Humanities CLEP Exam 2024:
Comprehensive Study Guide for Success
Which of the following is often a symbol of new life arising from death?
(A) A gorgon
(B) The minotaur
(C) A unicorn
(D) A griffin
(E) The phoenix - correct answer ✔✔E) Pheonix
He believed that tragedy causes the proper purgation of those emotions of pity and fear which it has
aroused.
The author and concept referred to in the sentence above are
(A) Plato . . . hubris
(B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . . . monad
(C) Aristotle . . . catharsis
(D) John Locke . . . tabula rasa
(E) Immanuel Kant . . . the categorical imperative - correct answer ✔✔C) Aristotale on Catharsis
Which describes Apollo?
(A) Son of Zeus and Hera, he is the god of fire and the forge.
(B) The god of revelry and wine, he later became the patron of the theater.
(C) His daughter was born full-grown from his forehead.
,(D) Euripides was the first to depict him with bow and arrow; in art, he was represented first as a youth
and later as a small child.
(E) He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty. - correct answer ✔✔E)
He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty
Which describes Dionysus?
(A) Son of Zeus and Hera, he is the god of fire and the forge.
(B) The god of revelry and wine, he later became the patron of the theater.
(C) His daughter was born full-grown from his forehead.
(D) Euripides was the first to depict him with bow and arrow; in art, he was represented first as a youth
and later as a small child.
(E) He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty. - correct answer ✔✔(B)
The god of revelry and wine, he later became patron of the theater.
A short narrative used to answer a difficult moral question or to offer a moral truth is called
(A) a parody
(B) a parable
(C) a satire
(D) a fable
(E) an allegory - correct answer ✔✔(B) a parable
Aristotle considered that only these two literary genres were worth of attention because they had a
mimetic or figurative relation with the world, as opposed to a diegetic or directly representative relation
(A) novel and short story
(B) epic poetry and opera
(C) comedy and soap-opera
(D) tragedy and epic poetry
,(E) lyric poetry and personal diary - correct answer ✔✔(D) tragedy and epic poetry
Socrates was ordered to drink hemlock because
(A) he had murdered someone
(B) he plagiarized Plato's works
(C) he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods
(D) he was considered immoral and a drunken
(E) B and C - correct answer ✔✔(C) he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods
These three Greek authors were historians
(A) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
(B) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
(C) Pericles, Anaximander, Leonidas
(D) Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus
(E) Titus Livius, Marcus Aurelius, Polibius - correct answer ✔✔(D) Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus
The philosopher that proposed the existence of a world of ideas truer than the world of material
appearance was
(A) Aristotle
(B) Locke
(C) Descartes
(D) Hume
(E) Plato - correct answer ✔✔(E) Plato
Classicism is defined by
(A) a profound belief in the existence of the gods
, (B) linearity of forms, simplicity, proportion and symmetry
(C) a proliferation of adornment
(D) a prevalence of sentiments over reason
(E) a search for identity in Greek philosophy - correct answer ✔✔(B) linearity of forms, simplicity,
proportion and symmetry
Oedipus Rex is a play by Sophocles in which
(A) Oedipus kills his mother
(B) Oedipus conquers Troy
(C) Jocasta marries her son
(D) Oedipus travels through the sea to reach his home
(E) Jocasta kills her husband in order to seize power - correct answer ✔✔(C) Jocasta marries her son
In the Iliad, Achilles kills Hector because
(A) the war between Greeks and Trojans had already lasted too much
(B) Hector had kidnapped Helen
(C) Hector had killed Achilles's friend Patroclus
(D) the Trojans were losing the war and needed a shocking victory
(E) the Trojans had the support of the goddess Aphrodite - correct answer ✔✔(C) Hector had killed
Achilles's friend Patroclus
Odysseus escaped from Polyphemus the cyclops
(A) by resisting the chant of the mermaids
(B) by marrying Calypso the nymph
(C) by telling him a different story every night
(D) by deceiving him and piercing his only eye
Comprehensive Study Guide for Success
Which of the following is often a symbol of new life arising from death?
