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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.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Phoebus/Apollo
Noh Theatre
Picasso
2. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Roman Basilica
Salvador Dali
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Christopher Wren
3. French 20th century architect
Serge Diaghilev
Humanism
Le Corbusier
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
4. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Pablo Picasso
Guggenheim Museum
Donatello
Trompe l'oeil
5. Pre-Socrates
Romanticism Movement
Eugene O'Neil
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
James Joyce
6. Goddess of Hunting
Artemis/Diana
James Boswell
sculpture
Rococo
7. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Chopin
scrim
Victor Hugo
Verdi and Puccini
8. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Satire
Henry Dixon Cowell
andante
Reliquary
9. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Atomists
Jane Austen
Scrim
aside
10. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
gothic age architecture
Mary Wollstonecraft
renaissance
Flying buttresses
11. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Tempura
Eisenstein
Romanticism Movement
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
12. One-foot line
Monometer
Jules Verne
Frank Lloyd Wright
gouche
13. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
french female pose
George Sand
Aristotle
Othello
14. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Immanuel Kant
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Impressionism
Atomists
15. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
William Wordsworth
Parmenides
Merry Wives of Windsor
16. Russian composer
constantin brancusi
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Simone De Beauvoir
Minimalist Music
17. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Renaissance
Mary Wollstonecraft
Allegory
18. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Stephen Foster
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Mary McCarthy
19. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Francesco Petrarch
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mosaic
Francois Rabelais
20. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
constantin brancusi
Simone Martini
Simile
21. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Foot
T.S. Eliot
Neo-classic period
multi-media
22. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Eugene O'Neil
Simone De Beauvoir
Lao Tzu
Fresco
23. Slow
andante
tempura
Neolithic
Pentameter
24. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Chopin
Mary Shelley
Irony
Jane Austen
25. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
bel canto
Art Deco Movement
Georgia O'Keeffe
26. French 20th century architect
Plato
Le Corbusier
T.S. Eliot
James Boswell
27. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Hestia/Vesta
Chartres Cathedral
Chalice
Langston Hughes
28. 1900 to the Present
Eisenstein
Modern Period
Hector Berlioz
El Greco
29. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Chloris/Flora
A long syllable
Verdi and Puccini
Moral Philosophers
30. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Hades/Pluto
Gilbert Stuart
Rembrandt
Socrates
31. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Hades/Pluto
Martha Graham
Serge Diaghilev
Hagia Sophia
32. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
flying buttress
Persian Rugs
Edmund Spenser
33. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Hera/Juno
Greek Ionic
Allegory
Delacroix
34. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Dante Aligheri
Jean Jacques Rousseau
cellini
Martha Graham
35. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Eugene O'Neil
James Boswell
Buddhists
Picasso
36. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Vincent van Gogh
Johannes Brahms
Aaron Copeland
Gilbert Stuart
37. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Giotto
Thomas Edison
reliquary
Verdi and Puccini
38. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Bayeux tapestry
Penny Marshall
Macbeth
Gilbert Stuart
39. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
George Sand
Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates
40. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Tempura
Leo Tolstoy
Rhymed Verse
41. God of the underworld - and wealth
Mary McCarthy
multi-media
Hades/Pluto
Samuel Beckett
42. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Flat
Hector Berlioz
Jules Verne
Existentialism
43. 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
Frank Gehry 1929
Monet
Mathew Brady
Islam
44. Beautiful Italian singing
Alfred Hitchcock
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jane Austen
bel canto
45. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain
Hades/Pluto
Pythagoras
46. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Merry Wives of Windsor
Al Jolson
Cubism
Charles Dickens
47. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Scrim
Atomists
Ray Bradbury
48. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Christopher Wren
Arthur Miller
Issac Asimov
49. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
minuetto
Libretto
The Iliad
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
50. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
cellini
Whole Tone Scale
Merry Wives of Windsor