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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
High Renaissance Painters
Hades/Pluto
Ionic
Phoebus/Apollo
2. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Moai
Celtic Art
D.W. Griffith
Mies van der Rohe
3. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Frank Lloyd Wright
dada school
William Shakespeare
James Joyce
4. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
T.S. Eliot
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
constantin brancusi
Mary Wollstonecraft
5. Repititions of geometric lines
Post and Lintel
Jane Austen
American Indian Rugs
Josiah Wedgewood
6. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Martin Heidegger
William Faulkner
Art Deco Movement
Seurat
7. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Maia/Fauna
gothic age architecture
Le Corbusier
A long syllable
8. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Mies van der Rohe
Mathew Brady
Jane Austen
9. Three dimensional work of art - statue
sculpture
Bernini
Aubrey Beardsley
Monometer
10. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Thomas Edison
Joan Miro
Degas
Renaissance Art
11. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Aaron Copeland
Fauvism
Scrim
Mary Shelley
12. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
Trimeter
Monet
Ionic
13. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Mary McCarthy
Da Vinci
Federico Fellini
14. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Macbeth
Bronte Sisters
15. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Hamlet
Mary McCarthy
ballet
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
16. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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17. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
Cervantes
Picasso
18. Thucydides and Herodotus
bust
Mary Shelley
mosaics
Historians
19. Goddess of Fortune
gothic age architecture
French Romantic painter
sculpture
Tyche/Fortuna
20. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Cynics
Stephen Crane
Vincent van Gogh
King Lear
21. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
Seurat
Trompe l'oeil
Metaphor
22. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
James Joyce
Aristotle
Macbeth
Merry Wives of Windsor
23. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
hagia sophia
Greek Ionic
William Shakespeare
Flat
24. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Thomas Edison
Andrea Palladio
andante
Gilbert Stuart
25. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Peter Paul Rubens
Martha Graham
Whole Tone Scale
tempura
26. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Gothic age architecture
Sitar
Alliteration
Surrealism
27. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Aaron Copeland
Andrew Wyeth
Brussels tapestries
Aristotle
28. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Joseph Conrad
Bronte Sisters
mosaics
Dimeter
29. Wrote operas
Modern Period
George Sand
Verdi and Puccini
Cubism
30. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Baroque art
Noh Theatre
constantin brancusi
Delacroix
31. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Bolero
Artemis/Diana
Neo-classic period
Brahmans
32. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Christopher Marlowe
Gilbert and Sullivan
Humanism
33. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Mannerism
Manichaeism
Vermeer
34. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Denouement
sitar
cellini
35. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
sculpture
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Shudras
36. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
T.S. Eliot
Tragic Playwrights
Eisenstein
Reliquary
37. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Dionysus/Bacchus
Al Jolson
Edmund Spenser
Socrates
38. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
King Lear
Rembrandt
Raphael
Henrik Ibsen
39. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Samuel Beckett
Seurat
Bronte Sisters
Georg W. F. Hegel
40. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Brussels tapestries
Dimeter
Josiah Wedgewood
Honore de Balzac
41. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Impressionism
Hades/Pluto
Chopin
Greek Ionic
42. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Fauvism
sculpture
Cimabue
Plato
43. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Imagery
oratorio
Johannes Brahms
44. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
T.S. Eliot
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Zeno
Chartres Cathedral
45. Fast
presto
Federico Fellini
Alice Walker
renaissance
46. 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
Penny Marshall
Epicureans
Plato
Brussels tapestries
47. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
soliloquy
Aubrey Beardsley
Henrik Ibsen
Langston Hughes
48. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Georgia O'Keeffe
Hector Berlioz
Henri Matisse
Hestia/Vesta
49. Famous French impressionist composer
New Orleans
Pavane and the Polonaise
allegro
Claude Debussy
50. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
pieta
Herman Melville
Free Verse
Neo-classic period