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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Rembrandt
aside
John Locke
2. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Corinthian
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Jean Jacques Rousseau
3. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Daniel Defoe
Arthur Miller
Transcendentalism
Geoffrey Chaucer
4. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Trochaic pattern
bel canto
Johannes Brahms
Heraclitus
5. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Jonathan Swift
Claude Debussy
Tempura
IM Pei
6. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Christopher Wren
Noh Theatre
Johannes Brahms
Byzantine Style
7. Beautiful Italian singing
Surrealism
bel canto
Henrik Ibsen
Seurat
8. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
William Wordsworth
Ernest Hemingway
Hagia Sophia
9. 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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10. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
mosaics
Cervantes
Frank Gehry 1929
Moai
11. The text of the opera
Seurat
louise nevelson
Libretto
James Joyce
12. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
fresco
Alice Walker
Serialism
Romanticism Movement
13. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Vermeer
Georg W. F. Hegel
Post Impressionism
14. 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
Jean Fragonard
Manichaeism
The Iliad
George Sand
15. 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
Brussels tapestries
Atomism
Reliquary
Mary Wollstonecraft
16. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
andante
Martin Heidegger
Brussels tapestries
Giotto
17. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
William Blake
Artemis/Diana
Francois Rabelais
18. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
T.S. Eliot
Hermes/Mercury
dada school
19. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
The Parthenon
D.W. Griffith
Herman Melville
Vaishyas
20. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Bayeux tapestry
Eisenstein
Simile
Aaron Copeland
21. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
El Greco
Daniel Defoe
Demeter/Ceres
22. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Obelisk
Cervantes
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
korai
23. Laborer caste in Hinduism
New Orleans
tempura
Neoclassicism
Shudras
24. 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
Pearl Buck
soliloquy
Beethoven & Wagner
25. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Benjamin Franklin
Arthur Miller
Edvard Greig
Merry Wives of Windsor
26. Eight-foot line
Octometer
Dactylic
IM Pei
Da Vinci
27. God of Wildlife
Existentialism
Mosaic
Johannes Brahms
Artemis/Diana
28. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Irony
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
29. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Jean Fragonard
Simone De Beauvoir
30. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
Tragic figure
Pilgrim's Progress
Popular Transcendentalists
31. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Byzantine Style
James Boswell
Hector Berlioz
James Joyce
32. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Bayeux tapestry
Serge Diaghilev
presto
Tragic figure
33. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Flying buttress
Denouement
Picasso
34. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
louise nevelson
Mary Shelley
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
35. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Langston Hughes
Francois Rabelais
Symbolism
Gilbert Stuart
36. God of the underworld - and wealth
Hades/Pluto
Stephen Crane
IM Pei
Eros/Cupid
37. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Tyche/Fortuna
Brussels tapestries
neo-classic period
William Shakespeare
38. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Parmenides
Stravinsky
Beethoven & Wagner
Guggenheim Museum
39. A capella singers
Cynics
madrigal
Shudras
Cerros
40. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Stephen Crane
Victor Hugo
The Panthenon
Mary Shelley
41. 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
Heptameter
Merchant of Venice
Epic
Medieval Architecture
42. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Handel
Atomism
Aristotle
Victor Hugo
43. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Scrim
Kshatriyas
Langston Hughes
Da Vinci
44. The text of the opera
Martin Heidegger
Persian Rugs
Mary Wollstonecraft
Libretto
45. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
french female pose
Chloris/Flora
Joan Miro
46. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Arthur Miller
Scott Joplin
Thales
Francois Rabelais
47. 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
Popular Transcendentalists
Mary Wollstonecraft
Renaissance
Gilbert and Sullivan
48. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Gilbert and Sullivan
Charles Dickens
soliloquy
Kouroi
49. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Immanuel Kant
Dante Aligheri
Pearl Buck
Aristotle
50. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Post and Lintel
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Tchaikovsky