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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






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






3. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






4. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






5. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme






6. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting






7. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






8. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide






9. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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10. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






11. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






12. 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






13. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti






14. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






15. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte






16. Court dances






17. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






18. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






19. Played the xylophone and marimba






20. 20th Century American composer






21. Painted 'The Bathers'






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






23. 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






24. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises






25. A dance






26. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






27. Science fiction writer






28. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice






29. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!






30. 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






31. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






32. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






33. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






34. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.






35. 20th Century American composer






36. Wrote Rivals






37. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France






38. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd






39. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






40. 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.






41. The text of the opera






42. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.






43. Goddess of Flowers and Spring






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






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






46. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.






47. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






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






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






50. God of the Underworld and Death