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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






2. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus






3. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






4. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






5. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






6. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe






7. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






8. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






9. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






10. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns






11. Beuatiful with ornate borders






12. God of Wine and Theatre






13. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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14. Slow






15. Four-foot line






16. Spanish surrealist painter






17. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven






18. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






19. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






20. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'






21. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






22. Mannerism painter






23. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






24. 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.






25. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






26. 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.






27. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.






28. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






29. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






30. One unit of meter in poetry






31. Rebirth






32. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






33. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






34. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-






35. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






36. Goddess of Wisdom






37. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






38. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths






39. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.






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






41. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.






42. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






43. Famous French impressionist composer






44. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






45. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






46. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)






47. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






48. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.






49. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism






50. Court dances