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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
Jane Austen
renaissance
Eisenstein
2. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
William Shakespeare
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Picasso
gouche
3. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Edgar Allen Poe
dada school
Post and Lintel
Alexander Dumas
4. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Hestia/Vesta
Pearl Buck
Remington
Monet
5. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
William Blake
reliquary
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Cubism
6. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
flying buttress
Confucianism
Simone De Beauvoir
Macbeth
7. Mannerism painter
minuetto
El Greco
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Michelangelo
8. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Stravinsky
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Vermeer
Libretto
9. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
sculpture
Usonian
Flat
Neo-classic period
10. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Samuel Beckett
William Blake
Jonathan Swift
11. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Merry Wives of Windsor
Aubrey Beardsley
John Roebling
Didactic-ism
12. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Romanesque Style
E.E. Cummings
Buddhists
Rene Descartes
13. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Rembrandt
Eros/Cupid
14. Repititions of geometric lines
Taoism
Zeno
Book of Kells
American Indian Rugs
15. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
tragic figure
Thomas Edison
Othello
Plato
16. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Heraclitus
Picasso
Soliloquy
Mary McCarthy
17. The Starry Night
King Lear
Andrew Wyeth
Handel
Vincent van Gogh
18. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Mathew Brady
King Lear
Ares/Mars
Dactylic
19. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Herman Melville
Chopin
Socrates
20. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
tempura
Degas
Stoicism
Leo Tolstoy
21. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Doric
Merchant of Venice
sitar
Scrim
22. DNA of the song
Cervantes
Bronte Sisters
Eisenstein
Pentatonic Scale
23. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
renaissance
Jane Austen
Brussels tapestries
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
24. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Victor Hugo
Popular Transcendentalists
Poseidon/Neptune
The Pigeon House
25. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Heraclitus
Edvard Greig
Fauvism
26. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Degas
Henrik Ibsen
Alexander Dumas
Zeus/Jupiter
27. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Frank Lloyd Wright
Peter Paul Rubens
Mary Wollstonecraft
Federico Fellini
28. Two-foot line
Stephen Crane
Stravinsky
Libretto
Dimeter
29. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Stravinsky
Parmenides
Lorraine Hansberry
Masaccio
30. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
madrigal
Le Corbusier
Claude Debussy
31. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Picasso
Tchaikovsky
A long syllable
Christopher Marlowe
32. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Friedrich Nietzsche
Book of Durrow
Ernest Hemingway
Mozart and Richard Strauss
33. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
renaissance
Stephen Crane
Byzantine Style
34. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Atomists
Andrea Palladio
Macbeth
Edmund Spenser
35. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Mies van der Rohe
Hellenistic Period
Christopher Wren
bust
36. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
El Greco
Honore de Balzac
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Arthur Miller
37. The text of the opera
Issac Asimov
Tchaikovsky
The Pigeon House
Libretto
38. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Daniel Defoe
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Henry Dixon Cowell
Hagia Sophia
39. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Langston Hughes
tempura
multi-media
Fauvism
40. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Epicureans
Masaccio
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Pilgrim's Progress
41. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
barbara hepworth
Abstraction
Maia/Fauna
42. The Color Purple
King Lear
Delacroix
Alice Walker
Sitar
43. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Humanism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrea Palladio
Leo Tolstoy
44. Composer - conductor and pianist
Gothic age architecture
Johannes Brahms
Mannerism
Andre Previn
45. Short-Long
Mathew Brady
Iambic pattern
The Panthenon
Chartres Cathedral
46. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
multi-media
Henri Matisse
Frank Lloyd Wright
cellini
47. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Raphael
Maia/Fauna
Foot
48. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Stephen Foster
Ares/Mars
James Joyce
Issac Asimov
49. A dance
Handel
Lillian Gish
Anapestic Pattern
minuetto
50. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
John Locke
Merchant of Venice
Hexameter
Claude Debussy