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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Neoclassicism
Aubrey Beardsley
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Hector Berlioz
2. God of sun - light - truth - healing
chalice
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
soliloquy
Apollo
3. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Degas
pieta
alexander calder
Ray Bradbury
4. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Giotto
Masaccio
Jonathan Swift
pop art
5. Played the xylophone and marimba
Herman Melville
Lionel Hampton
Pieta
Mies van der Rohe
6. 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.
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Thomas Hobbes
Hestia/Vesta
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
7. Eight-foot line
Octometer
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
New Orleans
George Sand
8. British abstract sculptor
dada school
Octometer
Cerros
barbara hepworth
9. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
William Blake
Hera/Juno
Hector Berlioz
Medieval Architecture
10. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Pablo Picasso
Delacroix
neo-classic period
Martha Graham
11. Rebirth
Ray Bradbury
Donatello
Serge Diaghilev
renaissance
12. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Vermeer
Epicureans
Mathew Brady
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
13. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Eugene O'Neil
Heraclitus
Plato
cellini
14. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Pentameter
Peter Paul Rubens
Pearl Buck
Humanism
15. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Greek Ionic
IM Pei
Neoplatonism
Hamlet
16. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
Foot
Serge Diaghilev
Seurat
17. Five-foot line
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Modern Period
Pentameter
Thales
18. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Tragic figure
Atomists
King Lear
19. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Personification
Persian Rugs
Hector Berlioz
sitar
20. The central or dominating idea of a work.
neo-classic period
Popular Transcendentalists
Jane Austen
Theme
21. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Melville
Art Deco Movement
sitar
22. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Neolithic
Edmund Spenser
Penny Marshall
scrim
23. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Dante Aligheri
Meter
Seurat
24. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Tragic Playwrights
Aphrodite/Venus
Josiah Wedgewood
louise nevelson
25. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Atomism
Flying buttresses
Doric
Stravinsky
26. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Remington
Mark Twain
Stravinsky
Macbeth
27. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Cervantes
Vincent van Gogh
Aubrey Beardsley
Mary Shelley
28. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Stephen Crane
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Johannes Brahms
Salvador Dali
29. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Impressionism
Moai
William Wordsworth
Da Vinci
30. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Heptameter
Mies van der Rohe
sculpture
Persian Rugs
31. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Da Vinci
Cimabue
Baroque Period
louise nevelson
32. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Classical Period
Mannerism
Simone De Beauvoir
barbara hepworth
33. Short-Long
Roman Basilica
Iambic pattern
Pilgrim's Progress
Tragic Playwrights
34. French impressionist painter
Monet
Arnold Schoenberg
Atomism
Alice Walker
35. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Bayeux tapestry
William Shakespeare
Daniel Defoe
36. Spanish surrealist painter
Chloris/Flora
Joan Miro
Rene Descartes
Pearl Buck
37. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Salvador Dali
Andrea Palladio
Jane Austen
Maia/Fauna
38. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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39. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Picasso
Alexander Dumas
Rembrandt
Andrew Wyeth
40. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Serge Diaghilev
Federico Fellini
aside
Botticelli
41. Spanish surrealist painter
Vermeer
Beethoven & Wagner
Salvador Dali
Peter Paul Rubens
42. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Imagery
Pearl Buck
Personification
Stephen Crane
43. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Romanticism Movement
Iambic pattern
Ares/Mars
44. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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45. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mark Twain
Minimalist Music
Mary Shelley
Victor Hugo
46. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Aubrey Beardsley
Versailles
Mathew Brady
Martin Heidegger
47. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Jules Verne
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
King Lear
Chalice
48. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Ray Bradbury
Plato
Aubrey Beardsley
49. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Corinthian
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
allegro
Chopin
50. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Simone Martini
Pearl Buck
gothic age architecture