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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Composer - conductor and pianist
Andre Previn
Herman Melville
Roman Basilica
ballet
2. 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
Handel
Benjamin Franklin
Claude Debussy
Islam
3. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Bayeux tapestry
Ionic
A short syllable
constantin brancusi
4. Slow
Jane Austen
presto
Hamlet
andante
5. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Irony
Jonathan Swift
flying buttress
Salvador Dali
6. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier
Romanticism Movement
Chopin
obelisk
Twelve Tone System
7. Fast
Josiah Wedgewood
Merchant of Venice
presto
Symbolism
8. Spanish surrealist painter
Ionic
Vermeer
Joan Miro
Neoplatonism
9. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Seurat
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Dumas
Penny Marshall
10. 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
Hexameter
George Sand
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Peter Paul Rubens
11. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Othello
Jane Austen
Free Verse
Personification
12. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
James Joyce
alexander calder
Socrates
neo-classic period
13. Pre-Socrates
Picasso
Mosaic
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
14. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
flying buttress
Josiah Wedgewood
Romanticism Movement
Trompe l'oeil
15. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Vermeer
Peter Paul Rubens
Herman Melville
16. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Socrates
Didactic-ism
Maia/Fauna
Andrea Palladio
17. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
George Sand
Alfred Hitchcock
Herman Melville
gouche
18. A dance
minuetto
Giotto
Stephen Crane
renaissance
19. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Minimalist Music
T.S. Eliot
El Greco
Hamlet
20. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
Cubism
Ionic
Corinthian
21. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
flat
Niccolo Machiavelli
Symbolism
22. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Georgia O'Keeffe
barbara hepworth
Renaissance Art
Parmenides
23. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
John Dryden
Hamlet
Georgia O'Keeffe
T.S. Eliot
24. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Aphrodite/Venus
Shudras
Francois Rabelais
Book of Durrow
25. Science fiction writer
Leonardo da Vinci
Macbeth
Jules Verne
Issac Asimov
26. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aristotle
Modern Period
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Aaron Copeland
27. Four-foot line
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hagia Sophia
Tetrameter
Samuel Beckett
28. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Samuel Beckett
Edmund Spenser
Octometer
Vermeer
29. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
Jean Fragonard
Andrea Palladio
Langston Hughes
30. 20th Century American composer
Pilgrim's Progress
Onomatopoeia
Tempura
Henry Dixon Cowell
31. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
sculpture
Free Verse
Medieval Architecture
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
32. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Arnold Schoenberg
Aphrodite/Venus
korai
Monet
33. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
King Lear
sitar
Atomism
Flat
34. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Andrea Palladio
King Lear
Cervantes
Vincent van Gogh
35. Goddess of Agriculture
Demeter/Ceres
scrim
Thales
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
36. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Christopher Wren
Johannes Brahms
Serge Diaghilev
Stephen Foster
37. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Personification
Christopher Wren
Eros/Cupid
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
38. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Noh Theatre
Aristotle
Lorraine Hansberry
James Joyce
39. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Thales
Abstraction
dada school
Humanism
40. Spanish surrealist painter
Peter Paul Rubens
Salvador Dali
Mies van der Rohe
Henry Dixon Cowell
41. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Lorraine Hansberry
Remington
Augustine Age
Renoir
42. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
Medieval Architecture
Christopher Wren
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
43. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Salvador Dali
Da Vinci
Versailles
Symbolism
44. Long-Short
Gothic age architecture
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Trochaic pattern
Josiah Wedgewood
45. Long-Long
Aaron Copeland
Spondaic Pattern
T.S. Eliot
Hestia/Vesta
46. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Aphrodite/Venus
Post Impressionism
Usonian
Peter Paul Rubens
47. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
A long syllable
Baroque art
Vaishyas
Stephen Crane
48. Painted 'The Bathers'
William Shakespeare
Jean Fragonard
Hestia/Vesta
Da Vinci
49. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Francois Rabelais
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Pearl Buck
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
50. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Stravinsky
Giotto
Pilgrim's Progress
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