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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. School of nonsense and anti-art
Scott Joplin
Eisenstein
dada school
Shudras
2. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Penny Marshall
Joan Miro
Andrew Wyeth
3. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
allegro
barbara hepworth
Herman Melville
4. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Daniel Defoe
Christopher Wren
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Merry Wives of Windsor
5. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Lao Tzu
Rene Descartes
Degas
E.E. Cummings
6. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Alfred Hitchcock
Delacroix
Versailles
Joseph Conrad
7. 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
El Greco
Tchaikovsky
Stephen Crane
Socrates
8. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Samuel Beckett
Seurat
Hagia Sophia
9. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
bel canto
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Monet
Rembrandt
10. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Josiah Wedgewood
Hector Berlioz
Martha Graham
A short syllable
11. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Othello
William Wordsworth
Guggenheim Museum
presto
12. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Da Vinci
Baroque art
Brussels tapestries
Cervantes
13. Three-foot line
oratorio
Jules Verne
Trimeter
Gouche
14. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Brahmans
Aristotle
Bayeux tapestry
William Shakespeare
15. Three dimensional work of art - statue
soliloquy
sculpture
Penny Marshall
Alfred Hitchcock
16. God of Wildlife
Merchant of Venice
Artemis/Diana
Langston Hughes
IM Pei
17. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Richard Sheridan
henry moore
Joseph Conrad
Vermeer
18. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Tempura
Alice Walker
Federico Fellini
Daniel Defoe
19. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Aside
Jean Fragonard
Trochaic pattern
20. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Niccolo Machiavelli
Othello
Cervantes
dada school
21. 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.
El Greco
Pablo Picasso
Metaphor
Bronte Sisters
22. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Fauvism
gouche
Flying buttress
Flat
23. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Alliteration
Rene Descartes
Donatello
24. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Pilgrim's Progress
Pavane and the Polonaise
Eros/Cupid
Francois Rabelais
25. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Jackson Pollock
Delacroix
Epic
Pavane and the Polonaise
26. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Benjamin Franklin
multi-media
Sitar
27. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Brussels tapestries
chalice
Aphrodite/Venus
28. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Maia/Fauna
Pallas Athena/Minerva
IM Pei
29. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Joan Miro
Spondaic Pattern
Personification
Brahmans
30. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Monet
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Lillian Gish
Byzantine Style
31. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Impressionism
Peter Paul Rubens
Edmund Spenser
Mary Shelley
32. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
alexander calder
Mary McCarthy
T.S. Eliot
Edvard Greig
33. 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.
Greek Corinthian
Impressionistic Art came before
Renoir
mannerism
34. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Rembrandt
Mark Twain
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Frank Lloyd Wright
35. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
Minimalist Music
Eisenstein
Scott Joplin
36. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Geoffrey Chaucer
Free Verse
Metaphor
Rene Descartes
37. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Paleolithic
Baroque art
Flying buttresses
Popular Transcendentalists
38. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Mozart and Richard Strauss
sitar
Remington
Eros/Cupid
39. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Aristotle
Bayeux tapestry
Brahmans
40. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Samuel Beckett
Popular Transcendentalists
Johannes Brahms
Cynics
41. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Alfred Hitchcock
Aubrey Beardsley
Vermeer
Greek Ionic
42. Goddess of Hunting
Edmund Spenser
Artemis/Diana
Reliquary
bel canto
43. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Mies van der Rohe
Penny Marshall
Mathew Brady
Degas
44. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Impressionism
D.W. Griffith
Monet
Scott Joplin
45. 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
Classical Period
Mathew Brady
Johannes Brahms
Thomas Gainsborough
46. 1900 to the Present
Honore de Balzac
Historians
Modern Period
Donatello
47. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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48. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Martha Graham
Lionel Hampton
Heraclitus
Jane Austen
49. 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.
The Panthenon
Jane Austen
Baroque art
Delacroix
50. 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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