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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God of War
Rembrandt
Serialism
Plato
Ares/Mars
2. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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3. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Zeus/Jupiter
The Panthenon
Artemis/Diana
Personification
4. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Langston Hughes
Johannes Brahms
Christopher Wren
Salvador Dali
5. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Joseph Conrad
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Meter
6. Opaque watercolor
Bayeux tapestry
gouche
Neoplatonism
Epicureans
7. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
aside
Aristotle
Jules Verne
8. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Giotto
Friedrich Nietzsche
Honore de Balzac
Niccolo Machiavelli
9. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
Al Jolson
obelisk
IM Pei
Athena/Minerva
10. Painted 'The Bathers'
Augustine Age
Thomas Edison
Mary McCarthy
Jean Fragonard
11. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Aristotle
Mies van der Rohe
Dante Aligheri
Gilbert Stuart
12. A capella singers
James Joyce
madrigal
Pablo Picasso
French female pose
13. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Alfred Hitchcock
Free Verse
Pavane and the Polonaise
14. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
dada school
Frank Gehry 1929
Aphrodite/Venus
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
James Boswell
tragic figure
James Joyce
16. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Mathew Brady
Ernest Hemingway
Degas
Simone De Beauvoir
17. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Greek Doric
Rembrandt
Alexander Dumas
18. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Stoicism
Confucianism
Apollo
Jackson Pollock
19. God of War
Metaphor
alexander calder
Apostrophe
Ares/Mars
20. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Aristotle
21. Fast
Jonathan Swift
presto
sitar
hagia sophia
22. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Peter Paul Rubens
Poseidon/Neptune
sitar
Ray Bradbury
23. 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
Alliteration
Tchaikovsky
Pilgrim's Progress
24. French 20th century architect
Noh Theatre
Daniel Defoe
Le Corbusier
The Iliad
25. Short-Long
John Dryden
tempura
Aaron Copeland
Iambic pattern
26. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Imagery
T.S. Eliot
constantin brancusi
Pearl Buck
27. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Joan Miro
28. Russian composer
sculpture
Delacroix
Aristotle
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
29. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Giotto
Plato
King Lear
Henry Dixon Cowell
30. The text of the opera
Niccolo Machiavelli
Libretto
French female pose
Trompe l'oeil
31. Fast
Daniel Defoe
madrigal
Free Verse
allegro
32. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Mosaic
Aristotle
John Locke
Renoir
33. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Trimeter
Bayeux tapestry
Pieta
Thales
34. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Kshatriyas
Jean Fragonard
Cynics
Lillian Gish
35. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
James Boswell
Christopher Wren
Tchaikovsky
pop art
36. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Simone De Beauvoir
Arthur Miller
presto
37. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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38. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
korai
Mary Wollstonecraft
oratorio
39. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Parmenides
Humanism
Jules Verne
Honore de Balzac
40. 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
Remington
Rembrandt
Issac Asimov
41. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aristotle
Edmund Spenser
Ernest Hemingway
42. 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).
Heraclitus
Beethoven & Wagner
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Chalice
43. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
King Lear
Remington
Verdi and Puccini
Mathew Brady
44. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Roman Basilica
Daniel Defoe
Stephen Foster
Edmund Spenser
45. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Hexameter
Charles Dickens
Moai
Federico Fellini
46. Georges Pierre Seurat
Shudras
Flying buttress
flat
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
47. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Jane Austen
Richard Sheridan
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Mozart and Richard Strauss
48. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Richard Sheridan
Dante Aligheri
Islam
Neolithic
49. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Impressionistic Art came before
The Panthenon
Andrea Palladio
Serialism
50. Rebirth
tempura
Renaissance
Hagia Sophia
Martin Heidegger