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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Long-Short-Short
Remington
Dactylic
Arthur Miller
Plato
2. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Martha Graham
Cervantes
Pieta
Thomas Edison
3. 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
Tchaikovsky
Charles Dickens
allegro
4. 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
cellini
Giotto
neo-classic period
5. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Rococo
Eugene O'Neil
sitar
Alexander Dumas
6. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Pentatonic Scale
Mosaic
Othello
gouche
7. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
mosaics
Lorraine Hansberry
Tchaikovsky
Donatello
8. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Macbeth
madrigal
Alexander Dumas
El Greco
9. 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.
Othello
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Hobbes
Tragic figure
10. Mannerism painter
Trompe l'oeil
El Greco
Atomists
Hermes/Mercury
11. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Antonio Gaudi
Peter Paul Rubens
presto
Minimalist Music
12. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Herman Melville
Dada school
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
cellini
13. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Mary Wollstonecraft
Islam
Anapestic Pattern
tempura
14. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
mosaics
louise nevelson
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Francois Rabelais
15. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Arthur Miller
sculpture
Cerros
16. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
New Orleans
Alfred Hitchcock
Johannes Brahms
High Renaissance
17. Rebirth
renaissance
flying buttress
Arthur Miller
Pavane and the Polonaise
18. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Post and Lintel
Jane Austen
neo-classic period
Zeus/Jupiter
19. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Manhattan Project
Church of San Vitale
louise nevelson
Aaron Copeland
20. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Jean Fragonard
Martha Graham
Abstraction
Book of Kells
21. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
minuetto
Da Vinci
Mary Shelley
22. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Flat
William Wordsworth
Tempura
23. Eight-foot line
Octometer
El Greco
renaissance
Ghiberti
24. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Kouroi
sculpture
Langston Hughes
Jane Austen
25. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
American Indian Rugs
Parmenides
Buddhists
Edvard Greig
26. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Renoir
William Faulkner
Ray Bradbury
Greek Corinthian
27. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Henry Dixon Cowell
John Roebling
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Johannes Brahms
28. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Islam
Cervantes
Thales
Arthur Miller
29. 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
Aristotle
Leonardo da Vinci
Simone Martini
Gilbert Stuart
30. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Anapestic Pattern
Humanism
Issac Asimov
sitar
31. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Al Jolson
Vermeer
Henrik Ibsen
32. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Classical Period
Romanesque Style
Post and Lintel
33. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Transcendentalism
chalice
Arnold Schoenberg
34. 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.
Twelve Tone System
William Faulkner
Ghiberti
multi-media
35. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Al Jolson
Delacroix
Mary Wollstonecraft
Surrealism
36. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Alexander Dumas
Joan Miro
Herman Melville
37. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Pilgrim's Progress
Denouement
Joseph Conrad
Alice Walker
38. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
American Indian Rugs
Gilbert Stuart
henry moore
Book of Kells
39. The Starry Night
Manichaeism
Jane Austen
Cervantes
Vincent van Gogh
40. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
William Wordsworth
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Frank Lloyd Wright
Henry Dixon Cowell
41. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
barbara hepworth
Classical Period
bust
Samuel Beckett
42. 1900 to the Present
Mannerism
Rembrandt
Maia/Fauna
Modern Period
43. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Persian Rugs
Epic
Noh Theatre
Othello
44. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
John Roebling
Pythagoras
Vincent van Gogh
45. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Shudras
mosaics
Macbeth
46. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Christopher Wren
Serge Diaghilev
Georgia O'Keeffe
Beethoven & Wagner
47. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
alexander calder
Al Jolson
Salvador Dali
48. Wrote Rivals
Iambic pattern
Richard Sheridan
Edvard Greig
Thales
49. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
oratorio
Socrates
Rembrandt
Michelangelo
50. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
T.S. Eliot
Alexander Dumas
Ballet
Remington