(A) A gorgon
(B) The minotaur
(C) A unicorn
(D) A griffin
(E) The phoenix - correct answer ✔✔E) Pheonix
He believed that tragedy causes the proper purgation of those emotions of pity and fear which it has
aroused.
The author and concept referred to in the sentence above are
(A) Plato . . . hubris
(B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . . . monad
(C) Aristotle . . . catharsis
(D) John Locke . . . tabula rasa
(E) Immanuel Kant . . . the categorical imperative - correct answer ✔✔C) Aristotale on Catharsis
Which describes Apollo?
(A) Son of Zeus and Hera, he is the god of fire and the forge.
(B) The god of revelry and wine, he later became the patron of the theater.
(C) His daughter was born full-grown from his forehead.
,(D) Euripides was the first to depict him with bow and arrow; in art, he was represented first as a youth
and later as a small child.
(E) He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty. - correct answer ✔✔E)
He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty
Which describes Dionysus?
(A) Son of Zeus and Hera, he is the god of fire and the forge.
(B) The god of revelry and wine, he later became the patron of the theater.
(C) His daughter was born full-grown from his forehead.
(D) Euripides was the first to depict him with bow and arrow; in art, he was represented first as a youth
and later as a small child.
(E) He is the god of the sun, the patron of poetry, and the ideal of male beauty. - correct answer ✔✔(B)
The god of revelry and wine, he later became patron of the theater.
A short narrative used to answer a difficult moral question or to offer a moral truth is called
(A) a parody
(B) a parable
(C) a satire
(D) a fable
(E) an allegory - correct answer ✔✔(B) a parable
Aristotle considered that only these two literary genres were worth of attention because they had a
mimetic or figurative relation with the world, as opposed to a diegetic or directly representative relation
(A) novel and short story
(B) epic poetry and opera
(C) comedy and soap-opera
(D) tragedy and epic poetry
,(E) lyric poetry and personal diary - correct answer ✔✔(D) tragedy and epic poetry
Socrates was ordered to drink hemlock because
(A) he had murdered someone
(B) he plagiarized Plato's works
(C) he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods
(D) he was considered immoral and a drunken
(E) B and C - correct answer ✔✔(C) he questioned the existence and the authority of the gods
These three Greek authors were historians
(A) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
(B) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
(C) Pericles, Anaximander, Leonidas
(D) Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus
(E) Titus Livius, Marcus Aurelius, Polibius - correct answer ✔✔(D) Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus
The philosopher that proposed the existence of a world of ideas truer than the world of material
appearance was
(A) Aristotle
(B) Locke
(C) Descartes
(D) Hume
(E) Plato - correct answer ✔✔(E) Plato
Classicism is defined by
(A) a profound belief in the existence of the gods
, (B) linearity of forms, simplicity, proportion and symmetry
(C) a proliferation of adornment
(D) a prevalence of sentiments over reason
(E) a search for identity in Greek philosophy - correct answer ✔✔(B) linearity of forms, simplicity,
proportion and symmetry
Oedipus Rex is a play by Sophocles in which
(A) Oedipus kills his mother
(B) Oedipus conquers Troy
(C) Jocasta marries her son
(D) Oedipus travels through the sea to reach his home
(E) Jocasta kills her husband in order to seize power - correct answer ✔✔(C) Jocasta marries her son
In the Iliad, Achilles kills Hector because
(A) the war between Greeks and Trojans had already lasted too much
(B) Hector had kidnapped Helen
(C) Hector had killed Achilles's friend Patroclus
(D) the Trojans were losing the war and needed a shocking victory
(E) the Trojans had the support of the goddess Aphrodite - correct answer ✔✔(C) Hector had killed
Achilles's friend Patroclus
Odysseus escaped from Polyphemus the cyclops
(A) by resisting the chant of the mermaids
(B) by marrying Calypso the nymph
(C) by telling him a different story every night
(D) by deceiving him and piercing his only eye
