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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Merry Wives of Windsor
Meter
Mary Shelley
Ionic
2. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Arthur Miller
Leo Tolstoy
hagia sophia
3. 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
Henry Dixon Cowell
Seurat
James Boswell
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
4. God of love and beauty
Pythagoras
Degas
Parmenides
Aphrodite/Venus
5. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Brunelleschi
Masaccio
IM Pei
6. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
french female pose
Henri Matisse
Al Jolson
7. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Theme
T.S. Eliot
Mary Wollstonecraft
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
8. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Alexander Dumas
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Gilbert and Sullivan
9. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Taoism
renaissance
Atomism
El Greco
10. A dance
F. Scott Fitzgerald
minuetto
Eugene Delacroix
Edmund Spenser
11. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
andante
neo-classic period
Jean Jacques Rousseau
12. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Brahmans
Twelve Tone System
Jonathan Swift
Chartres Cathedral
13. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Jean Fragonard
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Roman Basilica
Antonio Gaudi
14. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Merry Wives of Windsor
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
tempura
Transcendentalism
15. Mannerism painter
El Greco
dada school
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Plato
16. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Francesco Petrarch
constantin brancusi
Jules Verne
James Boswell
17. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Usonian
Christopher Wren
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Scott Joplin
18. School of nonsense and anti-art
New Orleans
Mark Twain
Aaron Copeland
Dada school
19. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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20. Seven-foot line
Heptameter
Lionel Hampton
Beethoven & Wagner
Renaissance Art
21. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Abstraction
Peter Paul Rubens
mannerism
minuetto
22. 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
flying buttress
Modern Period
Merry Wives of Windsor
Libretto
23. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Reliquary
Beethoven & Wagner
louise nevelson
24. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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25. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Jane Austen
cellini
Trimeter
Moai
26. Short-Short
American Indian Rugs
The Parthenon
James Joyce
Pyrrhic Pattern
27. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
T.S. Eliot
Victor Hugo
Charles Dickens
Doric
28. 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
Popular Transcendentalists
dada school
Leo Tolstoy
29. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Socrates
Hector Berlioz
New Orleans
30. Paul Gauguin
John Roebling
Hermes/Mercury
Le Corbusier
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
31. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
John Roebling
Leonardo da Vinci
bust
32. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chopin
Vincent van Gogh
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
33. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
madrigal
Stravinsky
Da Vinci
34. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
henry moore
Cynics
Gilbert Stuart
Delacroix
35. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
El Greco
Daniel Defoe
Rembrandt
Heptameter
36. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Obelisk
Charles Dickens
Chopin
Rembrandt
37. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Claude Debussy
James Boswell
Edgar Allen Poe
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
38. French impressionist painter
Monet
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Noh Theatre
Seurat
39. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
gothic age architecture
William Wordsworth
henry moore
40. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Andrea Palladio
pop art
Thomas Edison
Henry Dixon Cowell
41. 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
Modern Period
Stravinsky
louise nevelson
42. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Macbeth
Niccolo Machiavelli
Buddhists
43. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
The Iliad
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
Delacroix
44. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Scrim
Maia/Fauna
Heptameter
mosaics
45. Thucydides and Herodotus
Historians
John Roebling
Joan Miro
Lionel Hampton
46. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Thomas Gainsborough
Post Impressionism
pop art
Beethoven & Wagner
47. Long-Short-Short
Ernest Hemingway
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Dactylic
sitar
48. Fast
pop art
Johannes Brahms
Tragic figure
presto
49. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Atomism
Niccolo Machiavelli
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Peter Paul Rubens
50. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Pilgrim's Progress
The Panthenon
Jane Austen
Al Jolson
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