Test/take home 3 guide

Here is the test 3 guide as a word doc.
If you were in class on Wed 12/5 you have this already.

I’m also posting it below as well in case udrive is being obnoxious again.

STUDY SHEET FOR HIST 100, TEST 3

For the last test you can either take the in-class option (which is similar to tests 1 and 2, consisting of IDs and an essay although there is only one essay to prepare) or the take-home option. If you do the take home option you MUST hand it in at the beginning of class on Wednesday 12/12 (it is a test not a paper and is due at the same time as the test).

OPTION A: IN-CLASS OPTION
PART 1: IDs: Prepare all the IDs: I will ask you to respond to 2 of them (I will choose which 2).
Note: a few of these are from the last 2 lectures
For each ID identify:
1. WHO/WHAT is it?
2. WHEN is it from? (remember to say what the date is for)
3. WHERE is it located (for a city/empire) or where is it from?
4. WHY is it significant?

Monica
Manicheism
Neoplatonism
Ka’ba
Medina
Iconoclasm
Pepin
Bellatores
Cistercians
Omittamus studia
Bernard of Clairvaux
Cluny
Suger
St. Gildas de Rhuys
Anselm of Laon
Saint-Denis
Scholasticism
Confessionalism
Petrarch
Studia humanitatis

PART 2: ESSAY QUESTION: Prepare this essay. Consider following the structure provided below the question.

Despite their religious and cultural differences, Lucius, Augustine, and Abelard all have a similar idea of what it means to undergo a religious conversion. First, state whether you agree with this statement and why. Next, give the date, language, genre and culture for the Golden Ass, Confessions, and Historia Calamitatum. Next define what conversion means for each man (or donkey). Then, provide one example from each work of how the conversions were similar and one example from each work of how they differed. Conclude by speculating about why the three men thought about conversions in similar or different ways.

Things you may want to consider in coming up with an argument:
– Augustine and Abelard are nominally Christians before their conversion
– Why does each man convert? What course of life leads each man to his conversion? What does he gain from it?

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OPTION B: TAKE HOME OPTION
Write 800-1000 words on one of the following topics. Your work and words must be entirely your own. You may not use Wikipedia. For options 1 and 2, you may use websites that were listed on the study guides for the films and you may use class materials or books and articles, but no other websites. For option 3 (the Apuleius option), you may use reputable websites (e.g. from museums, educational institutions),

Please make sure that you check your spelling and grammar and that you proofread.

Since this is a test and not a paper, you should rely mostly on class materials. If you use any other resources (websites, books, articles), list them at the end of your paper.

Your test must be typed, double spaced with one-inch margins in a clear, legible font. In addition to handing the test to Paul at the beginning of class, you will email him a copy so that we can verify its originality using various resources.

1. Despite the radically different setting, the film The Manchurian Candidate is fundamentally true to the Greek ideals of the Oresteia (and Iliad, if you like).

or

2. In Plato and Abelard, the reason or intellect allows one to transcend worldly deception and understand truth. Is this classical and medieval understanding of the primacy of human reason or intellect in deducing the truth reflected in the films the Matrix and The Name of the Rose?

Consider: the allegory of the cave in Plato’s Republic, the Matrix, Abelard’s Historia Calamitatum (and discussion from class on Abelard) and The Name of the Rose.

or

3. Apuleius’ Golden Ass has 11 books. Write book 12. Use the end of book 11 as your starting point and draw as much as possible on your knowledge of the Cult of Isis, the later Roman empire (possibly including Roman magic) to come up with a plausible ending to the book.



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