CLEP Humanities Test I with Correct Answers

lute most similar to --modern guitar quote from Hamlet --"O! what a noble mind is here overthrown: And I.. now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh..." quote that alludes to Lincoln's death --"Exult O shores and ring O bell! But I with mournful tread Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead." from a play by Tennessee Williams --"The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian fields and runs between the L and N tracks and the river" from a play by Anton Chekhov --"A room that is still called the nursery.. It is May , the cherry trees are in blossom, but i the orchard it is cold, with a morning frost." believed that tragedy causes the proper purgation of those emotions of pity and fear which it has aroused. Author and concept referred to are --Aristotle... catharsis. Picasso's closest musical contemporary --Igor Stravinsky satirizes 18th century doctrine "whatever is, is right" in this "best of all possible words" --Voltaire's Candide 2 fastest tempos in Mozart's Symphony in D major, No. 35 --I. Allegro con spirito, IV. Finale: presto setting for most of events in A Tale of Two Cities --France during the French revolution artists associated with this 19th century movement created images based on emotion, imagination, and the irrational --Romanticism Debussy and Renoir belong to which movement --Impressionist Giselle, La Bayadere, and Coppelia are all --ballets insists on necessity of living a simple, natural, individualistic life --Henry David Thoreau's Walden painting with girl on wheat field looking towards farm house --Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World not a percussion instrument --the harp percussion instruments --triangle, gong, tympani, cymbals famous portrait of George Washington created by --Gilbert Stuart group of novelists --Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Isabel Allende 2 artists who used striking light and dark contrasts are --Rembrandt van Rijn and Artemisia Gentileschi group of composers --Maurice Ravel, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet famous biographer and voluminous journal writer, author was one of most prolific in 18th century --James Boswell important structural innovation of Gothic architecture was use of --flying buttresses