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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Beuatiful with ornate borders
constantin brancusi
Jane Austen
Brussels tapestries
Penny Marshall
2. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
John Roebling
Gilbert and Sullivan
King Lear
The Iliad
3. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Classical Period
Martha Graham
Frank Lloyd Wright
Merry Wives of Windsor
4. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Hermes/Mercury
andante
Rococo
Degas
5. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
James Boswell
Degas
Cervantes
6. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
gouche
gothic age architecture
Cubism
Hephaestus/Vulcan
7. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
henry moore
Manhattan Project
Apostrophe
8. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Lorraine Hansberry
A short syllable
bel canto
George Sand
9. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Fresco
Henry Dixon Cowell
Eugene O'Neil
Barcelona Pavilion
10. 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.
William Shakespeare
hagia sophia
Pearl Buck
Samuel Beckett
11. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Plato
Mary Shelley
Pilgrim's Progress
Remington
12. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Tetrameter
El Greco
Chopin
Delacroix
13. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Foot
Zeus/Jupiter
Tchaikovsky
Donatello
14. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Dactylic
Lillian Gish
15. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
obelisk
Handel
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Jane Austen
16. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Pablo Picasso
El Greco
Martin Heidegger
Leo Tolstoy
17. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Josiah Wedgewood
Samuel Beckett
Leo Tolstoy
Neoclassicism
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
Iambic pattern
Popular Transcendentalists
Andrew Wyeth
Lorraine Hansberry
19. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Alliteration
Pentameter
Doric
20. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Noh Theatre
Joseph Conrad
Monet
Didactic-ism
21. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Eisenstein
Henry Dixon Cowell
tragic figure
Plato
22. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
American Indian Rugs
Chopin
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Greek Corinthian
23. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Vermeer
Bayeux tapestry
constantin brancusi
Persian Rugs
24. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Anapestic Pattern
Thomas Edison
korai
T.S. Eliot
25. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
ballet
aside
Simone De Beauvoir
26. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Metaphor
flat
Heraclitus
Dada school
27. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
Mosaic
Raphael
Socrates
Hagia Sophia
28. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Barcelona Pavilion
allegro
Stoicism
Honore de Balzac
29. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Brussels tapestries
Scrim
Roman Basilica
30. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
alexander calder
Jonathan Swift
Brussels tapestries
Charles Dickens
31. Short-Short
William Shakespeare
Pyrrhic Pattern
Anapestic Pattern
presto
32. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Whole Tone Scale
American Indian Rugs
Simone Martini
presto
33. 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.
Remington
Handel
Bayeux tapestry
F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Book of Durrow
Thomas Hobbes
Heptameter
Pythagoras
35. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
Arthur Miller
Federico Fellini
Jonathan Swift
36. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
William Shakespeare
Pentatonic Scale
Picasso
Eugene O'Neil
37. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Macbeth
Noh Theatre
Blank Verse
Irony
38. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Salvador Dali
Edmund Spenser
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Buddhists
39. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Surrealism
Brussels tapestries
Denouement
Atomism
40. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Cerros
pop art
Ray Bradbury
Da Vinci
41. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Raphael
Josiah Wedgewood
Rhymed Verse
aside
42. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
Benjamin Franklin
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Pilgrim's Progress
43. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Rene Descartes
Moai
Aubrey Beardsley
44. French impressionist painter
Al Jolson
Pentatonic Scale
Monet
Paleolithic
45. Short-Short-Long
Anapestic Pattern
Andre Previn
Celtic Art
Romanesque Style
46. God of the Sea
Renoir
Poseidon/Neptune
Niccolo Machiavelli
Al Jolson
47. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Mary Shelley
bust
Meter
neo-classic period
48. Seven-foot line
Edgar Allen Poe
Issac Asimov
Noh Theatre
Heptameter
49. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Pieta
Popular Transcendentalists
Edvard Greig
multi-media
50. Rebirth
Apollo
Charles Dickens
Renaissance
Romanticism Movement