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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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2. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Mary McCarthy
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
3. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Ray Bradbury
American Indian Rugs
pieta
Zeno
4. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Simile
Jonathan Swift
scrim
Mary Shelley
5. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
Thomas Hobbes
Salvador Dali
Mary Shelley
El Greco
6. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Victor Hugo
Johannes Brahms
Aristotle
7. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
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Popular Transcendentalists
Renoir
Delacroix
8. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Vermeer
Eugene O'Neil
Niccolo Machiavelli
9. Painted 'The Bathers'
Zeno
Jean Fragonard
Penny Marshall
Gilbert Stuart
10. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
George Sand
Andrea Palladio
louise nevelson
Remington
11. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Poseidon/Neptune
Usonian
William Blake
Henrik Ibsen
12. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Chloris/Flora
Stravinsky
Eugene O'Neil
Serge Diaghilev
13. 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.
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Hansberry
Samuel Beckett
F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Repititions of geometric lines
Satire
American Indian Rugs
Gouche
Martha Graham
15. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Federico Fellini
King Lear
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Whole Tone Scale
16. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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17. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Merry Wives of Windsor
Charles Dickens
E.E. Cummings
Penny Marshall
18. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Allegory
Parmenides
Niccolo Machiavelli
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
19. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Simone De Beauvoir
ballet
Degas
Satire
20. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Vincent van Gogh
mosaics
Claude Debussy
sitar
21. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Claude Debussy
Ares/Mars
Degas
Gilbert Stuart
22. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Neolithic
Pearl Buck
Didactic-ism
23. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Onomatopoeia
Beethoven & Wagner
Kouroi
Flat
24. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
sitar
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Immanuel Kant
Atomism
25. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Al Jolson
Bayeux tapestry
Personification
Baroque art
26. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Scott Joplin
Flying buttresses
Edgar Allen Poe
27. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Pablo Picasso
Bayeux tapestry
Langston Hughes
Scott Joplin
28. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Geoffrey Chaucer
Aubrey Beardsley
Victor Hugo
Federico Fellini
29. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Delacroix
barbara hepworth
Ballet
Obelisk
30. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Remington
Claude Monet
Renoir
Didactic-ism
31. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
Hyperbole
Hamlet
Plato
32. 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
Herman Melville
Pavane and the Polonaise
Merchant of Venice
Aphrodite/Venus
33. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
French female pose
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
King Lear
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
34. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Abstraction
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Personification
35. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Edgar Allen Poe
Lao Tzu
Henri Matisse
Barcelona Pavilion
36. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Heraclitus
Gilbert Stuart
Persian Rugs
Picasso
37. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Apostrophe
Cerros
alexander calder
Hamlet
38. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Cervantes
Noh Theatre
Byzantine Style
The Iliad
39. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Socrates
Lindisfarne Gospel
Chalice
Edmund Spenser
40. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Henrik Ibsen
Zeus/Jupiter
Vermeer
Brussels tapestries
41. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Mary Shelley
King Lear
alexander calder
oratorio
42. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Aside
presto
Pavane and the Polonaise
Bronte Sisters
43. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Aristotle
Johannes Brahms
Roman Basilica
44. 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
Penny Marshall
Church of San Vitale
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Merchant of Venice
45. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Jonathan Swift
Stephen Foster
Leo Tolstoy
Didactic-ism
46. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
soliloquy
Verdi and Puccini
Aubrey Beardsley
Jackson Pollock
47. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Zeno
gothic age architecture
Brussels tapestries
Bronte Sisters
48. Beautiful Italian singing
Brahmans
The Panthenon
Claude Debussy
bel canto
49. Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
William Faulkner
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Mozart and Richard Strauss
50. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Zeus/Jupiter
Pilgrim's Progress
Simone Martini
Frank Lloyd Wright
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