Wgu C100 Questions

Front 1

Which of the following describes iambic pentameter?

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

Front 2

Geoffrey Chaucer authored which of the following Medieval works?

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The Canterbury Tales

Front 3

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

Front 4

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

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Sonnet

Front 5

A Woman singing against orchestral background is an example of a(n) __________________.

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Aria

Front 6

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

Back 6

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Front 7

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.

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Front 8

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

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Simile

Front 9

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

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Word order

Front 10

Consider the following passage:

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Front 11

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

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Front 12

Who was it written by?

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William Shakespeare

Front 13

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

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Machiavelli

Front 14

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

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Othello

Front 15

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

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Mesopotamian

Front 16

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

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Gothic

Front 17

What is the hero's journey also called?

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the monomyth

Front 18

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

Back 18

Hammurabi

Front 19

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

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Mesopotamian

Front 20

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

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Leonardo da Vinci

Front 21

Which of the following was the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation?

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Martin Luther

Front 22

Who wrote Commentaries on the Gallic War?

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Julius Caesar

Front 23

Who wrote the early Christian book City of God?

Back 23

Augustine of Hippo

Front 24

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:

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...

Front 25

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys

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Front 26

The preceding is most probably an excerpt from which of the following?

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Metaphysical poem from the 17th century

Front 27

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?

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Sophocles's Oedipus the King

Front 28

What poetic device is used in the following lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest?

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Front 29

Hark, hark.
Bow-wow!
The watch-dogs bark.
Bow-wow!
Hark, hark, I hear
The strain of strutting Chanticleer
Cry, "cock-a-diddle-dow!"

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Onomatopoeia

Front 30

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

Back 30

Beowulf

Front 31

Which of the following novels is often cited for exploring themes of existentialism?

Back 31

The Stranger

Front 32

Which of the following novels has as its central theme a black man's search for identity and place in New York in the 1930s?

Back 32

Invisible Man

Front 33

Which of the following plays deals with the AIDS epidemic in the United States and its impact on the gay community and society at large?

Back 33

Angels in America

Front 34

The design of the Chrysler Building is an example of what 20th century art movement?

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Art Deco

Front 35

The Categorical Imperative was advanced by which of the following Enlightenment thinkers?

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Immanuel Kant

Front 36

Naturalism in literature and the visual arts is an extension of which art movement?

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Realism

Front 37

Which of the following artists was known as the leader of Pop Art?

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Andy Warhol

Front 38

Rallying, patriotic lyrics are most important for which of the following musical forms?

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American War Songs

Front 39

Which of the following 19th century authors was known for his humorous treatment of realistic themes?

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Mark Twain

Front 40

Which of the following is a group of Modernist playwrights?

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Lorraine Hansberry, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett

Front 41

Which of the following 20th century poets wrote the countercultural poem "Howl"?

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Allen Ginsberg

Front 42

Which of the following Modernist composers is best known for his atonal music?

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Arnold Schoenberg

Front 43

Please read the following paragraph.

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Front 44

Anna Sergeyevna, too, came in. She sat down in the third row, and when Gurov looked at her his heart contracted, and he understood clearly that for him there was in the whole world no creature so near, so precious, and so important to him; she, this little woman, in no way remarkable, lost in a provincial crowd, with a vulgar lorgnette in her hand, filled his whole life now, was his sorrow and his joy, the one happiness that he now desired for himself, and to the sounds of the inferior orchestra, of the wretched provincial violins, he thought how lovely she was. He thought and dreamed.

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Front 45

It is most probably an excerpt from which of the following?

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Short story by a 19th century Realist

Front 46

The Gates, an artwork placed in New York's Central Park, was an example of _________.

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Postmodern environmental art

Front 47

Which of the following deals with the dangers involved in man's unchecked pursuit of knowledge?

Back 47

Goethe's Faust

Front 48

Which of the following paintings employed a monochromatic palette to emphasize horror and shock?

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Pablo Picasso's Guernica

Front 49

Which of the following songs became the anthem of the American civil rights movement?

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"We Shall Overcome"

Front 50

Which Modernist work of literature does the following passage come from?

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Front 51

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect."

Back 51

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

Front 52

George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique (1924) is an example of which Modernist music movement?

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Futurism

Front 53

Which of the following 17th century authors sought to "justify the ways of God to man" in his long poem?

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John Milton

Front 54

Pip, Uriah Heep, and Fagin are characters created by:

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Charles Dickens