Humanities CLEP practice test questions
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| show | Pylons
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| show | flagellants
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| show | Independently of experiance, or from first
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| show | subdominant
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| A natural minor scale contains five whole steps and two half steps. Between which scale degrees do the half steps occur? | show 🗑
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| show | Stravinsky's "le Sacre du Printemps"
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| Which of the following is the earliest and clearest demonstration of the principles of romanticism? | show 🗑
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| show | L'Etranger
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| Which of the following is a "coming of age" novel that utilizes the concept of the anti-hero? | show 🗑
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| show | Whitman's " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed"
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| show | example of iambic pentameter
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| African-American playwrights who won awards and critical recognition for their plays in the 1920s | show 🗑
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| Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum New York Archeiect | show 🗑
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| show | Placing and applying body weight to one foot that is against the floor while sliding the other foot into fifth position
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| show | Weight proportioned incorrectly
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| fourth position crossed? | show 🗑
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| show | Harpsichord
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| A poem set to music is a(n) _____ | show 🗑
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| show | tenor
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| Which of the following well-known writers is famous for his verses about the struggle for Irish independence? | show 🗑
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| The idea of evolution is propounded by which of the following English writers? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following early American novels deals with the author's personal attempt to exorcise many of the negative aspects of his Puritan heritage? | show 🗑
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| show | Sons and lovers
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| show | Thoreau's Walden
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| show | A poem dialogue written for performance
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| show | an epic drama
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| The belief that a human being has an absolute power to choose his or her own destiny is a hallmark of | show 🗑
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| "Cyclopean" is a term which is often used to refer to the masonry building of which of the following civilizations? | show 🗑
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| show | An indubidable foundation for knowlege
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| Which analysis represents a through-composed form? | show 🗑
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| show | plainchant
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| show | Charles Ives
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| show | Tristram Shandy (Lawance Sterne)
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| show | Macbeth
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| In which of the following tales is a house presented as a personification of a family? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is a twentieth-century novel about the Wild West written in the tradition of realistic movement? | show 🗑
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| show | Wlat Whitman
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| show | The wild duck
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| Tartuffe is best described as a play about | show 🗑
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| An insula refers to a(n) | show 🗑
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| Berkeley's famous dictum, "Esse est percipi" ("To be is to be perceived"), is associated most strongly with the outlook known as | show 🗑
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| Which jazz saxophonist was named "Bird"? | show 🗑
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| show | John Coltrane
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| show | Rodeo
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| What novel of adventure presents the most detailed picture of eighteenth-century English manorial and city life? | show 🗑
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| show | Ruskin's Modern Painters
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| show | Dicken's David Copperfield
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| Which of the following writers participated energetically in the Celtic Revival of the eighteenth century? | show 🗑
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| show | Kafka's The Metamorphosis
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| The best definition for the original use of scapegoat is | show 🗑
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| show | Basilica
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| Dance was originated by | show 🗑
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| The logical fallacy involved in concluding that the universe itself must have a cause because every event in the universe has cause is | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Grainger
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| Which of the following is considered among the body of literature currently termed "American Ethnic"? | show 🗑
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| One of the most famous and prophetic descriptions of settlements in the young American nation was | show 🗑
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| show | Ralph Wllison's The Invisible Man
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| show | Jules Vern's Journey to the center of the eart
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| show | Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
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| show | Arnold's veneration of Wordsworth
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| Which of the following is one of the most hilarious stories in Huckleberry Finn — one which demonstrates both the accepting nature and eventual canniness of the heartland Americans? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following best defines the term bathos? | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats
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| show | A death of a Salesman
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| show | oculus meaning eye
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| show | Jazz Dance
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| show | Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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| show | pressing down a valve
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| What is another name for the bass clef? | show 🗑
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| One of the greatest modern chronicles of a famous incident during the Civil War is | show 🗑
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| show | Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
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| Which American classic is known for its comprehensive description of frontier families' lives in the Midwest during the nineteenth century? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is among the most famous of English works by the group of writers called the "Decadents"? | show 🗑
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| One of the greatest Diarists of the Restoration | show 🗑
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| show | Ralf Waldo Emerson
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