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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Symbolism
Pilgrim's Progress
Rembrandt
Neo-classic period
2. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Apostrophe
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
American Indian Rugs
Macbeth
3. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Simone De Beauvoir
Jonathan Swift
Raphael
4. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Chopin
James Boswell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Simone De Beauvoir
5. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Octometer
Merchant of Venice
Martha Graham
Bronte Sisters
6. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Herman Melville
Athena/Minerva
Heptameter
Da Vinci
7. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Serge Diaghilev
Francois Rabelais
Apollo
Peter Paul Rubens
8. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Lillian Gish
Delacroix
Arthur Miller
Picasso
9. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Cynics
ballet
Honore de Balzac
Jonathan Swift
10. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Theme
Chalice
Joan Miro
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
11. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Bronte Sisters
Charles Dickens
Zeus/Jupiter
Donatello
12. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Arnold Schoenberg
cellini
Dionysus/Bacchus
Chopin
13. God of the Underworld and Death
Hades/Pluto
ballet
Beethoven & Wagner
Gilbert and Sullivan
14. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Jean Fragonard
Ray Bradbury
Jane Austen
15. 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.
Al Jolson
obelisk
Samuel Beckett
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
16. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Wyeth
Mark Twain
presto
Heraclitus
17. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Atomism
Classical Period
Stephen Foster
Moai
18. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
William Shakespeare
Mathew Brady
Trochaic pattern
19. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
alexander calder
Iambic pattern
Neoplatonism
Pentameter
20. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Edvard Greig
bel canto
Stephen Crane
21. 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
Andrew Wyeth
Hestia/Vesta
Brussels tapestries
Jonathan Swift
22. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Roman Basilica
Lillian Gish
F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
tragic figure
hagia sophia
Remington
William Shakespeare
24. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Samuel Beckett
Remington
Salvador Dali
25. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Kouroi
Neolithic
mannerism
Verdi and Puccini
26. Spanish surrealist painter
Jane Austen
Pilgrim's Progress
Salvador Dali
Fauvism
27. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Hades/Pluto
New Orleans
Buddhists
Delacroix
28. Pre-Socrates
Guggenheim Museum
Langston Hughes
Ray Bradbury
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
29. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Spondaic Pattern
Noh Theatre
Ionic
George Sand
30. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Serge Diaghilev
Francois Rabelais
Christopher Wren
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
31. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Tchaikovsky
Classical Period
Vaishyas
Impressionistic Art came before
32. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Manhattan Project
Othello
King Lear
Islam
33. French impressionist painter
Plato
Monet
Surrealism
Claude Monet
34. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Martha Graham
flat
George Sand
Claude Monet
35. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Charles Dickens
Mies van der Rohe
Plato
andante
36. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Christopher Wren
John Dryden
Bronte Sisters
Modern Period
37. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Federico Fellini
Peter Paul Rubens
Aside
Langston Hughes
38. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Ray Bradbury
Lionel Hampton
Eugene O'Neil
E.E. Cummings
39. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Persian Rugs
Pyrrhic Pattern
40. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Neoplatonism
bel canto
Langston Hughes
Simone De Beauvoir
41. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
Marc Chagall
Delacroix
mosaics
42. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Cubism
Josiah Wedgewood
Parmenides
Christopher Wren
43. Painted 'The Bathers'
William Faulkner
Jean Fragonard
Peter Paul Rubens
Botticelli
44. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Seurat
Henry Dixon Cowell
Josiah Wedgewood
45. British abstract sculptor
Fauvism
cellini
barbara hepworth
Aaron Copeland
46. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Michelangelo
tempura
Stephen Crane
Honore de Balzac
47. Wrote operas
Andrea Palladio
Thales
Francois Rabelais
Verdi and Puccini
48. 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).
Charles Dickens
Merry Wives of Windsor
reliquary
Heraclitus
49. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Socrates
louise nevelson
Cubism
Charles Dickens
50. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Alliteration
Hamlet
Giotto
Flying buttresses