SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Humanities All In One
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Al Jolson
sitar
Arnold Schoenberg
Hellenistic Period
2. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Fauvism
Plato
Macbeth
barbara hepworth
3. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
mannerism
Francois Rabelais
minuetto
Scrim
4. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
New Orleans
Impressionistic Art came before
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pilgrim's Progress
5. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Martin Heidegger
Aubrey Beardsley
The Muses
Johannes Brahms
6. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Soliloquy
chalice
Noh Theatre
Persian Rugs
7. Spanish surrealist painter
Monet
James Boswell
Joan Miro
Le Corbusier
8. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Rembrandt
Martha Graham
Allegory
Post Impressionism
9. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Scrim
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Hans-Georg Gadamer
A long syllable
10. Mannerism painter
Neoplatonism
korai
El Greco
tragic figure
11. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
oratorio
Pentameter
sitar
flat
12. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Aristotle
American Indian Rugs
Hera/Juno
Joseph Conrad
13. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Bernini
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Dixon Cowell
pieta
14. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Mary Wollstonecraft
Poseidon/Neptune
Mary Shelley
15. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
D.W. Griffith
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pythagoras
16. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Rembrandt
Hephaestus/Vulcan
William Faulkner
Ray Bradbury
17. A capella singers
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
madrigal
James Boswell
Neoplatonism
18. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Pentatonic Scale
Mary McCarthy
renaissance
Langston Hughes
19. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Martin Heidegger
Hector Berlioz
Degas
El Greco
20. God of War
Meter
Victor Hugo
Ares/Mars
Mark Twain
21. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Francois Rabelais
Stravinsky
George Sand
Andrew Wyeth
22. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
23. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
renaissance
El Greco
Bolero
Rococo
24. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Mannerism
Charles Dickens
El Greco
Plato
25. Court dances
Giotto
Apollo
Blank Verse
Pavane and the Polonaise
26. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Dionysus/Bacchus
Donatello
Aside
Macbeth
27. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Mies van der Rohe
Aaron Copeland
Atomists
Renoir
28. One-foot line
Alexander Dumas
Monometer
Marc Chagall
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
29. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Ray Bradbury
T.S. Eliot
Arthur Miller
Personification
30. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Thales
Le Corbusier
cellini
31. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Free Verse
Ares/Mars
Michelangelo
32. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Lorraine Hansberry
Mark Twain
American Indian Rugs
Frank Lloyd Wright
33. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Romanticism Movement
Cervantes
Francois Rabelais
Lionel Hampton
34. God of the sea
Rembrandt
Poseidon/Neptune
Iambic pattern
Mark Twain
35. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Victor Hugo
alexander calder
Pavane and the Polonaise
36. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
The Pigeon House
Cervantes
Atomism
obelisk
37. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Trompe l'oeil
hagia sophia
Cimabue
French female pose
38. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Henri Matisse
Aphrodite/Venus
Neoclassicism
Remington
39. Plato and Aristotle
Moral Philosophers
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Heptameter
Bayeux tapestry
40. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Francois Rabelais
Roman Basilica
hagia sophia
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
41. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Rene Descartes
Remington
42. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Stephen Foster
Baroque Period
Vermeer
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
43. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Noh Theatre
Medieval Architecture
Georgia O'Keeffe
Rene Descartes
44. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
William Shakespeare
Obelisk
Merry Wives of Windsor
Le Corbusier
45. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Victor Hugo
Josiah Wedgewood
Arthur Miller
Jean Jacques Rousseau
46. God of Wildlife
Leo Tolstoy
Ghiberti
Lionel Hampton
Artemis/Diana
47. Goddess of Marriage
King Lear
Christopher Wren
Zeno
Hera/Juno
48. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Hestia/Vesta
mosaics
Leo Tolstoy
Eugene O'Neil
49. Wrote Rivals
Doric
Didactic-ism
Richard Sheridan
Plato
50. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Blank Verse
D.W. Griffith
Fresco
High Renaissance Painters