Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Humanities All In One

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






2. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






3. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






4. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






5. School of nonsense and anti-art






6. Plato and Aristotle






7. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore






8. The text of the opera






9. Architect who like a statue at every corner






10. 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.






11. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist






12. 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






13. 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






14. Russian composer






15. 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






16. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






17. Spanish surrealist painter






18. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






19. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






20. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






21. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






22. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






23. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style






24. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






25. 20th Century American composer






26. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






27. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






28. Short-Long






29. Three-foot line






30. Laborer caste in Hinduism






31. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






32. 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






33. Goddess of Flowers and Spring






34. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'






35. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






36. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater






37. Repititions of geometric lines






38. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.






39. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






40. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.






41. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.






42. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






43. Leucippus and Democritus






44. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






45. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.






46. Rebirth






47. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






48. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






49. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






50. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads