Humanities

Front 1

Match the museum with the city.

Amsterdam

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Rijksmuseum

The museum is famous for its Dutch paintings and drawings.

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Match the museum with the city.

Madrid

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Prado

The Prado has priceless masterpieces from the Spanish, Flemish, and Venetian schools.

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Match the museum with the city.

Florence

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Uffizi

It houses the state archives of Tuscany and the Uffizi Gallery, one of the richest art collections in the world. It was damaged in 1993 by a car bomb.

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Match the museum with the city.

Paris

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Louvre

The building was originally a royal fortress. A new entrance complex beneath the main courtyard, designed by I. M. Pei and crowned by a glass pyramid, opened in 1989.

Front 5

Who set Stéphane Mallarmé's poem "The Afternoon of a Faun" to music?

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Claude Debussy

Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" is a tone poem intended to be an impression of Mallarmé's poem. Debussy intended to write a set of three pieces based on this poem, but only the first was composed.

Front 6

Match the country in the answer choices below with this author:

Nadine Gordimer

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South Africa

Nadine Gordimer's novels are often bleak studies of South African life. In 1991, Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Match the country in the answer choices below with this author:

Sholom Aleichem

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Russia

Sholom Aleichem was a Russian Yiddish writer, perhaps best known for his humorous novels and stories of life among poor and oppressed Russian Jews.

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Match the country in the answer choices below with this author:

Franz Kafka

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Germany

Franz Kafka was a German novelist and short-story writer, born to a Jewish family in Prague. Kafka presents a world at once real and dreamlike, in which modern people, burdened with guilt, isolation, and anxiety, make a futile search for personal salvation.

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Match the country in the answer choices below with this author:

Ivan Turgenev

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Russia

Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist. His literary masterpiece is Fathers and Sons.

Front 10

Fred Astaire's dancing partner in his most popular movies was

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Ginger Rogers.

Although Fred Astaire had many partners throughout his career, Ginger Rogers appeared with him in most of his movies and is known as his most popular partner.

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The Greek poet famous for singing the praises of Olympic victors was

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Pindar.

Pindar is generally regarded as the greatest Greek lyric poet. He wrote choral lyrics and established a standard for the triumphal or epinician ode.

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Who wrote Catcher in the Rye?

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J. D. Salinger, with pathos and humor, depicts the individual caught in a banal, restricting world.

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Pazzi Chapel

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was designed by the architect Brunelleschi in the early 1400s.

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Michelangelo

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Michelangelo was an active sculptor, painter, and architect during the High Renaissance (1490-1520)

Moses
Sistine Chapel
Medici tombs
David

Front 15

Which pair of lovers is involved in Dante's Inferno?

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Paola and Francesca

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a memoir of World War I?

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Goodbye to All That—Robert Graves

Front 17

Match the poet from the answer choices below with the following poem:

"Lyrics of Lowly Life"

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Paul Dunbar

Front 18

Match the poet from the answer choices below with the following poem:

"Howl"

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Allen Ginsberg

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The size of the standard orchestra was expanded to its present size in order to play the music of which composer?

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven and other composers of the l800s assisted in the reorganization of the orchestra. Composers during the Romantic period possessed a greater understanding of the instruments and the subtleties that could be achieved. The Romantic period offered more change in composition.

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When there are several simultaneous lines or voices in a piece of music, it is called

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counterpoint

Counterpoint is commonly used to mean a combination of several simultaneous lines or voices in a composition.

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NOT true about "Job"?

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The Lord appeared in a whirlwind and killed him.

The book of Job in the Old Testament discusses, in dialogue or dramatic form, the problem of good and evil in the world. The ethical problem of the book is not explicitly resolved; rather, the author intended to criticize a philosophy that associated sin with the sufferer.

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Blowin in the Wind was written by

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Bob Dylan

Dylan, an American singer and composer, was born in Duluth, Minnesota, as Robert Zimmerman.

