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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Persistence of Memory
Brussels tapestries
pop art
Mathew Brady
Salvador Dali
2. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
French female pose
Islam
Lorraine Hansberry
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
3. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Jules Verne
Peter Paul Rubens
Francois Rabelais
Hera/Juno
4. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Augustine Age
Othello
Heptameter
5. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Heraclitus
allegro
Da Vinci
tragic figure
6. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Arnold Schoenberg
Rembrandt
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
7. Goddess of Wisdom
Henri Matisse
Macbeth
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Pallas Athena/Minerva
8. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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9. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Salvador Dali
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphor
Cerros
10. A dance
Mary McCarthy
Byzantine Style
minuetto
Gilbert Stuart
11. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Thales
Cervantes
chalice
Lorraine Hansberry
12. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
barbara hepworth
Renoir
Herman Melville
Mies van der Rohe
13. DNA of the song
pop art
Fauvism
Pentatonic Scale
Stravinsky
14. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
alexander calder
Phoebus/Apollo
Edmund Spenser
Donatello
15. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Josiah Wedgewood
bust
Remington
alexander calder
16. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Satire
Martha Graham
dada school
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
17. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
Vincent van Gogh
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Herman Melville
Federico Fellini
18. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Cervantes
Langston Hughes
Atomism
Scott Joplin
19. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Rembrandt
Aristotle
20. 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
Atomism
Neo-classic period
Merry Wives of Windsor
George Sand
21. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
El Greco
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Obelisk
Versailles
22. Slow
Mary Wollstonecraft
andante
michelangelo
Brussels tapestries
23. Repititions of geometric lines
American Indian Rugs
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Ghiberti
Chopin
24. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
multi-media
flying buttress
Donatello
Free Verse
25. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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26. 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.
Samuel Beckett
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
John Roebling
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
27. Rebirth
Moral Philosophers
renaissance
Issac Asimov
Thomas Hobbes
28. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Mannerism
henry moore
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Ray Bradbury
29. 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
Henry Dixon Cowell
Joseph Conrad
Vermeer
Epicureans
30. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
Degas
Irony
William Shakespeare
Mannerism
31. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Persian Rugs
Johannes Brahms
Herman Melville
renaissance
32. 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
Handel
Romanesque Style
Maia/Fauna
33. 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.
Bayeux tapestry
The Muses
Daniel Defoe
Free Verse
34. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Stephen Foster
Salvador Dali
Cubism
Jules Verne
35. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Donatello
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
pop art
36. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare
The Panthenon
Martha Graham
37. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
constantin brancusi
Pearl Buck
Daniel Defoe
James Joyce
38. 20th Century American composer
T.S. Eliot
louise nevelson
Henry Dixon Cowell
oratorio
39. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
A long syllable
High Renaissance
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
40. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Handel
presto
Simone De Beauvoir
Rembrandt
41. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Socrates
Andrew Wyeth
Chalice
Ray Bradbury
42. God of love and beauty
Pilgrim's Progress
The Parthenon
Aphrodite/Venus
Donatello
43. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Renoir
Vaishyas
barbara hepworth
Aubrey Beardsley
44. British abstract sculptor
Symbolism
pop art
barbara hepworth
Ionic
45. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
William Shakespeare
Gilbert Stuart
New Orleans
Trompe l'oeil
46. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Thomas Edison
Edgar Allen Poe
John Dryden
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
47. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
gouche
Aphrodite/Venus
Islam
Simone De Beauvoir
48. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Rembrandt
Arthur Miller
Monet
49. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Mathew Brady
Mies van der Rohe
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Corinthian
50. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Dionysus/Bacchus
Salvador Dali
Pavane and the Polonaise
Aubrey Beardsley