CLEP HUMANITIES COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT
◉ Francesco Petrarch . Answer: -His works provided the basis for love
poetry and popularized the theme of humanism
-The Cazoniere
◉ Geoffrey Chaucer . Answer: -Chiefly responsible for bringing
literature to the middle-class
The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
◉ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . Answer: -Wrote the first modern
novel
-Don Quixote
◉ Edmund Spenser . Answer: -Popularized the use of allegory
-The Faerie Queen, Amoretti
◉ Christopher Marlowe . Answer: -Author of the first real historical
drama and first English tragedy
-The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second
, ◉ William Shakespeare . Answer: -Considered the greatest English poet
and dramatist
-Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard
III, Julius Caesar, Much Ado
◉ John Dryden . Answer: -Influential in establishing the heroic couplet
-Alexander's Feast, heroic stanzas
◉ Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) . Answer: -Perfected literary
conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
-Don Juan, Tartuffe, the Misanthrope
◉ Benjamin Franklin . Answer: -Scientist, educator, abolitionist,
philosopher, economist, political theorist, and statesman who defined the
colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American
enlightenment
-Poor Richard's Almanac, Observations on the Increase of Mankind
◉ Jean Jacques Rousseau . Answer: -Libertine whose focused prose -
Social Contract
◉ William Blake . Answer: -Visual artist and poet who defined
neoclassical convention
2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT
◉ Francesco Petrarch . Answer: -His works provided the basis for love
poetry and popularized the theme of humanism
-The Cazoniere
◉ Geoffrey Chaucer . Answer: -Chiefly responsible for bringing
literature to the middle-class
The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
◉ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . Answer: -Wrote the first modern
novel
-Don Quixote
◉ Edmund Spenser . Answer: -Popularized the use of allegory
-The Faerie Queen, Amoretti
◉ Christopher Marlowe . Answer: -Author of the first real historical
drama and first English tragedy
-The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second
, ◉ William Shakespeare . Answer: -Considered the greatest English poet
and dramatist
-Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard
III, Julius Caesar, Much Ado
◉ John Dryden . Answer: -Influential in establishing the heroic couplet
-Alexander's Feast, heroic stanzas
◉ Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) . Answer: -Perfected literary
conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
-Don Juan, Tartuffe, the Misanthrope
◉ Benjamin Franklin . Answer: -Scientist, educator, abolitionist,
philosopher, economist, political theorist, and statesman who defined the
colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American
enlightenment
-Poor Richard's Almanac, Observations on the Increase of Mankind
◉ Jean Jacques Rousseau . Answer: -Libertine whose focused prose -
Social Contract
◉ William Blake . Answer: -Visual artist and poet who defined
neoclassical convention
