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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Court dances
Mozart and Richard Strauss
King Lear
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hexameter
2. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Mary McCarthy
Jules Verne
Picasso
3. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
ballet
aside
Mary Wollstonecraft
Stoicism
4. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Abstraction
Christopher Marlowe
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Charles Dickens
5. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Giotto
scrim
Samuel Beckett
Apollo
6. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Hermes/Mercury
Blank Verse
cellini
neo-classic period
7. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Chalice
Hagia Sophia
Aubrey Beardsley
Francois Rabelais
8. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Baroque art
Lionel Hampton
Martha Graham
Botticelli
9. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Al Jolson
Celtic Art
Penny Marshall
Stravinsky
10. Played the xylophone and marimba
Herman Melville
Peter Paul Rubens
Vincent van Gogh
Lionel Hampton
11. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
oratorio
Lillian Gish
Aphrodite/Venus
Gilbert Stuart
12. Seven-foot line
Da Vinci
Leo Tolstoy
Heptameter
Shudras
13. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
William Shakespeare
Othello
Eisenstein
Pearl Buck
14. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
hagia sophia
Pavane and the Polonaise
Henry Dixon Cowell
15. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Church of San Vitale
Ares/Mars
Denouement
Brussels tapestries
16. God of War
Macbeth
Ares/Mars
Marc Chagall
Roman Basilica
17. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
Vermeer
pieta
Donatello
18. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
soliloquy
Edmund Spenser
Ray Bradbury
19. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Vermeer
Heraclitus
Simone De Beauvoir
Hagia Sophia
20. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Pyrrhic Pattern
Hera/Juno
Andrea Palladio
sculpture
21. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Bernini
Gouche
sitar
Neolithic
22. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Da Vinci
Alexander Dumas
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Socrates
23. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
The Panthenon
Arnold Schoenberg
mosaics
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
24. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Metaphor
Pilgrim's Progress
Mary Shelley
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
25. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Taoism
Merry Wives of Windsor
obelisk
Persian Rugs
26. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
aside
Existentialism
Pilgrim's Progress
Alexander Dumas
27. Beuatiful with ornate borders
french female pose
Denouement
Brussels tapestries
Andrea Palladio
28. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Poseidon/Neptune
Arnold Schoenberg
Jackson Pollock
Imagery
29. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Donatello
Brahmans
F. Scott Fitzgerald
tragic figure
30. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Manichaeism
Jane Austen
Romanesque Style
The Iliad
31. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Athena/Minerva
bel canto
Chalice
Hermes/Mercury
32. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Mary McCarthy
George Sand
Ray Bradbury
Merry Wives of Windsor
33. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Church of San Vitale
Scrim
Lindisfarne Gospel
Shudras
34. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
fresco
Richard Sheridan
flying buttress
Arthur Miller
35. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Aristotle
Salvador Dali
Ghiberti
Samuel Beckett
36. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Whole Tone Scale
Guggenheim Museum
Seurat
bust
37. The Persistence of Memory
Hector Berlioz
Salvador Dali
Alfred Hitchcock
Federico Fellini
38. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Manichaeism
Andrea Palladio
Picasso
39. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
renaissance
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Obelisk
Lillian Gish
40. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Othello
Post Impressionism
Bayeux tapestry
chalice
41. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Andre Previn
T.S. Eliot
Merry Wives of Windsor
Lorraine Hansberry
42. 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
Macbeth
Arnold Schoenberg
Jane Austen
Thomas Gainsborough
43. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Apollo
New Orleans
fresco
Honore de Balzac
44. God of Wildlife
Atomists
Artemis/Diana
Henry Dixon Cowell
Samuel Beckett
45. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Eisenstein
Artemis/Diana
The Panthenon
Atomists
46. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Moai
Zeno
Francois Rabelais
John Roebling
47. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Charles Dickens
Blank Verse
Impressionistic Art came before
48. 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.
Aristotle
Thales
Renaissance Art
Edvard Greig
49. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Merry Wives of Windsor
Chloris/Flora
F. Scott Fitzgerald
D.W. Griffith
50. Fast
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
presto
Peter Paul Rubens
Martha Graham