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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Beuatiful with ornate borders






2. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience






3. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.






4. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






5. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement






6. 20th Century American composer






7. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






8. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






9. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






10. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






11. God of the underworld - and wealth






12. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






13. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






14. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






15. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






16. Spanish surrealist painter






17. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism






18. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






19. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?






20. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






21. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)






22. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






23. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)






24. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






25. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






26. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






27. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






28. Goddess of Fortune






29. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






30. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






31. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






32. One-foot line






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.






34. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






35. French 20th century architect






36. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






37. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.






38. 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






39. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






40. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






41. God of Marriage






42. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






43. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain






44. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven






45. Plato and Aristotle






46. Mannerism painter






47. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier






48. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






49. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






50. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'