Free Humanities CLEP Question and Answers

Question 1

Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty are all ballets by...

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Martha Graham

Question 2

What do the Peabody, the jitterbug, the foxtrot, and the mashed potato have in common?

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They are all popular American dances of the 1930s, 1940s or 1950s

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They are all types of ballroom dances

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They are all popular forms of dance in American musicals

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They are all types of folk dances

Question 3

Which is typically not the true with a symphony?

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The second movement is usually fast

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The first movement is usually in sonata form

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The third movement is in ternary form

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It has four movements

Question 4

Moderato, vivace, andante, and presto are some instances of

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Tempos

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Meters

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Intervals

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Rhythms

Question 5

Which displays the Western music history's eras in the proper order?

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Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th century

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Gregorian, Medieval, Renaissance, Classical, Opera, and 20th century

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Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Expressionist, and 20th century

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Gregorian, Medieval, Baroque, Classical, Expressionist, and Atonal

Question 6

Which two composers dominated opera in the 19th century?

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Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi

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Christoph Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Giacomo Puccini and Maurice Ravel

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Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten

Question 7

When did William Shakespeare, Josquin des Prez, and Giovanni Bellini all produce works?

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Renaissance

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Baroque

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Romantic

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Classical