CLEP HUMANITIES (Art and Music) ALEXA
PRACTICE EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS AND RATED A.
Which of the following CANNOT be attributed to Leonardo de Vinci?
the design and building of the dome of the Cathedral of Florence
Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' was recently discovered to be
a scene of a group forming for a daytime parade
Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, and Agnes de Mille were all noted
choreographers
Sergio Leone's westerns have become classics and helped propel which of the
following actors to international prominence?
Clint Eastwood
The figures on the Erechim on the Athenian acropolis are called
caryatids
jazz dance and tap dance are both derived from dances brough to American
from:
Africa
The Memorial for Robert Gould Shaw (who died leading a Black regiment in the
Civil War) is on Boston Common. The sculptor was:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Which of the following was a TV drama that was adapted for the movies and
has become a movie classic?
Marty
Which of the following is a group of opera composers?
Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet
,A composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, he wrote the 'Scottish Symphony',
'The Hebrides' overture, and music for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' including
'The Wedding March' . This describes the composer
Felix Mendelssohn
the term tempo is music refers to
pace
George Frederick Handel's 'Water Music' was written to be performed out of
doors. Which of his other compositions was also written to be played out of
doors?
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Two composers who were influenced by the music of the gypsies (Roma) were
Johannes Brahms and Georges Bizet
Greek temples use a simple support system called
post-and-lintel
the French Impressionists were influenced and inspired by which of the
following in Paris
the Pigs of photographic processes, the invention of aluminum tube paints,
experiments in physics on the nature of light, the development of a cafe culture
the composers of 'Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Bolero, and
Capirccio espagnol' were all influenced by
Spain
Which of the following pairs of composers and painters were contemporaries
Amadeus Mozart and Jacques-Louis David
Which of the following was both composer and lyricist for 'A Little Night Music,
Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeny Todd' among other Broadway
hits?
Stephen Sondheim
, The Rucellai Palace in Florance, designed by Leon Battista Alberti (1451) is an
example of
Renaissance style
Which of the following composers is correctly paired with the period in which he
worked?
Felix Mendelssohn... Romantic
A motif in music
is a short melodic or rhythmic passage repeated several times in different sections
of a work
The work of which of the following composers linked the nineteenth-century
Romantic tradition in music with the music of the early twentieth century?
Gustav Mahler
A major difference between contemporary classical music and earlier classical
music is
that contemporary music is atonal, whereas previous classical music is tonal
which of the following is a group of painters
rosa bonheur, mary cassatt, berthe morisot
which two painters were Post-Imporessionists
Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh
Which two painters represent the Dutch school during the Renassiance?
Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch
which two painters represent the Baroque period?
Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens
Which two painters were Fauvists?
Henri Matisse and Andre Derain
Which two painters began Cubism?
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
PRACTICE EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS AND RATED A.
Which of the following CANNOT be attributed to Leonardo de Vinci?
the design and building of the dome of the Cathedral of Florence
Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' was recently discovered to be
a scene of a group forming for a daytime parade
Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, and Agnes de Mille were all noted
choreographers
Sergio Leone's westerns have become classics and helped propel which of the
following actors to international prominence?
Clint Eastwood
The figures on the Erechim on the Athenian acropolis are called
caryatids
jazz dance and tap dance are both derived from dances brough to American
from:
Africa
The Memorial for Robert Gould Shaw (who died leading a Black regiment in the
Civil War) is on Boston Common. The sculptor was:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Which of the following was a TV drama that was adapted for the movies and
has become a movie classic?
Marty
Which of the following is a group of opera composers?
Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet
,A composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, he wrote the 'Scottish Symphony',
'The Hebrides' overture, and music for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' including
'The Wedding March' . This describes the composer
Felix Mendelssohn
the term tempo is music refers to
pace
George Frederick Handel's 'Water Music' was written to be performed out of
doors. Which of his other compositions was also written to be played out of
doors?
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Two composers who were influenced by the music of the gypsies (Roma) were
Johannes Brahms and Georges Bizet
Greek temples use a simple support system called
post-and-lintel
the French Impressionists were influenced and inspired by which of the
following in Paris
the Pigs of photographic processes, the invention of aluminum tube paints,
experiments in physics on the nature of light, the development of a cafe culture
the composers of 'Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Bolero, and
Capirccio espagnol' were all influenced by
Spain
Which of the following pairs of composers and painters were contemporaries
Amadeus Mozart and Jacques-Louis David
Which of the following was both composer and lyricist for 'A Little Night Music,
Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeny Todd' among other Broadway
hits?
Stephen Sondheim
, The Rucellai Palace in Florance, designed by Leon Battista Alberti (1451) is an
example of
Renaissance style
Which of the following composers is correctly paired with the period in which he
worked?
Felix Mendelssohn... Romantic
A motif in music
is a short melodic or rhythmic passage repeated several times in different sections
of a work
The work of which of the following composers linked the nineteenth-century
Romantic tradition in music with the music of the early twentieth century?
Gustav Mahler
A major difference between contemporary classical music and earlier classical
music is
that contemporary music is atonal, whereas previous classical music is tonal
which of the following is a group of painters
rosa bonheur, mary cassatt, berthe morisot
which two painters were Post-Imporessionists
Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh
Which two painters represent the Dutch school during the Renassiance?
Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch
which two painters represent the Baroque period?
Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens
Which two painters were Fauvists?
Henri Matisse and Andre Derain
Which two painters began Cubism?
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
