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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Gilbert and Sullivan
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Imagery
Mozart and Richard Strauss
2. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Blank Verse
Artemis/Diana
Andrew Wyeth
Merchant of Venice
3. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Masaccio
Federico Fellini
Hera/Juno
Gilbert Stuart
4. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Edmund Spenser
Greek Corinthian
Poseidon/Neptune
Mary Shelley
5. Fast
allegro
King Lear
Atomism
Macbeth
6. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
The Panthenon
Mark Twain
Remington
Frank Gehry 1929
7. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
James Boswell
Alexander Dumas
henry moore
8. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Atomism
Picasso
Othello
Simone De Beauvoir
9. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
A long syllable
Impressionism
Alfred Hitchcock
Vermeer
10. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
William Shakespeare
Taoism
Pearl Buck
11. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Samuel Beckett
Free Verse
presto
Poseidon/Neptune
12. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Mary Shelley
Iambic pattern
Delacroix
T.S. Eliot
13. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Didactic-ism
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Noh Theatre
Beethoven & Wagner
14. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Cubism
Lionel Hampton
mosaics
A short syllable
15. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Federico Fellini
Trimeter
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Da Vinci
16. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Joan Miro
William Faulkner
Mies van der Rohe
Tragic figure
17. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Marc Chagall
Libretto
Henrik Ibsen
18. God of the sea
Spondaic Pattern
Poseidon/Neptune
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Penny Marshall
19. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Andrea Palladio
Eisenstein
Marc Chagall
20. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Penny Marshall
Poseidon/Neptune
21. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Scott Joplin
Iambic pattern
The Panthenon
Hector Berlioz
22. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Degas
IM Pei
Socrates
Andrew Wyeth
23. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
allegro
Picasso
Arthur Miller
24. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Tragic figure
Geoffrey Chaucer
Flat
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
25. 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.
Mannerism
Bayeux tapestry
Stoicism
Peter Paul Rubens
26. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Obelisk
Bernini
27. 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
Delacroix
Lillian Gish
Georgia O'Keeffe
Merchant of Venice
28. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
obelisk
Bayeux tapestry
Whole Tone Scale
Peter Paul Rubens
29. A dance
chalice
minuetto
William Shakespeare
Pieta
30. God of Wine
Da Vinci
Lorraine Hansberry
Aubrey Beardsley
Dionysus/Bacchus
31. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Mark Twain
Cervantes
Andrea Palladio
Friedrich Nietzsche
32. Mannerism painter
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Alexander Dumas
Modern Period
El Greco
33. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Mary McCarthy
Giotto
The Panthenon
Thomas Edison
34. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Allegory
Macbeth
Bronte Sisters
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
35. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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36. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
James Joyce
louise nevelson
New Orleans
gothic age architecture
37. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
chalice
Rembrandt
Stravinsky
Alliteration
38. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
minuetto
Epic
barbara hepworth
Herman Melville
39. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Immanuel Kant
Bayeux tapestry
Metaphor
Donatello
40. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Chloris/Flora
multi-media
fresco
Tempura
41. Rebirth
Seurat
Lillian Gish
Renaissance
Edmund Spenser
42. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
allegro
T.S. Eliot
Libretto
43. Short-Short
Pyrrhic Pattern
Dionysus/Bacchus
Brussels tapestries
henry moore
44. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Tragic figure
Hellenistic Period
Handel
Pentameter
45. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Thomas Hobbes
fresco
Meter
Personification
46. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Greek Corinthian
Atomists
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
French female pose
47. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r
Cynics
Vermeer
Romanticism Movement
Mary McCarthy
48. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
John Roebling
Delacroix
Richard Sheridan
Jonathan Swift
49. Opaque watercolor
Merry Wives of Windsor
Epicureans
Flying buttress
Gouche
50. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
oratorio
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
El Greco
Cerros