Humanities 2

Question 1

Which of the following is a “coming of age” novel that utilizes the concept of the anti-hero?

Answer 1

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Question 2

Of the following poems, which is known as one of the most poignant elegies to President Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 2

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Walt Whitman

Question 3

What does assonance in poetry mean?

Answer 3

repetition of vowel sounds in a single line of poetry. Example: “Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death”

Question 4

What does iambic pentameter mean?

Answer 4

Refers to meter, or rhythm, of a line of poetry composed of five feet, or iambs, having on unstressed and one stressed syllable for a total of 10 syllables. Example: “For SHADE to SHADE will COME too DROWsily”

Question 5

Who are African-American playwrights who won awards and critical recognition for their plays in the 1920’s?

Answer 5

Zora Neale Hurston and Marita Bonner

Question 6

A well-made play is characterized by what?

Answer 6

a tight and logical construction, a plot based on a withheld secret, a misplaced letter and documents, a obligatory scene.

Question 7

A well-made play must have all but?

Answer 7

an episodic structure.

Question 8

Frank Lloyd Wright was the original architect/designer for which of the following twentieth-century museums?

Answer 8

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Question 9

In ballet, what does glissade mean?

Answer 9

Placing and applying body weight to one foot that is against the floor while sliding the other foot into fifth position.

Question 10

In ballet, what does pas de chat mean?

Answer 10

quick springing movement that resembles a cat walk by alternating feet

Question 11

In ballet, what does fourth position crossed mean?

Answer 11

positioning one foot in front of the other while the feet remain one step apart

Question 12

In ballet, what is it called when weight is proportioned incorrectly, creating the body to shift and lean in that direction?

Answer 12

improper balance

Question 13

In ballet, what is it called when one left leg lifted at a 45-degree angle rotating from front to outer side, from back to inner side?

Answer 13

demi rond de jambe

Question 14

The predecessor of the modern-day piano is called?

Answer 14

harpischord

Question 15

A poem set to music is an?

Answer 15

art song

Question 16

A high male voice is classified as?

Answer 16

tenor

Question 17

A high female voice is classified as?

Answer 17

soprano

Question 18

The lowest male voice is classified as?

Answer 18

bass

Question 19

A medium female voice is classified as?

Answer 19

alto

Question 20

What is the range of voice between tenor and bass?

Answer 20

baritone

Question 21

Which of the following well-known writers is famous for his verses about the struggle for Irish independence?

Answer 21

W.B. Yeats. Examples of work: In the Seven Woods and The Green Helmet and Other Poems

Question 22

Which of the following early American novels deals with the author’s personal attempts to exorcise many of the negative aspects of his Puritan heritage?

Answer 22

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter

Question 23

Though once condemned as indecent and controversial, this modern English autobiographical novel is now acclaimed for its originality?

Answer 23

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Question 24

Known for its transcendentalist underpinnings, this early American work also emphasizes the importance of self-reliance?

Answer 24

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Question 25

In architecture, what is a cantilever?

Answer 25

rigid stone structure fixed at one end and free at the other

Question 26

In architecture, which material was used to build in the medieval times?

Answer 26

stone masonry and mortar

Question 27

In William Blake's poem The Sick Rose, what is the poem about?

Answer 27

A woman losing her virginity and beauty

Question 28

In poetry, what does personification mean?

Answer 28

an object or emotion has been made into a person with human attributes. It is easily detected because the personified word is often capitalized.

Question 29

In poetry, what does alliteration mean?

Answer 29

a device that repeats the initial consonants, or vowels, as in "crowing cocks" or "weeping widows"

Question 30

What does onomatopoeia mean?

Answer 30

verbs that sound like action: ooze, hiss, swish

Question 31

What does assonance mean?

Answer 31

repeats the vowel sounds in a line or sentence: unmoved, another, approved

Question 32

Poetic drama is best described as?

Answer 32

a poem in dialogue written for performance

Question 33

The Threepenny Opera is best described as?

Answer 33

an epic drama by Bertolt Brecht. It was based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Question 34

In drama, what does historification mean?

Answer 34

use of material drawn from other times and places, which allows the audience to view the performance in a detached manner.

Question 35

The belief that a human being has an absolute power to choose his or her own destiny is the hallmark of?

Answer 35

Existentialism. "existence over essence" which means that what one becomes is a matter of choice and not something usually called "human nature". The opposite of essentialism.

Question 36

What is a distinctive American philosophy that the worth of an idea is its "cash value" or power to solve a problem?

Answer 36

Pragmatism

Question 37

What is the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism.

Answer 37

Marxism

Question 38

Cyclopean is a term which is often used to refer to the masonry building of which of the following civilizations?

Answer 38

Mycenean. The Ancient Greeks, upon viewing the massive masonry blocks used by the Mycenean construction, believed that they could have only been place by giants.

Question 39

Descartes used his cogito argument, "I think, therefore I am" to establish what?

Answer 39

an indubitable foundation for knowledge.

Question 40

Which analysis represents a through-composed form?

Answer 40

ABCDE In music theory of musical form, through-composed music is relatively continuous, non-sectional, or non-repetitive music. A song is said to be through-composed if it has different music for each stanza of the lyrics. This is in contrast to strophic form, in which each stanza is set to the same music.

Question 41

What does open structure mean in music?

Answer 41

AB, binary form, that starts in the tonic key and may modulate before the end

Question 42

Which of the following can be a synonym for Gregorian chant?

Answer 42

plainchant. It's monophonic vocal music, which was primarily used in church.

Question 43

What is a polyphonic vocal composition used in church music for two or more voices?

Answer 43

motet

Question 44

what is imitated polyphonic vocal composition consisting of two or more voices?

Answer 44

a canon

Question 45

what is a vocal solo with accompaniment found in larger composition called?

Answer 45

aria

Question 46

What is imitative polyphony with variations called?

Answer 46

fugue

Question 47

Which composer is best known for his technique of weaving favorite melodies, often patriotic, into his compositions?

Answer 47

Charles Ives

Question 48

Which composer popularized patriotic marches?

Answer 48

Sousa

Question 49

Which composer explored primitivism and tonalities?

Answer 49

Stravinsky

Question 50

Which is perhaps the most curious - even hilarious - novel written in the eighteenth century?

Answer 50

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern