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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God of the Sea
John Locke
Metaphor
pop art
Poseidon/Neptune
2. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Lao Tzu
Aphrodite/Venus
Verdi and Puccini
3. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Heraclitus
bust
Aristotle
Le Corbusier
4. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Book of Kells
Pablo Picasso
Poseidon/Neptune
5. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
scrim
Alexander Dumas
Jonathan Swift
Delacroix
6. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Rhymed Verse
Johannes Brahms
Degas
Andrew Wyeth
7. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Whole Tone Scale
Mary McCarthy
oratorio
James Boswell
8. Goddess of Wisdom
Lionel Hampton
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Masaccio
9. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Cimabue
Byzantine Style
Hamlet
10. 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.
Henri Matisse
Samuel Beckett
Persian Rugs
Stravinsky
11. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Langston Hughes
Mark Twain
King Lear
Symbolism
12. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Mark Twain
Penny Marshall
Charles Dickens
13. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Francois Rabelais
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
James Boswell
Parmenides
14. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
flat
Hermes/Mercury
Andrew Wyeth
Martin Heidegger
15. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Beethoven & Wagner
Zeno
Edmund Spenser
16. School of nonsense and anti-art
dada school
Hellenistic Period
Hermes/Mercury
Christopher Wren
17. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Edmund Spenser
Stephen Foster
Vermeer
18. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Edison
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Stephen Crane
19. Science fiction writer
Usonian
The Panthenon
French Romantic painter
Issac Asimov
20. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Thomas Gainsborough
Ares/Mars
Herman Melville
Andrew Wyeth
21. God of War
King Lear
Francois Rabelais
Ares/Mars
Daniel Defoe
22. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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23. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Honore de Balzac
Picasso
henry moore
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
24. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Renaissance Art
Stoicism
Marc Chagall
Denouement
25. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Bolero
Joseph Conrad
The Iliad
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
26. Spanish surrealist painter
Hagia Sophia
Salvador Dali
Dactylic
sitar
27. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Bolero
American Indian Rugs
Rembrandt
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
28. 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
sculpture
Trimeter
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
29. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Simile
Lorraine Hansberry
presto
aside
30. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Edmund Spenser
Existentialism
Zeus/Jupiter
Christopher Marlowe
31. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Macbeth
Degas
Lorraine Hansberry
Trompe l'oeil
32. Mannerism painter
Satire
El Greco
constantin brancusi
Charles Dickens
33. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Aristotle
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
henry moore
34. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Corinthian
Pentatonic Scale
Simone De Beauvoir
Mark Twain
35. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Flat
Baroque Period
Mannerism
Greek Corinthian
36. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Kouroi
Degas
Martha Graham
Raphael
37. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Henrik Ibsen
Johannes Brahms
Moai
James Boswell
38. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Seurat
neo-classic period
Alexander Dumas
Taoism
39. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Salvador Dali
Cervantes
Ares/Mars
Augustine Age
40. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Post and Lintel
Al Jolson
Poseidon/Neptune
41. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Pavane and the Polonaise
Stravinsky
Twelve Tone System
Popular Transcendentalists
42. 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
Brussels tapestries
Artemis/Diana
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Ghiberti
43. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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44. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Henrik Ibsen
mosaics
Samuel Beckett
Herman Melville
45. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Vincent van Gogh
Rene Descartes
french female pose
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
46. Spanish surrealist painter
Moai
Charles Dickens
Salvador Dali
Hector Berlioz
47. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Aubrey Beardsley
Samuel Beckett
48. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Flying buttresses
Guggenheim Museum
French Romantic painter
49. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
sculpture
korai
Persian Rugs
Jonathan Swift
50. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Daniel Defoe
Artemis/Diana
Alexander Dumas