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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Alexander Dumas
louise nevelson
Pavane and the Polonaise
James Joyce
2. 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
Jonathan Swift
Mary Wollstonecraft
Historians
mannerism
3. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Andrew Wyeth
Le Corbusier
Mies van der Rohe
Mary Wollstonecraft
4. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
T.S. Eliot
pieta
El Greco
Cervantes
5. 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
Leo Tolstoy
Taoism
Aristotle
Frank Lloyd Wright
6. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Symbolism
Renoir
michelangelo
Alexander Dumas
7. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
alexander calder
flying buttress
Neoplatonism
8. Thucydides and Herodotus
bel canto
Historians
Dante Aligheri
Jane Austen
9. Seven-foot line
Simone De Beauvoir
Meter
Beethoven & Wagner
Heptameter
10. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Antonio Gaudi
Picasso
Thomas Edison
Edvard Greig
11. Georges Pierre Seurat
James Joyce
minuetto
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Persian Rugs
12. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Historians
Jonathan Swift
Theme
Vincent van Gogh
13. French impressionist painter
Monet
Serge Diaghilev
Libretto
Impressionistic Art came before
14. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
E.E. Cummings
Bronte Sisters
Lionel Hampton
Monometer
15. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
sitar
William Wordsworth
Mary McCarthy
Minimalist Music
16. God of Wine
William Blake
Cerros
Dionysus/Bacchus
New Orleans
17. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Flat
Scott Joplin
hagia sophia
Lillian Gish
18. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Jackson Pollock
Epic
Cubism
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
19. 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
Giotto
Post and Lintel
Le Corbusier
Thomas Gainsborough
20. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Kronos/Saturn
High Renaissance Painters
Paleolithic
Andrea Palladio
21. Spanish surrealist painter
Arthur Miller
Hector Berlioz
Salvador Dali
Stephen Crane
22. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Gouche
cellini
mannerism
Beethoven & Wagner
23. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Reliquary
High Renaissance Painters
24. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Thomas Edison
Gouche
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
25. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Romanticism Movement
D.W. Griffith
Samuel Beckett
Penny Marshall
26. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Stephen Foster
Merchant of Venice
Hades/Pluto
pop art
27. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Jean Fragonard
Stoicism
Confucianism
Hellenistic Period
28. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gilbert Stuart
Hector Berlioz
29. Goddess of Marriage
Socrates
El Greco
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Hera/Juno
30. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Fresco
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Poseidon/Neptune
31. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Celtic Art
Zeus/Jupiter
Peter Paul Rubens
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
32. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Rene Descartes
Brussels tapestries
Herman Melville
aside
33. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Simone De Beauvoir
Octometer
Arnold Schoenberg
Delacroix
34. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
gothic age architecture
Foot
Artemis/Diana
Macbeth
35. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Book of Durrow
Donatello
Simone De Beauvoir
Serge Diaghilev
36. 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.
Chloris/Flora
cellini
Neoclassicism
Immanuel Kant
37. Short-Long
Da Vinci
Iambic pattern
Andrea Palladio
Henry Dixon Cowell
38. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Pavane and the Polonaise
King Lear
Botticelli
Penny Marshall
39. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Mary Wollstonecraft
Tchaikovsky
Claude Monet
Aphrodite/Venus
40. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Parthenon
Mathew Brady
Alexander Dumas
Rococo
41. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Noh Theatre
Delacroix
Mathew Brady
John Roebling
42. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Greek Ionic
Francois Rabelais
Zeus/Jupiter
Edmund Spenser
43. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Dactylic
Friedrich Nietzsche
bust
Jane Austen
44. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Francois Rabelais
Heraclitus
Heraclitus
45. 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
Athena/Minerva
Rembrandt
Kouroi
Georg W. F. Hegel
46. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Delacroix
Simone De Beauvoir
Aubrey Beardsley
Pentameter
47. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Ares/Mars
Thomas Gainsborough
The Muses
48. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
IM Pei
Vincent van Gogh
Tyche/Fortuna
Allegory
49. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
french female pose
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Leo Tolstoy
madrigal
50. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Shudras
Poseidon/Neptune
Onomatopoeia