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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God of Love
James Boswell
Eros/Cupid
Raphael
barbara hepworth
2. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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3. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Augustine Age
Vermeer
Charles Dickens
Macbeth
4. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Jonathan Swift
Botticelli
Pearl Buck
Delacroix
5. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
barbara hepworth
Christopher Wren
neo-classic period
bel canto
6. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Seurat
Federico Fellini
bust
Minimalist Music
7. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Mies van der Rohe
Daniel Defoe
obelisk
8. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
alexander calder
Aubrey Beardsley
soliloquy
9. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Apostrophe
Charles Dickens
Demeter/Ceres
Gilbert and Sullivan
10. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Jean Jacques Rousseau
henry moore
Remington
Doric
11. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Salvador Dali
James Joyce
Andrea Palladio
12. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Personification
french female pose
Stephen Crane
Libretto
13. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
mosaics
Greek Ionic
Josiah Wedgewood
dada school
14. Pre-Socrates
Dimeter
Christopher Wren
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Cimabue
15. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
allegro
Al Jolson
Neoclassicism
16. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Hermes/Mercury
Renaissance Art
Libretto
Arthur Miller
17. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Socrates
Dionysus/Bacchus
Pythagoras
18. The Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Aubrey Beardsley
pieta
Vincent van Gogh
19. Painted 'The Bathers'
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Apostrophe
Jean Fragonard
Al Jolson
20. Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
french female pose
T.S. Eliot
Remington
21. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Remington
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pablo Picasso
Persian Rugs
22. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Jonathan Swift
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
23. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Thomas Gainsborough
Pieta
Masaccio
Alfred Hitchcock
24. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Al Jolson
Hamlet
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Da Vinci
25. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Plato
Othello
Issac Asimov
Handel
26. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Pilgrim's Progress
Artemis/Diana
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
27. 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
Mary Shelley
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Merry Wives of Windsor
Historians
28. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Atomism
Ray Bradbury
Socrates
Leonardo da Vinci
29. 1900 to the Present
Modern Period
Eros/Cupid
Francesco Petrarch
Jonathan Swift
30. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Noh Theatre
Honore de Balzac
Da Vinci
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
31. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
cellini
Chopin
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Persian Rugs
32. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Hagia Sophia
Simone De Beauvoir
Frank Lloyd Wright
Samuel Beckett
33. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Rococo
bust
F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Twelve Tone System
Donatello
Herman Melville
Vermeer
35. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
henry moore
Marc Chagall
Delacroix
Atomism
36. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Giotto
Impressionism
Francois Rabelais
Henry Dixon Cowell
37. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
King Lear
Moral Philosophers
Pentatonic Scale
Delacroix
38. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
Ray Bradbury
hagia sophia
mosaics
39. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Trochaic pattern
Verdi and Puccini
Botticelli
Hera/Juno
40. Rebirth
Delacroix
Ares/Mars
Serialism
renaissance
41. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Andrew Wyeth
Georgia O'Keeffe
Shudras
Serge Diaghilev
42. God of the Underworld and Death
gothic age architecture
Hades/Pluto
Barcelona Pavilion
multi-media
43. The Color Purple
Alice Walker
mannerism
Jonathan Swift
Donatello
44. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Geoffrey Chaucer
E.E. Cummings
Josiah Wedgewood
fresco
45. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
George Sand
presto
New Orleans
Brussels tapestries
46. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aaron Copeland
Atomists
47. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr
High Renaissance
Benjamin Franklin
fresco
John Locke
48. Short-Long
Aristotle
Andrew Wyeth
Mary Wollstonecraft
Iambic pattern
49. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
French female pose
Arnold Schoenberg
Penny Marshall
50. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Giotto
Renoir
Heraclitus