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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
Antonio Gaudi
The Muses
allegro
Da Vinci
2. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Merry Wives of Windsor
Aristotle
Art Deco Movement
3. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Anapestic Pattern
Herman Melville
Aphrodite/Venus
Paleolithic
4. A capella singers
El Greco
madrigal
Le Corbusier
Daniel Defoe
5. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Andrea Palladio
Daniel Defoe
Giotto
Renoir
6. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cervantes
Josiah Wedgewood
William Shakespeare
7. Spanish surrealist painter
Langston Hughes
Brunelleschi
Joan Miro
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
8. British abstract sculptor
Artemis/Diana
Brahmans
Vaishyas
barbara hepworth
9. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Neolithic
Raphael
gothic age architecture
10. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Flat
Heptameter
Soliloquy
11. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Daniel Defoe
Remington
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Mary McCarthy
12. God of Love
William Faulkner
cellini
Jonathan Swift
Eros/Cupid
13. 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.
Jane Austen
El Greco
Botticelli
D.W. Griffith
14. Wrote operas
E.E. Cummings
Verdi and Puccini
Alice Walker
Sitar
15. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Jules Verne
A long syllable
Thomas Gainsborough
16. Leucippus and Democritus
Frank Lloyd Wright
Raphael
Atomists
Demeter/Ceres
17. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Renoir
neo-classic period
Doric
Transcendentalism
18. The text of the opera
Le Corbusier
Trimeter
louise nevelson
Libretto
19. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
James Boswell
Donatello
Edvard Greig
Simone De Beauvoir
20. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
William Faulkner
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
New Orleans
Stravinsky
21. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
William Shakespeare
Lorraine Hansberry
22. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Minimalist Music
Usonian
Fauvism
John Locke
23. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
korai
Stephen Crane
Renoir
Aubrey Beardsley
24. School of nonsense and anti-art
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
El Greco
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
dada school
25. 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 -
Andrea Palladio
Vermeer
Thomas Gainsborough
Hamlet
26. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Arthur Miller
Jonathan Swift
Christopher Wren
Monet
27. God of love and beauty
Meter
Lionel Hampton
Henri Matisse
Aphrodite/Venus
28. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Dickens
Mathew Brady
Irony
29. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Alexander Dumas
pop art
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
30. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Soliloquy
alexander calder
ballet
Martha Graham
31. 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.
Al Jolson
Metaphor
mannerism
dada school
32. A famous cathedral In France
Rembrandt
Chartres Cathedral
Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates
33. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
34. Thucydides and Herodotus
Issac Asimov
Historians
Seurat
John Dryden
35. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
El Greco
James Joyce
36. Science fiction writer
Aaron Copeland
Lindisfarne Gospel
Issac Asimov
dada school
37. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Parmenides
Book of Durrow
Thomas Edison
Andrew Wyeth
38. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Alliteration
Andrea Palladio
Charles Dickens
Minimalist Music
39. 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
Herman Melville
T.S. Eliot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
40. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Dante Aligheri
Degas
alexander calder
soliloquy
41. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Ray Bradbury
Eisenstein
Henri Matisse
42. Six-foot line
Serge Diaghilev
Romanesque Style
Hexameter
soliloquy
43. Played the xylophone and marimba
Bernini
Lionel Hampton
Pieta
James Boswell
44. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Cimabue
Frank Lloyd Wright
Twelve Tone System
Manhattan Project
45. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
hagia sophia
Flying buttresses
Othello
Usonian
46. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Andrea Palladio
D.W. Griffith
french female pose
The Panthenon
47. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Jonathan Swift
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
American Indian Rugs
scrim
48. One-foot line
Al Jolson
aside
Monometer
Vermeer
49. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
reliquary
Salvador Dali
Mies van der Rohe
Daniel Defoe
50. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Thales
New Orleans
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Christopher Wren