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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Bernini
Cubism
Edvard Greig
Lindisfarne Gospel
2. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Renoir
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
A long syllable
Pearl Buck
3. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Edvard Greig
Renaissance Art
King Lear
Niccolo Machiavelli
4. French impressionist painter
Richard Sheridan
Allegory
Mies van der Rohe
Monet
5. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Plato
Ballet
Symbolism
Versailles
6. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Antonio Gaudi
fresco
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Seurat
7. Two-foot line
Dimeter
Brussels tapestries
Mies van der Rohe
Cimabue
8. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Renaissance
Georg W. F. Hegel
henry moore
fresco
9. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Aphrodite/Venus
King Lear
Samuel Beckett
Aubrey Beardsley
10. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Leo Tolstoy
Seurat
Penny Marshall
Cervantes
11. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Tragic Playwrights
Theme
Mary Wollstonecraft
Pablo Picasso
12. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Hera/Juno
Edmund Spenser
Johannes Brahms
13. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Henrik Ibsen
Thomas Edison
flat
Chalice
14. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Doric
Edvard Greig
Hamlet
Neoclassicism
15. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Transcendentalism
renaissance
scrim
Hamlet
16. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
andante
flying buttress
Seurat
17. 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
Existentialism
George Sand
Georg W. F. Hegel
Tyche/Fortuna
18. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Othello
Modern Period
19. Long-Long
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
bel canto
Delacroix
Spondaic Pattern
20. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Frank Lloyd Wright
Issac Asimov
Joan Miro
21. A capella singers
A long syllable
madrigal
Moai
Serge Diaghilev
22. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Trompe l'oeil
Victor Hugo
Thomas Edison
Edvard Greig
23. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Cynics
Othello
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jane Austen
24. Beautiful Italian singing
Brussels tapestries
bel canto
bust
Mary McCarthy
25. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Donatello
Johannes Brahms
Bolero
Charles Dickens
26. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Mark Twain
Hamlet
William Wordsworth
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
27. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Symbolism
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Zeno
28. Long-Short
Othello
Trochaic pattern
Joan Miro
Cubism
29. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Thales
Seurat
Gilbert and Sullivan
french female pose
30. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Mathew Brady
Gilbert and Sullivan
William Shakespeare
Josiah Wedgewood
31. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Rococo
Monometer
Lorraine Hansberry
32. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Serge Diaghilev
James Joyce
Gouche
33. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Thales
Martha Graham
Peter Paul Rubens
Charles Dickens
34. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Stephen Crane
James Joyce
Eugene O'Neil
35. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Giotto
Eisenstein
High Renaissance
Leo Tolstoy
36. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Socrates
Ares/Mars
Barcelona Pavilion
alexander calder
37. 20th Century American composer
Lindisfarne Gospel
Henry Dixon Cowell
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Stephen Crane
38. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Neoclassicism
Honore de Balzac
Ray Bradbury
39. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Plato
Claude Monet
Christopher Wren
Irony
40. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Peter Paul Rubens
allegro
Manichaeism
Hermes/Mercury
41. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Niccolo Machiavelli
Onomatopoeia
Cubism
42. Wrote Rivals
Aaron Copeland
Richard Sheridan
Georgia O'Keeffe
Chalice
43. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Scott Joplin
Johannes Brahms
michelangelo
Humanism
44. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Buddhists
Mathew Brady
Gilbert Stuart
James Boswell
45. 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.
Moral Philosophers
Jules Verne
Joan Miro
Metaphor
46. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Book of Durrow
Joseph Conrad
Mathew Brady
47. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Imagery
Hagia Sophia
Octometer
48. Mannerism painter
Baroque Period
El Greco
Soliloquy
Augustine Age
49. Leucippus and Democritus
Cynics
Ares/Mars
Atomists
Salvador Dali
50. God of War
Aside
Joan Miro
cellini
Ares/Mars