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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Picasso
George Sand
D.W. Griffith
2. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Thales
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jean Fragonard
Andrea Palladio
3. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
minuetto
Tragic figure
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Atomism
4. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Blank Verse
Henrik Ibsen
Parmenides
Flying buttress
5. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
James Boswell
Ray Bradbury
Botticelli
Francois Rabelais
6. 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.
Tempura
Barcelona Pavilion
Plato
Victor Hugo
7. Plato and Aristotle
andante
Renoir
El Greco
Moral Philosophers
8. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier
Arthur Miller
Andre Previn
Romanticism Movement
Vermeer
9. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Jean Fragonard
Pythagoras
gothic age architecture
Stephen Crane
10. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Cervantes
Macbeth
Chloris/Flora
Noh Theatre
11. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Romanesque Style
Hellenistic Period
Vaishyas
Herman Melville
12. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Lillian Gish
Tragic Playwrights
Merry Wives of Windsor
Hans-Georg Gadamer
13. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
T.S. Eliot
Modern Period
Alexander Dumas
Surrealism
14. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Salvador Dali
Hexameter
scrim
Frank Lloyd Wright
15. Long-Short-Short
Atomism
Byzantine Style
Niccolo Machiavelli
Dactylic
16. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Hera/Juno
Rembrandt
Jonathan Swift
bel canto
17. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
french female pose
Bolero
Lorraine Hansberry
18. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Plato
Blank Verse
Mies van der Rohe
Mathew Brady
19. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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20. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
obelisk
Lorraine Hansberry
Ionic
Picasso
21. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Federico Fellini
Gilbert Stuart
Hera/Juno
Hector Berlioz
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.
High Renaissance
oratorio
Minimalist Music
Epicureans
23. Opaque watercolor
gouche
Johannes Brahms
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Dionysus/Bacchus
24. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
Bronte Sisters
Cervantes
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
25. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Martin Heidegger
Artemis/Diana
Bolero
Serge Diaghilev
26. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Al Jolson
Blank Verse
Tempura
27. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
alexander calder
Alfred Hitchcock
flat
Renoir
28. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
American Indian Rugs
Stephen Crane
Niccolo Machiavelli
allegro
29. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Degas
John Roebling
sitar
Henry Dixon Cowell
30. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Ares/Mars
The Pigeon House
Jonathan Swift
31. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Serge Diaghilev
Mathew Brady
sitar
Abstraction
32. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
mannerism
Thales
minuetto
33. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Remington
Delacroix
Mathew Brady
34. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Roman Basilica
Neoclassicism
King Lear
Scrim
35. Repititions of geometric lines
Epicureans
The Iliad
Thomas Edison
American Indian Rugs
36. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Charles Dickens
Josiah Wedgewood
oratorio
Atomists
37. Mannerism painter
Kronos/Saturn
El Greco
Delacroix
Mary McCarthy
38. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
King Lear
William Blake
Alliteration
Renoir
39. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Seurat
Donatello
Reliquary
Honore de Balzac
40. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
multi-media
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Hamlet
Leonardo da Vinci
41. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
renaissance
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
pop art
Thales
42. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Hagia Sophia
bel canto
Thomas Edison
Persian Rugs
43. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Romanticism Movement
aside
French female pose
Cimabue
44. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Lillian Gish
Mies van der Rohe
neo-classic period
45. Russian composer
Mary Shelley
Usonian
Macbeth
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
46. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Beethoven & Wagner
Arthur Miller
Chopin
Fresco
47. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
bel canto
Scrim
Bronte Sisters
Charles Dickens
48. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Medieval Architecture
constantin brancusi
James Boswell
Donatello
49. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Scott Joplin
The Muses
New Orleans
50. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
tempura
allegro
Mary McCarthy
James Boswell