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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
pieta
Henrik Ibsen
Flying buttresses
Johannes Brahms
2. 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
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Blank Verse
Joseph Conrad
Merchant of Venice
3. 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
Arthur Miller
Rembrandt
Charles Dickens
4. 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
IM Pei
Delacroix
Merry Wives of Windsor
Augustine Age
5. Plato and Aristotle
Joseph Conrad
Flying buttress
Moral Philosophers
New Orleans
6. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
French female pose
Handel
Hector Berlioz
T.S. Eliot
7. One-foot line
Atomists
Monometer
Degas
Mosaic
8. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Tetrameter
Neoplatonism
Cerros
9. 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
Atomism
Heraclitus
pop art
Roman Basilica
10. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Simone De Beauvoir
Heraclitus
Niccolo Machiavelli
Aubrey Beardsley
11. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
louise nevelson
Mary Wollstonecraft
Minimalist Music
12. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
William Wordsworth
Martin Heidegger
Aaron Copeland
Kouroi
13. Spanish surrealist painter
Henry Dixon Cowell
Libretto
Joan Miro
gothic age architecture
14. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
soliloquy
Remington
The Iliad
flying buttress
15. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Stoicism
allegro
Pavane and the Polonaise
Ray Bradbury
16. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Da Vinci
Parmenides
Josiah Wedgewood
Peter Paul Rubens
17. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Edgar Allen Poe
Niccolo Machiavelli
Richard Sheridan
Serialism
18. God of Wine
Dionysus/Bacchus
Anapestic Pattern
Georg W. F. Hegel
Minimalist Music
19. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Henrik Ibsen
Cervantes
multi-media
Brussels tapestries
20. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
louise nevelson
Jane Austen
Georgia O'Keeffe
Cimabue
21. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Fauvism
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Da Vinci
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
22. Short-Short-Long
Mary McCarthy
Anapestic Pattern
Bronte Sisters
Monometer
23. Five-foot line
Lorraine Hansberry
Aaron Copeland
Arthur Miller
Pentameter
24. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Pearl Buck
Gilbert Stuart
Charles Dickens
Bronte Sisters
25. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Arnold Schoenberg
Trimeter
Frank Lloyd Wright
Serge Diaghilev
26. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
Langston Hughes
Vincent van Gogh
sculpture
27. 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
Heptameter
Noh Theatre
Merry Wives of Windsor
Francois Rabelais
28. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Alexander Dumas
Giotto
Martin Heidegger
Pyrrhic Pattern
29. 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
Corinthian
Imagery
Degas
Jonathan Swift
30. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
A long syllable
E.E. Cummings
Cerros
Aristotle
31. 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
Joan Miro
Beethoven & Wagner
Aubrey Beardsley
32. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Demeter/Ceres
Atomism
Hagia Sophia
Lillian Gish
33. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Jonathan Swift
King Lear
Neoclassicism
34. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Symbolism
Renaissance
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Frank Lloyd Wright
35. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Jonathan Swift
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
36. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Kronos/Saturn
Neolithic
Noh Theatre
Charles Dickens
37. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Imagery
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
obelisk
Trimeter
38. Leucippus and Democritus
Moral Philosophers
Chopin
Atomists
Aaron Copeland
39. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Versailles
flying buttress
E.E. Cummings
fresco
40. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Gilbert and Sullivan
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
41. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
Dionysus/Bacchus
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Edmund Spenser
Mosaic
42. 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.
Hector Berlioz
henry moore
Neoclassicism
Degas
43. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Heraclitus
French female pose
obelisk
44. God of Wine and Theatre
Neolithic
Dionysus/Bacchus
Aphrodite/Venus
Gouche
45. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Mary Shelley
Aubrey Beardsley
Lindisfarne Gospel
Herman Melville
46. 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.
mannerism
Niccolo Machiavelli
Phoebus/Apollo
presto
47. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Alexander Dumas
multi-media
Pavane and the Polonaise
Libretto
48. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Alexander Dumas
Aristotle
49. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Usonian
Soliloquy
Chartres Cathedral
Brussels tapestries
50. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Thales
Aside
Joseph Conrad
Parmenides