Arts & Humanities: Question Mastery (23-D-QR-5,6,1) ****

In classical buildings, this horizontal band rested atop the columns. Name this architectural element consisting of an architrave [ARK-ih-treyv], frieze [FREEZE], and cornice.

• Entablature

• Pediment

• Balustrade

• Facade

This father-in-law of Richard Wagner [RIKH-ahrt VAHG-nuhr] was a child piano prodigy. He titled two symphonies for Faust and Dante and also wrote Transcendental Etudes. Name the Romantic composer

of Hungarian Rhapsodies.

• Franz Liszt

• Johannes Brahms

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It was believed that Apollo spoke through a prophet in his temple at this location. This place occupies a region on the south-western slope of Mount Parnassus, near a modern town of the same name.

What was this site of the Temple of Pythia, the most important ancient Greek oracle?

• Delphi

• Olympia

• Sparta

• Athens

This composer wrote "Living Room Music" for unspecified objects that can be found in a typical house. He used the I Ching to write his Music of Changes and completed five installments of his Imaginary

Landscape series. Identify the experimental composer of 4'33" [four minutes, thirty-three seconds].

• John Cage

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Igor Stravinsky

• Claude Debussy

This dramatist wrote a memory play based on the experiences of his mentally ill sister Rose. In that play, Tom Wingfield leaves home after his mother Amanda tries to set up his sister Laura with Jim

O'Connor. Who was this Southern playwright of The Glass Menagerie?

• Tennessee Williams

• Arthur Miller

• Eugene O'Neill

• August Wilson

This instrument's Brazilian cousin, the caxixi [kah-SHEE-shee], consists of a small wicker basket filled with seeds. Popular throughout Latin America, they were originally made from hollowed-out gourds.

What are these paired percussion instruments similar to rattles?

• Maracas

• Castanets

• Tambourines

• Cowbells

A person with this career may require help from a concertmaster. The job requires a person to interpret a musical score, decide on performance nuances, and lead other musicians. Give the name for the

director of an orchestra or choir.

• Conductor

• Musician

• Composer

• Arranger

Like African drumming music, this South American genre features polyrhythms and call and response. Multiple percussion instruments, including shakers, bells, and drums, play its syncopated

rhythms. Name this genre of music and dance that developed in the favelas of Brazil.

• Samba

• Reggae

• Calypso

• Merengue

This early 20th-century male ballet dancer could perform en pointe and execute high leaps. He starred in the Ballets Russes [bal-EY ROOS] premieres of Scheherazade [shuh-HAIR-uh-zod] and Petrushka

[puh-TROOSH-kuh]. Name this choreographer of The Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring.

• Vaslav Nijinksy

• Anna Pavlova

• Mikhail Baryshnikov

• George Balanchine

This man publicly broke with Catholicism by publishing Institutes of the Christian Religion. Shortly after, he established a theocracy in 16th-century Geneva, Switzerland. Name this Protestant Reformation

leader who emphasized predestination.

• John Calvin

• Martin Luther

• Henry VIII

• John Knox