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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
pop art
Edmund Spenser
Hellenistic Period
American Indian Rugs
2. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Picasso
Delacroix
Arthur Miller
3. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Victor Hugo
Andrew Wyeth
Mary Wollstonecraft
Reliquary
4. 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
Macbeth
Giotto
Manichaeism
Degas
5. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Leo Tolstoy
Martha Graham
Simone De Beauvoir
6. Seven-foot line
Aristotle
New Orleans
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Heptameter
7. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Merchant of Venice
Victor Hugo
Macbeth
Vermeer
8. The text of the opera
Edmund Spenser
Libretto
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Bronte Sisters
9. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Donatello
Classical Period
Pavane and the Polonaise
Rembrandt
10. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Tchaikovsky
Josiah Wedgewood
Greek Ionic
11. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Alexander Dumas
Personification
Beethoven & Wagner
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
12. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
John Dryden
Twelve Tone System
allegro
Iambic pattern
13. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
french female pose
Mies van der Rohe
Minimalist Music
Cervantes
14. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Guggenheim Museum
Mary Wollstonecraft
Plato
Cerros
15. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Libretto
Richard Sheridan
Mosaic
16. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
fresco
Peter Paul Rubens
Mary McCarthy
17. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Mary Shelley
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Beethoven & Wagner
Mies van der Rohe
18. Fast
Doric
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
William Shakespeare
presto
19. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Hagia Sophia
Jonathan Swift
louise nevelson
T.S. Eliot
20. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Daniel Defoe
Jules Verne
bel canto
Chloris/Flora
21. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Heraclitus
Delacroix
Langston Hughes
tempura
22. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Alexander Dumas
Gilbert Stuart
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Federico Fellini
23. Mannerism painter
El Greco
neo-classic period
ballet
henry moore
24. Goddess of Agriculture
Aside
Demeter/Ceres
Buddhists
Mary Wollstonecraft
25. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Modern Period
gouche
Aaron Copeland
constantin brancusi
26. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
The Parthenon
Jean Fragonard
F. Scott Fitzgerald
neo-classic period
27. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Mies van der Rohe
Andrew Wyeth
Scott Joplin
Langston Hughes
28. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Masaccio
Arthur Miller
Merchant of Venice
Joan Miro
29. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Paleolithic
Pythagoras
Thomas Edison
30. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Art Deco Movement
Seurat
Manhattan Project
31. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Beethoven & Wagner
Mosaic
Arnold Schoenberg
gouche
32. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Stephen Foster
Leo Tolstoy
Noh Theatre
Georgia O'Keefe
33. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
oratorio
Versailles
Chopin
Tetrameter
34. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
tragic figure
neo-classic period
William Wordsworth
Aubrey Beardsley
35. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
Vermeer
Jonathan Swift
Martha Graham
36. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Symbolism
Benjamin Franklin
Seurat
37. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Bernini
Hector Berlioz
mannerism
neo-classic period
38. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Roman Basilica
scrim
Bernini
Aaron Copeland
39. 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
Confucianism
Merchant of Venice
Hellenistic Period
scrim
40. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Mies van der Rohe
Augustine Age
Cervantes
dada school
41. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Neoplatonism
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mary Wollstonecraft
42. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
French female pose
sitar
Mosaic
soliloquy
43. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
mosaics
Zeus/Jupiter
Ares/Mars
Mary Shelley
44. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Abstraction
Lionel Hampton
Flying buttress
Delacroix
45. Laborer caste in Hinduism
pop art
Jean Fragonard
Macbeth
Shudras
46. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
pieta
Epicureans
Vermeer
The Parthenon
47. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Neoclassicism
John Roebling
Metaphor
Post and Lintel
48. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Mary Shelley
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Alice Walker
49. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Mathew Brady
tempura
Fresco
Paleolithic
50. Court dances
Neo-classic period
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mary Shelley
Edmund Spenser