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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God of Love






2. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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3. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist






4. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






5. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






6. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person






7. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






8. 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






9. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






10. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






11. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






12. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.






13. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?






14. Pre-Socrates






15. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






16. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






17. Architect who like a statue at every corner






18. The Starry Night






19. Painted 'The Bathers'






20. Death of a Salesman






21. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones






22. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises






23. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






24. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






25. 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.






26. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






27. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






28. 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






29. 1900 to the Present






30. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






31. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV






32. 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.






33. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century






34. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






35. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






36. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






37. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






38. Wrote operas






39. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus






40. Rebirth






41. Laborer caste in Hinduism






42. God of the Underworld and Death






43. The Color Purple






44. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






45. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






46. Famous French impressionist composer






47. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr






48. Short-Long






49. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.






50. Three-foot line