religion brought in Jesus Christ belief?

a)

Judaism

b)

Islam

c)

Christianity

97.

What is the Holy book of Muslims?

a)

Quran

b)

Bible

98.

Who is the author of the historical novel “Ivanhoe”?

a)

A) Charles Dickens

b)

B) Walter Scott (Sir Walter Scott)

c)

C) Mark Twain

99.

What architectural style is the Government House in Almaty built in?

a)

A) Gothic

b)

B) Neoclassical + Stalinist Empire style (Soviet monumental classicism)

100.

The “Abay Way” author?

a)

Mukhtar Auezov

b)

Shakarim

c)

Abay Kunanbayev

101.

102. Who is the Author of the story Unhappy Jamal?

 

a)

Mukhtar Auezov

b)

B) Beimbet Mailin

c)

C) Gabit Musrepov

102.

The become the first Kazakh female-painter?

a)

A. Gulnara Kasmalieva

b)

B. Aisha Galimbayeva

c)

C. Leyla Akhmetova

103.

Who is the founder of the Theatre of the Absurd?

a)

A. Albert Camus

b)

Jean Genet

c)

Martin Esslin

104.

How can you call mass culture by another term?

a)

Subculture

b)

Popular culture

c)

Elite culture

105.

What is the process when archaic society humanizes nature?

(a)  

106.

What three types of culture M. Mead presented?

a)

Ideal, real, normative

b)

Traditional, modern, postmodern

c)

Postfigurative, configurative, prefigurative

107.

Name the scientist who singled out three types of cultural configurations: Apollonian, Dionysian, Paranoid

a)

A. Bronisław Malinowski

b)

B. Ruth Benedict

c)

C. Margaret Mead

108.

Process where archaic person identifies himself with animals, plants, stone, water, sun, etc.?

a)

Animism

b)

Fetishism

c)

Totemism

109.

Who called as “neformals” in the XX century?

a)

Youth outside mainstream culture (punks, goths, hippies)

b)

Professional artists

c)

Religious groups

110.

The science which studies human societies and their cultures indevelopment process?

a)

Sociology

b)

Psychology

c)

Anthropology

111.

In ancient Greek mythology he is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, ritual madness and theater

a)

A. Apollo

b)

B. Hermes

c)

C. Dionysus

112.

A select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society

a)

Crowd

b)

Elite

113.

What type of culture does Propaganda of material values ​​belong to?

a)

Mass culture/consumer culture

b)

High culture

114.

A group of people with specific cultural peculiarities, likeblack clothing, dyed black hair, dark eyeliner, black fingernails and black period-styled clothing and a focus on gothic rock and a range of other music genres?

a)

Mods

b)

Rockers

c)

Goths

115.

A narrative that conveys believes of people about the origin of all living things?

a)

Myth/creation myth

b)

Tale

c)

Legend

116.

This is a non-poetic literature, in contrast to poetry?

a)

Prose

b)

Lyric

c)

Sonnet

117.

To which youth subculture does the motto "Do it yourself" belong?

a)

Hippies

b)

Punks

c)

Goths

118.

The very first type of culture?

a)

Archaic (primitive) culture

b)

Folk culture

119.

The peculiarities of the mental composition and worldview of people belonging to a particular ethnic integrity?

a)

Mass cultural

b)

Ethnic Mentality or National Character/Ethos

c)

Traditionalism

120.

The philosophical stance that emphasizes the potential and agency of human beings, individually and socially, which considers human beings as the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry?

 

a)

Existentialism

b)

Humanism

c)

Rationalism

121.

The currency used in Greece from ancient times to 2002?

a)

Drachma

b)

Lira

122.

Who was the teacher of A. Kasteyev?

a)

Abilkhan Kasteyev

b)

Nikolay Khludov

123.

It is a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty

a)

Modernism

b)

Enlightenment

c)

Renaissance

124.

What is included in the concept of architecture?

a)

A. Painting and sculpture

b)

B. Building design, engineering, planning, aesthetics

125.

127 Form of government in which people have the authority to choose their governing legislators?

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Democracy

126.

128 Form of government in which people have the authority to choose their governing legislators?

a)

Democracy

b)

Monarchy

127.

What does phrase “Melting Pot” mean in the USA?

a)

A society where many cultures blend into one(Mix)

b)

A society with multiple governments

c)

A society with one dominant culture

128.

The year of becoming Louvre as a National Museum in France?

a)

1785

b)

1798

c)

1793

129.

Three main directions of cultural policy in Kazakhstan today?

a)

A. Military, political, economic

b)

B. Preservation of heritage, development of modern arts, cultural diplomacy

130.

Name the fund created 16 years ago in Netherlands for cinema support?

a)

A. Netherlands Film Fund

b)

B. Dutch Cinema Society

131.

Name the organization has been working in Kazakhstan and conducting annually trainings for writers-begginers from all Kazakhstan? 

 

a)

A. National Library of Kazakhstan

b)

B. Kazakhstan Writers’ Union

132.

What type of musical instrument is the dombra?

a)

String instrument / plucked lute

b)

Keyboard instrument

133.

What are the three biggest modernist writers?

 

a)

A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka

Marcel Proust

b)

B. Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde

c)

William Shakespeare, John Milton, Dante

134.

Who is the author of the “The Justification and Manifesto of Futurism

a)

. Guillaume Apollinaire

b)

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

c)

Pablo Picasso

135.

The one of the founders of theater of the absurd? 

 

a)

Samuel Beckett

b)

Jean-Paul Sartre

136.

Call three types of culture?

a)

High,folk,mass

b)

Material, spiritual, social

c)

Traditional, modern, postmodern

137.

How the word "Elite” translated from French? 

a)

A. Ordinary

b)

B. Chosen / select / the best

c)

C. Common

138.

Name the scientist who divided humanity into two parts: "people of genius" and "people of benefit"?

 

a)

Pyotr Lavrov

b)

Vilfredo Pareto

c)

Karl Max

d)

Max Weber

139.

According to the Jose-Ortega y Gasset "the part of society that has a special “organ of perception”?

a)

Elite

b)

Workers

c)

Peasants

140.

What type of culture do the words entertainment art, anti-fatigue art, kitsch, semi-culture describe?

a)

Mass(Popular)culture

b)

Folk culture

c)

Elite culture

141.

The phrase “youth can be called as product of the manipulation of modern global culture” belongs to?

a)

Jean Baudrillard

b)

Guy Debord

c)

Marshall McLuhan

142.

Who represented the term Clip-culture? 

 

a)

Walter Benjamin

b)

Alvin Toffler

143.

How to decrypt the Abbreviation DIY?

a)

Develop it yourself

b)

Do It Yourself

c)

Design it yourself

144.

Name the Author of "The birth of tragedy from the spirit of music" book

a)

Arthur Schopenhauer

b)

Friedrich Nietzsche.

145.

The Kazakh custom associated with treating of a guest?

a)

Siyaz

b)

Konakasy / Guest hospitality

c)

Tusau kesu

146.

The Kazakh tradition when random stranger (uninvited person) offered a rich table and lodging for the night?

a)

Konakasy

b)

Tusau kesu

147.

The Kazakh custom when traveler or any other person come home with good message (news) and get a valuable gift from the owners in gratitude?

 

a)

Сүйінші

b)

Konakasy

c)

Asyk zholy

148.

The Kazakh tradition which literary means “cutting the rope”?

(a)  

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