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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Hera/Juno
Francois Rabelais
Parmenides
2. French 20th century architect
Le Corbusier
Eisenstein
Mathew Brady
Georgia O'Keefe
3. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Seurat
Jules Verne
Hans-Georg Gadamer
4. Leucippus and Democritus
Romanticism Movement
IM Pei
Stoicism
Atomists
5. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
T.S. Eliot
Renoir
Hector Berlioz
Merry Wives of Windsor
6. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Artemis/Diana
alexander calder
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
7. Composer - conductor and pianist
Mannerism
Andre Previn
Edvard Greig
Ballet
8. Famous French impressionist composer
Cervantes
Claude Debussy
allegro
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
9. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Kshatriyas
Paleolithic
Michelangelo
flat
10. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Andrew Wyeth
Tyche/Fortuna
Tetrameter
Georg W. F. Hegel
11. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Plato
Ray Bradbury
Pablo Picasso
Simone De Beauvoir
12. Goddess of Agriculture
Kouroi
Demeter/Ceres
Antonio Gaudi
Plato
13. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Johannes Brahms
Beethoven & Wagner
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
14. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Issac Asimov
Alexander Dumas
Vincent van Gogh
15. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Post and Lintel
Gilbert Stuart
Byzantine Style
Ray Bradbury
16. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
The Pigeon House
Obelisk
Mosaic
Kouroi
17. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Lorraine Hansberry
chalice
Pearl Buck
18. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
El Greco
obelisk
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Parmenides
19. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Renoir
Flying buttresses
Bayeux tapestry
20. God of the underworld - and wealth
Hades/Pluto
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Cervantes
Salvador Dali
21. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Hermes/Mercury
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Noh Theatre
Persian Rugs
22. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Sitar
Aubrey Beardsley
Lorraine Hansberry
Edvard Greig
23. 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
Jane Austen
Honore de Balzac
Tetrameter
Islam
24. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
T.S. Eliot
Seurat
Edvard Greig
Popular Transcendentalists
25. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Eisenstein
Atomism
Alfred Hitchcock
Tetrameter
26. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
El Greco
Georg W. F. Hegel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eugene O'Neil
27. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Arthur Miller
Theme
Giotto
Charles Dickens
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
Mozart and Richard Strauss
James Joyce
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
George Sand
29. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Ballet
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
tempura
Simile
30. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Al Jolson
Impressionistic Art came before
Charles Dickens
31. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Chartres Cathedral
Merry Wives of Windsor
Johannes Brahms
Andrea Palladio
32. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
alexander calder
Blank Verse
Pallas Athena/Minerva
33. Beautiful Italian singing
bel canto
Irony
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Victor Hugo
34. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Federico Fellini
Taoism
Gilbert and Sullivan
Brahmans
35. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
fresco
mosaics
Atomism
Salvador Dali
36. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
William Faulkner
Vermeer
Art Deco Movement
Stephen Crane
37. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Scott Joplin
The Panthenon
Blank Verse
Aubrey Beardsley
38. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Sitar
flat
Delacroix
Maia/Fauna
39. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
Impressionism
Le Corbusier
Mary McCarthy
Henrik Ibsen
40. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Transcendentalism
Symbolism
Vincent van Gogh
41. School of nonsense and anti-art
El Greco
dada school
oratorio
tempura
42. Rebirth
renaissance
Phoebus/Apollo
andante
Mies van der Rohe
43. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Kshatriyas
Pavane and the Polonaise
sculpture
Foot
44. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
Michelangelo
Jackson Pollock
French Romantic painter
45. Short-Short-Long
Anapestic Pattern
bel canto
Merchant of Venice
Libretto
46. Russian composer
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
tempura
gouche
Neoclassicism
47. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Neolithic
Chopin
Henrik Ibsen
Lillian Gish
48. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Pythagoras
French female pose
King Lear
49. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
michelangelo
Andrea Palladio
Neolithic
50. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Rene Descartes
Pilgrim's Progress
Pallas Athena/Minerva
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891