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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
pieta
oratorio
Leonardo da Vinci
2. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Langston Hughes
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Cervantes
Pilgrim's Progress
3. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Satire
T.S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anapestic Pattern
4. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
A long syllable
alexander calder
Jane Austen
presto
5. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Herman Melville
allegro
Trimeter
Chopin
6. 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
Seurat
Mary Wollstonecraft
Francois Rabelais
Lorraine Hansberry
7. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Dada school
Brahmans
Barcelona Pavilion
Kouroi
8. Short-Short-Long
Ray Bradbury
Anapestic Pattern
Mary Wollstonecraft
Gothic age architecture
9. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Pythagoras
Mies van der Rohe
Ghiberti
Eugene Delacroix
10. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Francois Rabelais
Penny Marshall
Socrates
11. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
minuetto
Salvador Dali
Minimalist Music
Frank Gehry 1929
12. 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
Pearl Buck
Medieval Architecture
Fauvism
Rococo
13. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Greek Doric
James Boswell
Daniel Defoe
Jules Verne
14. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Stephen Crane
James Boswell
Serge Diaghilev
Edmund Spenser
15. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
alexander calder
16. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Abstraction
Hexameter
Rembrandt
Samuel Beckett
17. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Pablo Picasso
Symbolism
Hagia Sophia
Pentameter
18. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
henry moore
Verdi and Puccini
Zeno
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
19. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Arnold Schoenberg
Vermeer
James Boswell
Brussels tapestries
20. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Dionysus/Bacchus
Rembrandt
Alexander Dumas
Aaron Copeland
21. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
Metaphor
Persian Rugs
Symbolism
22. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
William Shakespeare
Degas
Surrealism
ballet
23. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Artemis/Diana
Metaphor
Medieval Architecture
24. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Salvador Dali
Georgia O'Keefe
gothic age architecture
Mathew Brady
25. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
aside
Johannes Brahms
William Wordsworth
Guggenheim Museum
26. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
hagia sophia
Jackson Pollock
Eugene Delacroix
Lillian Gish
27. Court dances
Giotto
Salvador Dali
Stephen Crane
Pavane and the Polonaise
28. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
D.W. Griffith
El Greco
Church of San Vitale
Pythagoras
29. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
King Lear
multi-media
James Joyce
Mary Shelley
30. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Gilbert Stuart
multi-media
Stephen Foster
louise nevelson
31. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Federico Fellini
Henry Dixon Cowell
Serge Diaghilev
hagia sophia
32. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Daniel Defoe
Joan Miro
Mark Twain
33. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Artemis/Diana
Greek Doric
Jane Austen
Metaphor
34. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
chalice
Henrik Ibsen
Rembrandt
35. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Eisenstein
Henrik Ibsen
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mathew Brady
36. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Poseidon/Neptune
Andrea Palladio
Maia/Fauna
Aristotle
37. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
bel canto
Neoclassicism
Honore de Balzac
George Sand
38. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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39. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Hector Berlioz
Macbeth
mosaics
Henri Matisse
40. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Book of Kells
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Andrea Palladio
Chalice
41. God of Wine
Monet
Baroque Period
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dionysus/Bacchus
42. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
cellini
James Boswell
Salvador Dali
Arthur Miller
43. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Paleolithic
Handel
Pavane and the Polonaise
Aaron Copeland
44. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Whole Tone Scale
Remington
Christopher Wren
Hans-Georg Gadamer
45. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Atomists
Richard Sheridan
Charles Dickens
hagia sophia
46. Thucydides and Herodotus
louise nevelson
Ray Bradbury
Jonathan Swift
Historians
47. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
constantin brancusi
Eugene Delacroix
Neolithic
Aaron Copeland
48. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
James Boswell
Trochaic pattern
Shudras
scrim
49. Long-Short-Short
Dactylic
Renaissance
Brahmans
michelangelo
50. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Andrea Palladio
Martha Graham
Aside
Al Jolson