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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
pieta
Joseph Conrad
Mary Shelley
Jules Verne
2. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Lillian Gish
Renoir
Book of Durrow
3. God of the sea
Jackson Pollock
Henri Matisse
Poseidon/Neptune
Historians
4. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Mary Shelley
Church of San Vitale
Vincent van Gogh
5. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Al Jolson
El Greco
Peter Paul Rubens
Zeno
6. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
soliloquy
mannerism
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Medieval Architecture
7. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
Lillian Gish
obelisk
Jane Austen
Henry Dixon Cowell
8. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Christopher Wren
Langston Hughes
Simone De Beauvoir
9. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Andrea Palladio
Joseph Conrad
Christopher Wren
Eugene O'Neil
10. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Theme
mannerism
Lorraine Hansberry
Cervantes
11. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Federico Fellini
Pyrrhic Pattern
Parmenides
Ghiberti
12. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Serge Diaghilev
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Arthur Miller
Jules Verne
13. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Didactic-ism
Thales
Renaissance Art
Joseph Conrad
14. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
Henrik Ibsen
Neoplatonism
tempura
Pythagoras
15. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Richard Sheridan
oratorio
Donatello
El Greco
16. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Langston Hughes
Antonio Gaudi
Eugene O'Neil
Pearl Buck
17. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Alice Walker
Mathew Brady
Gilbert Stuart
Alliteration
18. 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.
Metaphor
Frank Gehry 1929
Rococo
dada school
19. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Josiah Wedgewood
Maia/Fauna
pieta
Celtic Art
20. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Pythagoras
King Lear
Lao Tzu
Denouement
21. Wrote Rivals
Issac Asimov
neo-classic period
Rembrandt
Richard Sheridan
22. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Greek Corinthian
Didactic-ism
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
neo-classic period
23. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Aubrey Beardsley
Seurat
scrim
24. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
pieta
Jules Verne
Christopher Wren
tragic figure
25. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Lorraine Hansberry
Athena/Minerva
Chopin
Herman Melville
26. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
James Boswell
Chopin
Lillian Gish
27. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Joan Miro
Honore de Balzac
Victor Hugo
presto
28. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Jackson Pollock
Mathew Brady
Leo Tolstoy
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
29. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
Renaissance
Meter
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
30. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Jackson Pollock
Zeus/Jupiter
Monometer
Pythagoras
31. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
french female pose
Edmund Spenser
Ballet
louise nevelson
32. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
mosaics
The Parthenon
Pentatonic Scale
Ray Bradbury
33. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier
Buddhists
Gilbert Stuart
El Greco
Romanticism Movement
34. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Phoebus/Apollo
The Pigeon House
chalice
High Renaissance
35. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
Mannerism
pieta
Charles Dickens
Remington
36. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Mozart and Richard Strauss
pop art
Cerros
Serialism
37. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Socrates
Alexander Dumas
madrigal
Stephen Crane
38. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Heraclitus
Mary Wollstonecraft
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
39. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Hestia/Vesta
Stephen Crane
Reliquary
King Lear
40. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
reliquary
Picasso
Brahmans
sitar
41. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
allegro
Merchant of Venice
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Peter Paul Rubens
42. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Jules Verne
Giotto
sitar
Hamlet
43. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Chloris/Flora
Pearl Buck
Andrew Wyeth
Tchaikovsky
44. 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.
Persian Rugs
Al Jolson
Andre Previn
Flat
45. Wrote operas
chalice
Pearl Buck
Renoir
Verdi and Puccini
46. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Romanticism Movement
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Jane Austen
Francois Rabelais
47. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
tragic figure
Stravinsky
Hermes/Mercury
Bayeux tapestry
48. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Corinthian
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Benjamin Franklin
49. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
gouche
Chopin
Jean Fragonard
Guggenheim Museum
50. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Henry Dixon Cowell
Charles Dickens
Josiah Wedgewood
Bronte Sisters