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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Taoism
Daniel Defoe
Ballet
obelisk
2. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
The Pigeon House
Stephen Foster
Lillian Gish
T.S. Eliot
3. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Joseph Conrad
Mies van der Rohe
William Shakespeare
michelangelo
4. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Christopher Wren
Twelve Tone System
Pearl Buck
Remington
5. 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 Art
pop art
Noh Theatre
Honore de Balzac
6. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
T.S. Eliot
Jane Austen
Moral Philosophers
Gothic age architecture
7. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Henry Dixon Cowell
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hexameter
8. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Celtic Art
Thales
Delacroix
9. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Immanuel Kant
Confucianism
Christopher Wren
Henry Dixon Cowell
10. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Versailles
William Faulkner
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
11. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Da Vinci
alexander calder
Ray Bradbury
D.W. Griffith
12. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Aubrey Beardsley
Johannes Brahms
Eisenstein
Salvador Dali
13. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Merry Wives of Windsor
King Lear
14. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Post and Lintel
Alliteration
barbara hepworth
Mary Shelley
15. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Greek Corinthian
Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Moai
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
Greek Ionic
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Jonathan Swift
F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. God of Wildlife
Chopin
renaissance
American Indian Rugs
Artemis/Diana
18. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Artemis/Diana
Thomas Edison
Hamlet
New Orleans
19. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Hector Berlioz
Sitar
bust
Edvard Greig
20. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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21. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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22. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Martha Graham
Edgar Allen Poe
Confucianism
scrim
23. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Greek Doric
Serge Diaghilev
King Lear
Le Corbusier
24. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Samuel Beckett
Apollo
John Roebling
E.E. Cummings
25. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Mary Wollstonecraft
American Indian Rugs
Alliteration
Aaron Copeland
26. Goddess of Agriculture
Manhattan Project
The Iliad
Demeter/Ceres
Soliloquy
27. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Popular Transcendentalists
Delacroix
Jules Verne
Cervantes
28. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Serge Diaghilev
Peter Paul Rubens
Eisenstein
John Locke
29. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Aristotle
Brussels tapestries
Picasso
30. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
ballet
Donatello
renaissance
31. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Francois Rabelais
Victor Hugo
french female pose
allegro
32. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Lao Tzu
hagia sophia
Confucianism
Salvador Dali
33. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Tchaikovsky
Christopher Marlowe
34. 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
William Faulkner
Salvador Dali
Claude Debussy
Seurat
35. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
John Dryden
Heraclitus
oratorio
Parmenides
36. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Andrea Palladio
Libretto
minuetto
37. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Atomism
Mannerism
mosaics
Othello
38. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
John Locke
Charles Dickens
cellini
Macbeth
39. French impressionist painter
Andrea Palladio
Francois Rabelais
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Monet
40. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
Anapestic Pattern
Surrealism
Renoir
41. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
James Joyce
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Zeno
Honore de Balzac
42. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
constantin brancusi
Herman Melville
Cimabue
Flying buttresses
43. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Gilbert and Sullivan
Barcelona Pavilion
Picasso
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
44. God of Love
Meter
Al Jolson
Flat
Eros/Cupid
45. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Picasso
Monet
Lillian Gish
Symbolism
46. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Hermes/Mercury
Eugene O'Neil
Zeno
Lillian Gish
47. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Stoicism
Jane Austen
Kouroi
Christopher Wren
48. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
William Shakespeare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Salvador Dali
Hestia/Vesta
49. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
T.S. Eliot
Spondaic Pattern
Giotto
Victor Hugo
50. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Cimabue
Irony
Aside
Socrates