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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Federico Fellini
Hector Berlioz
Richard Sheridan
2. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Geoffrey Chaucer
Transcendentalism
Leo Tolstoy
3. Slow
Gouche
Phoebus/Apollo
Joan Miro
andante
4. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Charles Dickens
Martha Graham
Libretto
5. The Color Purple
Alice Walker
John Locke
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Niccolo Machiavelli
6. 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.
Salvador Dali
Plato
Christopher Wren
Lionel Hampton
7. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Cubism
Serge Diaghilev
Da Vinci
Tragic Playwrights
8. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Socrates
Vincent van Gogh
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
9. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Henrik Ibsen
Trompe l'oeil
Greek Corinthian
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
10. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Greek Ionic
Andrea Palladio
Vermeer
Neoclassicism
11. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Aubrey Beardsley
Heraclitus
Alfred Hitchcock
12. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Mark Twain
Johannes Brahms
Satire
Neoclassicism
13. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
The Parthenon
Hector Berlioz
Mies van der Rohe
Jules Verne
14. Famous French impressionist composer
Edmund Spenser
Pilgrim's Progress
flat
Claude Debussy
15. Mannerism painter
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Daniel Defoe
El Greco
Stephen Foster
16. Six-foot line
Henry Dixon Cowell
Hexameter
Greek Doric
Georg W. F. Hegel
17. Beautiful Italian singing
Raphael
bel canto
A short syllable
Jean Jacques Rousseau
18. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Brunelleschi
Simone Martini
Macbeth
henry moore
19. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Verdi and Puccini
Henrik Ibsen
Alfred Hitchcock
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
20. Goddess of Hunting
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Artemis/Diana
Mies van der Rohe
Pablo Picasso
21. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
Picasso
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Christopher Wren
22. 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
Jonathan Swift
Christopher Wren
Reliquary
Merry Wives of Windsor
23. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
barbara hepworth
Thales
Mary Shelley
Henry Dixon Cowell
24. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
George Sand
Scott Joplin
allegro
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
25. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
soliloquy
Eisenstein
Serge Diaghilev
multi-media
26. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Socrates
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Merchant of Venice
michelangelo
27. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
Andrea Palladio
George Sand
A long syllable
William Faulkner
28. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
flat
Macbeth
Mark Twain
The Pigeon House
29. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Le Corbusier
Simone De Beauvoir
Federico Fellini
30. 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.
Chartres Cathedral
Remington
Plato
madrigal
31. Goddess of Fortune
Daniel Defoe
Tyche/Fortuna
Thales
Artemis/Diana
32. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Cubism
Giotto
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Neo-classic period
33. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
Henrik Ibsen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Blake
constantin brancusi
34. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
James Joyce
Hagia Sophia
sitar
Frank Lloyd Wright
35. Science fiction writer
Imagery
Atomists
Issac Asimov
Hyperbole
36. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Symbolism
William Wordsworth
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
37. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Ray Bradbury
Simone De Beauvoir
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Christopher Wren
38. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Plato
Ares/Mars
Alexander Dumas
Barcelona Pavilion
39. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Artemis/Diana
Arthur Miller
Blank Verse
King Lear
40. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
henry moore
King Lear
Romanesque Style
Whole Tone Scale
41. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Whole Tone Scale
Botticelli
Serge Diaghilev
Picasso
42. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Plato
Pearl Buck
sculpture
Rembrandt
43. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Baroque Period
American Indian Rugs
Symbolism
Book of Durrow
44. I and the Village
barbara hepworth
Francois Rabelais
Jean Fragonard
Marc Chagall
45. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
American Indian Rugs
Noh Theatre
Libretto
Chartres Cathedral
46. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Stravinsky
Corinthian
Confucianism
Pavane and the Polonaise
47. Impressionistic Music
Chloris/Flora
Pavane and the Polonaise
Edmund Spenser
Impressionistic Art came before
48. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Medieval Architecture
Ionic
Le Corbusier
49. 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
Picasso
Gilbert Stuart
George Sand
Salvador Dali
50. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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