CLEP HUMANITIES (Art and Music) EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS AND
RATED A.
Which is the setting for events in War and Peace?
(A) France during the French Revolution
(B) Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
(C) England during the Crimean War
(D) Germany during the First World War
(E) Spain during the Spanish Civil War
(B) Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
Artists associated with this nineteenth-century movement created images based
on emotion, imagination, and the irrational.
Which of the following movements is referred to above?
(A) Romanticism
(B) Art Deco
(C) Art Nouveau
(D) Social Realism
(E) Abstract Expressionism
(A) Romanticism
Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which
do Delacroix and Brahms belong?
(A) Renaissance
(B) Baroque
(C) Romantic
(D) Impressionist
(E) Modern
(C) Romantic
Which of the following insists on the necessity of living a simple, natural,
individualistic life?
(A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha
,(B) Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(C) Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables
(D) Henry David Thoreau's Walden
(E) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
(D) Henry David Thoreau's Walden
He composed in a wide variety of musical genres, including nine symphonies,
32 piano sonatas, and an opera. The composer is
(A) Sergei Rachmaninoff
(B) George Frideric Handel
(C) Ralph Vaughan Williams
(D) Gustav Mahler
(E) Ludwig van Beethoven
(E) Ludwig van Beethoven
Fagin, Pip, and Ebenezer Scrooge are characters created by
(A) George Eliot
(B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(C) Sir Walter Scott
(D) Edith Wharton
(E) Charles Dickens
(E) Charles Dickens
Which is a group of poets?
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley, S. T. Coleridge, John Donne
(B) Henry Moore, Christo, Maya Lin
(C) Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox
(D) Sergey Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch
(E) Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Georg Solti
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley, S. T. Coleridge, John Donne
Which is a group of composers?
(A) Jacob Epstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Auguste Rodin
(B) Maurice Ravel, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet
(C) François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
(D) Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot
(E) Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin
, (B) Maurice Ravel, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet
Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which
do Debussy and Renoir belong?
(A) Renaissance
(B) Baroque
(C) Romantic
(D) Impressionist
(E) Modern
(D) Impressionist
The development of photography in the 19th century had which of the
following effects on the arts?
(A) It led to the death of painting, since subjects could be rendered more
accurately in a photograph.
(B) Photographers were immediately accepted as artists, and their works
displayed in major museums.
(C) Technology became an important component of every major art form, from
music to poetry to theater.
(D) It gave rise to the realist movement, which emphasized a kind of
photographic objectivity in the depiction of its subjects.
(E) It led to the late 19th century practice of including photographic portraits of
painters along with their works at galleries.
(D) It gave rise to the realist movement, which emphasized a kind of photographic
objectivity in the depiction of its subjects
Renowned for his waltzes, mazurkas and studios, this composer represented
the spirit of romantic nationalism
(A) Johan Sebastian Bach
(B) Igor Stravinsky
(C) Dimitri Shostakovich
(D) Frédéric Chopin
(E) Phillip Glass
(D) Frédéric Chopin
Which is a group of architects?
(A) Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS AND
RATED A.
Which is the setting for events in War and Peace?
(A) France during the French Revolution
(B) Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
(C) England during the Crimean War
(D) Germany during the First World War
(E) Spain during the Spanish Civil War
(B) Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
Artists associated with this nineteenth-century movement created images based
on emotion, imagination, and the irrational.
Which of the following movements is referred to above?
(A) Romanticism
(B) Art Deco
(C) Art Nouveau
(D) Social Realism
(E) Abstract Expressionism
(A) Romanticism
Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which
do Delacroix and Brahms belong?
(A) Renaissance
(B) Baroque
(C) Romantic
(D) Impressionist
(E) Modern
(C) Romantic
Which of the following insists on the necessity of living a simple, natural,
individualistic life?
(A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha
,(B) Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(C) Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables
(D) Henry David Thoreau's Walden
(E) Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
(D) Henry David Thoreau's Walden
He composed in a wide variety of musical genres, including nine symphonies,
32 piano sonatas, and an opera. The composer is
(A) Sergei Rachmaninoff
(B) George Frideric Handel
(C) Ralph Vaughan Williams
(D) Gustav Mahler
(E) Ludwig van Beethoven
(E) Ludwig van Beethoven
Fagin, Pip, and Ebenezer Scrooge are characters created by
(A) George Eliot
(B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(C) Sir Walter Scott
(D) Edith Wharton
(E) Charles Dickens
(E) Charles Dickens
Which is a group of poets?
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley, S. T. Coleridge, John Donne
(B) Henry Moore, Christo, Maya Lin
(C) Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox
(D) Sergey Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch
(E) Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Georg Solti
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley, S. T. Coleridge, John Donne
Which is a group of composers?
(A) Jacob Epstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Auguste Rodin
(B) Maurice Ravel, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet
(C) François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
(D) Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot
(E) Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin
, (B) Maurice Ravel, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet
Refer to the following periods or movements in art and music history. To which
do Debussy and Renoir belong?
(A) Renaissance
(B) Baroque
(C) Romantic
(D) Impressionist
(E) Modern
(D) Impressionist
The development of photography in the 19th century had which of the
following effects on the arts?
(A) It led to the death of painting, since subjects could be rendered more
accurately in a photograph.
(B) Photographers were immediately accepted as artists, and their works
displayed in major museums.
(C) Technology became an important component of every major art form, from
music to poetry to theater.
(D) It gave rise to the realist movement, which emphasized a kind of
photographic objectivity in the depiction of its subjects.
(E) It led to the late 19th century practice of including photographic portraits of
painters along with their works at galleries.
(D) It gave rise to the realist movement, which emphasized a kind of photographic
objectivity in the depiction of its subjects
Renowned for his waltzes, mazurkas and studios, this composer represented
the spirit of romantic nationalism
(A) Johan Sebastian Bach
(B) Igor Stravinsky
(C) Dimitri Shostakovich
(D) Frédéric Chopin
(E) Phillip Glass
(D) Frédéric Chopin
Which is a group of architects?
(A) Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner
