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The three volumes of which medieval work depict a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise?
A) The Book of Kells
B) Pilgrims Progress
C) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D) The Divine Comedy
E) Beowulf - answer✔The correct answer is D.Dante's The Divine Comedy is in three parts: "The
Inferno", "Purgatory", and "Paradise".
Which ancient Greek city was famous for its warrior citizens?
A) Athens
B) Thebes
C) Argos
D) Sparta
E) Mycenae - answer✔The correct answer is D) Sparta
Which pair of Shakespearean characters does NOT belong together?
A) Pyramis and Thisbe
B) Cordelia and the King of France
C) Benedict and Beatrice
D) Viola and Oliver
E) Theseus and Hippolyta - answer✔The correct answer is D.Viola is a character fromTwelfth Night;
Oliver is from As You Like It.
Which of the following depicts a violent canoe trip down a Georgia river?
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A) Across the Wide Missouri
B) The Yearling
C) Deliverance
D) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
E) Life on the Mississippi - answer✔The correct answer is C.Deliverance was written by James Dickey.
The following illustration is representative of what form of architecture?
A) Corbeled arch
B) True arch
C) Barrel vault
D) Geodesic dome
E) Groin vault - answer✔The correct answer is B.The true arch was developed in Mesopotamia and is
constructed upward from two sides that frame the opening. At the top of the arch, wedge-shaped
blocks hold one another in place through pressure.
The Gothic style of architecture prevails in all of the following buildings EXCEPT
A) St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
B) Abbey Church of St. Denis in Paris.
C) St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
D) Chartres Cathedral in Paris.
E) Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. - answer✔The correct answer is C.St. Paul's
Cathedral, by Christopher Wren, is Neoclassical and Baroque. It was finished in 1710.
Which play is NOT by Shakespeare?
A) Love's Labor's Lost
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) The Winter's Tale
D) Tamburlaine
E) Cymbeline - answer✔The correct answer is D.Tamburlaine was written by Christopher Marlowe
Who is NOT involved in modern dance as a performer or choreographer?
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A) Merce Cunningham
B) Martha Graham
C) Beverly Sills
D) David Parsons
E) Paul Taylor - answer✔The correct answer is C.Beverly Sills is as an opera singer, while the others are
all modern-dance artists. Cunningham and Taylor were once dancers in the Graham company, and
Parsons was a dancer in Paul Taylor's company.
Which is NOT a symphony in the modern sense?
A) Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
B) Mozart's Jupiter Symphony
C) Mahler's First Symphony
D) Handel's Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah
E) Brahms's First Symphony - answer✔The correct answer is D.Handel's Pastoral Symphony is NOT a
symphony in the modern sense in that this symphony was used as an interlude within a vocal work. The
modern symphony is a large-scale orchestral composition often with four movements
The lunar discovery of a large monolith with mysterious properties leads man into the exploration of
deep space. This is the plot of
A) The War of the Worlds.
B) 2001: A Space Odyssey.
C) Voyage to the Moon.
D) Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
E) Barbarella. - answer✔The correct answer is B.2001: A Space Odyssey is based on a book written by
Arthur C. Clarke.
From what period is the poem containing these two verses?
1. Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
2. Though I must go, endure not yet
3. A breach, but an expansion
4. Like gold to airy thinness beat.
5. If they be two, they are two so
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6. As stiff twin compasses are two;
7. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
8. To move, but doth, if the other do.
A) Medieval
B) Elizabethan
C) Metaphysical
D) Romantic
E) Victorian - answer✔The correct answer is C.The poem is "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", dated
1633, written by John Donne. It is considered a metaphysical poem
Line 1 implies that the two people are
1. Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
2. Though I must go, endure not yet
3. A breach, but an expansion
4. Like gold to airy thinness beat.
5. If they be two, they are two so
6. As stiff twin compasses are two;
7. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
8. To move, but doth, if the other do.
A) married.
B) religious fanatics.
C) dissenters.
D) brother and sister.
E) psychic. - answer✔The correct answer is A.The two are married and, therefore, according to doctrine,
their souls are one.
Lines 3 and 4 include what figure of speech?
1. Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
2. Though I must go, endure not yet
3. A breach, but an expansion
