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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Stoicism
Gilbert Stuart
Bayeux tapestry
Minimalist Music
2. Thucydides and Herodotus
Gouche
Historians
Meter
Ghiberti
3. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Eugene O'Neil
Mary Shelley
Degas
sculpture
4. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
bust
Ionic
Rembrandt
Remington
5. The warrior caste in Hinduism
hagia sophia
Kshatriyas
Lorraine Hansberry
flat
6. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Reliquary
Martha Graham
Federico Fellini
Cervantes
7. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri
Meter
IM Pei
Pentatonic Scale
8. Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
french female pose
Bronte Sisters
Transcendentalism
9. Three dimensional work of art - statue
sculpture
The Parthenon
Atomism
Niccolo Machiavelli
10. 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
James Boswell
Al Jolson
Simone Martini
Taoism
11. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Jane Austen
Iambic pattern
ballet
Thomas Edison
12. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
constantin brancusi
Impressionism
Penny Marshall
Daniel Defoe
13. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Serge Diaghilev
tempura
Lillian Gish
Othello
14. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Hector Berlioz
Greek Corinthian
Epic
Leonardo da Vinci
15. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
presto
Trochaic pattern
Mies van der Rohe
16. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Popular Transcendentalists
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Atomism
bust
17. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
fresco
Byzantine Style
18. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Buddhists
Donatello
Hamlet
Tragic figure
19. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Free Verse
The Parthenon
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
William Shakespeare
20. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Chartres Cathedral
Hellenistic Period
alexander calder
oratorio
21. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Iliad
Manichaeism
Roman Basilica
Alexander Dumas
22. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
E.E. Cummings
American Indian Rugs
Eisenstein
Pythagoras
23. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Edvard Greig
Merry Wives of Windsor
Jonathan Swift
Guggenheim Museum
24. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
William Wordsworth
Degas
Picasso
25. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Islam
Hamlet
Maia/Fauna
26. 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.
fresco
D.W. Griffith
Stephen Crane
James Boswell
27. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Issac Asimov
Flying buttress
King Lear
Penny Marshall
28. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Andrew Wyeth
Marc Chagall
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Thales
29. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Edgar Allen Poe
Doric
Ray Bradbury
Gilbert Stuart
30. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
bust
Zeno
Aaron Copeland
pop art
31. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Atomists
Alexander Dumas
Kronos/Saturn
32. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
tempura
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Claude Monet
33. Eight-foot line
Octometer
Personification
Dante Aligheri
Joan Miro
34. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Soliloquy
sitar
Hyperbole
Handel
35. Mannerism painter
Peter Paul Rubens
Richard Sheridan
El Greco
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
36. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Richard Sheridan
Beethoven & Wagner
Cimabue
Henry Dixon Cowell
37. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Artemis/Diana
Flat
Edmund Spenser
Al Jolson
38. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
ballet
Da Vinci
Alexander Dumas
Edvard Greig
39. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Vaishyas
Ray Bradbury
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Serialism
40. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Bayeux tapestry
Samuel Beckett
Classical Period
sculpture
41. Painted 'The Bathers'
flying buttress
Jean Fragonard
Ray Bradbury
scrim
42. School of nonsense and anti-art
Bronte Sisters
dada school
Lillian Gish
Herman Melville
43. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Hector Berlioz
Socrates
Remington
Barcelona Pavilion
44. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Atomists
Christopher Wren
T.S. Eliot
Hermes/Mercury
45. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Plato
Mary McCarthy
Lionel Hampton
Chopin
46. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
renaissance
Seurat
Peter Paul Rubens
47. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Arnold Schoenberg
Christopher Wren
Aubrey Beardsley
48. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Merry Wives of Windsor
Francesco Petrarch
Picasso
49. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
Aphrodite/Venus
Moral Philosophers
hagia sophia
50. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
John Dryden
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personification
Moral Philosophers
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