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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Victor Hugo
Versailles
Mark Twain
Sitar
2. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Foot
Hagia Sophia
Peter Paul Rubens
Hermes/Mercury
3. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Hermes/Mercury
Niccolo Machiavelli
Edmund Spenser
Corinthian
4. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Romanticism Movement
Honore de Balzac
Vaishyas
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
5. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Church of San Vitale
Mark Twain
James Joyce
6. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Chalice
Moral Philosophers
Serge Diaghilev
minuetto
7. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Richard Sheridan
Metaphor
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
renaissance
8. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
King Lear
Vaishyas
Hector Berlioz
9. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Lionel Hampton
Bronte Sisters
New Orleans
Pavane and the Polonaise
10. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
oratorio
The Parthenon
constantin brancusi
Seurat
11. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Arnold Schoenberg
Brussels tapestries
Merchant of Venice
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
12. God of Wine and Theatre
Hexameter
Honore de Balzac
Dionysus/Bacchus
Renoir
13. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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14. Slow
Raphael
Delacroix
Francesco Petrarch
andante
15. Four-foot line
Tetrameter
Pilgrim's Progress
Doric
Martha Graham
16. Spanish surrealist painter
Aristotle
Joan Miro
multi-media
Gilbert Stuart
17. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Francois Rabelais
Claude Debussy
Edgar Allen Poe
Taoism
18. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Renoir
Arthur Miller
William Shakespeare
19. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Minimalist Music
Georgia O'Keefe
Andrew Wyeth
20. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Flying buttress
Hector Berlioz
Celtic Art
Stephen Foster
21. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Irony
Hexameter
alexander calder
aside
22. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Whole Tone Scale
cellini
chalice
23. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Josiah Wedgewood
sculpture
Dada school
24. 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.
mannerism
Henri Matisse
Mary Shelley
Denouement
25. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Zeno
Apostrophe
Salvador Dali
Francois Rabelais
26. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Brussels tapestries
Andrea Palladio
Plato
Jackson Pollock
27. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Minimalist Music
Stephen Crane
Mary McCarthy
George Sand
28. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Hades/Pluto
michelangelo
Beethoven & Wagner
Kronos/Saturn
29. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
scrim
Macbeth
Eugene O'Neil
30. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
Chopin
Martha Graham
Bayeux tapestry
31. Rebirth
Simone De Beauvoir
Renaissance
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Greek Doric
32. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
James Joyce
Merchant of Venice
Plato
33. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Moai
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
alexander calder
Hector Berlioz
34. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Joseph Conrad
Henrik Ibsen
Confucianism
Mary McCarthy
35. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Lionel Hampton
Vermeer
36. Goddess of Wisdom
Augustine Age
Penny Marshall
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Plato
37. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Othello
Gilbert Stuart
hagia sophia
Rococo
38. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Richard Sheridan
flat
Bayeux tapestry
39. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Bernini
Art Deco Movement
andante
40. 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
Geoffrey Chaucer
soliloquy
Samuel Beckett
Manichaeism
41. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
allegro
Stoicism
Jean Fragonard
The Iliad
42. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Manhattan Project
Stephen Crane
madrigal
43. Famous French impressionist composer
Ares/Mars
chalice
Claude Debussy
Niccolo Machiavelli
44. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Chalice
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Dimeter
Gilbert Stuart
45. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Beethoven & Wagner
Phoebus/Apollo
John Dryden
barbara hepworth
46. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Greek Doric
Donatello
korai
Hagia Sophia
47. 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
Phoebus/Apollo
Salvador Dali
French Romantic painter
Merry Wives of Windsor
48. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Lillian Gish
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Penny Marshall
The Panthenon
49. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Monet
Joan Miro
michelangelo
50. Court dances
Alexander Dumas
Gilbert and Sullivan
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Pavane and the Polonaise