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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






2. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






3. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






4. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






5. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






6. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






7. Mannerism painter






8. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






9. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






10. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






11. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






12. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






13. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers






14. Repititions of geometric lines






15. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue






16. 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).






17. The Starry Night






18. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






19. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






20. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






21. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






22. DNA of the song






23. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti






24. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






25. British abstract sculptor






26. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.






27. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






28. Two-foot line






29. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






30. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s






31. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second






32. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma






33. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






34. Architect who like a statue at every corner






35. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






36. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






37. The text of the opera






38. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






39. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






40. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every






41. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






42. The Color Purple






43. 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.






44. Composer - conductor and pianist






45. Short-Long






46. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






47. Architect who liked a statue at every corner






48. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






49. A dance






50. 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