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Question 1

The ziggurat was invented by which of the following ancient civilizations?

Mesopotamian

Egyptian

Persian

Achaemenid Empire

Question 2

Which of the following Medieval sagas includes a warrior hero who fights the monster Grendel?

Lancelot

Beowulf

Divine Comedy

Song of Roland

Question 3

Which of the following artists created the "Pietà"?

Leonardo da Vinci

Sandro Botticelli

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Raphael Sanzio

Question 4

If a poet were concerned about syntax, the poet would pay attention to which of the following?

Extravagant language

Symbolic language

Word order

The sounds of consonants

Question 5

A focus on immortality was an important part of which of the following ancient civilizations?

Mesopotamian

Egyptian

Persian

Achaemenid Empire

Question 6

Which of the following Renaissance thinkers explored the nature of political power and self-interest for rulers?

Dante

Machiavelli

Chaucer

Cervantes

Question 7

The following is an example of _________.

Pictorialism

Mannerism

Functionalism

Minimalism

Question 8

Which of the following architectural periods developed the use of flying buttresses?

Greek

Roman

Romanesque

Gothic

Question 9

Classical Greek plays were meant to elicit ___________ for their audience.

logos

eros

catharsis

hubris

Question 10

This structure was built in which architectural period?

Roman

Romanesque

Early Gothic

Late Gothic

Question 11

A _____________ is a long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically found in an opera or oratorio.

Rondo

Nocturne

Fugue

Aria

Question 12

Consider this stanza of poetry from Robert Burns ("A Red, Red Rose"):

O, my luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June.
O, my luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.

Which of the following strategies has Burns used in the stanza?

Simile

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Metonymy

Question 13

Which of the following is often considered the leading figure of the Renaissance?

Niccolò Machiavelli

Leonardo da Vinci

Sir Thomas More

Martin Luther

Question 14

Zoroastrianism flourished during which of the following historical periods?

Egypt's New Kingdom

Egypt's Old Kingdom

Old Babylonian Empire

Achaemenid Empire

Question 15

Which of the following structures is Gothic?

Question 16

Who wrote the early Christian book City of God?

Augustine of Hippo

the Apostle Peter

the Apostle Paul

Constantine I

Question 17

Which of the following describes a 14-line poem with a rhyming couplet at the end?

Lyric

Sonnet

Ode

Elegy

Question 18

A spontaneous, unstructured, creative, passionate reaction is considered ______________.

Apollonian

Dionysian

Utilitarian

Deontological

Question 19

Which of the following ancient rulers established the first written legal codes?

Hammurabi

Tutankhamun

Cyrus the Great

Darius the Great

Question 20

Music that is written in a way that avoids centering around a specific key is referred to as _________ music.

Tonal

Atonal

Harmonic

Symphonic

Question 21

Name the following Roman work of art.

Augustus of Prima Porta

Capitoline Brutus

Marcus Aurelius

Charioteer of Delphi

Question 22

Consider this line spoken by the title character in Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth: "Life's but a walking shadow." Which of the following strategies has Shakespeare used in this line?

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

Symbolism

Question 23

Which of the following ancient texts both featured an account of the creation of man and woman and the story of a worldwide flood?

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead and the Torah

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Torah

The Iliad and the Book of the Dead

Question 24

What does this painting, The Siege of Constantinople depict?

It depicts the siege of the city by Crusaders.

It depicts the siege of the city by Islamic forces.

It depicts the siege of the city by the Franks.

It depicts the siege of the city by the Moors.

Question 25

Name the following Gothic work of art.

Notre Dame de Chartres

Mont Saint-Michel

Speyer Cathedral

Notre Dame de Paris

Question 26

Geoffrey Chaucer authored which of the following Medieval works?

Beowulf

The Canterbury Tales

The Song of Roland

Lancelot

Question 27

Which of the following was Virgil's most influential work?

Iliad

Eclogues

Georgics

Aeneid

Question 28

Who wrote Commentaries on the Gallic War?

Cicero

Horace

Tacitus

Julius Caesar

Question 29

Which of the following artists created "The Birth of Venus"?

Leonardo da Vinci

Sandro Botticelli

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Raphael Sanzio

Question 30

The following two-dimensional image is an example of visual ____________.

Harmony

Symmetry

Texture

Focus

Question 31

The minuet is an example of _______________.

court dance

folkloric dance

ritual dance

a maypole dance

Question 32

Which of the following statements is false?

Muslim attempts to advance further into Western Europe were halted at the Battle of Tours in 732.

Muslims ruled parts of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula only for some 50 years.

Culture and science flourished during the Golden Age of Islam.

The Ottoman Turks ended the Byzantine Empire by conquering Constantinople.

Question 33

Which of the following sculptures is from the Renaissance?

Question 34

Which of the following describes iambic pentameter?

A 3-syllable foot occurring five times in a line.

A 2-syllable foot occurring four times in a line.

A 3-syllable foot occurring four times in a line.

A 2-syllable foot occurring five times in a line.

Question 35

What is the hero's journey also called?

the cycle of life

the collective unconscious

the monomyth

the denouement

Question 36

The Tower of Babel is credited to which of the following ancient civilizations?

Mesopotamian

Egyptian

Persian

Achaemenid Empire

Question 37

What period does this work of art come from?

Hellenistic Greece

Gothic

Romanesque

Renaissance

Question 38

In which of the following plays does the main character blind himself when he discovers the tragic fulfillment of a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother?

Aristophanes's The Frogs

Euripides's Medea

Sophocles's Oedipus the King

Aeschylus's Oresteia

Question 39

Which of the following plays by Shakespeare focuses on themes of jealousy and betrayal?

Macbeth

Othello

Love's Labor Lost

The Tempest

Question 40

Consider the following passage:

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

Who was it written by?

Sir Thomas More

Niccolò Machiavelli

William Shakespeare

Cervantes