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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Da Vinci
Niccolo Machiavelli
Renoir
Remington
2. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Donatello
Pavane and the Polonaise
John Locke
renaissance
3. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Mary McCarthy
Demeter/Ceres
Brussels tapestries
The Iliad
4. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Hamlet
Dimeter
Masaccio
hagia sophia
5. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Personification
Twelve Tone System
cellini
fresco
6. 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
Flat
Georgia O'Keefe
Flying buttress
Jonathan Swift
7. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Whole Tone Scale
Martin Heidegger
Gilbert Stuart
Mary McCarthy
8. The text of the opera
Libretto
Noh Theatre
John Locke
Frank Gehry 1929
9. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Aristotle
Alfred Hitchcock
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mies van der Rohe
10. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Leo Tolstoy
madrigal
Greek Doric
Flying buttresses
11. 20th Century American composer
Leo Tolstoy
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Dixon Cowell
Langston Hughes
12. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Gothic age architecture
Joseph Conrad
Thomas Edison
Vermeer
13. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Joan Miro
Renaissance
Alfred Hitchcock
aside
14. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
louise nevelson
Bayeux tapestry
oratorio
minuetto
15. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
The Muses
Mary Shelley
Mathew Brady
sitar
16. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Georg W. F. Hegel
Vermeer
Hellenistic Period
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
17. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Ballet
Penny Marshall
Thomas Gainsborough
Seurat
18. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
King Lear
Parmenides
oratorio
19. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
neo-classic period
Jane Austen
Moai
Guggenheim Museum
20. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Francois Rabelais
Hamlet
Meter
ballet
21. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Ares/Mars
Aristotle
flat
Henrik Ibsen
22. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Salvador Dali
William Shakespeare
Francesco Petrarch
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
23. 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
Jane Austen
bust
T.S. Eliot
24. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Degas
Stephen Crane
Pearl Buck
Mosaic
25. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
ballet
Herman Melville
Rembrandt
Hestia/Vesta
26. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
Aaron Copeland
High Renaissance Painters
Peter Paul Rubens
27. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Salvador Dali
Lao Tzu
gothic age architecture
Jonathan Swift
28. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
New Orleans
Lionel Hampton
Degas
Pearl Buck
29. God of Wildlife
Artemis/Diana
Edmund Spenser
Augustine Age
pieta
30. One unit of meter in poetry
Kouroi
The Parthenon
Foot
Christopher Wren
31. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Classical Period
multi-media
sitar
Simone De Beauvoir
32. School of nonsense and anti-art
Le Corbusier
Monet
dada school
Langston Hughes
33. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
michelangelo
Serge Diaghilev
Joseph Conrad
Arnold Schoenberg
34. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
gothic age architecture
Mary McCarthy
Hamlet
Lionel Hampton
35. 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
Octometer
Edmund Spenser
Lindisfarne Gospel
36. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Mark Twain
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
flying buttress
37. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Jonathan Swift
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Renoir
38. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Simone De Beauvoir
Renoir
Picasso
Noh Theatre
39. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Pilgrim's Progress
Johannes Brahms
Merry Wives of Windsor
40. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Brunelleschi
Stephen Crane
Atomism
Langston Hughes
41. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Meter
Andrea Palladio
Hamlet
Bolero
42. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Picasso
Mies van der Rohe
Meter
Apollo
43. 20th Century American composer
Seurat
Henry Dixon Cowell
Spondaic Pattern
Athena/Minerva
44. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Poseidon/Neptune
Remington
William Shakespeare
louise nevelson
45. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
obelisk
Plato
Eisenstein
Gothic age architecture
46. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Parmenides
Mark Twain
Niccolo Machiavelli
47. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Gilbert Stuart
Langston Hughes
Aubrey Beardsley
Eugene O'Neil
48. I and the Village
Pilgrim's Progress
Al Jolson
Marc Chagall
Christopher Marlowe
49. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Eros/Cupid
Kshatriyas
Jackson Pollock
obelisk
50. British abstract sculptor
louise nevelson
Al Jolson
barbara hepworth
Edmund Spenser
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