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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Picasso
Minimalist Music
andante
Didactic-ism
2. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Tchaikovsky
Aubrey Beardsley
Scott Joplin
3. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Da Vinci
Chalice
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Mies van der Rohe
4. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Fauvism
fresco
Pallas Athena/Minerva
5. God of the Sea
Hermes/Mercury
Masaccio
Art Deco Movement
Poseidon/Neptune
6. 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.
Degas
Plato
Serge Diaghilev
Stephen Crane
7. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Salvador Dali
Hector Berlioz
Pearl Buck
Hyperbole
8. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Georg W. F. Hegel
Al Jolson
alexander calder
sitar
9. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
tempura
Honore de Balzac
Johannes Brahms
Lao Tzu
10. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
renaissance
Art Deco Movement
Henri Matisse
Joan Miro
11. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Penny Marshall
Paleolithic
Andrew Wyeth
Reliquary
12. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Andre Previn
Hera/Juno
gothic age architecture
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
13. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Humanism
Aaron Copeland
Eros/Cupid
Salvador Dali
14. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
pieta
Martha Graham
Giotto
Atomism
15. 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.
Da Vinci
Henry Dixon Cowell
Foot
High Renaissance
16. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Thomas Edison
Degas
Henrik Ibsen
Rococo
17. School of nonsense and anti-art
Plato
Mary Wollstonecraft
dada school
Flat
18. Spanish surrealist painter
Zeno
Sitar
Joan Miro
New Orleans
19. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Merry Wives of Windsor
Josiah Wedgewood
sitar
Merchant of Venice
20. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
High Renaissance
Niccolo Machiavelli
Whole Tone Scale
Lillian Gish
21. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Cervantes
The Panthenon
Neolithic
Chalice
22. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Salvador Dali
Thomas Edison
Obelisk
gothic age architecture
23. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Moral Philosophers
Merchant of Venice
Johannes Brahms
24. God of Wisdom
Martha Graham
Athena/Minerva
Pavane and the Polonaise
Botticelli
25. Painted 'The Bathers'
Whole Tone Scale
Theme
fresco
Jean Fragonard
26. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Mosaic
Le Corbusier
Mary Shelley
cellini
27. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
pop art
Minimalist Music
Artemis/Diana
28. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Hermes/Mercury
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Tchaikovsky
Salvador Dali
29. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Mary McCarthy
Moai
Poseidon/Neptune
Richard Sheridan
30. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Existentialism
Reliquary
andante
Francois Rabelais
31. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Stephen Foster
Da Vinci
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe
Hector Berlioz
William Shakespeare
Octometer
33. God of Wine
T.S. Eliot
Rembrandt
Le Corbusier
Dionysus/Bacchus
34. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Transcendentalism
Scott Joplin
Meter
Thomas Edison
35. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Simone De Beauvoir
Daniel Defoe
Noh Theatre
Zeus/Jupiter
36. Spanish surrealist painter
Joseph Conrad
Surrealism
Othello
Salvador Dali
37. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Stephen Crane
Benjamin Franklin
Martha Graham
constantin brancusi
38. Death of a Salesman
Merry Wives of Windsor
Handel
Brahmans
Arthur Miller
39. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Peter Paul Rubens
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Socrates
40. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Pearl Buck
Augustine Age
oratorio
flat
41. Two-foot line
Alfred Hitchcock
Popular Transcendentalists
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Dimeter
42. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eugene Delacroix
Ray Bradbury
tempura
43. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Cimabue
Othello
Simone De Beauvoir
Edmund Spenser
44. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Zeus/Jupiter
Doric
Dactylic
multi-media
45. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
Baroque Period
El Greco
Cubism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
46. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
T.S. Eliot
Minimalist Music
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
47. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Eisenstein
Brussels tapestries
Joseph Conrad
Renoir
48. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Aaron Copeland
Samuel Beckett
Ghiberti
Corinthian
49. 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.
Chartres Cathedral
Persian Rugs
Samuel Beckett
Verdi and Puccini
50. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
American Indian Rugs
Andrew Wyeth