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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Mies van der Rohe
Scott Joplin
Pieta
2. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Cervantes
Beethoven & Wagner
Mary McCarthy
3. Long-Short-Short
Dactylic
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Handel
Monet
4. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Church of San Vitale
Socrates
Christopher Wren
Persian Rugs
5. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
louise nevelson
Greek Corinthian
Hexameter
6. 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.
Noh Theatre
Aaron Copeland
Mannerism
Pavane and the Polonaise
7. Five-foot line
Taoism
Atomism
Aubrey Beardsley
Pentameter
8. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Sitar
Peter Paul Rubens
Islam
aside
9. 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
Jonathan Swift
Beethoven & Wagner
multi-media
Foot
10. Eight-foot line
Handel
Bernini
Octometer
louise nevelson
11. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Vaishyas
James Joyce
Mary Shelley
Minimalist Music
12. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Scrim
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Manichaeism
13. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Pilgrim's Progress
Pearl Buck
Renoir
William Wordsworth
14. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Iambic pattern
Free Verse
Serge Diaghilev
15. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Libretto
Atomists
Romanticism Movement
Personification
16. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Eugene Delacroix
flat
Pearl Buck
James Joyce
17. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
D.W. Griffith
Jane Austen
Mary Wollstonecraft
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
18. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
James Boswell
Johannes Brahms
Giotto
19. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Artemis/Diana
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Jane Austen
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
The Iliad
Johannes Brahms
Vincent van Gogh
George Sand
21. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Leonardo da Vinci
Frank Lloyd Wright
minuetto
sculpture
22. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Manhattan Project
Macbeth
Dante Aligheri
Book of Kells
23. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Romanesque Style
Bernini
Niccolo Machiavelli
24. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Arthur Miller
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Chloris/Flora
Irony
25. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
Rhymed Verse
Georg W. F. Hegel
D.W. Griffith
mosaics
26. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
alexander calder
presto
Foot
Jonathan Swift
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
Atomism
Merchant of Venice
Moral Philosophers
Humanism
28. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Neoclassicism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
29. Long-Long
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Pythagoras
renaissance
Spondaic Pattern
30. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Plato
Jules Verne
Libretto
William Shakespeare
31. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Antonio Gaudi
Sitar
Pythagoras
32. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Allegory
Hermes/Mercury
multi-media
Handel
33. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Gilbert Stuart
Metaphor
Peter Paul Rubens
American Indian Rugs
34. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
chalice
mosaics
George Sand
E.E. Cummings
35. Science fiction writer
El Greco
Issac Asimov
sculpture
Kouroi
36. Court dances
Francois Rabelais
Al Jolson
Pavane and the Polonaise
Fauvism
37. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Atomists
Onomatopoeia
Donatello
Hans-Georg Gadamer
38. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Honore de Balzac
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Edvard Greig
michelangelo
39. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Beethoven & Wagner
Charles Dickens
Rhymed Verse
40. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Lorraine Hansberry
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Epicureans
Mary Shelley
41. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Mannerism
Stravinsky
King Lear
42. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Onomatopoeia
Andrea Palladio
Classical Period
Mary Shelley
43. Rebirth
Mary Shelley
Eisenstein
renaissance
T.S. Eliot
44. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Greek Corinthian
Jane Austen
Hexameter
Usonian
45. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Simone De Beauvoir
Atomism
Greek Doric
Seurat
46. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
William Faulkner
Persian Rugs
Pablo Picasso
Edvard Greig
47. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Soliloquy
alexander calder
Daniel Defoe
48. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Apollo
Remington
Penny Marshall
Personification
49. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Serge Diaghilev
Heraclitus
High Renaissance
New Orleans
50. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
James Joyce
Hephaestus/Vulcan
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