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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Georgia O'Keeffe
Joseph Conrad
Lorraine Hansberry
tragic figure
2. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
sculpture
Francois Rabelais
Jane Austen
3. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
Rembrandt
Stephen Foster
American Indian Rugs
4. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
renaissance
Christopher Wren
Andre Previn
Octometer
5. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Free Verse
Ionic
Merry Wives of Windsor
Dante Aligheri
6. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Andre Previn
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Rembrandt
multi-media
7. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Demeter/Ceres
Eisenstein
Ghiberti
Bronte Sisters
8. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Alexander Dumas
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Scrim
Mary Shelley
9. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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10. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Chartres Cathedral
Remington
Tragic Playwrights
presto
11. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Lindisfarne Gospel
Sitar
Book of Durrow
Le Corbusier
12. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Manichaeism
mannerism
Niccolo Machiavelli
King Lear
13. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Hellenistic Period
Herman Melville
Ghiberti
Edmund Spenser
14. 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.
Hades/Pluto
Degas
Bayeux tapestry
Meter
15. 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
Pieta
Plato
King Lear
Seurat
16. Court dances
Georgia O'Keefe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gilbert and Sullivan
Pavane and the Polonaise
17. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
New Orleans
Lillian Gish
El Greco
Alexander Dumas
18. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Francois Rabelais
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bronte Sisters
Othello
19. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
Eros/Cupid
Historians
Honore de Balzac
20. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Pavane and the Polonaise
Picasso
Beethoven & Wagner
21. Painted 'The Bathers'
Brunelleschi
Jean Fragonard
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
22. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Serialism
Picasso
andante
tragic figure
23. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Merchant of Venice
Rene Descartes
Pavane and the Polonaise
multi-media
24. 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
Hellenistic Period
Mannerism
Frank Lloyd Wright
25. A dance
Edvard Greig
minuetto
Christopher Wren
Tempura
26. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Josiah Wedgewood
Bronte Sisters
Manhattan Project
27. Science fiction writer
Joan Miro
henry moore
D.W. Griffith
Issac Asimov
28. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Eugene O'Neil
Bayeux tapestry
American Indian Rugs
29. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Apostrophe
John Dryden
madrigal
Mosaic
30. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
Thomas Gainsborough
A short syllable
Christopher Wren
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
31. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Stravinsky
IM Pei
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
32. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Seurat
Immanuel Kant
James Joyce
John Dryden
33. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
E.E. Cummings
Francois Rabelais
Rembrandt
34. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Persian Rugs
Baroque art
Guggenheim Museum
Chalice
35. 20th Century American composer
Tragic figure
Hamlet
Henry Dixon Cowell
Victor Hugo
36. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Joseph Conrad
Alice Walker
Ghiberti
37. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
obelisk
American Indian Rugs
Ray Bradbury
Versailles
38. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Mies van der Rohe
Modern Period
Jonathan Swift
Buddhists
39. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Victor Hugo
Merchant of Venice
Mies van der Rohe
Lillian Gish
40. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
minuetto
Pilgrim's Progress
mannerism
41. The text of the opera
Noh Theatre
Libretto
Simile
obelisk
42. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Apollo
Didactic-ism
Hamlet
Beethoven & Wagner
43. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Chloris/Flora
Cerros
Bernini
Dante Aligheri
44. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Gilbert and Sullivan
neo-classic period
Joan Miro
Hamlet
45. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Symbolism
Henri Matisse
Samuel Beckett
Doric
46. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Henrik Ibsen
Macbeth
Simile
French Romantic painter
47. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Manichaeism
Aubrey Beardsley
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
sitar
48. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
T.S. Eliot
Pearl Buck
Simile
Socrates
49. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Handel
Shudras
Neolithic
50. God of the Underworld and Death
Chloris/Flora
Hades/Pluto
Brahmans
Degas