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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Beethoven & Wagner
Delacroix
Arthur Miller
2. Spanish surrealist painter
Bronte Sisters
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Joan Miro
chalice
3. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Eugene O'Neil
constantin brancusi
Pentameter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. God of Wine and Theatre
James Boswell
Joan Miro
Dionysus/Bacchus
Sitar
5. Long-Short-Short
Dactylic
Socrates
Neo-classic period
Andrea Palladio
6. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Issac Asimov
Da Vinci
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hellenistic Period
7. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Confucianism
Picasso
Apostrophe
Charles Dickens
8. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
flat
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
tragic figure
Picasso
9. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Book of Durrow
flying buttress
The Parthenon
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
10. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
louise nevelson
Mary McCarthy
Brussels tapestries
Christopher Marlowe
11. Famous French impressionist composer
Mark Twain
Cervantes
Claude Debussy
Georgia O'Keefe
12. I and the Village
Claude Monet
Jean Fragonard
Marc Chagall
Hamlet
13. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Eugene Delacroix
Tragic figure
Al Jolson
A long syllable
14. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Guggenheim Museum
Eugene O'Neil
Botticelli
Alexander Dumas
15. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
American Indian Rugs
Pablo Picasso
John Dryden
sculpture
16. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Salvador Dali
Rene Descartes
Frank Lloyd Wright
Merchant of Venice
17. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Renaissance Art
louise nevelson
Hephaestus/Vulcan
soliloquy
18. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Georgia O'Keeffe
Langston Hughes
Book of Kells
19. One unit of meter in poetry
Verdi and Puccini
T.S. Eliot
Sitar
Foot
20. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
Serialism
Daniel Defoe
Jean Jacques Rousseau
D.W. Griffith
21. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Arnold Schoenberg
Poseidon/Neptune
Macbeth
22. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Jules Verne
Martin Heidegger
Giotto
Pavane and the Polonaise
23. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
D.W. Griffith
Mary Shelley
Dactylic
24. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Johannes Brahms
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Daniel Defoe
25. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Serge Diaghilev
Immanuel Kant
Epic
Macbeth
26. God of War
Renoir
Issac Asimov
Langston Hughes
Ares/Mars
27. God of Wildlife
Artemis/Diana
Mies van der Rohe
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
28. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
flat
Mies van der Rohe
Edgar Allen Poe
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
29. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Da Vinci
Historians
minuetto
30. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Scrim
Tyche/Fortuna
Aubrey Beardsley
Flying buttresses
31. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Impressionistic Art came before
louise nevelson
Plato
32. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Joan Miro
Lao Tzu
Henri Matisse
Moral Philosophers
33. Rebirth
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Kshatriyas
Martha Graham
renaissance
34. Mannerism painter
Buddhists
Mosaic
James Joyce
El Greco
35. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
fresco
Charles Dickens
Apollo
Gilbert Stuart
36. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
New Orleans
Henri Matisse
Book of Durrow
37. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
fresco
Mark Twain
Aubrey Beardsley
French female pose
38. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Vincent van Gogh
Picasso
Chopin
French female pose
39. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Gilbert Stuart
Alexander Dumas
William Faulkner
Othello
40. The Starry Night
William Faulkner
Gilbert and Sullivan
Chopin
Vincent van Gogh
41. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Rembrandt
Atomism
Degas
42. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Hyperbole
Le Corbusier
Gilbert Stuart
michelangelo
43. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Pilgrim's Progress
Brussels tapestries
hagia sophia
44. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Seurat
Atomism
Confucianism
Francois Rabelais
45. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Andre Previn
Impressionistic Art came before
Heraclitus
Renaissance
46. Long-Long
Maia/Fauna
Spondaic Pattern
George Sand
Christopher Wren
47. Leucippus and Democritus
The Parthenon
Atomists
Brahmans
louise nevelson
48. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Obelisk
Giotto
tragic figure
Doric
49. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Andrea Palladio
Socrates
Zeno
presto
50. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
James Joyce
Gilbert and Sullivan
Arnold Schoenberg
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943