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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Joseph Conrad
soliloquy
Remington
Noh Theatre
2. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
George Sand
Eugene O'Neil
A short syllable
3. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Athena/Minerva
Poseidon/Neptune
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Post and Lintel
4. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
mosaics
Metaphor
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Charles Dickens
5. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Lorraine Hansberry
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Beethoven & Wagner
Humanism
6. 20th Century American composer
Vermeer
Martin Heidegger
Henry Dixon Cowell
Thales
7. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
American Indian Rugs
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Mary McCarthy
Alexander Dumas
8. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
John Locke
T.S. Eliot
Pythagoras
Gilbert and Sullivan
9. 20th Century American composer
Personification
Henry Dixon Cowell
Moai
Penny Marshall
10. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Versailles
Atomism
Rembrandt
Mark Twain
11. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Jonathan Swift
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Othello
tragic figure
12. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
soliloquy
Irony
Al Jolson
13. God of War
Ares/Mars
George Sand
Fauvism
Eisenstein
14. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Rococo
Mathew Brady
Macbeth
Penny Marshall
15. 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
Picasso
Alexander Dumas
Merchant of Venice
16. Repititions of geometric lines
American Indian Rugs
High Renaissance
flying buttress
Romanesque Style
17. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Stephen Foster
Parmenides
Rembrandt
Thomas Edison
18. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Mary Shelley
fresco
Hagia Sophia
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
19. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Paleolithic
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Bronte Sisters
A short syllable
20. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
New Orleans
Honore de Balzac
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Pablo Picasso
21. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Delacroix
soliloquy
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Islam
22. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
constantin brancusi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Francois Rabelais
23. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Alexander Dumas
Foot
Brussels tapestries
24. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Jonathan Swift
Lao Tzu
Satire
25. God of Wildlife
Artemis/Diana
barbara hepworth
fresco
Stephen Foster
26. 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
Doric
Aphrodite/Venus
Vincent van Gogh
27. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Salvador Dali
Josiah Wedgewood
IM Pei
Issac Asimov
28. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Monet
Da Vinci
Issac Asimov
Epicureans
29. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
The Pigeon House
Tyche/Fortuna
Honore de Balzac
Pablo Picasso
30. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Federico Fellini
Paleolithic
Byzantine Style
Denouement
31. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Poseidon/Neptune
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Pilgrim's Progress
pop art
32. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Christopher Wren
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vincent van Gogh
Da Vinci
33. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Salvador Dali
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poseidon/Neptune
Cervantes
34. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
scrim
William Faulkner
Donatello
Epicureans
35. 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
michelangelo
Henry Dixon Cowell
Roman Basilica
El Greco
36. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Socrates
Seurat
37. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Mies van der Rohe
Jane Austen
E.E. Cummings
Art Deco Movement
38. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Masaccio
Stephen Foster
Popular Transcendentalists
Jules Verne
39. God of Wine
Dionysus/Bacchus
Pilgrim's Progress
Cervantes
Renaissance
40. Goddess of Hunting
Salvador Dali
Noh Theatre
Seurat
Artemis/Diana
41. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Salvador Dali
Humanism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Wyeth
42. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Persian Rugs
Modern Period
Cynics
Renaissance Art
43. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Delacroix
Hades/Pluto
Salvador Dali
44. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Raphael
Confucianism
Christopher Wren
William Faulkner
45. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Jules Verne
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Tragic Playwrights
Christopher Wren
46. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Didactic-ism
Eugene O'Neil
Aristotle
Herman Melville
47. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
James Boswell
French female pose
Serialism
Othello
48. Beautiful Italian singing
Jonathan Swift
Richard Sheridan
Salvador Dali
bel canto
49. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Bayeux tapestry
Tempura
Ares/Mars
minuetto
50. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Frank Lloyd Wright
gothic age architecture
Verdi and Puccini
Ray Bradbury