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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote Rivals
Fresco
Pilgrim's Progress
Richard Sheridan
Scrim
2. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Aaron Copeland
Christopher Wren
Humanism
Mary Shelley
3. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Dante Aligheri
Cervantes
Persian Rugs
4. British abstract sculptor
Stoicism
Degas
barbara hepworth
Monet
5. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Picasso
madrigal
Henri Matisse
6. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Kouroi
Obelisk
Rembrandt
James Joyce
7. 20th Century American composer
hagia sophia
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Henry Dixon Cowell
aside
8. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Mathew Brady
Ballet
Penny Marshall
Alexander Dumas
9. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chloris/Flora
Dionysus/Bacchus
10. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Martin Heidegger
Frank Gehry 1929
Da Vinci
11. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Eugene O'Neil
Pilgrim's Progress
Artemis/Diana
The Panthenon
12. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Surrealism
Cerros
Eisenstein
13. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Atomists
Picasso
Bayeux tapestry
14. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Eugene Delacroix
michelangelo
James Joyce
Confucianism
15. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Byzantine Style
Stephen Crane
Renoir
Brussels tapestries
16. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
barbara hepworth
Vermeer
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Christopher Wren
17. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
reliquary
Aphrodite/Venus
Mary Shelley
18. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edvard Greig
Mathew Brady
Jonathan Swift
19. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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20. 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
Aaron Copeland
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Tyche/Fortuna
21. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Degas
Simone Martini
Jules Verne
22. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Artemis/Diana
Cervantes
The Panthenon
Edmund Spenser
23. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Lao Tzu
Degas
Historians
Issac Asimov
24. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Iambic pattern
Irony
Jonathan Swift
Socrates
25. God of Wine and Theatre
Dionysus/Bacchus
Alexander Dumas
Plato
allegro
26. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Henry Dixon Cowell
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
27. The text of the opera
High Renaissance Painters
Libretto
Honore de Balzac
Bayeux tapestry
28. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Andrew Wyeth
Byzantine Style
Langston Hughes
Hector Berlioz
29. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Picasso
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Noh Theatre
30. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Chopin
Alexander Dumas
Raphael
Andrew Wyeth
31. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Brahmans
Pablo Picasso
Herman Melville
Pythagoras
32. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
A short syllable
Socrates
Mary Shelley
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
33. 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.
Stephen Foster
Samuel Beckett
Edvard Greig
pieta
34. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Jules Verne
Edvard Greig
Andrew Wyeth
35. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Dactylic
Victor Hugo
Trimeter
Christopher Wren
36. Plato and Aristotle
Hermes/Mercury
Moral Philosophers
Thomas Edison
Jean Fragonard
37. Repititions of geometric lines
Henry Dixon Cowell
American Indian Rugs
Richard Sheridan
minuetto
38. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Artemis/Diana
andante
Neoplatonism
alexander calder
39. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Remington
neo-classic period
Thomas Edison
reliquary
40. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Da Vinci
Edmund Spenser
Thales
Persian Rugs
41. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
T.S. Eliot
Penny Marshall
Eugene O'Neil
Herman Melville
42. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
El Greco
Masaccio
Renoir
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
43. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Post and Lintel
Seurat
multi-media
Salvador Dali
44. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Lillian Gish
John Locke
Aubrey Beardsley
Confucianism
45. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Pyrrhic Pattern
Ray Bradbury
T.S. Eliot
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
46. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chloris/Flora
Giotto
Chopin
Maia/Fauna
47. Long-Long
Spondaic Pattern
Langston Hughes
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Post and Lintel
48. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Iambic pattern
Zeno
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
49. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Gilbert Stuart
Atomism
Josiah Wedgewood
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
50. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Eisenstein
T.S. Eliot
Bronte Sisters
Noh Theatre