HUMANITIES CLEP EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
During the Hellenic Period the great center of Greek culture was located at - ANSWER Athens
The Romantic Period of literature gave birth to a special kind of horror story, the - ANSWER Gothic novel
A painter noted for his scenes of the American West was - ANSWER Fredrick Remington
Which item does NOT belong in the following group?
- Intuition
- Formal science
- Deductive thinking
- Empirical knowledge
- A priori knowledge - ANSWER Intuition
The American poet who wrote such works as Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and The Santa Fe Trail
was - ANSWER Vachel Lindsay
The Globe Theater
- Was built in 1599
- Depended on natural lighting
- Was closed on all sides but open on top
- Had a stage that extended into the audience area
- All of the above - ANSWER All of the above
Most jazz has a standard form of - ANSWER Theme and variation
, A single melody with subordinate harmony demonstrates - ANSWER homophonic texture
A Roman writer of comedy was - ANSWER Plautus
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." is the opening line of: - ANSWER "Sonnets from the
Portuguese"
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
The poem from which the line is taken was written by: - ANSWER Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The authors of the U.S. Constitution drew most heavily from the work of a seventeenth-century English
philosopher, particularly from his Two Treatises on Government. The philosopher's name is: - ANSWER
John Locke
"Through pity and fear, [tragedy] achieves the purgation of such emotions."
This passage from Aristotle's Poetics describes: - ANSWER Catharsis
Which of the following lists the instrumentation of a classical string quartet? - ANSWER Two violins,
viola, and a cello
Statues of Buddha usually depict him - ANSWER Seated in the lotus position
Loveliest of Trees
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing whit for Eastertide.
Now of my threescore years and ten,
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