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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
bust
Pentatonic Scale
Dactylic
Heraclitus
2. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
John Dryden
William Blake
Jules Verne
Barcelona Pavilion
3. Goddess of Agriculture
Book of Kells
Aphrodite/Venus
mannerism
Demeter/Ceres
4. School of nonsense and anti-art
Martha Graham
Minimalist Music
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Dada school
5. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Raphael
Maia/Fauna
6. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Stephen Foster
Pyrrhic Pattern
Thomas Hobbes
William Shakespeare
7. Wrote operas
Penny Marshall
Richard Sheridan
Thales
Verdi and Puccini
8. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Twelve Tone System
Frank Gehry 1929
The Iliad
neo-classic period
9. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Remington
Eisenstein
Scott Joplin
Simone De Beauvoir
10. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Hagia Sophia
pieta
Penny Marshall
Claude Debussy
11. 1900 to the Present
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern Period
Lionel Hampton
Monet
12. French 20th century architect
Salvador Dali
pieta
Le Corbusier
Vaishyas
13. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
El Greco
henry moore
Tragic figure
Degas
14. 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.
William Faulkner
Hades/Pluto
Rembrandt
Impressionism
15. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Phoebus/Apollo
Le Corbusier
Libretto
American Indian Rugs
16. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Renaissance Art
17. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Christopher Marlowe
Aristotle
A short syllable
Gilbert Stuart
18. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Jean Fragonard
T.S. Eliot
allegro
Phoebus/Apollo
19. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
dada school
Rembrandt
Andrea Palladio
Eugene O'Neil
20. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
Christopher Wren
scrim
D.W. Griffith
Kronos/Saturn
21. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
aside
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Herman Melville
Gilbert Stuart
22. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
John Locke
Edmund Spenser
Minimalist Music
23. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Hamlet
Penny Marshall
Jean Fragonard
Federico Fellini
24. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Vaishyas
Pieta
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Eugene O'Neil
25. 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
Jackson Pollock
Renaissance Art
Mies van der Rohe
Geoffrey Chaucer
26. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Gilbert and Sullivan
Aristotle
Persian Rugs
Meter
27. Played the xylophone and marimba
Eisenstein
Socrates
Lionel Hampton
Trimeter
28. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
mannerism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Hobbes
29. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
King Lear
Flying buttresses
Heraclitus
Renaissance Art
30. 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.
pop art
Persian Rugs
Georgia O'Keeffe
Merchant of Venice
31. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Francois Rabelais
Gouche
Hestia/Vesta
pieta
32. School of nonsense and anti-art
Raphael
dada school
chalice
Mark Twain
33. I and the Village
Marc Chagall
William Faulkner
Degas
Peter Paul Rubens
34. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Al Jolson
ballet
Henry Dixon Cowell
Frank Lloyd Wright
35. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
Renoir
Apostrophe
Pilgrim's Progress
36. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Niccolo Machiavelli
Tchaikovsky
madrigal
37. God of Wine and Theatre
barbara hepworth
Celtic Art
mannerism
Dionysus/Bacchus
38. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
flat
louise nevelson
Bayeux tapestry
James Boswell
39. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
High Renaissance Painters
Mary Wollstonecraft
Honore de Balzac
Paleolithic
40. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Delacroix
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Trompe l'oeil
Giotto
41. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
Flying buttress
Transcendentalism
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
soliloquy
42. Long-Long
Seurat
King Lear
Spondaic Pattern
Richard Sheridan
43. Goddess of Wisdom
El Greco
Blank Verse
Tempura
Pallas Athena/Minerva
44. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller
Frank Gehry 1929
Geoffrey Chaucer
45. 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.
Whole Tone Scale
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Persian Rugs
46. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Mary Shelley
Neolithic
obelisk
47. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Samuel Beckett
Aaron Copeland
Socrates
Hellenistic Period
48. Composer - conductor and pianist
Andre Previn
Thomas Edison
Remington
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
49. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
IM Pei
obelisk
Niccolo Machiavelli
50. Science fiction writer
Lindisfarne Gospel
Leo Tolstoy
Issac Asimov
Georg W. F. Hegel