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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Mary Shelley
Tetrameter
Pentameter
2. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
bust
Giotto
Salvador Dali
tragic figure
3. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
chalice
Mary McCarthy
Noh Theatre
Tragic Playwrights
4. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
louise nevelson
Epicureans
Niccolo Machiavelli
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
5. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -
Hagia Sophia
Andrea Palladio
Frank Lloyd Wright
pieta
6. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Aubrey Beardsley
Obelisk
Medieval Architecture
Edmund Spenser
7. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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8. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
Kronos/Saturn
henry moore
Josiah Wedgewood
9. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
madrigal
Libretto
10. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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11. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Popular Transcendentalists
Issac Asimov
Andrea Palladio
Greek Ionic
12. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Renaissance Art
flat
Charles Dickens
presto
13. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
andante
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
IM Pei
Taoism
14. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Gothic age architecture
Hamlet
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Edison
15. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Ares/Mars
Hera/Juno
E.E. Cummings
Johannes Brahms
16. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
James Boswell
Celtic Art
Post and Lintel
Atomists
17. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
James Boswell
Chartres Cathedral
18. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Surrealism
T.S. Eliot
Metaphor
Dactylic
19. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Parmenides
Issac Asimov
Handel
Christopher Wren
20. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Hagia Sophia
Ares/Mars
21. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Othello
Obelisk
William Shakespeare
22. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
John Locke
Federico Fellini
michelangelo
23. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Raphael
Scrim
Henrik Ibsen
Artemis/Diana
24. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Stephen Foster
renaissance
Art Deco Movement
Eisenstein
25. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
King Lear
Christopher Wren
Flying buttresses
American Indian Rugs
26. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Moai
Giotto
Cynics
27. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Seurat
Hector Berlioz
sitar
Renoir
28. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Monet
Versailles
Arthur Miller
29. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Tempura
michelangelo
Jonathan Swift
mannerism
30. A famous cathedral In France
Mark Twain
Greek Ionic
Ionic
Chartres Cathedral
31. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
Mark Twain
alexander calder
Neoplatonism
James Boswell
32. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Plato
Arthur Miller
Al Jolson
Hector Berlioz
33. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Thomas Edison
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Popular Transcendentalists
Bronte Sisters
34. 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.
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
William Faulkner
Hans-Georg Gadamer
35. A capella singers
Herman Melville
madrigal
Stephen Crane
Peter Paul Rubens
36. Science fiction writer
Pablo Picasso
T.S. Eliot
Issac Asimov
barbara hepworth
37. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Neo-classic period
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Jane Austen
Hector Berlioz
38. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Kshatriyas
Immanuel Kant
henry moore
Chloris/Flora
39. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
French female pose
Plato
Imagery
40. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Eisenstein
Soliloquy
ballet
41. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Degas
Persian Rugs
Baroque Period
James Joyce
42. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Da Vinci
French female pose
43. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Twelve Tone System
sitar
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Arnold Schoenberg
44. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Issac Asimov
The Panthenon
The Iliad
Serge Diaghilev
45. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Tetrameter
Cervantes
French Romantic painter
46. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
T.S. Eliot
Zeus/Jupiter
Mannerism
obelisk
47. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Anapestic Pattern
Chopin
IM Pei
Edmund Spenser
48. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Antonio Gaudi
Didactic-ism
Claude Debussy
minuetto
49. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
cellini
Imagery
hagia sophia
50. A dance
minuetto
oratorio
Macbeth
Minimalist Music