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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
mosaics
Pilgrim's Progress
Anapestic Pattern
2. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Usonian
Frank Lloyd Wright
Victor Hugo
Reliquary
3. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Stoicism
oratorio
Chopin
4. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Ares/Mars
Pearl Buck
James Boswell
Stoicism
5. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
IM Pei
James Joyce
Hermes/Mercury
Andrew Wyeth
6. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Picasso
Reliquary
Lorraine Hansberry
Samuel Beckett
7. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Manhattan Project
Frank Lloyd Wright
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Leo Tolstoy
8. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Vermeer
Penny Marshall
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Vincent van Gogh
9. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
The Iliad
Mies van der Rohe
Rene Descartes
William Shakespeare
10. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
Langston Hughes
Pablo Picasso
Francesco Petrarch
Christopher Marlowe
11. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Pearl Buck
Hades/Pluto
Vermeer
Honore de Balzac
12. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Salvador Dali
James Joyce
Lionel Hampton
louise nevelson
13. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Merchant of Venice
Francesco Petrarch
Zeno
Leo Tolstoy
14. The text of the opera
Libretto
Eros/Cupid
Flat
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
15. French 20th century architect
Rembrandt
Le Corbusier
Edvard Greig
Manhattan Project
16. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Plato
Free Verse
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
chalice
17. One unit of meter in poetry
Onomatopoeia
Leonardo da Vinci
Foot
Merry Wives of Windsor
18. Short-Long
Georgia O'Keeffe
Langston Hughes
Iambic pattern
Sitar
19. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
flat
Donatello
Jane Austen
James Boswell
20. 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).
Heraclitus
Beethoven & Wagner
Bernini
A long syllable
21. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Manhattan Project
William Shakespeare
William Blake
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
22. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
oratorio
Satire
Seurat
New Orleans
23. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Mark Twain
Arnold Schoenberg
Handel
tragic figure
24. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
flat
Noh Theatre
Vermeer
Impressionism
25. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Eugene O'Neil
Allegory
henry moore
Mary Shelley
26. Short-Short
Richard Sheridan
Pyrrhic Pattern
Bernini
Henri Matisse
27. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Renaissance
Bronte Sisters
Surrealism
Lillian Gish
28. One-foot line
Monometer
Masaccio
Leo Tolstoy
Chopin
29. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
aside
Tchaikovsky
Donatello
Giotto
30. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Whole Tone Scale
Othello
Kouroi
Cerros
31. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hades/Pluto
Langston Hughes
Imagery
32. Four-foot line
henry moore
Vermeer
Tetrameter
Francesco Petrarch
33. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Donatello
Apostrophe
aside
34. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
King Lear
Gilbert Stuart
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Richard Sheridan
35. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Aaron Copeland
Arthur Miller
Renoir
Manichaeism
36. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -
Salvador Dali
Alfred Hitchcock
Andrea Palladio
michelangelo
37. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
louise nevelson
American Indian Rugs
Georg W. F. Hegel
Rembrandt
38. Composer - conductor and pianist
Andre Previn
Jonathan Swift
Joan Miro
Macbeth
39. Repititions of geometric lines
Vermeer
American Indian Rugs
Chloris/Flora
allegro
40. 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
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Hamlet
Plato
John Dryden
41. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
renaissance
Joseph Conrad
Lorraine Hansberry
Aaron Copeland
42. Beuatiful with ornate borders
William Faulkner
Picasso
Brussels tapestries
Langston Hughes
43. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Christopher Wren
Botticelli
Corinthian
Da Vinci
44. Fast
soliloquy
Serge Diaghilev
allegro
Arthur Miller
45. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Thales
Pavane and the Polonaise
Manichaeism
Dionysus/Bacchus
46. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Eisenstein
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Vaishyas
47. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Minimalist Music
Artemis/Diana
Fauvism
flat
48. Two-foot line
henry moore
New Orleans
Dimeter
Pilgrim's Progress
49. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Dixon Cowell
Donatello
50. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Andrew Wyeth
Artemis/Diana
Tetrameter