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This term applies to sculpture that naturally shows the weight of the body resting on one hip:

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contrapposto

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The first choreographer to put authentic African and Afro-Caribbean ethnic dance on the concert stage was

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Katherine Dunham.

Katherine Dunham, a dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist, established the Katherine Dunham Dancers to showcase African and Afro-Caribbean dance. She also established a technique for its study.

Front 25

Which novel by William Faulkner was NOT set in his mythical southern country?

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A Fable

Faulkner, born in New Albany, Mississippi, explored the loss of traditional values and the decay and anguish of the post-Civil War South, using the imaginary Yoknapatawpha county as a microcosm of Southern life. But A Fable is set in the trenches of World War I.

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H. C. Earwicker is the major figure in which of James Joyce's works?

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Dubliners

Perhaps the major twentieth-century writer in English, Joyce was a master of language, exploiting its total resources. Educated in Dublin Jesuit schools, after 1902 he lived on the Continent, returning to Ireland only briefly.

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American poet, while living in London during World War I, launched the careers of James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost?

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound, one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century poetry, left the United States for Europe, eventually settling in England. There he led the "Imagists" before founding "Vorticism," and there he encouraged and influenced other writers

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The play Phaedra, based on the original by Euripides, was written by the seventeenth-century French classicist

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Jean Racine.

Racine is the prime exemplar of French Classicism.

Front 29

Match the performer with his instrument.

Piano

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Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Horowitz was a Russian-American virtuoso pianist.

Front 30

Match the performer with his instrument.

Organ

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E. Power Biggs

E. Power Biggs was an American organist, born in England.

Front 31

Match the performer with his instrument.

Lute

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Julian Breem

Breem has brought the lute into renown by popularizing an older form of strings.

Front 32

Which English author wrote Homage to Catalonia, about his experiences in Spain during the Spanish Civil War?

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George Orwell

Orwell is a great observer of the human condition and society.

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The Beggar's Opera was written by

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John Gay

The Beggar's Opera was a parody based on a series of parallels between high life and low life in London, as well as a parody of Italian opera, using familiar English tunes instead of operatic arias. Gay wrote this, based on a suggestion of Swift.

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Which of these films starred Marion Morrison?

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The Quiet Man

Since John Wayne's death, this film has received an overwhelming amount of attention. It is one of the few films of "The Duke" that is set neither in the American West nor during a war; it is set in Ireland.

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Toni Morrison

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The author of Beloved has written about both the human condition among African Americans and women. Her insight into the human heart brought her the Nobel Prize in 1993.

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What seas what shores what gray rocks and what islands
What water lapping the bow
What scent of pine and woodthrush singing through the fog
What images return
O my daughter

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T. S. Eliot

This is a quotation from Eliot's poem "Marina."

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Thou still unravished bride of quietness

Thou foster child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme.

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John Keats

This is a quotation from Keats's poem '"Ode on a Grecian Urn."

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That's my last duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder

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Robert Browning

This is a quotation from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess."

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O, Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is a quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind.

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Who became the chief interpreter of Christianity after his sudden conversion on the road to Damascus?

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Saul of Tarsus

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Which painter broke away from Impressionism to experiment in his paintings with the basic geometric shapes of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere?

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Paul Cézanne

Like other Post-Impressionist painters, Cézanne possessed a unique style which is hard to classify despite its Impressionist roots.

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What is the architectural order of the Parthenon?

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Doric

The plain capital and baseless columns are found in the Doric order of architecture.

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The main theme of Virgil's Aeneid is

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Aeneas's struggle to establish the Roman race.

The story was self-serving for Romans, who saw Destiny and Fate establishing the Roman Empire in the entire world.

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Peter Paul Rubens is renowned for his

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huge court paintings

Rubens painted for many of the royal families in Europe, but his most famous series was probably the group of biographical paintings done for France's Marie de' Medici.