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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Corinthian
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ballet
Aubrey Beardsley
2. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
renaissance
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Foot
3. 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
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Georg W. F. Hegel
Tragic figure
Jonathan Swift
4. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Gilbert Stuart
Kronos/Saturn
multi-media
5. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Jane Austen
Ghiberti
Ares/Mars
Hans-Georg Gadamer
6. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Jonathan Swift
korai
Josiah Wedgewood
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
7. Five-foot line
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Pentameter
Mark Twain
High Renaissance Painters
8. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
King Lear
Edvard Greig
Macbeth
Augustine Age
9. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Thales
louise nevelson
hagia sophia
Bronte Sisters
10. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Manhattan Project
Classical Period
flat
Lillian Gish
11. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Charles Dickens
Heraclitus
Epicureans
Mark Twain
12. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
The Parthenon
Eugene Delacroix
Simone De Beauvoir
Book of Kells
13. 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.
aside
Persian Rugs
Mannerism
Christopher Wren
14. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mosaic
Rembrandt
Arnold Schoenberg
15. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Bolero
Poseidon/Neptune
Alexander Dumas
Mark Twain
16. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Eros/Cupid
Brussels tapestries
Lionel Hampton
Pythagoras
17. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Arthur Miller
John Locke
Eugene O'Neil
18. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
American Indian Rugs
T.S. Eliot
madrigal
pieta
19. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Pythagoras
Simile
Jonathan Swift
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
20. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Pearl Buck
Leo Tolstoy
IM Pei
21. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Herman Melville
Jonathan Swift
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Roman Basilica
22. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Hagia Sophia
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
El Greco
23. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Monet
Romanesque Style
tragic figure
Versailles
24. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Honore de Balzac
Pavane and the Polonaise
Flat
25. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Kouroi
Pearl Buck
Epic
Le Corbusier
26. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
T.S. Eliot
Hagia Sophia
mosaics
Eugene O'Neil
27. A dance
Plato
minuetto
Ionic
Hector Berlioz
28. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Merry Wives of Windsor
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Dionysus/Bacchus
oratorio
29. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Chartres Cathedral
mannerism
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
30. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Andre Previn
Arthur Miller
Charles Dickens
Popular Transcendentalists
31. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Stephen Crane
fresco
Ray Bradbury
Da Vinci
32. Impressionistic Music
George Sand
Georg W. F. Hegel
Impressionistic Art came before
Pavane and the Polonaise
33. Fast
Macbeth
Friedrich Nietzsche
allegro
Verdi and Puccini
34. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
John Locke
korai
Noh Theatre
Hamlet
35. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Monet
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Da Vinci
Leo Tolstoy
36. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Aristotle
Eisenstein
Merchant of Venice
french female pose
37. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Alice Walker
Lillian Gish
Pentameter
Eugene O'Neil
38. 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.
hagia sophia
Bernini
Pentameter
Lorraine Hansberry
39. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
Pearl Buck
William Blake
El Greco
40. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Remington
Jackson Pollock
Edmund Spenser
Ballet
41. Mannerism painter
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hades/Pluto
Epic
El Greco
42. Beautiful Italian singing
bel canto
Claude Debussy
Henrik Ibsen
Aubrey Beardsley
43. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Thales
George Sand
Trochaic pattern
44. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Thales
Bayeux tapestry
Noh Theatre
45. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Apollo
Pentatonic Scale
Bronte Sisters
T.S. Eliot
46. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Aaron Copeland
Friedrich Nietzsche
Johannes Brahms
Othello
47. Death of a Salesman
Barcelona Pavilion
soliloquy
Niccolo Machiavelli
Arthur Miller
48. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Remington
Hagia Sophia
Daniel Defoe
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
Aubrey Beardsley
El Greco
Henrik Ibsen
50. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Macbeth
Giotto
Mathew Brady
Picasso