CLEP Humanities

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You are about to start our Humanities CLEP course. This quiz practice will prove your prowess in Literature and the Arts, and help you successfully pass the exam. We will help you by providing an equally rigorous practice exam course that simulates what you will experience on exam day. First, lets break down what you will find on the exam.

CLEP Humanities Practice

Welcome to the CLEP Humanities Quiz. These tests are grouped into several sections to make your study easier. The sections include the following:

Literature - Drama

- Part one of the Humanities test. Basic Literature/Drama concepts: literary passages, authors, and their works.

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Time Required
1 hour
Tools
None

Literature - Poetry

- Part two of the Humanities test. Concepts include: literary passages, authors, and their works.

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Time Required
1 hour
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None

Literature - Fiction

- Part three of the Humanities test. Concepts include: literary passages, authors, and their works.

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Time Required
2 hours
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None

Literature - Nonfiction

- Part four of the Humanities test. Concepts include: literary passages, authors, and their works.

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Time Required
1 hour
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None

The Arts - Visual arts: painting, sculpture, etc.

- Part five of the Humanities test. Concepts include: artists, their works, and their history.

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Time Required
1 hour
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None

The Arts - Visual arts: architecture

- Part six of the Humanities test. Concepts include: architects, their works, styles, and place in history.

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Time Required
1 hour
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None

The Arts - Performing arts: music

- Part seven of the Humanities test. Concepts include: Music history, instruments, composition, etc.

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Time Required
1 hour
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None

The Arts - Performing arts: film, dance, etc

- Part eight of the Humanities test. Concepts include: composition, artists, directors, performers, and their history.

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Time Required
1 hour
Tools
None

Simulated Humanities Exam

This is a full length simulated CLEP exam providing a similar experience to the the actual College Board Humanities exam. This timed CLEP exam is geared to prepare you for the pace and format that you'll need to succeed. Use it to test your knowledge while getting as close as you can to the real-life conditions of the exam.

Resources
Time Required
90 Minutes
Questions
140

Humanities Resources

Read the Humanities exam description.

Textbooks

  • Barnet and Bedau, Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument (Bedford/St. Martin's)
  • Bishop and Strickland, The Subject Is Writing: Essays by Teachers and Students (Boynton/Cook)
  • Bullock, The Norton Field Guide to Writing (W.W. Norton)
  • Eschholz and Rosa, Subject and Strategy: A Writer's Reader (Bedford/St. Martin's)
  • Graff and Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Persuasive Writing (W.W. Norton)
  • Hacker, A Writer's Reference (Bedford/St. Martin's)

Online Resources