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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Stephen Foster
Denouement
Samuel Beckett
Claude Monet
2. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
King Lear
Jane Austen
3. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Lindisfarne Gospel
Alice Walker
Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Conrad
4. 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.
Plato
Chloris/Flora
scrim
Jules Verne
5. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Aaron Copeland
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Miro
Christopher Wren
6. 20th Century American composer
Lionel Hampton
oratorio
Henry Dixon Cowell
Martha Graham
7. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
pop art
Parmenides
Al Jolson
Martha Graham
8. 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
Merchant of Venice
Stephen Crane
Mary McCarthy
William Shakespeare
9. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Hector Berlioz
Flying buttresses
Peter Paul Rubens
Mathew Brady
10. Wrote operas
barbara hepworth
Bronte Sisters
Verdi and Puccini
Martha Graham
11. Mannerism painter
Bolero
Peter Paul Rubens
El Greco
Bronte Sisters
12. 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
Alexander Dumas
Cimabue
Hellenistic Period
D.W. Griffith
13. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Usonian
Corinthian
Hans-Georg Gadamer
T.S. Eliot
14. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Cimabue
Serge Diaghilev
Hera/Juno
Byzantine Style
15. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Thomas Edison
Personification
presto
Jonathan Swift
16. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
mannerism
allegro
Trimeter
17. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Othello
Reliquary
Epicureans
18. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mies van der Rohe
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Brahmans
19. French 20th century architect
Antonio Gaudi
Le Corbusier
Delacroix
Maia/Fauna
20. 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
Ionic
Renoir
Epicureans
Jean Jacques Rousseau
21. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Stephen Crane
ballet
Lionel Hampton
Usonian
22. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Francois Rabelais
Beethoven & Wagner
Roman Basilica
Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. 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.
Mathew Brady
Aphrodite/Venus
Issac Asimov
Mannerism
24. Leucippus and Democritus
minuetto
Atomists
Alexander Dumas
Edvard Greig
25. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Victor Hugo
Merry Wives of Windsor
Simile
Hephaestus/Vulcan
26. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Claude Debussy
Heptameter
Simone Martini
French Romantic painter
27. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
tragic figure
Aside
Minimalist Music
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
28. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Picasso
High Renaissance Painters
Parmenides
Soliloquy
29. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Issac Asimov
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hamlet
Salvador Dali
30. A dance
James Boswell
Simone Martini
Michelangelo
minuetto
31. Pre-Socrates
Remington
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Othello
dada school
32. Science fiction writer
Othello
Issac Asimov
Persian Rugs
Neoclassicism
33. Wrote Rivals
Serge Diaghilev
Aaron Copeland
Richard Sheridan
Thomas Gainsborough
34. Wrote Rivals
Jane Austen
Richard Sheridan
Flat
Satire
35. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Brussels tapestries
Lillian Gish
Martin Heidegger
36. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Hestia/Vesta
Remington
Surrealism
Monometer
37. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Othello
constantin brancusi
Gilbert and Sullivan
38. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Thomas Gainsborough
barbara hepworth
Pythagoras
Mannerism
39. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Aaron Copeland
chalice
Renoir
neo-classic period
40. 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
Manichaeism
Andrea Palladio
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Existentialism
41. 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
Dante Aligheri
Confucianism
Gouche
42. Opaque watercolor
Aristotle
James Joyce
gouche
Merchant of Venice
43. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Leo Tolstoy
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
William Shakespeare
44. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Meter
gouche
Benjamin Franklin
Poseidon/Neptune
45. Court dances
Romanesque Style
Pavane and the Polonaise
Arthur Miller
tragic figure
46. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Surrealism
aside
chalice
Chalice
47. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
A short syllable
Hestia/Vesta
Serge Diaghilev
Pythagoras
48. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Mosaic
Lionel Hampton
Edgar Allen Poe
Reliquary
49. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Pavane and the Polonaise
Edmund Spenser
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
50. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Tragic figure
Delacroix
King Lear
Rembrandt