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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Soliloquy
Lorraine Hansberry
Vaishyas
2. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
pop art
Poseidon/Neptune
William Shakespeare
Christopher Wren
3. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Libretto
Christopher Marlowe
Penny Marshall
Taoism
4. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Monometer
Zeus/Jupiter
Mathew Brady
Jules Verne
5. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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6. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Brussels tapestries
tragic figure
Serge Diaghilev
7. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Andrea Palladio
Noh Theatre
Othello
Rhymed Verse
8. 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
Christopher Wren
Andrea Palladio
Moral Philosophers
9. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Humanism
Ares/Mars
Andre Previn
Epicureans
10. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Roman Basilica
Augustine Age
Aphrodite/Venus
Le Corbusier
11. God of Wisdom
Le Corbusier
Athena/Minerva
Islam
Demeter/Ceres
12. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Lillian Gish
Hans-Georg Gadamer
mosaics
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
13. Seven-foot line
ballet
Delacroix
Pyrrhic Pattern
Heptameter
14. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
Tetrameter
Stephen Foster
Cubism
15. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Joan Miro
Victor Hugo
Alexander Dumas
16. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Edmund Spenser
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Metaphor
17. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Cervantes
Rembrandt
IM Pei
bel canto
18. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Taoism
Mies van der Rohe
Christopher Wren
Modern Period
19. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Whole Tone Scale
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bernini
multi-media
20. Composer - conductor and pianist
Kshatriyas
Stephen Foster
Andre Previn
Twelve Tone System
21. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Handel
Phoebus/Apollo
cellini
Da Vinci
22. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Persian Rugs
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Al Jolson
Minimalist Music
23. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Trochaic pattern
Gothic age architecture
Impressionistic Art came before
Othello
24. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Christopher Wren
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bayeux tapestry
25. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
tempura
Jean Fragonard
26. Short-Short-Long
Leo Tolstoy
minuetto
Renaissance
Anapestic Pattern
27. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
mannerism
James Joyce
Frank Lloyd Wright
flat
28. God of the Sea
Kouroi
louise nevelson
Poseidon/Neptune
Soliloquy
29. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Arthur Miller
Al Jolson
Christopher Wren
Arnold Schoenberg
30. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
Irony
Scott Joplin
Daniel Defoe
31. School of nonsense and anti-art
Moai
dada school
Poseidon/Neptune
Onomatopoeia
32. Painted 'The Bathers'
Rhymed Verse
Jean Fragonard
Jonathan Swift
Bolero
33. 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
Bayeux tapestry
Metaphor
George Sand
Henri Matisse
34. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Bolero
Pilgrim's Progress
Eugene Delacroix
Handel
35. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Greek Doric
Ghiberti
Brussels tapestries
Le Corbusier
36. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Renaissance
Frank Lloyd Wright
Charles Dickens
Kshatriyas
37. 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.
Verdi and Puccini
Classical Period
Thomas Hobbes
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
38. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Christopher Wren
Jonathan Swift
Seurat
39. Goddess of Fortune
Tyche/Fortuna
Existentialism
Henry Dixon Cowell
Aristotle
40. 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
Ray Bradbury
Merchant of Venice
Remington
Picasso
41. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
The Parthenon
Georg W. F. Hegel
Pearl Buck
High Renaissance
42. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Hans-Georg Gadamer
madrigal
Tchaikovsky
Serge Diaghilev
43. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Blank Verse
Arthur Miller
Heraclitus
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
44. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Jules Verne
James Joyce
Augustine Age
Shudras
45. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Shudras
Hans-Georg Gadamer
D.W. Griffith
Minimalist Music
46. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Vermeer
Daniel Defoe
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Lorraine Hansberry
47. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Michelangelo
High Renaissance
Johannes Brahms
Heraclitus
48. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
tragic figure
Cynics
Delacroix
49. The central or dominating idea of a work.
cellini
Parmenides
Theme
Socrates
50. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
American Indian Rugs
Degas
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959