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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Apostrophe
Alfred Hitchcock
flat
Henri Matisse
2. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Degas
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Renaissance Art
Dada school
3. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Scrim
Mies van der Rohe
Pyrrhic Pattern
oratorio
4. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Henry Dixon Cowell
Mark Twain
hagia sophia
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
5. Three dimensional work of art - statue
cellini
Herman Melville
Flying buttress
sculpture
6. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Mark Twain
Hellenistic Period
gothic age architecture
Niccolo Machiavelli
7. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Symbolism
Ray Bradbury
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Peter Paul Rubens
8. Mannerism painter
mannerism
Hera/Juno
El Greco
Jean Jacques Rousseau
9. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
D.W. Griffith
pop art
Da Vinci
bust
10. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
multi-media
Bayeux tapestry
Al Jolson
Alexander Dumas
11. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Scrim
James Joyce
Herman Melville
12. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Jonathan Swift
Mies van der Rohe
Alexander Dumas
Doric
13. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Kshatriyas
Popular Transcendentalists
Salvador Dali
Penny Marshall
14. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Persian Rugs
Jonathan Swift
Post Impressionism
Atomism
15. Mannerism painter
The Panthenon
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Ballet
El Greco
16. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
William Faulkner
Peter Paul Rubens
William Shakespeare
17. Famous French impressionist composer
Bernini
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Heraclitus
Claude Debussy
18. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Johannes Brahms
Christopher Wren
Epicureans
19. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Stephen Foster
Jules Verne
Edmund Spenser
Scrim
20. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Paleolithic
Niccolo Machiavelli
High Renaissance Painters
21. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Le Corbusier
Josiah Wedgewood
D.W. Griffith
22. 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
King Lear
Eisenstein
Ray Bradbury
23. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Imagery
Monet
Vaishyas
Blank Verse
24. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Serge Diaghilev
High Renaissance Painters
barbara hepworth
Edvard Greig
25. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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26. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
George Sand
Kshatriyas
sculpture
27. Opaque watercolor
Gouche
El Greco
Gilbert Stuart
Hector Berlioz
28. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Handel
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
William Shakespeare
29. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
Niccolo Machiavelli
Honore de Balzac
Josiah Wedgewood
30. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Brahmans
Modern Period
korai
31. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Charles Dickens
Claude Debussy
Scott Joplin
32. God of sun - light - truth - healing
french female pose
The Iliad
Apollo
Pavane and the Polonaise
33. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
neo-classic period
Beethoven & Wagner
andante
mannerism
34. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Martin Heidegger
Josiah Wedgewood
Bolero
A long syllable
35. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Kshatriyas
Hamlet
michelangelo
Poseidon/Neptune
36. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Tragic Playwrights
Henry Dixon Cowell
George Sand
Lillian Gish
37. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Libretto
Foot
Herman Melville
Niccolo Machiavelli
38. God of War
Ares/Mars
Flying buttresses
El Greco
Mosaic
39. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Socrates
Roman Basilica
Dada school
Thomas Edison
40. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Mary McCarthy
pop art
Tempura
Stephen Crane
41. Repititions of geometric lines
Jules Verne
American Indian Rugs
Mary McCarthy
Heraclitus
42. Opaque watercolor
Rococo
gouche
Maia/Fauna
Mary Shelley
43. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Beethoven & Wagner
Edvard Greig
mannerism
Handel
44. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Francois Rabelais
Manhattan Project
Fauvism
Arthur Miller
45. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
Aaron Copeland
Arthur Miller
Art Deco Movement
presto
46. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
Atomists
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Andrea Palladio
47. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Francois Rabelais
Brahmans
48. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Penny Marshall
Aaron Copeland
James Boswell
allegro
49. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Denouement
Trimeter
Renoir
King Lear
50. 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.
Othello
Pyrrhic Pattern
Maia/Fauna
Plato