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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Mark Twain
El Greco
sitar
Simone Martini
2. 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
Al Jolson
Hestia/Vesta
Jonathan Swift
Mathew Brady
3. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Joseph Conrad
french female pose
Aaron Copeland
Thales
4. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Parmenides
Andrew Wyeth
The Panthenon
scrim
5. 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
Edmund Spenser
Cynics
Taoism
Mathew Brady
6. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Athena/Minerva
Hexameter
mannerism
Da Vinci
7. French impressionist painter
Monet
Edgar Allen Poe
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Heraclitus
8. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Eugene O'Neil
Libretto
Jonathan Swift
9. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Joan Miro
Pearl Buck
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Joseph Conrad
10. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
T.S. Eliot
Stravinsky
The Muses
Langston Hughes
11. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Hades/Pluto
fresco
William Shakespeare
french female pose
12. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Hellenistic Period
Irony
Hagia Sophia
Victor Hugo
13. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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14. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Book of Durrow
Post and Lintel
Hamlet
15. Four-foot line
Edgar Allen Poe
Tetrameter
Renoir
Free Verse
16. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
michelangelo
Federico Fellini
Benjamin Franklin
Zeno
17. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Hellenistic Period
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Da Vinci
18. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
Rembrandt
William Shakespeare
Arthur Miller
19. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Federico Fellini
louise nevelson
Onomatopoeia
20. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
alexander calder
Lionel Hampton
Pentatonic Scale
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
21. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Othello
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Chopin
22. 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
presto
Simile
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
23. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Aaron Copeland
Kronos/Saturn
Herman Melville
Issac Asimov
24. Fast
allegro
Pavane and the Polonaise
Cervantes
Libretto
25. 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.
Aristotle
Baroque Period
Macbeth
Plato
26. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
neo-classic period
Mathew Brady
Penny Marshall
Antonio Gaudi
27. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Modern Period
Greek Doric
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
28. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Ray Bradbury
Andrew Wyeth
neo-classic period
Salvador Dali
29. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Brahmans
Pilgrim's Progress
Herman Melville
Zeno
30. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Merry Wives of Windsor
E.E. Cummings
Aubrey Beardsley
31. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Paleolithic
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Geoffrey Chaucer
Picasso
32. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Georgia O'Keeffe
Aaron Copeland
Lillian Gish
Leo Tolstoy
33. Long-Long
Lorraine Hansberry
allegro
Spondaic Pattern
Thomas Hobbes
34. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
mannerism
chalice
flying buttress
Pythagoras
35. The text of the opera
Libretto
Andrew Wyeth
Federico Fellini
Monet
36. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Surrealism
Serge Diaghilev
T.S. Eliot
37. Science fiction writer
Daniel Defoe
Gothic age architecture
Issac Asimov
Hexameter
38. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
tempura
Pilgrim's Progress
Al Jolson
Aristotle
39. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
James Joyce
Trompe l'oeil
Manichaeism
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
40. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Persian Rugs
Bayeux tapestry
Scrim
Soliloquy
41. Wrote Rivals
Metaphor
Richard Sheridan
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Degas
42. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Verdi and Puccini
Friedrich Nietzsche
ballet
Aubrey Beardsley
43. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Honore de Balzac
Hector Berlioz
Claude Debussy
Lillian Gish
44. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
IM Pei
Impressionism
flying buttress
Bronte Sisters
45. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
American Indian Rugs
Mary McCarthy
Honore de Balzac
gothic age architecture
46. 20th Century American composer
T.S. Eliot
Henry Dixon Cowell
Socrates
Merry Wives of Windsor
47. Impressionistic Music
Impressionistic Art came before
Hexameter
Tragic Playwrights
Metaphor
48. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Free Verse
Heraclitus
Gilbert Stuart
Jackson Pollock
49. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Pearl Buck
french female pose
Arthur Miller
Da Vinci
50. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Apostrophe
Plato
sculpture
Lillian Gish
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