NYSTCE CST 245 LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Tenth Amendment - ✔✔The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.
✔✔1828 (Indians) - ✔✔Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act: Forces removal of
Native Americans from Tennessee and other eastern states
✔✔1836 (Indians) - ✔✔Indian Removal Act continues - AKA Trail of Tears (Cherokees
forced from Georgia to Oklahoma
✔✔Christopher Columbus - ✔✔October 1492: He never discovered America; landed in
Caribbean because he wanted to find a different route to India; decimated the Indians
with diseases ; enslaved Natives to find gold - Genocide
✔✔Civil War (1861-1865) - ✔✔Deadliest war in American history; conflict between north
(union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from
Union; STATES RIGHTS to CONTINUE SLAVERY
✔✔Rene Magritte - ✔✔Belgium Artist, Use of proportions , surrealism
✔✔Gerogia O'Keefe - ✔✔American Artist, Uses ordinary objects like flowers and skulls
to abstract meaning - considered erotic
✔✔Andy Warhol - ✔✔An American commercial illustrator and artist famous for his
Campbell's soup painting. He was the founder of the pop-art movement, (1960s) which
like all other art movements in history reflected something back on the present society.
Known for repetition and bright colors; commentary on American Consumerism
✔✔Marc Chagall - ✔✔Jewish French Artist who often used personal interpretation of his
life inspired by his art
✔✔Surrealism - ✔✔An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and
fantastic unreal images
✔✔Vincent Van Gogh - ✔✔Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most
famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Paintings are often
landscapes and use of color and movement
✔✔Edgar Degas - ✔✔A nineteenth-century French painter and sculptor. Among his
preferred subjects were ballet dancers and scenes of cafe life.
, ✔✔Pablo Picasso - ✔✔a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric
shapes and overlapping planes
✔✔Jackson Pollock - ✔✔A twentieth-century American painter, famous for creating
abstract paintings by dripping or pouring paint on a canvas in complex swirls and
spatters.
✔✔Michelangelo - ✔✔(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and
architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the
sculpture of the biblical character David.
✔✔Leornardo Da Vinci - ✔✔He created the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. He would
observe the human body, take notes, and show them through his artwork. True
"Renaissance man", interested in how things worked.
✔✔Clef note - ✔✔A symbol indicating the pitch to be played. Usually a G clef or Bass
clef
✔✔Harmony - ✔✔Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the
background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord
progressions.
✔✔Key - ✔✔A system of notes or tones based and named after the key note
✔✔Measure - ✔✔The unit of measure where the beats on the lines of the staff are
divided up into two, three, four beats to a measure.
✔✔Melody - ✔✔a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.
✔✔Movement - ✔✔A separate section of a larger composition.
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency
✔✔Refrain - ✔✔A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔The element of music pertaining to time, played as a group of notes
into accented and unaccented beats
✔✔Scale - ✔✔Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending in a
song
✔✔Staff - ✔✔Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on
which musical notation is written.
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Tenth Amendment - ✔✔The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.
✔✔1828 (Indians) - ✔✔Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act: Forces removal of
Native Americans from Tennessee and other eastern states
✔✔1836 (Indians) - ✔✔Indian Removal Act continues - AKA Trail of Tears (Cherokees
forced from Georgia to Oklahoma
✔✔Christopher Columbus - ✔✔October 1492: He never discovered America; landed in
Caribbean because he wanted to find a different route to India; decimated the Indians
with diseases ; enslaved Natives to find gold - Genocide
✔✔Civil War (1861-1865) - ✔✔Deadliest war in American history; conflict between north
(union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from
Union; STATES RIGHTS to CONTINUE SLAVERY
✔✔Rene Magritte - ✔✔Belgium Artist, Use of proportions , surrealism
✔✔Gerogia O'Keefe - ✔✔American Artist, Uses ordinary objects like flowers and skulls
to abstract meaning - considered erotic
✔✔Andy Warhol - ✔✔An American commercial illustrator and artist famous for his
Campbell's soup painting. He was the founder of the pop-art movement, (1960s) which
like all other art movements in history reflected something back on the present society.
Known for repetition and bright colors; commentary on American Consumerism
✔✔Marc Chagall - ✔✔Jewish French Artist who often used personal interpretation of his
life inspired by his art
✔✔Surrealism - ✔✔An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and
fantastic unreal images
✔✔Vincent Van Gogh - ✔✔Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most
famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Paintings are often
landscapes and use of color and movement
✔✔Edgar Degas - ✔✔A nineteenth-century French painter and sculptor. Among his
preferred subjects were ballet dancers and scenes of cafe life.
, ✔✔Pablo Picasso - ✔✔a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric
shapes and overlapping planes
✔✔Jackson Pollock - ✔✔A twentieth-century American painter, famous for creating
abstract paintings by dripping or pouring paint on a canvas in complex swirls and
spatters.
✔✔Michelangelo - ✔✔(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and
architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the
sculpture of the biblical character David.
✔✔Leornardo Da Vinci - ✔✔He created the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. He would
observe the human body, take notes, and show them through his artwork. True
"Renaissance man", interested in how things worked.
✔✔Clef note - ✔✔A symbol indicating the pitch to be played. Usually a G clef or Bass
clef
✔✔Harmony - ✔✔Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the
background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord
progressions.
✔✔Key - ✔✔A system of notes or tones based and named after the key note
✔✔Measure - ✔✔The unit of measure where the beats on the lines of the staff are
divided up into two, three, four beats to a measure.
✔✔Melody - ✔✔a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.
✔✔Movement - ✔✔A separate section of a larger composition.
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency
✔✔Refrain - ✔✔A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔The element of music pertaining to time, played as a group of notes
into accented and unaccented beats
✔✔Scale - ✔✔Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending in a
song
✔✔Staff - ✔✔Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on
which musical notation is written.
