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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
fresco
Reliquary
Lillian Gish
Da Vinci
2. 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
George Sand
dada school
Jonathan Swift
Aside
3. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Merchant of Venice
John Locke
ballet
4. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Masaccio
Christopher Wren
Verdi and Puccini
Pablo Picasso
5. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Apostrophe
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Bronte Sisters
Tchaikovsky
6. Five-foot line
Penny Marshall
aside
James Boswell
Pentameter
7. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
IM Pei
Remington
allegro
Aside
8. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
Minimalist Music
neo-classic period
Baroque Period
9. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
George Sand
Charles Dickens
sitar
10. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Denouement
Peter Paul Rubens
Medieval Architecture
Remington
11. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Metaphor
Handel
Salvador Dali
Charles Dickens
12. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Da Vinci
Personification
William Shakespeare
Renoir
13. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
The Pigeon House
sculpture
Vincent van Gogh
Andrew Wyeth
14. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Serge Diaghilev
Donatello
Poseidon/Neptune
15. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Art Deco Movement
Victor Hugo
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
16. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Delacroix
Lorraine Hansberry
Serge Diaghilev
17. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Le Corbusier
Verdi and Puccini
Hector Berlioz
Lindisfarne Gospel
18. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
flying buttress
John Locke
Andrea Palladio
19. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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20. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
Hagia Sophia
Socrates
Meter
Neoplatonism
21. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Guggenheim Museum
Alexander Dumas
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Mark Twain
22. Beuatiful with ornate borders
dada school
Trochaic pattern
Brussels tapestries
Guggenheim Museum
23. Long-Short-Short
cellini
Simone De Beauvoir
Athena/Minerva
Dactylic
24. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Symbolism
tempura
Christopher Marlowe
Vaishyas
25. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
allegro
Post Impressionism
Gouche
26. The Persistence of Memory
Macbeth
Didactic-ism
Beethoven & Wagner
Salvador Dali
27. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
sculpture
sitar
Hagia Sophia
Rococo
28. 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
Mosaic
George Sand
Epicureans
Barcelona Pavilion
29. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Da Vinci
Allegory
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
William Faulkner
30. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Flying buttresses
neo-classic period
louise nevelson
31. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Martha Graham
Tyche/Fortuna
flat
32. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Aside
T.S. Eliot
Merchant of Venice
Aristotle
33. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Pavane and the Polonaise
minuetto
Daniel Defoe
Hector Berlioz
34. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Neo-classic period
Pilgrim's Progress
soliloquy
mannerism
35. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Merchant of Venice
Aside
Sitar
Mary McCarthy
36. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Herman Melville
Greek Corinthian
Andrea Palladio
Andre Previn
37. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Pieta
Mary McCarthy
The Iliad
Plato
38. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Jonathan Swift
Andrea Palladio
39. Goddess of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Spondaic Pattern
Edvard Greig
40. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Jackson Pollock
Bayeux tapestry
neo-classic period
Book of Kells
41. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Alexander Dumas
Da Vinci
James Boswell
Gothic age architecture
42. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
French female pose
Flying buttress
Soliloquy
Plato
43. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Renaissance
flying buttress
Issac Asimov
Allegory
44. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Martha Graham
Mary Shelley
Simone De Beauvoir
Issac Asimov
45. Plato and Aristotle
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Persian Rugs
Moral Philosophers
Noh Theatre
46. 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
Modern Period
Tchaikovsky
Islam
ballet
47. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Foot
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Augustine Age
Doric
48. Spanish surrealist painter
Aside
Alexander Dumas
Athena/Minerva
Joan Miro
49. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Foot
Plato
Edmund Spenser
Corinthian
50. Painted 'The Bathers'
obelisk
Jean Fragonard
Mary Wollstonecraft
Monometer