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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Spanish surrealist painter
Penny Marshall
Stephen Crane
Jules Verne
Salvador Dali
2. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Eros/Cupid
Chalice
Gilbert Stuart
Pavane and the Polonaise
3. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Thomas Gainsborough
Arthur Miller
Persian Rugs
Greek Doric
4. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Alexander Dumas
F. Scott Fitzgerald
T.S. Eliot
Corinthian
5. Opaque watercolor
Epic
gouche
Francois Rabelais
Aaron Copeland
6. Science fiction writer
allegro
Pyrrhic Pattern
Issac Asimov
Claude Monet
7. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Alfred Hitchcock
Al Jolson
Vaishyas
sculpture
8. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
The Panthenon
sitar
Jonathan Swift
Gilbert Stuart
9. Architect who like a statue at every corner
sitar
Trochaic pattern
Cervantes
Andrea Palladio
10. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Ares/Mars
Andrea Palladio
Herman Melville
Botticelli
11. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Gilbert Stuart
Macbeth
Aaron Copeland
Hector Berlioz
12. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Bayeux tapestry
Metaphor
Flat
mannerism
13. British abstract sculptor
Lionel Hampton
barbara hepworth
Shudras
Free Verse
14. Goddess of Agriculture
neo-classic period
Pavane and the Polonaise
Donatello
Demeter/Ceres
15. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Seurat
Hera/Juno
Lionel Hampton
Andrea Palladio
16. God of Wine and Theatre
Andrea Palladio
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Dionysus/Bacchus
constantin brancusi
17. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
flying buttress
Othello
Trochaic pattern
Iambic pattern
18. 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.
dada school
Kouroi
Mannerism
Onomatopoeia
19. Long-Long
Spondaic Pattern
Herman Melville
Henrik Ibsen
Lindisfarne Gospel
20. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
louise nevelson
Delacroix
french female pose
Hellenistic Period
21. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Brahmans
IM Pei
Alexander Dumas
Herman Melville
22. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Andrea Palladio
Delacroix
Georgia O'Keefe
Alfred Hitchcock
23. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
Niccolo Machiavelli
Dimeter
Renoir
24. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Immanuel Kant
Arnold Schoenberg
25. The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
Verdi and Puccini
aside
Chopin
26. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
Ionic
Verdi and Puccini
Edmund Spenser
27. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
tempura
Jules Verne
Federico Fellini
Whole Tone Scale
28. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Plato
Jane Austen
Neoclassicism
29. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Vermeer
King Lear
Aphrodite/Venus
Federico Fellini
30. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Pablo Picasso
Rhymed Verse
Charles Dickens
Ray Bradbury
31. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Hector Berlioz
Beethoven & Wagner
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
32. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Art Deco Movement
Book of Kells
renaissance
A short syllable
33. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Irony
Ray Bradbury
french female pose
Ares/Mars
34. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Plato
Vermeer
Salvador Dali
35. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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36. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Persian Rugs
Henrik Ibsen
D.W. Griffith
37. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
allegro
Hera/Juno
38. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Christopher Wren
Simone De Beauvoir
Atomism
39. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
American Indian Rugs
Apostrophe
Rembrandt
William Shakespeare
40. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Symbolism
Rembrandt
Charles Dickens
Alexander Dumas
41. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Lionel Hampton
Handel
Delacroix
Tchaikovsky
42. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Mary McCarthy
Mathew Brady
Arthur Miller
Plato
43. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
bust
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Salvador Dali
constantin brancusi
44. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Phoebus/Apollo
Byzantine Style
sitar
Hamlet
45. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
dada school
Samuel Beckett
William Shakespeare
Persian Rugs
46. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Lindisfarne Gospel
Vincent van Gogh
Book of Kells
D.W. Griffith
47. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Marc Chagall
Theme
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Romanesque Style
48. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Art Deco Movement
Masaccio
Gilbert and Sullivan
T.S. Eliot
49. Fast
french female pose
presto
Alexander Dumas
Paleolithic
50. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Confucianism
Lorraine Hansberry
Simone Martini
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917