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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
korai
Federico Fellini
Handel
Gothic age architecture
2. Leucippus and Democritus
Post and Lintel
gothic age architecture
Atomists
Thales
3. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Trimeter
Mark Twain
Foot
Hector Berlioz
4. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
oratorio
Free Verse
Barcelona Pavilion
Niccolo Machiavelli
5. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
chalice
Edvard Greig
Alfred Hitchcock
Plato
6. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Andrew Wyeth
A short syllable
Giotto
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
7. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
New Orleans
Herman Melville
Martha Graham
8. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Dante Aligheri
New Orleans
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Daniel Defoe
9. Short-Long
Brussels tapestries
Alfred Hitchcock
Merry Wives of Windsor
Iambic pattern
10. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Stoicism
Ghiberti
Edvard Greig
Libretto
11. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Ray Bradbury
John Locke
Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
12. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Trompe l'oeil
Atomism
Hector Berlioz
13. Painted 'The Bathers'
allegro
Usonian
Jean Fragonard
Pythagoras
14. 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.
Pavane and the Polonaise
Tchaikovsky
Leo Tolstoy
D.W. Griffith
15. God of Wine
Ray Bradbury
Al Jolson
Picasso
Dionysus/Bacchus
16. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Vincent van Gogh
cellini
Frank Gehry 1929
17. 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
Macbeth
D.W. Griffith
Gilbert Stuart
18. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Flying buttress
Pilgrim's Progress
Mannerism
Aphrodite/Venus
19. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Thomas Edison
pieta
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Tempura
20. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Salvador Dali
pieta
New Orleans
21. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Arthur Miller
Scott Joplin
Aristotle
Bronte Sisters
22. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
American Indian Rugs
fresco
Seurat
Mies van der Rohe
23. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
bel canto
Tchaikovsky
Flying buttress
Barcelona Pavilion
24. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Classical Period
Giotto
Honore de Balzac
Andre Previn
25. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Picasso
Edmund Spenser
mosaics
Rhymed Verse
26. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Handel
hagia sophia
Parmenides
Mies van der Rohe
27. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Bronte Sisters
Phoebus/Apollo
sculpture
Usonian
28. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Donatello
Victor Hugo
Jules Verne
sitar
29. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Honore de Balzac
Greek Corinthian
Charles Dickens
Stephen Crane
30. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
William Shakespeare
Foot
Impressionistic Art came before
Cervantes
31. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Lillian Gish
James Boswell
Simone De Beauvoir
32. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Hephaestus/Vulcan
obelisk
Christopher Wren
Mannerism
33. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Thomas Hobbes
fresco
bust
Richard Sheridan
34. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Pearl Buck
mosaics
George Sand
Arnold Schoenberg
35. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Kronos/Saturn
Alice Walker
The Pigeon House
36. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Federico Fellini
Hamlet
Pentameter
37. Court dances
Vincent van Gogh
Byzantine Style
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Pavane and the Polonaise
38. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Celtic Art
Tetrameter
Picasso
Macbeth
39. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
bust
Donatello
french female pose
40. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Victor Hugo
Andrea Palladio
Salvador Dali
41. 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.
D.W. Griffith
Mies van der Rohe
Donatello
bust
42. French 20th century architect
chalice
Le Corbusier
Handel
gouche
43. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Alexander Dumas
T.S. Eliot
Vincent van Gogh
Leo Tolstoy
44. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Barcelona Pavilion
pop art
James Joyce
Hamlet
45. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Hades/Pluto
Mies van der Rohe
Jean Fragonard
Pearl Buck
46. Played the xylophone and marimba
Alexander Dumas
ballet
Lionel Hampton
Federico Fellini
47. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
sculpture
Apollo
tragic figure
48. 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
Merry Wives of Windsor
Aaron Copeland
Thomas Edison
Francesco Petrarch
49. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Persian Rugs
Hellenistic Period
Thomas Edison
King Lear
50. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Remington
Beethoven & Wagner
Onomatopoeia