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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Impressionistic Music
Lionel Hampton
Johannes Brahms
Impressionistic Art came before
Chalice
2. Long-Short-Short
James Boswell
Imagery
Dactylic
Renoir
3. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Pavane and the Polonaise
Raphael
Imagery
Beethoven & Wagner
4. Played the xylophone and marimba
barbara hepworth
D.W. Griffith
Lionel Hampton
Vermeer
5. Three dimensional work of art - statue
sculpture
Giotto
Renoir
Simone De Beauvoir
6. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Stephen Crane
Verdi and Puccini
Delacroix
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
7. Spanish surrealist painter
Henry Dixon Cowell
Salvador Dali
pieta
William Shakespeare
8. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Brunelleschi
Langston Hughes
Eugene Delacroix
Alfred Hitchcock
9. School of nonsense and anti-art
Herman Melville
Christopher Wren
dada school
Josiah Wedgewood
10. God of Wine and Theatre
Obelisk
Dionysus/Bacchus
Bayeux tapestry
Hestia/Vesta
11. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Charles Dickens
Othello
Twelve Tone System
Hector Berlioz
12. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Ballet
Kronos/Saturn
Salvador Dali
Peter Paul Rubens
13. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
The Panthenon
Byzantine Style
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Buddhists
14. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
aside
Buddhists
15. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Johannes Brahms
Picasso
Octometer
michelangelo
16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Beethoven & Wagner
dada school
Honore de Balzac
Charles Dickens
17. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Brussels tapestries
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Gilbert Stuart
Hamlet
18. Fast
Jules Verne
Theme
Thomas Edison
allegro
19. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Hamlet
Baroque Period
Mosaic
Tragic Playwrights
20. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Kouroi
Symbolism
Mark Twain
Augustine Age
21. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Arnold Schoenberg
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Jean Fragonard
22. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Hexameter
Renaissance
Jules Verne
Leonardo da Vinci
23. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
William Faulkner
Hades/Pluto
Socrates
Jonathan Swift
24. 1900 to the Present
Antonio Gaudi
Modern Period
Maia/Fauna
Twelve Tone System
25. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Chartres Cathedral
Aristotle
Dante Aligheri
sitar
26. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Penny Marshall
soliloquy
bust
27. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Neoplatonism
Noh Theatre
Mary McCarthy
Eugene O'Neil
28. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Taoism
Bolero
Satire
Victor Hugo
29. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Mark Twain
Pilgrim's Progress
Aubrey Beardsley
Ballet
30. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Existentialism
madrigal
The Pigeon House
Shudras
31. 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.
Stravinsky
Othello
hagia sophia
Zeno
32. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Modern Period
John Roebling
Paleolithic
33. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Daniel Defoe
Lorraine Hansberry
Andrew Wyeth
Onomatopoeia
34. French 20th century architect
Federico Fellini
Le Corbusier
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
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35. Played the xylophone and marimba
Andrew Wyeth
John Locke
Lionel Hampton
Samuel Beckett
36. 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
Picasso
Merchant of Venice
Joseph Conrad
Metaphor
37. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
William Faulkner
The Pigeon House
Salvador Dali
Masaccio
38. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
sculpture
Aubrey Beardsley
Mary Shelley
Handel
39. 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
Chalice
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Alfred Hitchcock
Seurat
40. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
tempura
Mary Shelley
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Taoism
41. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Al Jolson
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Versailles
Pilgrim's Progress
42. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Seurat
Mannerism
Lorraine Hansberry
Aristotle
43. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Herman Melville
Mary Shelley
T.S. Eliot
Chopin
44. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
Book of Durrow
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Stephen Crane
45. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
bel canto
Hermes/Mercury
Niccolo Machiavelli
Cervantes
46. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Serge Diaghilev
Pythagoras
Joan Miro
47. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
soliloquy
renaissance
48. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Pythagoras
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Aubrey Beardsley
Georg W. F. Hegel
49. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Picasso
chalice
constantin brancusi
Rembrandt
50. Repititions of geometric lines
Edvard Greig
American Indian Rugs
Ray Bradbury
Vermeer