CLEP HUMANITIES (Art and Music) ALEXA
PRACTICE EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS AND RATED A.
The three volumes of which medieval work depict a journey through Hell,
Purgatory, and Paradise?
A) The Book of Kells
B) Pilgrims Progress
C) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D) The Divine Comedy
E) Beowulf
The Divine Comedy
How would you characterize Hamlet's frame of mind at the beginning of the
play?
Barely repressing his anger
Which pair of Shakespearean characters does NOT belong together?
A) Pyramis and Thisbe
B) Cordelia and the King of France
C) Benedict and Beatrice
D) Viola and Oliver
E) Theseus and Hippolyta
Viola and Oliver
Which of the following depicts a violent canoe trip down a Georgia river?
Deliverance
Which one of the following novels is NOT set in Hollywood?
The Killer Angels
Virginia Woolf was
an experimental novelist
,Which play is NOT by Shakespeare?
A) Love's Labor's Lost
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) The Winter's Tale
D) Tamburlaine
E) Cymbeline
Tamburlaine
The first scientific history was written in the late fifth century BCE by Thucydides
about the
Peloponnesian War
in which Greek tragedy does a mother kill her own son?
The Bacchae
Which occurred first?
A. Charles Dickens wrote Sketches by Boz
B. Johann Goethe wrong Faust, Part 1
C. Daniel Defoe wrote the satire The True-Born Englishman
D. Lope de Vega wrote an epic poem
E. Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass
Lope de Vega wrote an epic poem
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
From what period is the poem containing these two verses?
metaphysical
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
, A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
Line 1 implies that the two people are
Married
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
Lines 3 and 4 include what figure of speech?
simile
Match the detective and spy story with the author. Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
Match the detective and spy story with the author. William F. Buckley Jr.
Saving the Queen
Match the detective and spy story with the author. John Dudley Ball
In the Heat of the Night
Match the detective and spy story with the author. Earl Derr Biggers
Charlie Chan
Match the detective and spy story with the author. John Bucan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
PRACTICE EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS AND RATED A.
The three volumes of which medieval work depict a journey through Hell,
Purgatory, and Paradise?
A) The Book of Kells
B) Pilgrims Progress
C) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D) The Divine Comedy
E) Beowulf
The Divine Comedy
How would you characterize Hamlet's frame of mind at the beginning of the
play?
Barely repressing his anger
Which pair of Shakespearean characters does NOT belong together?
A) Pyramis and Thisbe
B) Cordelia and the King of France
C) Benedict and Beatrice
D) Viola and Oliver
E) Theseus and Hippolyta
Viola and Oliver
Which of the following depicts a violent canoe trip down a Georgia river?
Deliverance
Which one of the following novels is NOT set in Hollywood?
The Killer Angels
Virginia Woolf was
an experimental novelist
,Which play is NOT by Shakespeare?
A) Love's Labor's Lost
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) The Winter's Tale
D) Tamburlaine
E) Cymbeline
Tamburlaine
The first scientific history was written in the late fifth century BCE by Thucydides
about the
Peloponnesian War
in which Greek tragedy does a mother kill her own son?
The Bacchae
Which occurred first?
A. Charles Dickens wrote Sketches by Boz
B. Johann Goethe wrong Faust, Part 1
C. Daniel Defoe wrote the satire The True-Born Englishman
D. Lope de Vega wrote an epic poem
E. Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass
Lope de Vega wrote an epic poem
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
From what period is the poem containing these two verses?
metaphysical
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
, A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
Line 1 implies that the two people are
Married
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
Lines 3 and 4 include what figure of speech?
simile
Match the detective and spy story with the author. Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
Match the detective and spy story with the author. William F. Buckley Jr.
Saving the Queen
Match the detective and spy story with the author. John Dudley Ball
In the Heat of the Night
Match the detective and spy story with the author. Earl Derr Biggers
Charlie Chan
Match the detective and spy story with the author. John Bucan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
