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. Four-foot line
Tetrameter
Hexameter
Issac Asimov
Picasso
2. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Mannerism
Gilbert Stuart
henry moore
3. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Beethoven & Wagner
Donatello
Daniel Defoe
Edmund Spenser
4. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Post and Lintel
Thomas Edison
french female pose
Salvador Dali
5. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Niccolo Machiavelli
Lorraine Hansberry
Mathew Brady
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
6. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Classical Period
Geoffrey Chaucer
Picasso
7. Georges Pierre Seurat
Ghiberti
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Charles Dickens
Artemis/Diana
8. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
Niccolo Machiavelli
Impressionistic Art came before
soliloquy
9. School of nonsense and anti-art
Epicureans
Trimeter
dada school
King Lear
10. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Pigeon House
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
tempura
11. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
King Lear
Fresco
Lillian Gish
Merry Wives of Windsor
12. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
fresco
Flat
Simone Martini
ballet
13. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Free Verse
Josiah Wedgewood
Bronte Sisters
Federico Fellini
14. Science fiction writer
Mies van der Rohe
The Parthenon
Doric
Issac Asimov
15. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Maia/Fauna
Cerros
Joseph Conrad
Whole Tone Scale
16. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Artemis/Diana
James Boswell
Eugene O'Neil
Friedrich Nietzsche
17. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
Parmenides
El Greco
Salvador Dali
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
18. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Brahmans
Parmenides
alexander calder
Henry Dixon Cowell
19. 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
allegro
mannerism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Hexameter
20. The Color Purple
Apollo
Versailles
Alice Walker
Mozart and Richard Strauss
21. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
James Boswell
barbara hepworth
Aristotle
22. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Remington
Andrew Wyeth
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Samuel Beckett
23. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
Andrew Wyeth
tragic figure
The Muses
El Greco
24. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
pop art
scrim
Daniel Defoe
25. French 20th century architect
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
D.W. Griffith
Le Corbusier
Hera/Juno
26. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Andrea Palladio
Tragic Playwrights
Kouroi
sculpture
27. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Merchant of Venice
Thomas Edison
Picasso
Pallas Athena/Minerva
28. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Picasso
Chalice
Delacroix
Persian Rugs
29. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
louise nevelson
New Orleans
John Locke
Issac Asimov
30. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
constantin brancusi
Martha Graham
Verdi and Puccini
Hades/Pluto
31. Beautiful Italian singing
Andre Previn
Mary McCarthy
tragic figure
bel canto
32. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Verdi and Puccini
New Orleans
Hestia/Vesta
Alfred Hitchcock
33. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Jonathan Swift
Lao Tzu
Samuel Beckett
Verdi and Puccini
34. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
D.W. Griffith
Alfred Hitchcock
Pavane and the Polonaise
Aristotle
35. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
The Iliad
Bernini
Geoffrey Chaucer
Parmenides
36. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Masaccio
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Sitar
Le Corbusier
37. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Atomism
Manichaeism
Immanuel Kant
Jean Jacques Rousseau
38. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Tragic Playwrights
Penny Marshall
Othello
Blank Verse
39. Spanish surrealist painter
Macbeth
Brussels tapestries
Degas
Salvador Dali
40. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Surrealism
aside
Verdi and Puccini
Eisenstein
41. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
sitar
Merchant of Venice
New Orleans
42. Plato and Aristotle
Scott Joplin
Moral Philosophers
Usonian
Claude Debussy
43. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
scrim
Francois Rabelais
Jane Austen
Aubrey Beardsley
44. Wrote operas
Giotto
Verdi and Puccini
Rembrandt
American Indian Rugs
45. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Mathew Brady
Book of Kells
Pablo Picasso
Aaron Copeland
46. Death of a Salesman
Post Impressionism
neo-classic period
Arthur Miller
Monometer
47. Opaque watercolor
Alfred Hitchcock
Gouche
Merchant of Venice
Atomism
48. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
obelisk
Hera/Juno
Brunelleschi
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
49. Spanish surrealist painter
Ray Bradbury
Cubism
Vaishyas
Joan Miro
50. Long-Long
John Dryden
Spondaic Pattern
Vaishyas
Pieta