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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
multi-media
Mary McCarthy
New Orleans
Jean Jacques Rousseau
2. Mannerism painter
constantin brancusi
Atomism
El Greco
Zeus/Jupiter
3. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Salvador Dali
Theme
Claude Debussy
Flying buttress
4. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Kouroi
oratorio
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Bolero
5. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
allegro
Lorraine Hansberry
Edmund Spenser
Noh Theatre
6. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Pilgrim's Progress
mosaics
Pearl Buck
Botticelli
7. Famous French impressionist composer
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Claude Debussy
Le Corbusier
8. Mannerism painter
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
El Greco
Pavane and the Polonaise
Beethoven & Wagner
9. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Flat
Blank Verse
Ray Bradbury
Christopher Wren
10. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
A long syllable
Francois Rabelais
Daniel Defoe
Eugene Delacroix
11. God of Wine
Handel
Samuel Beckett
Othello
Dionysus/Bacchus
12. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Jules Verne
Seurat
Baroque Period
Claude Debussy
13. One unit of meter in poetry
Neoclassicism
presto
Foot
Georgia O'Keeffe
14. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
pop art
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Da Vinci
15. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Cervantes
Pilgrim's Progress
Mark Twain
Plato
16. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Federico Fellini
Greek Corinthian
George Sand
Kronos/Saturn
17. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
pop art
Greek Doric
Pearl Buck
Plato
18. 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.
Marc Chagall
Eugene O'Neil
William Faulkner
Satire
19. The Color Purple
Andre Previn
Stephen Foster
Remington
Alice Walker
20. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Mary Wollstonecraft
Christopher Wren
Ares/Mars
scrim
21. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Immanuel Kant
Cervantes
Stephen Crane
Tragic figure
22. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lorraine Hansberry
Michelangelo
Ray Bradbury
23. Goddess of Marriage
Reliquary
Hera/Juno
mosaics
Shudras
24. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Hades/Pluto
Jules Verne
Claude Debussy
Serge Diaghilev
25. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Kshatriyas
Aphrodite/Venus
flat
Donatello
26. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
barbara hepworth
Degas
Moral Philosophers
Kouroi
27. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
D.W. Griffith
Brahmans
Trochaic pattern
Chalice
28. 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
Jane Austen
Henri Matisse
Lillian Gish
Jonathan Swift
29. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Eros/Cupid
Tchaikovsky
Irony
Cimabue
30. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
El Greco
Hagia Sophia
Delacroix
Pieta
31. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
John Locke
aside
Artemis/Diana
Samuel Beckett
32. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Whole Tone Scale
Hagia Sophia
Andrew Wyeth
Stephen Foster
33. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
Taoism
Claude Monet
Francesco Petrarch
34. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
michelangelo
Meter
mosaics
Jane Austen
35. God of love and beauty
Seurat
Gilbert and Sullivan
Book of Kells
Aphrodite/Venus
36. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Samuel Beckett
Beethoven & Wagner
Leo Tolstoy
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
37. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
James Boswell
Alfred Hitchcock
Edgar Allen Poe
High Renaissance Painters
38. 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
Giotto
Confucianism
Mary Wollstonecraft
El Greco
39. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Remington
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Aphrodite/Venus
40. Paul Gauguin
Plato
Bernini
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Paleolithic
41. Goddess of Agriculture
Aaron Copeland
Frank Gehry 1929
Heraclitus
Demeter/Ceres
42. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Heraclitus
cellini
Langston Hughes
sculpture
43. Long-Short
Trochaic pattern
Art Deco Movement
Lillian Gish
Leonardo da Vinci
44. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Hexameter
James Boswell
Alexander Dumas
45. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Moai
Lillian Gish
Aubrey Beardsley
John Dryden
46. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
New Orleans
Jackson Pollock
Epicureans
Victor Hugo
47. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Socrates
Victor Hugo
Kshatriyas
Persian Rugs
48. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Remington
T.S. Eliot
Mary Shelley
Lillian Gish
49. God of Wildlife
Aristotle
Artemis/Diana
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Post and Lintel
50. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
mosaics
obelisk
Celtic Art
Ray Bradbury
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