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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rebirth
Jean Fragonard
William Shakespeare
Monet
Renaissance
2. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Pearl Buck
alexander calder
Monet
Lindisfarne Gospel
3. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Chopin
Niccolo Machiavelli
King Lear
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
4. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Josiah Wedgewood
Francois Rabelais
sitar
James Joyce
5. Mannerism painter
D.W. Griffith
Mathew Brady
El Greco
Hestia/Vesta
6. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
henry moore
The Parthenon
Monet
Ernest Hemingway
7. Goddess of Wisdom
Cerros
Picasso
Jean Fragonard
Pallas Athena/Minerva
8. Played the xylophone and marimba
ballet
Masaccio
Greek Corinthian
Lionel Hampton
9. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Gilbert Stuart
Mary Shelley
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
10. Three-foot line
Degas
Monometer
Gouche
Trimeter
11. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Andrew Wyeth
pieta
Thales
Joan Miro
12. Three dimensional work of art - statue
sculpture
Andrew Wyeth
Rembrandt
Pieta
13. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Aubrey Beardsley
Lionel Hampton
14. 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
Jules Verne
Merchant of Venice
Jane Austen
Le Corbusier
15. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Bronte Sisters
Reliquary
Brahmans
Stravinsky
16. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Mark Twain
James Joyce
Jean Fragonard
Alliteration
17. 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
Chopin
Renaissance Art
mannerism
ballet
18. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Book of Kells
Henri Matisse
Aaron Copeland
Bernini
19. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Samuel Beckett
Francois Rabelais
Aristotle
20. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hagia Sophia
Ballet
Degas
21. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
T.S. Eliot
Impressionistic Art came before
Joan Miro
Stoicism
22. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Confucianism
Aside
Delacroix
Socrates
23. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Persian Rugs
King Lear
Mary Shelley
Jean Fragonard
24. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
mannerism
Arthur Miller
Langston Hughes
25. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Neoplatonism
Charles Dickens
soliloquy
Heraclitus
26. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
obelisk
gouche
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Neo-classic period
27. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Apostrophe
Hermes/Mercury
Josiah Wedgewood
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
28. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
presto
Renoir
D.W. Griffith
Langston Hughes
29. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Edvard Greig
bel canto
Macbeth
Christopher Wren
30. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
Issac Asimov
Jules Verne
Mary Shelley
31. Rebirth
Edvard Greig
Le Corbusier
renaissance
Brunelleschi
32. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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33. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Pavane and the Polonaise
Thomas Edison
presto
Othello
34. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Mary Shelley
Post and Lintel
Free Verse
Abstraction
35. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Flying buttresses
Lindisfarne Gospel
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Transcendentalism
36. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Victor Hugo
Joseph Conrad
Peter Paul Rubens
Simile
37. 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
Fauvism
gouche
Pavane and the Polonaise
sitar
38. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Denouement
Andrea Palladio
Bolero
Antonio Gaudi
39. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Seurat
Octometer
James Joyce
Bronte Sisters
40. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
A short syllable
Octometer
Roman Basilica
Joan Miro
41. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
Anapestic Pattern
Serge Diaghilev
Richard Sheridan
William Wordsworth
42. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
D.W. Griffith
Soliloquy
Mary McCarthy
43. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Pilgrim's Progress
obelisk
Hagia Sophia
Byzantine Style
44. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Merry Wives of Windsor
Andrew Wyeth
Pentameter
Gilbert Stuart
45. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Greek Ionic
Zeno
Shudras
46. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Foot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Existentialism
47. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Artemis/Diana
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Rhymed Verse
Church of San Vitale
48. A dance
Anapestic Pattern
Samuel Beckett
A long syllable
minuetto
49. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Handel
Chalice
Salvador Dali
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
50. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Ray Bradbury
Medieval Architecture
Existentialism
bel canto