Humanities CLEP Q's with
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Often read as a children's classic, it is in reality a scathing
indictment of human meanness and greed. In its four books, the
Lilliputians are deranged, the Yahoos obscene. The title of the work
is...? - answer Gulliver's Travels
Which of the following deals with the bigotry an anguished African
American family faces when it attempts to move into an all-white
suburb? - answer Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Which of the following has as its central theme a boat journey up a
river in Africa? - answer Heart of Darkness
Which of the following is often a symbol of new life arising from
death? - answer the phoenix
The lute is most similar to the modern...? - answer guitar
The troubadours of the Middle Ages are best described as...? -
answer poet-musicians
The work shown above is an example of which of the following? -
answer Bas-relief
The sculpture shown above is by...? - answer Auguste Rodin
,The figurine shown is of which of the following origins? - answer
Mayan
Which excerpt contains several examples of onomatopoeia? -
answer "Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!...
Yet the ear, it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging, ...
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,"
Which is from Hamlet? - answer "O, what a noble mind is here
o'erthrown! . . .
And I . . .
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason
Like sweet bells jangled out of time, and
harsh;"
Which alludes to Abraham Lincoln's death? - answer "Exult O shores,
and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead."
The work pictured is...? - answer a fresco
The theme of the work is the...? - answer creation of Adam
, The work is located in...? - answer the Sistine Chapel
Which is for a play by Tennessee Williams? - answer The exterior of
a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is
named Elysian Fields and runs between the L and N tracks and the
river
Which is for a play by Anton Chekhov? - answer A room that is still
called the nursery. . . . It is May, the cherry trees are in blossom, but
in the orchard it is cold, with a morning frost.
Which is a group of architects? - answer I. M. Pei, Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright
Which is a group of composers of opera? - answer Georges Bizet,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner
Which is a group of twentieth-century poets? - answer Allen
Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks
He believed that tragedy causes the proper purgation of those
emotions of pity and fear that it has aroused.
The author and concept referred to in the sentence above are...? -
answer Aristotle... catharsis
Which of the following composers was Pablo Picasso's closest
musical contemporary? - answer Igor Stravinsky
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