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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Josiah Wedgewood
James Boswell
Merchant of Venice
New Orleans
2. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
Mary Shelley
Bronte Sisters
flying buttress
3. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Free Verse
multi-media
Byzantine Style
Church of San Vitale
4. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Lindisfarne Gospel
Lorraine Hansberry
T.S. Eliot
5. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Niccolo Machiavelli
Brussels tapestries
tempura
Othello
6. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
constantin brancusi
Degas
7. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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8. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
gouche
Alexander Dumas
Jane Austen
Whole Tone Scale
9. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Aristotle
Arthur Miller
French Romantic painter
El Greco
10. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Langston Hughes
El Greco
Remington
scrim
11. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Alfred Hitchcock
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. French impressionist painter
Degas
Henry Dixon Cowell
Charles Dickens
Monet
13. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Serge Diaghilev
Plato
gouche
Jane Austen
14. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Persian Rugs
Gilbert Stuart
Salvador Dali
Simone De Beauvoir
15. Spanish surrealist painter
William Blake
Edvard Greig
Tetrameter
Salvador Dali
16. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Da Vinci
Arnold Schoenberg
gothic age architecture
T.S. Eliot
17. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Hagia Sophia
Charles Dickens
Kouroi
18. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Ray Bradbury
Byzantine Style
Aubrey Beardsley
Chopin
19. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Vincent van Gogh
Thales
Mosaic
Leonardo da Vinci
20. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
George Sand
Medieval Architecture
minuetto
Hector Berlioz
21. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Plato
Issac Asimov
Libretto
22. Beautiful Italian singing
Christopher Marlowe
Hephaestus/Vulcan
bel canto
Francois Rabelais
23. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Free Verse
Seurat
Phoebus/Apollo
Socrates
24. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Pilgrim's Progress
Celtic Art
Mathew Brady
25. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Personification
Eugene O'Neil
Francois Rabelais
William Shakespeare
26. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Aphrodite/Venus
Hans-Georg Gadamer
A short syllable
Seurat
27. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Stephen Crane
Zeno
ballet
Daniel Defoe
28. 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
sitar
Aaron Copeland
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roman Basilica
29. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Herman Melville
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Donatello
30. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Pablo Picasso
Personification
hagia sophia
Mark Twain
31. Goddess of Wisdom
Confucianism
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Jules Verne
Andrew Wyeth
32. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Antonio Gaudi
Whole Tone Scale
John Roebling
Libretto
33. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Aside
Gothic age architecture
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Dimeter
34. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Medieval Architecture
Bayeux tapestry
Giotto
35. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Hestia/Vesta
Giotto
Aristotle
Libretto
36. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Seurat
Simile
Salvador Dali
Existentialism
37. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Monometer
Eisenstein
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
flying buttress
38. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
William Wordsworth
James Boswell
Beethoven & Wagner
Beethoven & Wagner
39. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Masaccio
Neo-classic period
Scott Joplin
Alfred Hitchcock
40. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
sculpture
Post Impressionism
Honore de Balzac
Stoicism
41. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Greek Ionic
Chopin
George Sand
tragic figure
42. Goddess of Fortune
Herman Melville
Paleolithic
Tyche/Fortuna
Pablo Picasso
43. Paul Gauguin
Remington
Thomas Edison
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Mathew Brady
44. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Plato
King Lear
Salvador Dali
Hera/Juno
45. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
allegro
Eugene Delacroix
Socrates
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
46. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Alexander Dumas
James Boswell
Salvador Dali
Dionysus/Bacchus
47. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Lillian Gish
New Orleans
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flying buttresses
48. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Artemis/Diana
chalice
Surrealism
Francois Rabelais
49. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Arnold Schoenberg
Persian Rugs
Degas
Charles Dickens
50. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Bayeux tapestry
Salvador Dali
Renoir
George Sand