Humanities Chapter 15 test

Which of the following works argues that if the ice sheet that has surrounded Greenland for millennia continues melting, sea levels could rise as much as 20 feet, leaving all of Florida, much of the East and West coasts, and multiple island nations under water?

An Inconvenient Truth

The American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson taught that all of us should look for nature in ourselves—should feel that we and "it" are parts of the same whole. This idea is in line with what traditional philosophy?

Asian philosophy

Native-American songs, stories, rituals, and art often express their cultures'

deep spiritual relationship with nature.

The movement based on the belief that the proper role of humankind is stewardship of the earth's resources—that all humans should properly be concerned about actions that adversely affect the planet—is called

environmentalism.

J.M.W. Turner's 1833 painting Rotterdam Ferry-Boat portrays

a turbulent, powerful sea.

What nineteenth-century American author lived in a one-room cabin that he built in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, for $23.44, later writing about the experience?

Henry David Thoreau

The belief that Siddhartha reached a state of truth while seated beneath a great bodhi tree may account for the prominence of trees and other plants in many

Indian designs and paintings.

Although his love of nature was transcendental, Walt Whitman became caught up in the excitement of American urbanity; he wrote about

New York Citty

Moby-Dick has been called a warning against

moral pride (hubris).

"Cast aside dull books and thought,/Sweet is folly, sweet is play;/Take the pleasure Spring hath brought/In youth's opening holiday!" These lines express the attitude taken toward nature by what group?

rebellious young men preparing for the priesthood in the eleventh and twelfth centuries