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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Short-Short-Long
Gilbert Stuart
Ernest Hemingway
James Boswell
Anapestic Pattern
2. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Plato
constantin brancusi
Merchant of Venice
T.S. Eliot
3. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
IM Pei
Pablo Picasso
Jane Austen
madrigal
4. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Tempura
fresco
Ares/Mars
Hera/Juno
5. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Neolithic
Pavane and the Polonaise
pop art
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
6. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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7. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Mies van der Rohe
Fresco
Romanesque Style
pop art
8. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Minimalist Music
Al Jolson
Frank Lloyd Wright
Obelisk
9. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Hans-Georg Gadamer
El Greco
aside
Arnold Schoenberg
10. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Didactic-ism
alexander calder
korai
11. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Moai
Pavane and the Polonaise
Moral Philosophers
constantin brancusi
12. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Tetrameter
neo-classic period
Aubrey Beardsley
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
13. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Chloris/Flora
Cervantes
Brussels tapestries
Hamlet
14. 20th Century American composer
Da Vinci
Henry Dixon Cowell
gouche
John Locke
15. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Giotto
Pablo Picasso
Eisenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft
16. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Alfred Hitchcock
Rembrandt
Apollo
Hyperbole
17. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Josiah Wedgewood
Brussels tapestries
Transcendentalism
Niccolo Machiavelli
18. Death of a Salesman
henry moore
Edmund Spenser
Le Corbusier
Arthur Miller
19. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Lindisfarne Gospel
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Leo Tolstoy
mosaics
20. 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
Victor Hugo
Romanticism Movement
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Ghiberti
21. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
tempura
Gothic age architecture
Henrik Ibsen
Francois Rabelais
22. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
Mary Shelley
presto
King Lear
23. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Othello
korai
Epicureans
24. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
gothic age architecture
michelangelo
Zeno
sculpture
25. Mannerism painter
Anapestic Pattern
El Greco
Federico Fellini
Simone De Beauvoir
26. God of love and beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Pearl Buck
El Greco
Aristotle
27. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Othello
Buddhists
Joan Miro
Hellenistic Period
28. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
soliloquy
gothic age architecture
scrim
Alexander Dumas
29. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Giotto
Lorraine Hansberry
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hestia/Vesta
30. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Dimeter
James Joyce
Simone De Beauvoir
James Boswell
31. Thucydides and Herodotus
Samuel Beckett
Kshatriyas
Hamlet
Historians
32. Science fiction writer
Leo Tolstoy
Issac Asimov
Moai
fresco
33. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
Antonio Gaudi
Gilbert and Sullivan
Raphael
34. French 20th century architect
Andrew Wyeth
Edgar Allen Poe
Le Corbusier
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
35. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Renaissance
T.S. Eliot
Doric
Herman Melville
36. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Hobbes
El Greco
Thomas Edison
Eugene O'Neil
37. Architect who like a statue at every corner
flying buttress
sculpture
Andrea Palladio
Edmund Spenser
38. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Andrea Palladio
Simone De Beauvoir
Alexander Dumas
Stravinsky
39. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Thomas Edison
Tetrameter
cellini
Andrea Palladio
40. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Trochaic pattern
Chalice
Pallas Athena/Minerva
41. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Giotto
Macbeth
Flying buttresses
Simone De Beauvoir
42. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Edvard Greig
Lindisfarne Gospel
43. French impressionist painter
Joan Miro
Monet
Artemis/Diana
Bernini
44. Goddess of Fortune
Gilbert Stuart
Tyche/Fortuna
Mary Shelley
Pythagoras
45. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Gilbert and Sullivan
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Baroque Period
46. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Edvard Greig
Phoebus/Apollo
Seurat
French Romantic painter
47. Five-foot line
T.S. Eliot
Pentameter
bel canto
Romanesque Style
48. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Classical Period
tragic figure
Beethoven & Wagner
Reliquary
49. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
michelangelo
Frank Lloyd Wright
Seurat
Bronte Sisters
50. Leucippus and Democritus
mannerism
Atomists
Brussels tapestries
Aubrey Beardsley