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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Neoclassicism
constantin brancusi
Verdi and Puccini
2. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Bayeux tapestry
Zeno
Neolithic
Shudras
3. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Neo-classic period
Andrew Wyeth
Josiah Wedgewood
obelisk
4. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
bel canto
Vincent van Gogh
Joseph Conrad
oratorio
5. Painted 'The Bathers'
E.E. Cummings
Pavane and the Polonaise
Jean Fragonard
Stephen Foster
6. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Raphael
Free Verse
Stephen Foster
Le Corbusier
7. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Hector Berlioz
barbara hepworth
Post and Lintel
8. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Mary McCarthy
fresco
Samuel Beckett
9. School of nonsense and anti-art
obelisk
Aphrodite/Venus
dada school
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
10. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Whole Tone Scale
Sitar
pop art
Bolero
11. Thucydides and Herodotus
Imagery
Historians
Jane Austen
Twelve Tone System
12. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
gothic age architecture
High Renaissance
Martha Graham
Trochaic pattern
13. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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14. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Jean Fragonard
bust
William Wordsworth
15. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Renoir
Christopher Wren
American Indian Rugs
16. Short-Long
Persian Rugs
Iambic pattern
multi-media
Thomas Gainsborough
17. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
D.W. Griffith
dada school
Richard Sheridan
oratorio
18. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Edmund Spenser
Eugene O'Neil
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
19. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Delacroix
James Joyce
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Hermes/Mercury
20. Goddess of Love and Beauty
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Aphrodite/Venus
Mathew Brady
Tragic figure
21. Russian composer
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Mary McCarthy
Existentialism
King Lear
22. A dance
allegro
minuetto
Mary McCarthy
American Indian Rugs
23. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Stephen Foster
Hector Berlioz
Simone De Beauvoir
Aaron Copeland
24. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Historians
Mies van der Rohe
Victor Hugo
25. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Langston Hughes
Leo Tolstoy
Mies van der Rohe
26. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
William Shakespeare
Eugene Delacroix
Mies van der Rohe
Serialism
27. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
madrigal
Alice Walker
Edmund Spenser
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
28. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Hellenistic Period
Remington
Byzantine Style
Bronte Sisters
29. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
The Iliad
Peter Paul Rubens
Al Jolson
alexander calder
30. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Aside
Reliquary
Johannes Brahms
Edmund Spenser
31. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
neo-classic period
Victor Hugo
Alliteration
32. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Renaissance
Richard Sheridan
Libretto
33. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Benjamin Franklin
Free Verse
Peter Paul Rubens
Bronte Sisters
34. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Mozart and Richard Strauss
James Joyce
Pieta
Richard Sheridan
35. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Da Vinci
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Satire
Francesco Petrarch
36. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Jean Fragonard
Thales
Renaissance Art
Chopin
37. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.
Vaishyas
Raphael
Thomas Edison
Seurat
38. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Historians
Jonathan Swift
Versailles
Foot
39. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
A short syllable
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
James Joyce
Epic
40. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
tempura
Renoir
Delacroix
Beethoven & Wagner
41. Short-Short-Long
Serge Diaghilev
William Faulkner
Anapestic Pattern
Joan Miro
42. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
D.W. Griffith
Monet
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
andante
43. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Thomas Edison
Claude Monet
pieta
Onomatopoeia
44. One-foot line
Phoebus/Apollo
Da Vinci
Brussels tapestries
Monometer
45. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
gothic age architecture
Peter Paul Rubens
minuetto
Leo Tolstoy
46. Beuatiful with ornate borders
William Faulkner
Mies van der Rohe
Brussels tapestries
Lorraine Hansberry
47. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Andrea Palladio
Remington
Church of San Vitale
mosaics
48. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Remington
Chopin
Alexander Dumas
Langston Hughes
49. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Athena/Minerva
James Boswell
Symbolism
50. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
oratorio
Reliquary
Aubrey Beardsley
Satire