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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Stephen Crane
Athena/Minerva
King Lear
Merchant of Venice
2. Wrote Rivals
Stephen Foster
Ionic
Neo-classic period
Richard Sheridan
3. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Da Vinci
Edmund Spenser
Rhymed Verse
bust
4. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
High Renaissance
Serialism
Christopher Marlowe
5. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Pyrrhic Pattern
Thales
Aphrodite/Venus
Joan Miro
6. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
chalice
Macbeth
James Boswell
7. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
James Boswell
Bronte Sisters
Joseph Conrad
Alfred Hitchcock
8. Rebirth
Alfred Hitchcock
Henrik Ibsen
Renaissance
High Renaissance
9. Spanish surrealist painter
ballet
Charles Dickens
Joan Miro
Mary Shelley
10. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Peter Paul Rubens
Edmund Spenser
Scott Joplin
Aubrey Beardsley
11. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Personification
Mies van der Rohe
Book of Durrow
Impressionism
12. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
obelisk
bust
Alexander Dumas
Guggenheim Museum
13. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
scrim
bel canto
Mary Shelley
Aaron Copeland
14. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Bernini
Mary Wollstonecraft
Socrates
King Lear
15. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
reliquary
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Post and Lintel
Delacroix
16. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Arnold Schoenberg
El Greco
Mary Shelley
Remington
17. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Heraclitus
Jane Austen
Andre Previn
Henrik Ibsen
18. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Joan Miro
Scott Joplin
Ares/Mars
19. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Minimalist Music
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mary Wollstonecraft
minuetto
20. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Corinthian
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Tragic Playwrights
Serge Diaghilev
21. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
IM Pei
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Moai
Tchaikovsky
22. Opaque watercolor
Bronte Sisters
Aaron Copeland
Gouche
Chopin
23. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
renaissance
Mary McCarthy
Da Vinci
Andrea Palladio
24. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Andrea Palladio
Joseph Conrad
Handel
Serge Diaghilev
25. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Salvador Dali
Arnold Schoenberg
Arthur Miller
26. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Ray Bradbury
Alfred Hitchcock
Arthur Miller
William Shakespeare
27. 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.
Jackson Pollock
Blank Verse
mannerism
Aphrodite/Venus
28. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Gilbert Stuart
Dionysus/Bacchus
Stephen Crane
Thomas Edison
29. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
French Romantic painter
Cimabue
Serge Diaghilev
William Blake
30. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Iambic pattern
aside
Mary McCarthy
Bronte Sisters
31. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Romanesque Style
Edmund Spenser
Buddhists
Henry Dixon Cowell
32. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Remington
Martha Graham
Jackson Pollock
33. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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34. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
Greek Doric
Remington
Anapestic Pattern
35. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Handel
Alfred Hitchcock
Minimalist Music
barbara hepworth
36. 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.
Gilbert Stuart
Stephen Crane
D.W. Griffith
Merry Wives of Windsor
37. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
Byzantine Style
The Pigeon House
Alfred Hitchcock
Federico Fellini
38. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Federico Fellini
Socrates
Post and Lintel
Onomatopoeia
39. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Surrealism
constantin brancusi
Simone De Beauvoir
gothic age architecture
40. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Christopher Wren
Jean Fragonard
Othello
Joan Miro
41. School of nonsense and anti-art
Rhymed Verse
dada school
Tragic Playwrights
Byzantine Style
42. God of the sea
Gilbert and Sullivan
Poseidon/Neptune
New Orleans
Salvador Dali
43. Beautiful Italian singing
Jules Verne
Frank Gehry 1929
bel canto
Gothic age architecture
44. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
renaissance
Foot
Edmund Spenser
45. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
french female pose
Anapestic Pattern
Cervantes
Donatello
46. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Modern Period
Eugene O'Neil
Salvador Dali
Reliquary
47. Fast
allegro
John Dryden
Hephaestus/Vulcan
John Roebling
48. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Brussels tapestries
Lindisfarne Gospel
Antonio Gaudi
mannerism
49. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Christopher Marlowe
Trochaic pattern
Joseph Conrad
50. God of War
Jean Jacques Rousseau
renaissance
Ares/Mars
Scott Joplin
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