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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
chalice
Libretto
Mary Shelley
2. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Pearl Buck
aside
A short syllable
New Orleans
3. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Jonathan Swift
Usonian
Christopher Wren
cellini
4. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
George Sand
louise nevelson
Jane Austen
Botticelli
5. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Eisenstein
sitar
Delacroix
6. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Honore de Balzac
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Salvador Dali
7. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Jane Austen
Hestia/Vesta
french female pose
Thales
8. Long-Long
Verdi and Puccini
Spondaic Pattern
Serialism
Cervantes
9. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edvard Greig
french female pose
Giotto
10. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Greek Ionic
Le Corbusier
Penny Marshall
Lorraine Hansberry
11. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Atomism
The Iliad
Parmenides
12. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Rembrandt
renaissance
Pablo Picasso
Romanesque Style
13. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Greek Ionic
Arthur Miller
14. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Merchant of Venice
Bernini
Giotto
15. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Jean Fragonard
Theme
Handel
16. Beautiful Italian singing
Martha Graham
bel canto
Degas
Rene Descartes
17. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Hector Berlioz
chalice
Shudras
Honore de Balzac
18. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Denouement
sitar
Hexameter
Anapestic Pattern
19. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Henrik Ibsen
Martha Graham
flying buttress
Pentameter
20. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Merchant of Venice
fresco
Eros/Cupid
Jackson Pollock
21. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
pieta
Pearl Buck
Joseph Conrad
The Muses
22. Goddess of Wisdom
Gouche
Mary Wollstonecraft
Noh Theatre
Pallas Athena/Minerva
23. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Fresco
Degas
Edmund Spenser
Stephen Crane
24. Four-foot line
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Tetrameter
Gilbert and Sullivan
T.S. Eliot
25. The text of the opera
Brussels tapestries
Atomists
Libretto
William Shakespeare
26. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
hagia sophia
Tragic figure
Gothic age architecture
Fauvism
27. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Seurat
Joseph Conrad
Penny Marshall
28. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
louise nevelson
presto
Niccolo Machiavelli
29. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Christopher Wren
Degas
William Shakespeare
constantin brancusi
30. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Meter
Claude Debussy
James Joyce
31. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Jane Austen
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Andrea Palladio
Brussels tapestries
32. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
Irony
William Blake
33. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
mosaics
Andrea Palladio
Niccolo Machiavelli
Symbolism
34. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Alfred Hitchcock
Rococo
Leonardo da Vinci
Andrew Wyeth
35. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Monet
soliloquy
Alliteration
36. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Romanticism Movement
Aaron Copeland
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Existentialism
37. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Panthenon
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
38. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Pavane and the Polonaise
Buddhists
Chartres Cathedral
John Locke
39. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Frank Lloyd Wright
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Serge Diaghilev
40. 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
Epicureans
Lorraine Hansberry
Hermes/Mercury
Symbolism
41. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
A long syllable
Penny Marshall
Stephen Foster
42. Opaque watercolor
Thomas Gainsborough
gouche
renaissance
Monet
43. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Manhattan Project
chalice
Immanuel Kant
George Sand
44. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Hagia Sophia
Alexander Dumas
Monet
Seurat
45. Eight-foot line
Octometer
flat
Baroque Period
French Romantic painter
46. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
ballet
Federico Fellini
Arthur Miller
Thomas Gainsborough
47. 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).
Baroque Period
Heraclitus
Demeter/Ceres
John Roebling
48. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Eugene O'Neil
Victor Hugo
Impressionistic Art came before
Lillian Gish
49. 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
Parmenides
Da Vinci
obelisk
Fauvism
50. The text of the opera
Picasso
Hades/Pluto
Aristotle
Libretto