Humanities CLEP Exam 2023/2024

During the Hellenic Period the great center of Greek culture was located at --Athens The Romantic Period of literature gave birth to a special kind of horror story, the -- Gothic novel A painter noted for his scenes of the American West was --Fredrick Remington Which item does NOT belong in the following group? - Intuition - Formal science - Deductive thinking - Empirical knowledge - A priori knowledge --Intuition The American poet who wrote such works as Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and The Santa Fe Trail was --Vachel Lindsay The Globe Theater - Was built in 1599 - Depended on natural lighting - Was closed on all sides but open on top - Had a stage that extended into the audience area - All of the above --All of the above Most jazz has a standard form of --Theme and variation A single melody with subordinate harmony demonstrates --homophonic texture A Roman writer of comedy was --Plautus "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." is the opening line of: --"Sonnets from the Portuguese" "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." The poem from which the line is taken was written by: --Elizabeth Barrett Browning The authors of the U.S. Constitution drew most heavily from the work of a seventeenth-century English philosopher, particularly from his Two Treatises on Government. The philosopher's name is: --John Locke "Through pity and fear, [tragedy] achieves the purgation of such emotions." This passage from Aristotle's Poetics describes: --Catharsis Which of the following lists the instrumentation of a classical string quartet? --Two violins, viola, and a cello Statues of Buddha usually depict him --Seated in the lotus position Loveliest of Trees Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing whit for Eastertide. Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. How many years old is the narrator of this poem? --20 Loveliest of Trees Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing whit for Eastertide. Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. At what time of year does the poem take place? --Spring Loveliest of