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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Georg W. F. Hegel
Edmund Spenser
Le Corbusier
2. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Victor Hugo
sculpture
henry moore
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
3. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
louise nevelson
William Wordsworth
Guggenheim Museum
4. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Salvador Dali
Giotto
Niccolo Machiavelli
Gilbert Stuart
5. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Whole Tone Scale
Hermes/Mercury
Edmund Spenser
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
6. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Ray Bradbury
tragic figure
Lindisfarne Gospel
Andrew Wyeth
7. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
Hagia Sophia
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hyperbole
korai
8. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Giotto
Arthur Miller
Hamlet
gouche
9. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Medieval Architecture
Hermes/Mercury
T.S. Eliot
Hamlet
10. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Hades/Pluto
A long syllable
scrim
11. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Eugene O'Neil
Kouroi
neo-classic period
Simone De Beauvoir
12. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
andante
Pablo Picasso
Mathew Brady
13. Slow
Satire
andante
tempura
Hexameter
14. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Vermeer
Hades/Pluto
Cimabue
Kronos/Saturn
15. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Federico Fellini
Athena/Minerva
Simile
Tetrameter
16. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ionic
Lillian Gish
Herman Melville
Ray Bradbury
17. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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18. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Pieta
Remington
Shudras
Bayeux tapestry
19. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Hector Berlioz
Classical Period
E.E. Cummings
John Roebling
20. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Baroque Period
Impressionism
Simone Martini
El Greco
21. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Stoicism
tragic figure
Artemis/Diana
Rococo
22. Opaque watercolor
Tchaikovsky
Immanuel Kant
gouche
Historians
23. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Botticelli
Martin Heidegger
Pilgrim's Progress
hagia sophia
24. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Jane Austen
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Handel
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
25. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
gouche
Apollo
Stravinsky
Christopher Wren
26. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Aaron Copeland
Mark Twain
Honore de Balzac
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
27. 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.
Mark Twain
D.W. Griffith
Charles Dickens
Tetrameter
28. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Langston Hughes
Honore de Balzac
mannerism
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
29. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Reliquary
Claude Debussy
Atomism
Frank Lloyd Wright
30. A dance
minuetto
Raphael
Al Jolson
Salvador Dali
31. Painted 'The Bathers'
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Arthur Miller
Jean Fragonard
Rococo
32. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Andrea Palladio
Baroque art
Roman Basilica
Stephen Crane
33. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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34. 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
George Sand
Pearl Buck
T.S. Eliot
Josiah Wedgewood
35. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Aside
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rembrandt
36. Goddess of Marriage
Hera/Juno
Hagia Sophia
Salvador Dali
dada school
37. The text of the opera
Libretto
Eugene O'Neil
Hyperbole
Thomas Hobbes
38. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Francois Rabelais
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Salvador Dali
39. Mannerism painter
Tchaikovsky
Heptameter
Theme
El Greco
40. God of Wildlife
Serge Diaghilev
Artemis/Diana
Trimeter
Jonathan Swift
41. Science fiction writer
Picasso
Monet
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Issac Asimov
42. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
tempura
reliquary
Hades/Pluto
Eugene O'Neil
43. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Post Impressionism
Edmund Spenser
Irony
Martha Graham
44. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Vermeer
Jean Fragonard
Josiah Wedgewood
45. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
El Greco
henry moore
Salvador Dali
Daniel Defoe
46. Played the xylophone and marimba
Masaccio
Lionel Hampton
Celtic Art
Federico Fellini
47. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Degas
Niccolo Machiavelli
Scott Joplin
Tragic figure
48. Four-foot line
Theme
Tetrameter
Lorraine Hansberry
Francois Rabelais
49. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
pieta
henry moore
Federico Fellini
A long syllable
50. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
Dionysus/Bacchus
Victor Hugo
Serge Diaghilev