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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Slow
andante
Hellenistic Period
Victor Hugo
Andrea Palladio
2. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Pearl Buck
Federico Fellini
Rembrandt
Le Corbusier
3. 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
Peter Paul Rubens
Aaron Copeland
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cynics
4. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Flying buttress
Doric
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Michelangelo
5. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Metaphor
George Sand
Poseidon/Neptune
6. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dionysus/Bacchus
scrim
7. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Plato
Bronte Sisters
Apostrophe
8. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Lillian Gish
Macbeth
Hamlet
Francesco Petrarch
9. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Salvador Dali
Pavane and the Polonaise
El Greco
The Iliad
10. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
chalice
Bayeux tapestry
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
11. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Alexander Dumas
Andre Previn
barbara hepworth
Daniel Defoe
12. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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13. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Buddhists
Andrea Palladio
Aphrodite/Venus
Blank Verse
14. French impressionist painter
Mary Shelley
Andrew Wyeth
Arthur Miller
Monet
15. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Ernest Hemingway
Jean Fragonard
Penny Marshall
pop art
16. One-foot line
Monometer
Mathew Brady
Richard Sheridan
Versailles
17. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Kouroi
gouche
Persian Rugs
Rembrandt
18. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Edvard Greig
Popular Transcendentalists
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Mozart and Richard Strauss
19. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Byzantine Style
sitar
Salvador Dali
Hyperbole
20. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Hermes/Mercury
Didactic-ism
Serge Diaghilev
Peter Paul Rubens
21. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Plato
Francois Rabelais
Aphrodite/Venus
22. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Antonio Gaudi
Plato
Peter Paul Rubens
Abstraction
23. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Manichaeism
michelangelo
Honore de Balzac
Imagery
24. God of love and beauty
Pythagoras
Zeno
Aphrodite/Venus
William Faulkner
25. School of nonsense and anti-art
Charles Dickens
George Sand
louise nevelson
dada school
26. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Antonio Gaudi
pieta
Edvard Greig
Mies van der Rohe
27. Played the xylophone and marimba
madrigal
Lionel Hampton
Hermes/Mercury
Christopher Wren
28. The Starry Night
Popular Transcendentalists
Octometer
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Vincent van Gogh
29. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Degas
Aubrey Beardsley
dada school
scrim
30. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ray Bradbury
Immanuel Kant
Andrew Wyeth
31. Goddess of Animals
Delacroix
Maia/Fauna
Andrea Palladio
Persian Rugs
32. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Tempura
Mary Shelley
Simone De Beauvoir
Church of San Vitale
33. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Herman Melville
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
High Renaissance Painters
34. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Ionic
Pieta
Book of Kells
Peter Paul Rubens
35. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Herman Melville
Usonian
Arthur Miller
soliloquy
36. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
El Greco
Issac Asimov
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Jules Verne
37. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
barbara hepworth
Langston Hughes
Frank Lloyd Wright
tragic figure
38. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
madrigal
Joseph Conrad
Socrates
William Wordsworth
39. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Islam
Pentameter
Ray Bradbury
Rene Descartes
40. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
andante
Cervantes
Chartres Cathedral
George Sand
41. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Simone Martini
Honore de Balzac
michelangelo
Samuel Beckett
42. God of Wine
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dionysus/Bacchus
Martha Graham
Mary Wollstonecraft
43. Fast
allegro
Andrea Palladio
Mary Wollstonecraft
Greek Corinthian
44. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
William Blake
Moai
Rembrandt
Jane Austen
45. Long-Short-Short
flat
Stravinsky
Serge Diaghilev
Dactylic
46. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Hexameter
Salvador Dali
Jane Austen
The Panthenon
47. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
Salvador Dali
Cimabue
Jean Jacques Rousseau
48. British abstract sculptor
Greek Corinthian
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
barbara hepworth
Byzantine Style
49. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Christopher Wren
Jane Austen
Shudras
Jonathan Swift
50. Pre-Socrates
Celtic Art
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Greek Corinthian
Neolithic
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