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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






2. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






3. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






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






5. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






6. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines






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






8. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






9. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






10. God of Love






11. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado






12. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes






13. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






14. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






15. 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






16. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism






17. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






18. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






19. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






20. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






21. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)






22. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry






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






24. 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






25. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






26. 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






27. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






28. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.






29. Six-foot line






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






31. Three dimensional work of art - statue






32. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales






33. Spanish surrealist painter






34. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






35. Messenger of the Gods and Finance






36. Beautiful Italian singing






37. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






38. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar






39. A dance






40. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.






41. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?






42. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






43. Fast






44. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every






45. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind






46. Architect who like a statue at every corner






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. Mannerism painter






49. God of Wine and Theatre






50. Beuatiful with ornate borders