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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Andrew Wyeth
Pilgrim's Progress
Jonathan Swift
reliquary
2. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Foot
Vaishyas
Tchaikovsky
Antonio Gaudi
3. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Cervantes
Raphael
Delacroix
4. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Samuel Beckett
tempura
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Cervantes
5. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Christopher Wren
Jonathan Swift
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rembrandt
6. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Henry Dixon Cowell
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Immanuel Kant
Lillian Gish
7. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
fresco
Dante Aligheri
Book of Durrow
Mannerism
8. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Ballet
Scott Joplin
Monet
Renaissance Art
9. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Aaron Copeland
James Joyce
Hexameter
Henrik Ibsen
10. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
presto
Hector Berlioz
Post Impressionism
sitar
11. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Gilbert and Sullivan
Scott Joplin
Edmund Spenser
James Boswell
12. 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.
Eisenstein
Othello
Rembrandt
Baroque Period
13. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
louise nevelson
Issac Asimov
Flying buttresses
Mies van der Rohe
14. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Impressionism
New Orleans
Mosaic
Serge Diaghilev
15. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Twelve Tone System
The Pigeon House
Giotto
Mary Shelley
16. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
tempura
Eugene Delacroix
Alexander Dumas
renaissance
17. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Classical Period
Lillian Gish
Mark Twain
Simone De Beauvoir
18. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Aside
Pearl Buck
French Romantic painter
Soliloquy
19. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Cynics
Bernini
George Sand
French Romantic painter
20. Slow
minuetto
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
andante
Rembrandt
21. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Shudras
Joseph Conrad
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
flat
22. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Da Vinci
Stephen Crane
Aaron Copeland
23. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
tragic figure
Herman Melville
constantin brancusi
Honore de Balzac
24. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
James Boswell
Andre Previn
Usonian
25. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Jane Austen
henry moore
Hades/Pluto
Apostrophe
26. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Brussels tapestries
Jackson Pollock
Popular Transcendentalists
Kouroi
27. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Salvador Dali
Federico Fellini
Mozart and Richard Strauss
28. 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
Joan Miro
Gilbert Stuart
George Sand
gouche
29. 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
Doric
Joseph Conrad
Edmund Spenser
Cynics
30. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Gilbert Stuart
El Greco
chalice
Al Jolson
31. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
pieta
Jean Fragonard
Hera/Juno
32. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henri Matisse
Joseph Conrad
Aubrey Beardsley
33. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Mary Shelley
Stravinsky
Seurat
Barcelona Pavilion
34. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
The Parthenon
Greek Corinthian
Impressionism
Scott Joplin
35. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Michelangelo
Martha Graham
Picasso
36. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
louise nevelson
Atomism
Art Deco Movement
37. God of Marriage
Hera/Juno
Donatello
Da Vinci
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
38. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Pearl Buck
Doric
Theme
Post Impressionism
39. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
multi-media
Heraclitus
The Panthenon
40. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Ernest Hemingway
ballet
Frank Gehry 1929
Trochaic pattern
41. 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
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
Daniel Defoe
Othello
42. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Transcendentalism
Thomas Edison
Gilbert Stuart
43. A capella singers
Bernini
madrigal
french female pose
Christopher Wren
44. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Gilbert Stuart
Minimalist Music
Handel
Jean Jacques Rousseau
45. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
tragic figure
Brussels tapestries
Thomas Gainsborough
King Lear
46. Repititions of geometric lines
Frank Lloyd Wright
Versailles
Free Verse
American Indian Rugs
47. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
John Roebling
Taoism
Eugene Delacroix
Arthur Miller
48. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Verdi and Puccini
Martha Graham
Neo-classic period
Cervantes
49. 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
Parmenides
Charles Dickens
Josiah Wedgewood
50. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Henrik Ibsen
Fresco
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Versailles
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