FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HUMANITIES CLEP PT1

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HUMANITIES CLEP PT1

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-Guarantee passing score -75 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: "Cyclopean" is a term which is often used to refer to the masonry building of which of the following civilizations?

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Mycenean

Question 2: Which jazz saxophonist was named "Bird"?

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Charlie Parker

Question 3: Which poet gave us the term "negative capability"?

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John Keats

Question 4: The predecessor of the modern-day piano is the _____

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Harpsichord

Question 5: A natural minor scale contains five whole steps and two half steps. Between which scale degrees do the half steps occur?

Answer:

2-3 and 5-6

Question 6: The fourth degree of a major scale is given what name?

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subdominant Question 7: Which of the following is considered among the body of literature currently termed "American Ethnic"?

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Roth's Goodbye Columbus

Question 8: fourth position crossed?

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One foot in front of the other while one step apart Question 9: In which of the following tales is a house presented as a personification of a family?

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Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables

Question 10: A poem set to music is a(n) _____

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art song or lieder Question 11: Known for its transcendentalist underpinnings, this early American work also emphasizes the importance of self-reliance.

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Thoreau's Walden Question 12: Descartes used his cogito argument ("I think; therefore, I am") to establish

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An indubidable foundation for knowlege

Question 13: 1800s minister who promoted a philisophical movement called transcendentalism

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Ralf Waldo Emerson Question 14: In ancient Egyptian architecture, the large sloping walls which flank the entrance to a temple complex are called pyramids.mastabas.tombs.pylons.obelisks.

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Pylons Question 15: African-American playwrights who won awards and critical recognition for their plays in the 1920s

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Zora Neale Hurston and Marita Bonner Question 16: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from an uneasy dream he found himself transformed into a gigantic insect.

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Kafka's The Metamorphosis

Question 17: Which of the following best defines the term bathos?

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An abrupt fall from beautiful to funny

Question 18: improper balance

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Weight proportioned incorrectly

Question 19: Which of the following novels recalls a time of medieval chivalry?

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Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe

Question 20: Which of the following is a twentieth-century novel about the Wild West written in the tradition of realistic movement?

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Clark's The Oxbow Incident Question 21: A reaction against utilitarianism - the theory of ethics formulated in England in the eighteenth century - can be seen in nineteenth-century literature, such as

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Dicken's David Copperfield Question 22: Which of the following nineteenth-century novels was used as an accurate travel guide well into this century?

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Jules Vern's Journey to the center of the eart Question 23: Which composer is best known for his technique of weaving favorite melodies, often patriotic, into his compositions?

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Charles Ives Question 24: play focuses on a marriage built on a lie and problems with eyesight?

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The wild duck Question 25: Which of the following is perhaps the most curious - even hilarious - novel written in the eighteenth century?

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Tristram Shandy (Lawance Sterne) Question 26: The belief that a human being has an absolute power to choose his or her own destiny is a hallmark of

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Existentialism