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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Bolero
American Indian Rugs
Martha Graham
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
2. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Noh Theatre
Transcendentalism
gouche
tragic figure
3. 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
Flat
Cynics
Jonathan Swift
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
4. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Zeno
mannerism
Hagia Sophia
Othello
5. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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6. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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7. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Flying buttresses
Macbeth
Islam
Heptameter
8. Beautiful Italian singing
Renoir
bel canto
Georgia O'Keeffe
Federico Fellini
9. Wrote operas
Allegory
Verdi and Puccini
Henri Matisse
Federico Fellini
10. French 20th century architect
Aaron Copeland
Le Corbusier
Edvard Greig
Impressionistic Art came before
11. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Pieta
Donatello
Macbeth
Al Jolson
12. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
The Iliad
pop art
William Faulkner
13. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Allegory
multi-media
Tchaikovsky
14. Goddess of Fortune
Alfred Hitchcock
Tyche/Fortuna
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Mozart and Richard Strauss
15. God of Love
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Henri Matisse
Eros/Cupid
Cynics
16. 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
Merchant of Venice
Charles Dickens
multi-media
D.W. Griffith
17. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Persian Rugs
Mies van der Rohe
Chopin
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
18. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Socrates
Leo Tolstoy
sculpture
19. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
oratorio
Medieval Architecture
Salvador Dali
Penny Marshall
20. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Issac Asimov
Byzantine Style
Stephen Crane
Flying buttress
21. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
neo-classic period
Stephen Crane
Phoebus/Apollo
22. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
Simone Martini
Salvador Dali
Brussels tapestries
Thomas Hobbes
23. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
tempura
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Symbolism
bel canto
24. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
alexander calder
Jules Verne
Niccolo Machiavelli
25. God of Wildlife
Vermeer
Artemis/Diana
Picasso
Handel
26. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Jonathan Swift
Macbeth
Aaron Copeland
Federico Fellini
27. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Jonathan Swift
Marc Chagall
Flying buttresses
James Joyce
28. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
barbara hepworth
French Romantic painter
Salvador Dali
Scott Joplin
29. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Muses
Kouroi
pieta
30. Fast
allegro
Joseph Conrad
Eisenstein
Vincent van Gogh
31. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Tragic figure
Mannerism
Macbeth
John Roebling
32. Mannerism painter
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chalice
Socrates
El Greco
33. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Atomism
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Reliquary
34. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Gothic age architecture
Obelisk
multi-media
35. French impressionist painter
Verdi and Puccini
minuetto
Monet
Barcelona Pavilion
36. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Beethoven & Wagner
pop art
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
37. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Brahmans
gouche
fresco
Tempura
38. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Rococo
Peter Paul Rubens
Zeno
Christopher Wren
39. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Noh Theatre
Corinthian
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bronte Sisters
40. Court dances
Herman Melville
Greek Doric
Pavane and the Polonaise
Neolithic
41. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Thales
obelisk
Paleolithic
Free Verse
42. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Noh Theatre
Aside
Bayeux tapestry
Michelangelo
43. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri
Apollo
madrigal
Pyrrhic Pattern
44. 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
William Blake
michelangelo
Handel
Roman Basilica
45. Slow
Renoir
Peter Paul Rubens
Beethoven & Wagner
andante
46. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Stephen Crane
Alexander Dumas
Beethoven & Wagner
Reliquary
47. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Chloris/Flora
Gothic age architecture
Baroque Period
48. Composer - conductor and pianist
Andre Previn
James Joyce
Bayeux tapestry
Josiah Wedgewood
49. Painted 'The Bathers'
Da Vinci
Monet
Verdi and Puccini
Jean Fragonard
50. 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.
William Faulkner
Surrealism
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
mannerism