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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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.
High Renaissance Painters
Samuel Beckett
Surrealism
Hera/Juno
2. School of nonsense and anti-art
Mary McCarthy
dada school
Othello
Honore de Balzac
3. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Federico Fellini
Seurat
Leonardo da Vinci
4. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Pyrrhic Pattern
Rembrandt
renaissance
henry moore
5. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Brahmans
Josiah Wedgewood
The Panthenon
Mies van der Rohe
6. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Edmund Spenser
D.W. Griffith
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Issac Asimov
7. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Othello
Serge Diaghilev
Fauvism
8. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Free Verse
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
madrigal
Gilbert and Sullivan
9. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Historians
Henrik Ibsen
Othello
Handel
10. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Pyrrhic Pattern
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
Greek Ionic
11. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Merry Wives of Windsor
Plato
aside
Arnold Schoenberg
12. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Versailles
Honore de Balzac
andante
Federico Fellini
13. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
tragic figure
Renoir
Delacroix
Neoplatonism
14. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Irony
Reliquary
multi-media
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Composer - conductor and pianist
Ghiberti
Beethoven & Wagner
Gilbert Stuart
Andre Previn
16. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bronte Sisters
James Joyce
Thomas Edison
17. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Federico Fellini
Atomism
Corinthian
18. Science fiction writer
French Romantic painter
Issac Asimov
Leo Tolstoy
madrigal
19. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
sitar
scrim
Ernest Hemingway
George Sand
20. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Alfred Hitchcock
Aristotle
T.S. Eliot
21. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Mozart and Richard Strauss
A short syllable
Hexameter
22. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Herman Melville
Jean Jacques Rousseau
pop art
Lionel Hampton
23. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Salvador Dali
Neo-classic period
Josiah Wedgewood
24. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Niccolo Machiavelli
Cubism
Peter Paul Rubens
Herman Melville
25. 20th Century American composer
Eugene Delacroix
pieta
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Henry Dixon Cowell
26. God of Wildlife
Rene Descartes
Artemis/Diana
Henry Dixon Cowell
Mary Wollstonecraft
27. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
James Joyce
Didactic-ism
Joseph Conrad
cellini
28. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
scrim
madrigal
Parmenides
29. 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.
Historians
allegro
D.W. Griffith
Merchant of Venice
30. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Eugene O'Neil
multi-media
Giotto
Gouche
31. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Fauvism
Chopin
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Victor Hugo
32. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Symbolism
Noh Theatre
Joseph Conrad
Romanesque Style
33. School of nonsense and anti-art
Henry Dixon Cowell
Chopin
Dada school
Popular Transcendentalists
34. Wrote Rivals
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Martha Graham
Thales
Richard Sheridan
35. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Francois Rabelais
Aaron Copeland
Gothic age architecture
Immanuel Kant
36. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Lorraine Hansberry
Mathew Brady
Usonian
James Boswell
37. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Stephen Crane
William Faulkner
Henrik Ibsen
Atomism
38. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Socrates
T.S. Eliot
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Heraclitus
39. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
madrigal
Aubrey Beardsley
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
40. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
pop art
Samuel Beckett
American Indian Rugs
F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Joseph Conrad
Persian Rugs
Frank Lloyd Wright
42. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Persian Rugs
Martha Graham
New Orleans
43. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
James Boswell
Lao Tzu
Charles Dickens
Brunelleschi
44. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Andrea Palladio
Reliquary
Merry Wives of Windsor
Minimalist Music
45. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Martin Heidegger
Manhattan Project
Joseph Conrad
Othello
46. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
T.S. Eliot
Scott Joplin
Art Deco Movement
Alfred Hitchcock
47. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Hector Berlioz
Neo-classic period
Eros/Cupid
Dionysus/Bacchus
48. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Transcendentalism
louise nevelson
Cervantes
Edmund Spenser
49. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Impressionism
E.E. Cummings
Henry Dixon Cowell
aside
50. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Mosaic
French Romantic painter
korai
Parmenides
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