CLEP HUMANITIES EXAM STUDY AND
REVISION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Questions 107-109 are based on the following poem.
Delight in Disorder (by Robert Herrick)
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Line (5) Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthralls the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
(10) In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoestring, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
The prevailing meter of the poem is: (A) iambic (B) dactylic (C) anapestic (D)
trochaic (E) spondaic
A
The term "Machiavellian" is most likely to be applied to which of the following?
(A) A politician who is ambitious, unscrupulous, and deceitful (B) A scientist
who is engaged in developing a new and radical theory of astronomy (C) A
social worker who is trying to improve the conditions of the lower classes (D)
An academician who is outlining a history of Western art (E) A diplomat who is
plotting against the supremacy of the government in power
A
,A composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, he wrote mostly for the
piano. Among his works are preludes, études, polonaises, waltzes, and
mazurkas, many of which are technically demanding. The composer described
is: (A) Giacomo Meyerbeer (B) Antonio Vivaldi (C) Gustav Mahler (D) Jacques
Offenbach (E) Frédéric Chopin
E
An early movie director and producer, he is especially known for his 1915 silent
epic The Birth of a Nation, a film praised for its innovative techniques but
criticized harshly for its racism. The director referred to is: (A) Charlie Chaplin
(B) William Wyler (C) D. W. Griffith (D) Orson Welles (E) Michael Curtiz
C
Which of the following musical instruments is capable of the highest pitch? (A)
Tuba (B) English horn (C) Piccolo (D) Clarinet (E) Viola
C
Which of the following is a classical ballet with a score by Piotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky? (A) Petrouchka (B) Cinderella (C) Don Quixote (D) The Sleeping
Beauty (E) Le Corsaire
D
This mathematician and philosopher emphasized the use of reason as the only
reliable method of attaining knowledge and promoted deduction as a
preeminent methodology. His Discourse on Method, with its pronouncement "I
think, therefore I am," is thought by many scholars to be a key work in the
development of modern philosophy. The individual described is: (A) Blaise
Pascal (B) René Descartes (C) Isaac Newton (D) David Hume (E) Baruch Spinoza
B
Aristotle considered that only these two literary genres were worth of attention
because they had a mimetic or figurative relation with the world, as opposed to
a diegetic or directly representative relation:
(A) novel and short story
(B) epic poetry and opera
(C) comedy and soap-opera
, (D) tragedy and epic poetry
(E) lyric poetry and personal diary
D
Socrates was ordered to drink hemlock because:
(A) he had murdered someone
(B) he plagiarized Plato's works
(C) he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods
(D) he was considered immoral and a drunken
(E) B and C
C
These three Greek authors were historians:
(A) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
(B) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
(C) Pericles, Anaximander, Leonidas
(D) Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus
(E) Titus Livius, Marcus Aurelius, Polibius
D
The philosopher that proposed the existence of a world of ideas truer than the
world of material appearance was
(A) Aristotle
(B) Locke
(C) Descartes
(D) Hume
(E) Plato
E
Classicism is defined by
(A) a profound belief in the existence of the gods
(B) linearity of forms, simplicity, proportion and symmetry
(C) a proliferation of adornment
(D) a prevalence of sentiments over reason
(E) a search for identity in Greek philosophy
B
REVISION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Questions 107-109 are based on the following poem.
Delight in Disorder (by Robert Herrick)
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Line (5) Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthralls the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
(10) In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoestring, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
The prevailing meter of the poem is: (A) iambic (B) dactylic (C) anapestic (D)
trochaic (E) spondaic
A
The term "Machiavellian" is most likely to be applied to which of the following?
(A) A politician who is ambitious, unscrupulous, and deceitful (B) A scientist
who is engaged in developing a new and radical theory of astronomy (C) A
social worker who is trying to improve the conditions of the lower classes (D)
An academician who is outlining a history of Western art (E) A diplomat who is
plotting against the supremacy of the government in power
A
,A composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, he wrote mostly for the
piano. Among his works are preludes, études, polonaises, waltzes, and
mazurkas, many of which are technically demanding. The composer described
is: (A) Giacomo Meyerbeer (B) Antonio Vivaldi (C) Gustav Mahler (D) Jacques
Offenbach (E) Frédéric Chopin
E
An early movie director and producer, he is especially known for his 1915 silent
epic The Birth of a Nation, a film praised for its innovative techniques but
criticized harshly for its racism. The director referred to is: (A) Charlie Chaplin
(B) William Wyler (C) D. W. Griffith (D) Orson Welles (E) Michael Curtiz
C
Which of the following musical instruments is capable of the highest pitch? (A)
Tuba (B) English horn (C) Piccolo (D) Clarinet (E) Viola
C
Which of the following is a classical ballet with a score by Piotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky? (A) Petrouchka (B) Cinderella (C) Don Quixote (D) The Sleeping
Beauty (E) Le Corsaire
D
This mathematician and philosopher emphasized the use of reason as the only
reliable method of attaining knowledge and promoted deduction as a
preeminent methodology. His Discourse on Method, with its pronouncement "I
think, therefore I am," is thought by many scholars to be a key work in the
development of modern philosophy. The individual described is: (A) Blaise
Pascal (B) René Descartes (C) Isaac Newton (D) David Hume (E) Baruch Spinoza
B
Aristotle considered that only these two literary genres were worth of attention
because they had a mimetic or figurative relation with the world, as opposed to
a diegetic or directly representative relation:
(A) novel and short story
(B) epic poetry and opera
(C) comedy and soap-opera
, (D) tragedy and epic poetry
(E) lyric poetry and personal diary
D
Socrates was ordered to drink hemlock because:
(A) he had murdered someone
(B) he plagiarized Plato's works
(C) he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods
(D) he was considered immoral and a drunken
(E) B and C
C
These three Greek authors were historians:
(A) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
(B) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
(C) Pericles, Anaximander, Leonidas
(D) Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus
(E) Titus Livius, Marcus Aurelius, Polibius
D
The philosopher that proposed the existence of a world of ideas truer than the
world of material appearance was
(A) Aristotle
(B) Locke
(C) Descartes
(D) Hume
(E) Plato
E
Classicism is defined by
(A) a profound belief in the existence of the gods
(B) linearity of forms, simplicity, proportion and symmetry
(C) a proliferation of adornment
(D) a prevalence of sentiments over reason
(E) a search for identity in Greek philosophy
B
