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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Flat
Claude Debussy
Lorraine Hansberry
Johannes Brahms
2. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Le Corbusier
Samuel Beckett
William Shakespeare
Scrim
3. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
bel canto
Medieval Architecture
Plato
Thomas Edison
4. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
andante
Thomas Hobbes
Gilbert and Sullivan
Jane Austen
5. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Jackson Pollock
Joseph Conrad
Mary McCarthy
Jonathan Swift
6. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Baroque Period
7. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
Frank Gehry 1929
Libretto
Apollo
8. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Joseph Conrad
sitar
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Remington
9. Architect who like a statue at every corner
scrim
Andrea Palladio
Christopher Wren
Kshatriyas
10. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Serge Diaghilev
Tchaikovsky
Alexander Dumas
Renaissance Art
11. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Apostrophe
obelisk
Transcendentalism
Alfred Hitchcock
12. 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.
minuetto
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Persian Rugs
Aristotle
13. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Frank Lloyd Wright
Stravinsky
Jonathan Swift
Chopin
14. 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
Pyrrhic Pattern
Henri Matisse
hagia sophia
Modern Period
15. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Eugene Delacroix
Phoebus/Apollo
Gilbert Stuart
Eugene O'Neil
16. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
allegro
Mies van der Rohe
Flat
Charles Dickens
17. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Pieta
Gilbert and Sullivan
Jane Austen
T.S. Eliot
18. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Greek Ionic
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Tetrameter
19. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
The Muses
mosaics
20. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Macbeth
Mathew Brady
James Boswell
Merry Wives of Windsor
21. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Renoir
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hermes/Mercury
Historians
22. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Artemis/Diana
Beethoven & Wagner
Alliteration
William Shakespeare
23. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Corinthian
multi-media
Honore de Balzac
Leo Tolstoy
24. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Paleolithic
Stoicism
Roman Basilica
John Dryden
25. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Herman Melville
Tragic figure
Thomas Edison
pop art
26. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Frank Lloyd Wright
Victor Hugo
Christopher Wren
27. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Usonian
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Edvard Greig
Giotto
28. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Herman Melville
Pearl Buck
Merry Wives of Windsor
barbara hepworth
29. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Salvador Dali
Anapestic Pattern
Pythagoras
30. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Impressionism
pop art
Henrik Ibsen
Edgar Allen Poe
31. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
IM Pei
sculpture
Simone De Beauvoir
Poseidon/Neptune
32. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Athena/Minerva
Bronte Sisters
Renaissance Art
Trompe l'oeil
33. I and the Village
Cervantes
Marc Chagall
Vermeer
Artemis/Diana
34. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
Byzantine Style
Rhymed Verse
New Orleans
hagia sophia
35. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Tchaikovsky
chalice
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Salvador Dali
36. Five-foot line
Pentameter
Impressionism
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hector Berlioz
37. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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38. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
tempura
The Muses
bel canto
Kronos/Saturn
39. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Doric
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Beethoven & Wagner
andante
40. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Dimeter
Pilgrim's Progress
Hector Berlioz
The Iliad
41. 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.
obelisk
Giotto
Jane Austen
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
42. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
sculpture
Epic
Edmund Spenser
Johannes Brahms
43. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
Socrates
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Joseph Conrad
Hamlet
44. A capella singers
Honore de Balzac
Augustine Age
madrigal
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
45. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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46. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Edmund Spenser
Andrew Wyeth
French Romantic painter
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
47. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Joseph Conrad
Ares/Mars
Augustine Age
48. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Plato
Mary Wollstonecraft
Popular Transcendentalists
dada school
49. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Vermeer
Aubrey Beardsley
Artemis/Diana
Stravinsky
50. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Noh Theatre
Francois Rabelais
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Martha Graham