ClepHumanities.pdf - CLEP Humanities Time—45 Minutes 73 Questions Section 1: Literature Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below

CLEP Humanities Time—45 Minutes73 Questions Section 1: Literature Directions:Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case. 1.The first humanist philosophers were concerned with defining what the limits of human knowledge were. They were called

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1 Copyright © 2010Peterson'sCLEP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this product.3.The Iliad, by Homer, takes place during the

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2.Which of the following plays was NOT by Aristophanes?

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CLEP Humanities 4. Which of the following was NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe? (A)The Raven (B)The Count of Monte Cristo (C)The Fall of the House of Usher (D)The Tell-Tale Heart (E)The Pit and the Pendulum

5. Match the line(s) with the author. “Call me Ishmael.”

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6."Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing." These words can be attributed to

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7. "Education does not make a man good; it only makes him clever—usually for mischief. Instinct and feeling are more trustworthy than reason." Which philosopher wrote these words?

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CLEP Humanities 3 Copyright © 2010Peterson'sCLEP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this product.8. Match the play with the following post-1960 playwright: David Rabe (A)The Tooth of the Crime (B)America Hurrah (C)The House of Blue Leaves (D)Balm in Gilead (E)Sticks and Bones 9. Match the definition with the name of the literary form. a legend, a way of people explaining why things are (A)Epic (B)Picaresque novel (C)Myth (D)Historical novel (E)Novella