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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
James Joyce
Mark Twain
Hermes/Mercury
2. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Charles Dickens
Handel
Manichaeism
Aside
3. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Frank Lloyd Wright
Edgar Allen Poe
Lillian Gish
4. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Martin Heidegger
Jane Austen
Pentatonic Scale
Honore de Balzac
5. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Issac Asimov
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Poseidon/Neptune
Lillian Gish
Merchant of Venice
Buddhists
7. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Medieval Architecture
Henry Dixon Cowell
Persian Rugs
Henry Dixon Cowell
8. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
William Blake
sitar
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
Stoicism
Obelisk
henry moore
10. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Arthur Miller
Poseidon/Neptune
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Johannes Brahms
11. Impressionistic Music
James Joyce
Impressionistic Art came before
Kouroi
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
12. 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
Claude Monet
Cervantes
Romanticism Movement
Daniel Defoe
13. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
El Greco
Kouroi
mannerism
Da Vinci
14. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
oratorio
Christopher Marlowe
Georgia O'Keeffe
D.W. Griffith
15. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Merry Wives of Windsor
Ballet
Edvard Greig
Mary McCarthy
16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Pieta
Charles Dickens
Honore de Balzac
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
17. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
James Boswell
Geoffrey Chaucer
Merchant of Venice
18. Repititions of geometric lines
Herman Melville
American Indian Rugs
Ghiberti
Joseph Conrad
19. 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.
Art Deco Movement
Socrates
Thales
Mary McCarthy
20. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
madrigal
Parmenides
Andrea Palladio
Martha Graham
21. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
andante
Mark Twain
Simone De Beauvoir
Gilbert Stuart
22. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Symbolism
Charles Dickens
Handel
oratorio
23. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Othello
Impressionism
gothic age architecture
Mark Twain
24. 20th Century American composer
Moral Philosophers
obelisk
King Lear
Henry Dixon Cowell
25. Fast
Libretto
louise nevelson
Arthur Miller
allegro
26. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
renaissance
Socrates
Edmund Spenser
Giotto
27. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Jonathan Swift
andante
Penny Marshall
Simone De Beauvoir
28. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Aristotle
Mary Shelley
flying buttress
29. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Paleolithic
Jules Verne
Plato
obelisk
30. God of War
William Blake
Atomists
Ares/Mars
Simone De Beauvoir
31. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
flat
Pearl Buck
Johannes Brahms
George Sand
32. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
The Iliad
Picasso
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Goddess of Hunting
Gouche
Eisenstein
Artemis/Diana
IM Pei
34. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Personification
Mies van der Rohe
Greek Doric
Libretto
35. 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
Lionel Hampton
Historians
Trompe l'oeil
Seurat
36. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Neoplatonism
Zeno
Greek Corinthian
Humanism
37. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Scott Joplin
Renoir
Alliteration
38. 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
Thomas Edison
El Greco
Islam
Taoism
39. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
bel canto
Thomas Gainsborough
Leo Tolstoy
William Faulkner
40. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
cellini
King Lear
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Rembrandt
41. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
Thomas Hobbes
Pythagoras
Rembrandt
Frank Lloyd Wright
42. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
French Romantic painter
Heptameter
Josiah Wedgewood
King Lear
43. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Herman Melville
Aaron Copeland
Joan Miro
Irony
44. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Eugene O'Neil
Heptameter
Church of San Vitale
Versailles
45. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Cervantes
Ray Bradbury
Brahmans
46. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
Greek Ionic
barbara hepworth
Hades/Pluto
William Wordsworth
47. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
Cynics
Baroque Period
Remington
48. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Tragic Playwrights
pieta
Mary Wollstonecraft
fresco
49. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Aaron Copeland
Onomatopoeia
Lao Tzu
50. Fast
Mary McCarthy
Bayeux tapestry
Al Jolson
presto