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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Martha Graham
Le Corbusier
Joseph Conrad
Free Verse
2. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Andre Previn
French Romantic painter
Da Vinci
T.S. Eliot
3. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
minuetto
Alexander Dumas
Apollo
Henry Dixon Cowell
4. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Gilbert Stuart
Joseph Conrad
Andre Previn
pieta
5. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Simile
Herman Melville
soliloquy
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
6. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
tempura
Simone De Beauvoir
Theme
Henry Dixon Cowell
7. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Pearl Buck
scrim
Jules Verne
Henrik Ibsen
8. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Allegory
Obelisk
Flat
Medieval Architecture
9. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Serge Diaghilev
Ray Bradbury
Francesco Petrarch
Parmenides
10. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mosaic
Charles Dickens
11. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Plato
Mathew Brady
Leo Tolstoy
12. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Surrealism
andante
Greek Corinthian
Taoism
13. 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
Renoir
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chalice
Pearl Buck
14. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Andrea Palladio
Existentialism
Book of Durrow
15. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Beethoven & Wagner
James Joyce
Fauvism
Edgar Allen Poe
16. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Arthur Miller
sitar
Johannes Brahms
Pyrrhic Pattern
17. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
sculpture
Dada school
neo-classic period
french female pose
18. Pre-Socrates
Andre Previn
aside
pop art
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
19. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Victor Hugo
Giotto
Metaphor
20. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Pilgrim's Progress
Tempura
Aubrey Beardsley
Trimeter
21. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
barbara hepworth
Socrates
Foot
Macbeth
22. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Swift
James Boswell
Epic
Seurat
23. French impressionist painter
Trochaic pattern
Monet
Hans-Georg Gadamer
reliquary
24. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Simone De Beauvoir
Tchaikovsky
Aubrey Beardsley
Masaccio
25. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Art Deco Movement
Alfred Hitchcock
Donatello
Charles Dickens
26. DNA of the song
Persian Rugs
Pentatonic Scale
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
27. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Vermeer
Hera/Juno
T.S. Eliot
Samuel Beckett
28. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Alfred Hitchcock
Church of San Vitale
Noh Theatre
Rembrandt
29. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Pablo Picasso
Josiah Wedgewood
Martha Graham
Hans-Georg Gadamer
30. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
chalice
Lionel Hampton
Serialism
bust
31. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Friedrich Nietzsche
Flying buttresses
Stravinsky
Chopin
32. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Socrates
andante
George Sand
Hermes/Mercury
33. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Geoffrey Chaucer
Rembrandt
Hellenistic Period
Joseph Conrad
34. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Transcendentalism
Moai
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Jonathan Swift
35. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
louise nevelson
Frank Lloyd Wright
constantin brancusi
Celtic Art
36. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Greek Corinthian
Barcelona Pavilion
Johannes Brahms
37. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Vermeer
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Tragic Playwrights
Bernini
38. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
pop art
The Iliad
Dionysus/Bacchus
Neolithic
39. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
sculpture
Mark Twain
El Greco
Epicureans
40. Painted 'The Bathers'
Denouement
Jane Austen
Jean Fragonard
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
41. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
tragic figure
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Hansberry
Beethoven & Wagner
42. Goddess of Hunting
presto
Al Jolson
Lillian Gish
Artemis/Diana
43. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
D.W. Griffith
Celtic Art
Roman Basilica
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
44. Wrote Rivals
Didactic-ism
Pablo Picasso
Vermeer
Richard Sheridan
45. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
barbara hepworth
Tchaikovsky
Baroque Period
Bayeux tapestry
46. Court dances
William Blake
Pavane and the Polonaise
Pentatonic Scale
tragic figure
47. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Hera/Juno
Mosaic
Lorraine Hansberry
french female pose
48. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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49. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Delacroix
Degas
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Hera/Juno
50. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Atomists
Arthur Miller
A short syllable
Jane Austen
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