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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Hamlet
Phoebus/Apollo
Andrea Palladio
Eisenstein
2. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Free Verse
Pythagoras
Rene Descartes
Pilgrim's Progress
3. British abstract sculptor
dada school
Artemis/Diana
Mary McCarthy
barbara hepworth
4. Goddess of Marriage
Bolero
Picasso
Hera/Juno
Aubrey Beardsley
5. Three-foot line
Mathew Brady
Chopin
Trimeter
Edgar Allen Poe
6. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Ballet
Peter Paul Rubens
Ghiberti
Rene Descartes
7. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Artemis/Diana
obelisk
Macbeth
Hephaestus/Vulcan
8. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Thomas Edison
Brussels tapestries
Jules Verne
Zeno
9. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Penny Marshall
Satire
Aristotle
Richard Sheridan
10. 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
Picasso
Fauvism
dada school
Mary Wollstonecraft
11. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
T.S. Eliot
michelangelo
Aubrey Beardsley
12. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Jules Verne
Charles Dickens
Niccolo Machiavelli
Rene Descartes
13. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Macbeth
Stephen Crane
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Hades/Pluto
14. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Post Impressionism
New Orleans
Charles Dickens
Peter Paul Rubens
15. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Merchant of Venice
Charles Dickens
16. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Doric
Book of Durrow
Merchant of Venice
Degas
17. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Athena/Minerva
henry moore
Arthur Miller
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
18. Goddess of Fortune
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
barbara hepworth
neo-classic period
Tyche/Fortuna
19. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Lillian Gish
Salvador Dali
Honore de Balzac
Scott Joplin
20. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Pearl Buck
minuetto
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Alfred Hitchcock
21. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
ballet
Renaissance Art
Mary Shelley
Peter Paul Rubens
22. 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
Zeno
Merry Wives of Windsor
Greek Doric
23. Wrote Rivals
Lionel Hampton
Pentatonic Scale
Pearl Buck
Richard Sheridan
24. Long-Short-Short
Johannes Brahms
American Indian Rugs
Herman Melville
Dactylic
25. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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26. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
alexander calder
tempura
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Pavane and the Polonaise
27. 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.
Othello
Dactylic
Rene Descartes
Daniel Defoe
28. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Eisenstein
Donatello
tempura
Hagia Sophia
29. Beautiful Italian singing
Joan Miro
Flat
bel canto
Merry Wives of Windsor
30. 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
Blank Verse
Lindisfarne Gospel
Jackson Pollock
31. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
ballet
Joan Miro
King Lear
32. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Book of Durrow
Francois Rabelais
Frank Gehry 1929
Barcelona Pavilion
33. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Pearl Buck
Handel
Claude Debussy
Pablo Picasso
34. Paul Gauguin
Eugene O'Neil
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Lorraine Hansberry
Mies van der Rohe
35. Played the xylophone and marimba
Jonathan Swift
Tragic figure
Lionel Hampton
Mies van der Rohe
36. Court dances
Charles Dickens
Pavane and the Polonaise
ballet
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
37. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r
Bronte Sisters
Cynics
Bolero
Symbolism
38. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Brahmans
Andrea Palladio
Jonathan Swift
39. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Lao Tzu
Tchaikovsky
Eros/Cupid
Federico Fellini
40. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
The Panthenon
Pentameter
Stephen Crane
sitar
41. Mannerism painter
James Boswell
A long syllable
El Greco
Mosaic
42. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Monet
Cervantes
Jackson Pollock
Fresco
43. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Art Deco Movement
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Delacroix
44. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Frank Lloyd Wright
Blank Verse
Honore de Balzac
Daniel Defoe
45. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
Celtic Art
Book of Kells
Claude Debussy
46. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Martha Graham
Mies van der Rohe
George Sand
Henri Matisse
47. Spanish surrealist painter
Artemis/Diana
French female pose
gouche
Joan Miro
48. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Martin Heidegger
Simone Martini
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Post and Lintel
49. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Stephen Crane
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Joseph Conrad
Tetrameter
50. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Romanticism Movement
Vermeer
Fauvism
Mary Shelley