Need advice on Clep Humanities & Dantes HRM

[DaddyO]

Hey all,

Taking Dantes HRM on saturday, thinking about following up in a couple of wks with Humanities. Any advice????

Thanks

[snazzlefrag]

Originally Posted by DaddyO

Hey all,

Taking Dantes HRM on saturday, thinking about following up in a couple of wks with Humanities. Any advice????

Thanks

Hi DaddyO,

Instantcert alone is sufficient for HRM. Study it well and you will pass with a knowing smile!


Humanities is a strange creature! The questions are not difficult at all....but the exam covers a LOT of information. Pack in as much exposure to famous painters, composers, architects, authors, poets, sculptors, and playwrights, as possible. Try to memorize their names, their most famous works, and what period/era they are related to. Know the main characters in Shakespeare's most famous plays. Also, know some of the basic literary terms for good measure.

Eg, You'll need to know lots of general knowledge factoids like:

Michelangelo painted the Cistine Chapel.
Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress.
Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata.
Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina.
Picasso was a Cubist painter.
Rembrandt was a Baroque painter.
Verdi and Puccini both composed Romantic period operas.
Degas, Renoir, Monet, and Manet were all Impressionist painters.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby.
Othello was a tragedy.
Twelfth Night was a comedy.

I made msyelf a huge study chart which covered WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN....and then memorized it!

Eg, Here are a few random excerpts from my master study chart:

Milton - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
James Joyce - Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
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Merry Wives of Windsor - (Comedy) Falstaff, TWO wives, Shallow and Slender (drinking buddies)
Tempest - (Comedy) Prospero, Ferdinand, Miranda, Caliban (slave), Ariel (sprite)
Twelfth Night - (Comedy) Viola/Cesario, Olivia, Malvolio, Orsino, Sebastian
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - (Comedy) Proteus, Valentine...in love with Silvia
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Renaissance - da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli (calm, simple faces)
Mannerism - El Greco (more detailed, rejected perfectionism, "warts 'n all")
Baroque - Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt (dramatic, emotion and movement, often religious theme)
Romantic - Millet, Delacroix, Constable, Goya (nature, the past, melodramatic, tragic)
Impressionist - Degas, Renoir, Monet (candid glimpses, effects of different light on the same painting)
Post-impressionist - Cezanne, Van Gogh, Modigliani
Fauvism - Matisse (extreme colors)
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Bach - (Baroque...Counterpoint) Toccata and Fugue, Brandenburg Concertos, Well-Tempered Clavier
Vivaldi - (Baroque) The Four Seasons
The Pavane and the Polonaise - court dances.
Mozart - (Classical) Magic Flute, Cossi fan Tutte (remember Saliere)
Joseph Haydn - (Classical) Surprise Symphony (he taught Beethoven and Mozart)
Richard Strauss - (Romantic) Don Juan, Also Sprach Zarathustra
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Serge Diaghilev - Ballet Russe
Martha Graham - Ballet dancer. She is remembered as the “mother of dance.”
Danilova - Prima Ballerina in the Ballet Russe
Champion and Tharp - Choreographers
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Apollo - (Greek) God of Shepherds and Muses
Dionysus - (Greek) God of wine and fertility
Poseidon - (Greek) God of the sea
Mercury - (Roman) God of speed
Vulcan - (Roman) God of Fire and Crafts
Neptune - (Roman) God of the sea

The more you know, the better you will do. This exam is all about MEMORIZING facts.

Study WIDE rather than DEEP for this one.

Best of luck on both exams,
Snazzlefrag

[sgloer]

Originally Posted by snazzlefrag

Hi DaddyO,

Eg, Here are a few random excerpts from my master study chart:

NICE! At this rate, I'm going to have to come up with a rank above Champion...

[snazzlefrag]

Originally Posted by sgloer

NICE! At this rate, I'm going to have to come up with a rank above Champion...

Congratulations Steve,

It's a sure sign that you have a flourishing and successful message board on your hands!

[DaddyO]

Hey

Thanks for the info most appreciated. I will take your advice. Will post scores when they come in.

Thanks Again.