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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
minuetto
Peter Paul Rubens
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
2. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Shudras
Ghiberti
Eisenstein
Remington
3. 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
William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Beckett
Bernini
4. A dance
minuetto
Josiah Wedgewood
Zeno
Verdi and Puccini
5. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Le Corbusier
Atomism
Georg W. F. Hegel
Remington
6. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
William Faulkner
Peter Paul Rubens
Johannes Brahms
Francois Rabelais
7. 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
James Joyce
Henrik Ibsen
Mary Wollstonecraft
Vincent van Gogh
8. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Moai
tragic figure
Merchant of Venice
Octometer
9. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Othello
Socrates
Renoir
Georgia O'Keeffe
10. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Vermeer
George Sand
Eisenstein
andante
11. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
Thomas Hobbes
Geoffrey Chaucer
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Parmenides
12. 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.
Jane Austen
Jean Jacques Rousseau
William Faulkner
Serge Diaghilev
13. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
Impressionism
James Boswell
Delacroix
14. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Jonathan Swift
Federico Fellini
Martha Graham
Friedrich Nietzsche
15. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dionysus/Bacchus
korai
Johannes Brahms
16. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
Kshatriyas
Simone De Beauvoir
Mary McCarthy
17. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Serge Diaghilev
Chopin
Flying buttress
Honore de Balzac
18. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
William Faulkner
Edvard Greig
Hamlet
19. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Macbeth
Penny Marshall
Corinthian
20. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Alfred Hitchcock
Delacroix
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
21. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Surrealism
John Dryden
Ionic
Samuel Beckett
22. Long-Short-Short
Denouement
Dactylic
sculpture
Scott Joplin
23. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Classical Period
Twelve Tone System
Joan Miro
Whole Tone Scale
24. Beautiful Italian singing
Cervantes
bel canto
allegro
Christopher Wren
25. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Parmenides
Francesco Petrarch
Hephaestus/Vulcan
26. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Simone De Beauvoir
Flat
Atomists
fresco
27. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
madrigal
Mies van der Rohe
Christopher Wren
28. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Taoism
Atomism
Donatello
Pilgrim's Progress
29. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
fresco
Joseph Conrad
Al Jolson
30. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Ghiberti
Buddhists
Daniel Defoe
31. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
A short syllable
Botticelli
French Romantic painter
bust
32. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
gouche
Thomas Edison
Joseph Conrad
Daniel Defoe
33. Three dimensional work of art - statue
sculpture
William Faulkner
Rene Descartes
Artemis/Diana
34. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Stephen Crane
Post and Lintel
scrim
35. 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
Octometer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rene Descartes
Paleolithic
36. 20th Century American composer
Persian Rugs
Henry Dixon Cowell
Joseph Conrad
Honore de Balzac
37. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Eisenstein
Salvador Dali
Cimabue
Da Vinci
38. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
F. Scott Fitzgerald
french female pose
Art Deco Movement
Beethoven & Wagner
39. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Andre Previn
Greek Corinthian
multi-media
Twelve Tone System
40. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
multi-media
Andrew Wyeth
pop art
41. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
neo-classic period
Arnold Schoenberg
42. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Georg W. F. Hegel
Issac Asimov
Aphrodite/Venus
Michelangelo
43. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Beethoven & Wagner
Socrates
American Indian Rugs
Martha Graham
44. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Neolithic
sitar
Pieta
45. Death of a Salesman
Athena/Minerva
Arthur Miller
William Faulkner
Aaron Copeland
46. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Georg W. F. Hegel
Al Jolson
Lorraine Hansberry
Mary Wollstonecraft
47. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Book of Kells
Mies van der Rohe
D.W. Griffith
Aristotle
48. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Mary McCarthy
El Greco
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Brussels tapestries
49. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gouche
Atomists
50. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Gilbert and Sullivan
Andrew Wyeth
Francois Rabelais