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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Slow






2. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






3. 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






4. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine






5. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.






6. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






7. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.






8. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






9. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy






10. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV






11. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






12. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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13. 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






14. French impressionist painter






15. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






16. One-foot line






17. Free-standing statues of nude male youths






18. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






19. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






20. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






21. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






22. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.






23. 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






24. God of love and beauty






25. School of nonsense and anti-art






26. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






27. Played the xylophone and marimba






28. The Starry Night






29. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






30. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






31. Goddess of Animals






32. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






33. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






34. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






35. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






36. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






37. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






38. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads






39. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.






40. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






41. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






42. God of Wine






43. Fast






44. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience






45. Long-Short-Short






46. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors






47. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






48. British abstract sculptor






49. Laborer caste in Hinduism






50. Pre-Socrates







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