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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Merchant of Venice
Issac Asimov
tragic figure
Federico Fellini
2. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
American Indian Rugs
A long syllable
Libretto
3. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Theme
John Dryden
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Athena/Minerva
4. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Socrates
El Greco
chalice
Mary McCarthy
5. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Lindisfarne Gospel
oratorio
Ghiberti
Josiah Wedgewood
6. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Chloris/Flora
Vermeer
Masaccio
Shudras
7. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Renaissance Art
sculpture
Jean Fragonard
reliquary
8. God of the Sea
Ballet
Martin Heidegger
Henry Dixon Cowell
Poseidon/Neptune
9. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
American Indian Rugs
Lillian Gish
Aristotle
Brahmans
10. 20th Century American composer
Symbolism
tempura
Atomists
Henry Dixon Cowell
11. 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
King Lear
Immanuel Kant
Benjamin Franklin
Da Vinci
12. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Tragic figure
Josiah Wedgewood
Dada school
Pilgrim's Progress
13. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Stephen Crane
Serge Diaghilev
Epic
Frank Lloyd Wright
14. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Confucianism
Pilgrim's Progress
T.S. Eliot
Rembrandt
15. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Rembrandt
Gilbert Stuart
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Noh Theatre
16. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Bernini
Martha Graham
Herman Melville
17. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Atomists
renaissance
ballet
Frank Lloyd Wright
18. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Hermes/Mercury
Aaron Copeland
Hector Berlioz
Botticelli
19. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
William Wordsworth
Al Jolson
Stravinsky
Christopher Wren
20. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
Remington
Imagery
Jean Jacques Rousseau
21. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Henry Dixon Cowell
Richard Sheridan
Atomists
Soliloquy
22. Beautiful Italian singing
Bayeux tapestry
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
bel canto
Degas
23. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Thomas Edison
Thomas Gainsborough
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
24. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Mark Twain
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Joseph Conrad
alexander calder
25. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Rembrandt
Lillian Gish
Pieta
Giotto
26. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Persian Rugs
Pavane and the Polonaise
Delacroix
Victor Hugo
27. Six-foot line
Hexameter
Modern Period
King Lear
Lillian Gish
28. Wrote Rivals
Charles Dickens
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Ray Bradbury
Richard Sheridan
29. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Henry Dixon Cowell
Alexander Dumas
constantin brancusi
Federico Fellini
30. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
tragic figure
Alexander Dumas
Mary McCarthy
Jane Austen
31. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
chalice
Heraclitus
T.S. Eliot
Chloris/Flora
32. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Hades/Pluto
Le Corbusier
Merchant of Venice
James Boswell
33. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Brahmans
Surrealism
Neo-classic period
Merry Wives of Windsor
34. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Artemis/Diana
Victor Hugo
Picasso
35. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Merchant of Venice
pop art
Pearl Buck
Alliteration
36. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Herman Melville
Vermeer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heptameter
37. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Mary Shelley
Pavane and the Polonaise
Tempura
Othello
38. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Moral Philosophers
Bayeux tapestry
D.W. Griffith
39. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Hamlet
Whole Tone Scale
gothic age architecture
Gilbert Stuart
40. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Frank Gehry 1929
Jonathan Swift
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Serge Diaghilev
41. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Existentialism
bel canto
Baroque Period
Paleolithic
42. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
Andrea Palladio
Aubrey Beardsley
Arthur Miller
43. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
mannerism
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
fresco
A short syllable
44. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Noh Theatre
Bernini
michelangelo
Gilbert Stuart
45. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
pop art
Macbeth
Frank Lloyd Wright
Christopher Wren
46. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Le Corbusier
flat
Herman Melville
Beethoven & Wagner
47. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
obelisk
Chloris/Flora
Lorraine Hansberry
48. The text of the opera
Monet
Libretto
Seurat
Charles Dickens
49. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
Tchaikovsky
Edmund Spenser
Francois Rabelais
50. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Dimeter
Dactylic
Brussels tapestries
Frank Gehry 1929
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