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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Thucydides and Herodotus
minuetto
Michelangelo
Hermes/Mercury
Historians
2. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Chopin
Vermeer
renaissance
neo-classic period
3. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Neoclassicism
soliloquy
gothic age architecture
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
4. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Scott Joplin
Augustine Age
Serge Diaghilev
Macbeth
5. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
louise nevelson
T.S. Eliot
Samuel Beckett
tempura
6. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Theme
Pieta
Othello
Penny Marshall
7. Court dances
dada school
chalice
Pavane and the Polonaise
Merchant of Venice
8. 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.
Bayeux tapestry
Joseph Conrad
T.S. Eliot
Renaissance Art
9. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Fauvism
Remington
El Greco
Mary Shelley
10. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Francois Rabelais
Tchaikovsky
flat
Aphrodite/Venus
11. DNA of the song
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Pentatonic Scale
Chopin
Simone De Beauvoir
12. God of Wine
El Greco
Dionysus/Bacchus
Simone De Beauvoir
andante
13. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Jane Austen
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Tempura
14. Long-Short
Pablo Picasso
french female pose
Soliloquy
Trochaic pattern
15. Painted 'The Bathers'
William Wordsworth
sculpture
Jean Fragonard
Mozart and Richard Strauss
16. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Trimeter
New Orleans
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
17. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
presto
Arnold Schoenberg
Rembrandt
18. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
Pablo Picasso
tragic figure
Athena/Minerva
Mary Wollstonecraft
19. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Flying buttresses
Art Deco Movement
Zeno
William Faulkner
20. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Plato
Remington
Apostrophe
Johannes Brahms
21. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Buddhists
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mannerism
22. Short-Short-Long
Jonathan Swift
Cynics
Anapestic Pattern
Jackson Pollock
23. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Da Vinci
Islam
William Shakespeare
El Greco
24. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
Eugene Delacroix
Doric
T.S. Eliot
25. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Francois Rabelais
Denouement
Demeter/Ceres
Vaishyas
26. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
sculpture
Scott Joplin
The Parthenon
D.W. Griffith
27. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Aristotle
Mary McCarthy
Brussels tapestries
Joan Miro
28. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Daniel Defoe
Lionel Hampton
Ray Bradbury
Zeno
29. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Parmenides
Hermes/Mercury
Jonathan Swift
Bolero
30. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Gilbert Stuart
Buddhists
Flat
Cervantes
31. Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Hera/Juno
Merry Wives of Windsor
gouche
32. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Atomism
Augustine Age
Bolero
Andre Previn
33. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
William Wordsworth
Eugene O'Neil
Beethoven & Wagner
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
34. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Phoebus/Apollo
Giotto
pieta
Bronte Sisters
35. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
John Roebling
Jackson Pollock
Tragic Playwrights
36. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Pablo Picasso
ballet
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Obelisk
37. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
El Greco
Beethoven & Wagner
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Mary Shelley
38. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Edgar Allen Poe
Romanticism Movement
Delacroix
Plato
39. 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.
Aubrey Beardsley
Heptameter
Samuel Beckett
Reliquary
40. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Da Vinci
Epicureans
James Boswell
presto
41. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Renoir
Doric
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Aaron Copeland
42. Repititions of geometric lines
American Indian Rugs
Mathew Brady
Bayeux tapestry
Cervantes
43. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Pearl Buck
Pablo Picasso
Brunelleschi
44. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Cervantes
Onomatopoeia
Anapestic Pattern
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
45. The text of the opera
Soliloquy
Jonathan Swift
Libretto
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
46. 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.
Salvador Dali
Persian Rugs
D.W. Griffith
Epicureans
47. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Islam
Macbeth
48. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Claude Debussy
Flying buttress
pieta
49. 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.
Lionel Hampton
mannerism
Martin Heidegger
Thomas Edison
50. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
Pearl Buck
Renoir
Richard Sheridan
William Blake