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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Slow
Flying buttress
Mary McCarthy
Reliquary
andante
2. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
scrim
Andre Previn
Renoir
Martha Graham
3. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Peter Paul Rubens
Cervantes
Francois Rabelais
reliquary
4. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Chopin
Christopher Marlowe
High Renaissance
Picasso
5. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
hagia sophia
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Brussels tapestries
Samuel Beckett
6. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
bel canto
allegro
Rembrandt
Chopin
7. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Cervantes
Donatello
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
8. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Vermeer
Shudras
Francois Rabelais
Richard Sheridan
9. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Aphrodite/Venus
Arnold Schoenberg
Flying buttress
Charles Dickens
10. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Christopher Wren
Alfred Hitchcock
Aphrodite/Venus
Renaissance
11. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Symbolism
T.S. Eliot
Hans-Georg Gadamer
12. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Pearl Buck
Mary Wollstonecraft
Islam
Langston Hughes
13. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
George Sand
Da Vinci
soliloquy
14. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Frank Gehry 1929
Cervantes
Penny Marshall
Atomists
15. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Lionel Hampton
Thomas Edison
Merry Wives of Windsor
Tchaikovsky
16. Wrote Rivals
Henry Dixon Cowell
Neoclassicism
Richard Sheridan
Merry Wives of Windsor
17. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
louise nevelson
Bayeux tapestry
Macbeth
Charles Dickens
18. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
hagia sophia
Thales
Edmund Spenser
Thomas Edison
19. God of Love
Hades/Pluto
bust
Renaissance Art
Eros/Cupid
20. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Donatello
New Orleans
Lionel Hampton
Buddhists
21. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Merchant of Venice
Le Corbusier
Raphael
22. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Serge Diaghilev
American Indian Rugs
A short syllable
Ghiberti
23. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Stravinsky
Alexander Dumas
Post Impressionism
Pythagoras
24. God of Marriage
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Johannes Brahms
Post Impressionism
Hera/Juno
25. Five-foot line
Zeno
Pentameter
Joseph Conrad
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
26. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Masaccio
Ares/Mars
Scrim
flat
27. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
andante
Joseph Conrad
Delacroix
Bayeux tapestry
28. Short-Short
Donatello
Mary Shelley
Pyrrhic Pattern
Apollo
29. Rebirth
Handel
Langston Hughes
renaissance
Jackson Pollock
30. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
flying buttress
Eugene O'Neil
tempura
31. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Historians
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Al Jolson
Beethoven & Wagner
32. Six-foot line
Mary McCarthy
Kshatriyas
Buddhists
Hexameter
33. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Mary Shelley
Peter Paul Rubens
Pavane and the Polonaise
34. A dance
Tchaikovsky
minuetto
Minimalist Music
Alfred Hitchcock
35. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Othello
Onomatopoeia
Serge Diaghilev
T.S. Eliot
36. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Le Corbusier
Plato
sculpture
D.W. Griffith
37. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Simone De Beauvoir
Francois Rabelais
Stephen Crane
Issac Asimov
38. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Athena/Minerva
korai
Jonathan Swift
Atomism
39. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Apollo
neo-classic period
Vincent van Gogh
Delacroix
40. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Hera/Juno
Handel
Zeno
41. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Niccolo Machiavelli
James Boswell
William Faulkner
pieta
42. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Chalice
Bolero
Beethoven & Wagner
Da Vinci
43. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Tempura
Allegory
John Locke
Othello
44. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Beethoven & Wagner
Noh Theatre
flat
45. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Claude Debussy
pieta
Salvador Dali
constantin brancusi
46. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
allegro
Book of Durrow
Lionel Hampton
Macbeth
47. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Serge Diaghilev
Penny Marshall
sitar
Pythagoras
48. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
flying buttress
Christopher Wren
John Dryden
pieta
49. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Heraclitus
chalice
Mary McCarthy
50. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Seurat
Degas
Johannes Brahms
Greek Ionic
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