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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Romanticism Movement
barbara hepworth
Picasso
John Locke
2. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Bernini
Paleolithic
Jane Austen
Lillian Gish
3. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Hagia Sophia
Honore de Balzac
Edgar Allen Poe
4. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Jules Verne
James Joyce
Dactylic
Cervantes
5. 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.
Bronte Sisters
Pentameter
Frank Lloyd Wright
Serialism
6. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Byzantine Style
Pearl Buck
Remington
Aubrey Beardsley
7. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Mary Shelley
flying buttress
Dada school
8. Science fiction writer
Georgia O'Keeffe
Issac Asimov
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Eugene O'Neil
9. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
louise nevelson
Langston Hughes
Peter Paul Rubens
Mathew Brady
10. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Monet
Donatello
Degas
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
11. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
flat
Anapestic Pattern
John Dryden
12. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Poseidon/Neptune
Richard Sheridan
Henry Dixon Cowell
Leo Tolstoy
13. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
multi-media
Christopher Wren
Degas
barbara hepworth
14. Slow
tempura
andante
Aphrodite/Venus
Issac Asimov
15. French 20th century architect
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Brussels tapestries
IM Pei
Le Corbusier
16. Repititions of geometric lines
french female pose
American Indian Rugs
Bronte Sisters
Pentatonic Scale
17. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Frank Lloyd Wright
flat
American Indian Rugs
korai
18. The text of the opera
bel canto
Aaron Copeland
aside
Libretto
19. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
New Orleans
Eugene O'Neil
Simone De Beauvoir
Handel
20. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Andrea Palladio
Stephen Crane
Remington
21. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Tragic figure
Spondaic Pattern
Othello
Aristotle
22. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Merry Wives of Windsor
Jean Fragonard
Gothic age architecture
23. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Aristotle
Edmund Spenser
Tchaikovsky
Thomas Edison
24. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
El Greco
Peter Paul Rubens
Andrew Wyeth
Satire
25. Science fiction writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Issac Asimov
Othello
Mies van der Rohe
26. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Jules Verne
Arthur Miller
Surrealism
The Iliad
27. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
Vermeer
Bayeux tapestry
Popular Transcendentalists
Mies van der Rohe
28. The Starry Night
Aaron Copeland
Vincent van Gogh
tempura
Ionic
29. Two-foot line
Dimeter
Christopher Wren
Edvard Greig
Henrik Ibsen
30. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Augustine Age
William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice
Mary Wollstonecraft
31. Fast
Stephen Crane
Edvard Greig
allegro
Edmund Spenser
32. Death of a Salesman
flat
Arthur Miller
King Lear
Ionic
33. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Gilbert Stuart
Ares/Mars
Plato
Hagia Sophia
34. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
ballet
Charles Dickens
louise nevelson
Mary Shelley
35. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
bust
Delacroix
Herman Melville
Historians
36. Four-foot line
Pilgrim's Progress
Libretto
Tetrameter
Andre Previn
37. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Cervantes
sitar
Ares/Mars
Brussels tapestries
38. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
E.E. Cummings
constantin brancusi
Neo-classic period
Renoir
39. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Daniel Defoe
Francois Rabelais
Mies van der Rohe
Serge Diaghilev
40. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
T.S. Eliot
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
multi-media
Thomas Edison
41. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
William Wordsworth
Shudras
French Romantic painter
42. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Islam
Plato
Arnold Schoenberg
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
43. Goddess of Animals
Maia/Fauna
Henrik Ibsen
Theme
Epic
44. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
T.S. Eliot
flat
tempura
Henrik Ibsen
45. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Hestia/Vesta
tragic figure
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
fresco
46. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Henry Dixon Cowell
sitar
Eugene O'Neil
Stravinsky
47. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
sculpture
New Orleans
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arnold Schoenberg
48. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lao Tzu
Post and Lintel
King Lear
49. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Andrew Wyeth
Beethoven & Wagner
Eisenstein
Ray Bradbury
50. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
cellini
Henrik Ibsen
andante