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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Kshatriyas
Parmenides
Bernini
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
2. God of War
Tyche/Fortuna
Charles Dickens
Ares/Mars
Gilbert Stuart
3. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Andrea Palladio
andante
Samuel Beckett
4. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
The Panthenon
sitar
Alfred Hitchcock
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
5. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Al Jolson
Pablo Picasso
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Neolithic
Macbeth
Rene Descartes
Mathew Brady
7. Spanish surrealist painter
Scott Joplin
oratorio
Humanism
Salvador Dali
8. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Neo-classic period
Zeus/Jupiter
mannerism
Andrea Palladio
9. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Personification
Henry Dixon Cowell
Barcelona Pavilion
Aristotle
10. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
tempura
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Rembrandt
D.W. Griffith
11. God of the Underworld and Death
Hades/Pluto
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Reliquary
Moral Philosophers
12. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Metaphor
Aubrey Beardsley
Josiah Wedgewood
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
13. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Niccolo Machiavelli
El Greco
14. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Peter Paul Rubens
pieta
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
15. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
bust
Bayeux tapestry
Mies van der Rohe
Zeus/Jupiter
16. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Heptameter
Hera/Juno
T.S. Eliot
French female pose
17. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Aristotle
Neo-classic period
Arthur Miller
Jean Fragonard
18. A dance
tragic figure
andante
Salvador Dali
minuetto
19. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
alexander calder
Mary Shelley
Mozart and Richard Strauss
presto
20. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Spondaic Pattern
multi-media
Soliloquy
21. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Andrew Wyeth
Martha Graham
Verdi and Puccini
Aphrodite/Venus
22. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Hagia Sophia
Aphrodite/Venus
Handel
Joan Miro
23. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Frank Lloyd Wright
fresco
Al Jolson
Personification
24. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Dimeter
minuetto
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ray Bradbury
25. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Existentialism
andante
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Hans-Georg Gadamer
26. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
Joan Miro
henry moore
William Blake
pop art
27. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Federico Fellini
Andrea Palladio
Georg W. F. Hegel
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
28. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Josiah Wedgewood
Parmenides
Hades/Pluto
hagia sophia
29. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Pilgrim's Progress
Arthur Miller
pieta
Donatello
30. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Seurat
gouche
Ernest Hemingway
31. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Simile
Johannes Brahms
Immanuel Kant
Merchant of Venice
32. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Gilbert Stuart
Picasso
Aaron Copeland
33. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
George Sand
tragic figure
Symbolism
Al Jolson
34. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Ghiberti
High Renaissance
Arthur Miller
sitar
35. Fast
Libretto
James Boswell
Raphael
presto
36. Painted 'The Bathers'
Johannes Brahms
Jean Fragonard
aside
Minimalist Music
37. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Federico Fellini
Othello
Samuel Beckett
Stephen Foster
38. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Epicureans
Pyrrhic Pattern
Issac Asimov
Mary Wollstonecraft
39. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Hamlet
Brussels tapestries
Handel
Eisenstein
40. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Bayeux tapestry
Persian Rugs
Josiah Wedgewood
41. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Gainsborough
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Edison
42. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Le Corbusier
barbara hepworth
Henri Matisse
43. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
oratorio
Simone De Beauvoir
French Romantic painter
William Blake
44. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Chloris/Flora
Monet
John Roebling
45. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Sand
gothic age architecture
Augustine Age
46. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Frank Lloyd Wright
New Orleans
Roman Basilica
Aphrodite/Venus
47. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
Andrew Wyeth
obelisk
Eugene O'Neil
Tetrameter
48. British abstract sculptor
Brahmans
King Lear
barbara hepworth
Stephen Foster
49. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Octometer
Hagia Sophia
Jules Verne
50. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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