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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






2. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






3. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.






4. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus






5. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






6. Spanish surrealist painter






7. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state






8. Long-Long






9. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style






10. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






11. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






12. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






13. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






14. 20th Century American composer






15. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






16. Beautiful Italian singing






17. Laborer caste in Hinduism






18. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






19. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






20. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






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






22. Goddess of Wisdom






23. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






24. Four-foot line






25. The text of the opera






26. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






27. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






28. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract






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






30. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft






31. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






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






33. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.






34. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f






35. Wrote Rivals






36. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






37. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






38. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.






39. Leucippus and Democritus






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. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






42. Opaque watercolor






43. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






44. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.






45. Eight-foot line






46. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself






47. 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).






48. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






49. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure






50. The text of the opera