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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Masaccio
hagia sophia
Delacroix
2. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
scrim
Heraclitus
Federico Fellini
Tchaikovsky
3. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
pieta
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Issac Asimov
4. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Dionysus/Bacchus
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Lorraine Hansberry
Langston Hughes
5. Leucippus and Democritus
Athena/Minerva
Atomists
barbara hepworth
Remington
6. Repititions of geometric lines
Frank Lloyd Wright
Samuel Beckett
American Indian Rugs
Jane Austen
7. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
Art Deco Movement
Octometer
Herman Melville
Bronte Sisters
8. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Tempura
Plato
Andrea Palladio
Cynics
9. God of the Underworld and Death
presto
Epicureans
Neo-classic period
Hades/Pluto
10. 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
Charles Dickens
Josiah Wedgewood
Mannerism
soliloquy
11. 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
Charles Dickens
Corinthian
Merchant of Venice
Existentialism
12. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Mark Twain
Eros/Cupid
The Muses
Jackson Pollock
13. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Salvador Dali
Stephen Foster
Flying buttresses
Monet
14. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
Trochaic pattern
hagia sophia
Scott Joplin
Ballet
15. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Samuel Beckett
Renaissance Art
16. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
flat
Jean Fragonard
Al Jolson
pieta
17. 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
Leonardo da Vinci
Ghiberti
Hades/Pluto
El Greco
18. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Delacroix
T.S. Eliot
fresco
George Sand
19. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
bust
Mosaic
Pythagoras
Parmenides
20. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Al Jolson
Andrea Palladio
sitar
Baroque art
21. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Lao Tzu
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
reliquary
Aubrey Beardsley
22. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Vermeer
Lorraine Hansberry
Symbolism
Bolero
23. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
scrim
renaissance
Botticelli
Neo-classic period
24. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Medieval Architecture
Parmenides
Satire
25. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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26. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
ballet
Aubrey Beardsley
Tchaikovsky
Giotto
27. Repititions of geometric lines
Christopher Wren
Renaissance
American Indian Rugs
The Muses
28. 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).
Federico Fellini
Heraclitus
Merry Wives of Windsor
Allegory
29. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Gothic age architecture
Merry Wives of Windsor
Donatello
Mary McCarthy
30. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Flying buttresses
Flat
William Shakespeare
Mathew Brady
31. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Jean Fragonard
Satire
Cervantes
Socrates
32. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Leo Tolstoy
Brussels tapestries
Dactylic
Leonardo da Vinci
33. Mannerism painter
Issac Asimov
Stravinsky
El Greco
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
34. School of nonsense and anti-art
bel canto
dada school
gouche
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
35. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Lorraine Hansberry
Renaissance Art
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Hamlet
36. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Octometer
Al Jolson
alexander calder
Brunelleschi
37. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Picasso
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dada school
Socrates
38. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Lorraine Hansberry
Pilgrim's Progress
tragic figure
Abstraction
39. God of the sea
Persian Rugs
Poseidon/Neptune
Hector Berlioz
Leo Tolstoy
40. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Macbeth
Picasso
Neoclassicism
Hestia/Vesta
41. Rebirth
Greek Corinthian
Denouement
Hades/Pluto
Renaissance
42. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
minuetto
Mark Twain
Renaissance Art
Epicureans
43. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
barbara hepworth
John Roebling
neo-classic period
44. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Celtic Art
Herman Melville
Picasso
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
45. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Macbeth
bel canto
multi-media
Persian Rugs
46. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Barcelona Pavilion
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Herman Melville
47. Court dances
flying buttress
Federico Fellini
Scrim
Pavane and the Polonaise
48. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
bel canto
Cerros
bust
Persian Rugs
49. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Fragonard
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charles Dickens
50. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Pythagoras
Baroque Period
Alfred Hitchcock
Honore de Balzac