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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Lillian Gish
Alfred Hitchcock
Serge Diaghilev
Hamlet
2. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Henrik Ibsen
Book of Kells
3. 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.
Symbolism
Scott Joplin
Verdi and Puccini
Samuel Beckett
4. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
King Lear
American Indian Rugs
Hera/Juno
5. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Trimeter
Alliteration
Renoir
Merchant of Venice
6. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
obelisk
Renoir
Eugene Delacroix
7. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Pythagoras
Chopin
James Joyce
8. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Salvador Dali
Rembrandt
Christopher Wren
Donatello
9. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
Alfred Hitchcock
James Joyce
Frank Lloyd Wright
10. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Thales
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Martin Heidegger
The Iliad
11. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
James Boswell
Vincent van Gogh
George Sand
Stephen Foster
12. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Atomism
T.S. Eliot
Rembrandt
tempura
13. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Neoclassicism
Bayeux tapestry
Ghiberti
flying buttress
14. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
flying buttress
Persian Rugs
Mozart and Richard Strauss
15. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Mark Twain
Picasso
Cervantes
scrim
16. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Leo Tolstoy
Honore de Balzac
Eugene O'Neil
Herman Melville
17. French 20th century architect
Le Corbusier
Aaron Copeland
Issac Asimov
Guggenheim Museum
18. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Aristotle
El Greco
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Impressionism
19. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Cubism
Simone De Beauvoir
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Arthur Miller
20. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Andrew Wyeth
Socrates
Macbeth
21. Five-foot line
Pentameter
Trimeter
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Kronos/Saturn
22. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Sitar
Eugene Delacroix
Heraclitus
23. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
aside
scrim
Guggenheim Museum
William Faulkner
24. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jean Fragonard
mannerism
Issac Asimov
25. 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
Joseph Conrad
Merry Wives of Windsor
Ghiberti
Charles Dickens
26. Short-Short
Pavane and the Polonaise
Pyrrhic Pattern
Hamlet
Greek Doric
27. French impressionist painter
Trompe l'oeil
Monet
Richard Sheridan
Renoir
28. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Ray Bradbury
Frank Gehry 1929
Aristotle
Buddhists
29. Goddess of Love and Beauty
tragic figure
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Aphrodite/Venus
Stravinsky
30. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
renaissance
Henry Dixon Cowell
Renoir
Versailles
31. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Augustine Age
Vaishyas
dada school
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
32. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Arthur Miller
James Boswell
The Iliad
Corinthian
33. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Epic
Greek Ionic
Edvard Greig
Poseidon/Neptune
34. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
American Indian Rugs
Jane Austen
Rhymed Verse
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
35. Court dances
Pallas Athena/Minerva
hagia sophia
Stravinsky
Pavane and the Polonaise
36. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Atomists
Martin Heidegger
Atomism
El Greco
37. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Bronte Sisters
Aubrey Beardsley
Pieta
Fauvism
38. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
presto
barbara hepworth
Hamlet
Jonathan Swift
39. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
soliloquy
Athena/Minerva
Aside
Victor Hugo
40. Two-foot line
El Greco
madrigal
Francois Rabelais
Dimeter
41. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
Gothic age architecture
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Epic
42. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Paleolithic
Pythagoras
Aphrodite/Venus
43. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Richard Sheridan
tragic figure
madrigal
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
44. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Pablo Picasso
The Parthenon
Zeno
Mosaic
45. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
James Joyce
Obelisk
Classical Period
Mies van der Rohe
46. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Degas
Rene Descartes
henry moore
Onomatopoeia
47. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Henrik Ibsen
Giotto
barbara hepworth
48. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
henry moore
Meter
Alexander Dumas
Jonathan Swift
49. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Hector Berlioz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Johannes Brahms
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
50. A capella singers
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
madrigal
Blank Verse
Paul Lawrence Dunbar