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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Artemis/Diana
ballet
chalice
pieta
2. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Frank Gehry 1929
Hamlet
Marc Chagall
Thomas Gainsborough
3. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
New Orleans
Medieval Architecture
Persian Rugs
Corinthian
4. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Poseidon/Neptune
T.S. Eliot
Moai
Jean Fragonard
5. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Remington
Edmund Spenser
Andrea Palladio
madrigal
6. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Pearl Buck
Parmenides
Pearl Buck
Lorraine Hansberry
7. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Pythagoras
Vermeer
gothic age architecture
Mary Shelley
8. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Mathew Brady
cellini
Jane Austen
Hagia Sophia
9. 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
Pentameter
Benjamin Franklin
D.W. Griffith
Mary Wollstonecraft
10. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chopin
Lillian Gish
Art Deco Movement
11. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
A long syllable
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Degas
12. I and the Village
Lionel Hampton
King Lear
Humanism
Marc Chagall
13. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Dionysus/Bacchus
cellini
alexander calder
Honore de Balzac
14. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
bust
Monet
Thomas Gainsborough
Art Deco Movement
15. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
presto
Reliquary
korai
16. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Zeno
Guggenheim Museum
Versailles
Mies van der Rohe
17. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
French Romantic painter
Lindisfarne Gospel
Aristotle
Pablo Picasso
18. Played the xylophone and marimba
Dionysus/Bacchus
gothic age architecture
Lionel Hampton
William Faulkner
19. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Confucianism
T.S. Eliot
Mannerism
Alfred Hitchcock
20. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Augustine Age
William Faulkner
Zeno
Simone De Beauvoir
21. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
pieta
Taoism
Picasso
Satire
22. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Leo Tolstoy
Monometer
Serge Diaghilev
Federico Fellini
23. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
scrim
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Libretto
24. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Othello
Hamlet
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Peter Paul Rubens
25. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Andrea Palladio
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Irony
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
26. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Remington
Cervantes
Plato
James Boswell
27. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Vermeer
Mark Twain
Mary Shelley
28. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Da Vinci
oratorio
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
29. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
barbara hepworth
Gilbert and Sullivan
Socrates
Andrew Wyeth
30. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Hades/Pluto
Satire
Barcelona Pavilion
31. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Scrim
Thomas Edison
Kouroi
Chartres Cathedral
32. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
mannerism
Imagery
33. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Aphrodite/Venus
Herman Melville
Serge Diaghilev
34. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
A long syllable
Scott Joplin
Cimabue
Mannerism
35. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Simile
Richard Sheridan
Charles Dickens
minuetto
36. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Ernest Hemingway
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
37. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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38. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Henrik Ibsen
Henry Dixon Cowell
Lionel Hampton
Jules Verne
39. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Hyperbole
Langston Hughes
New Orleans
Federico Fellini
40. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Simone Martini
Thomas Edison
Rembrandt
Heraclitus
41. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
flying buttress
Greek Ionic
Christopher Marlowe
Existentialism
42. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Andre Previn
Atomism
Scrim
Henry Dixon Cowell
43. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Post Impressionism
bel canto
Herman Melville
44. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
Alliteration
Richard Sheridan
D.W. Griffith
fresco
45. Opaque watercolor
Stephen Foster
Eisenstein
Art Deco Movement
gouche
46. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
louise nevelson
Poseidon/Neptune
obelisk
Victor Hugo
47. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Rene Descartes
Medieval Architecture
Salvador Dali
Jonathan Swift
48. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Spondaic Pattern
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
Hermes/Mercury
49. Beautiful Italian singing
bel canto
Hyperbole
Alice Walker
Trimeter
50. Paul Gauguin
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Soliloquy
Henrik Ibsen
Christopher Wren