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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Flying buttresses
Giotto
oratorio
Corinthian
2. God of Wine and Theatre
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Dionysus/Bacchus
Persian Rugs
Tchaikovsky
3. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Iambic pattern
Alexander Dumas
Niccolo Machiavelli
4. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Langston Hughes
Jules Verne
bel canto
Renoir
5. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
James Joyce
Niccolo Machiavelli
American Indian Rugs
6. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
constantin brancusi
multi-media
Da Vinci
7. Goddess of Fortune
Taoism
Frank Lloyd Wright
Tyche/Fortuna
Pearl Buck
8. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Le Corbusier
Soliloquy
Peter Paul Rubens
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
9. Short-Short-Long
Brahmans
Vincent van Gogh
Anapestic Pattern
Thomas Edison
10. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Hera/Juno
Manhattan Project
Lillian Gish
cellini
11. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
Edmund Spenser
Impressionism
Lillian Gish
12. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Eugene O'Neil
Chopin
aside
Beethoven & Wagner
13. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Federico Fellini
Jonathan Swift
Moai
bust
14. Death of a Salesman
pieta
Merry Wives of Windsor
Arthur Miller
Francois Rabelais
15. 20th Century American composer
barbara hepworth
Federico Fellini
Henry Dixon Cowell
Donatello
16. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Flat
Neoplatonism
Pyrrhic Pattern
17. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Allegory
Atomism
fresco
Eisenstein
18. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Brunelleschi
Charles Dickens
James Joyce
flat
19. Three-foot line
Monometer
Trimeter
Edmund Spenser
William Wordsworth
20. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Poseidon/Neptune
Alexander Dumas
Serge Diaghilev
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
21. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
El Greco
Stephen Foster
flat
andante
22. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Leo Tolstoy
Macbeth
Andre Previn
Georgia O'Keeffe
23. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Verdi and Puccini
Niccolo Machiavelli
Simile
sitar
24. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Federico Fellini
barbara hepworth
Epicureans
25. 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.
Medieval Architecture
madrigal
Neoclassicism
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
26. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Le Corbusier
Handel
Artemis/Diana
27. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Usonian
Stephen Crane
E.E. Cummings
Augustine Age
28. 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.
Bayeux tapestry
Transcendentalism
Andrea Palladio
Pablo Picasso
29. 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.
Symbolism
Seurat
hagia sophia
Hexameter
30. Eight-foot line
Heptameter
Octometer
Edmund Spenser
Stoicism
31. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
T.S. Eliot
Blank Verse
Merry Wives of Windsor
Beethoven & Wagner
32. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Vincent van Gogh
Augustine Age
Lindisfarne Gospel
T.S. Eliot
33. 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
Verdi and Puccini
hagia sophia
Benjamin Franklin
Aristotle
34. Beautiful Italian singing
Mary Shelley
flat
bel canto
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
35. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
neo-classic period
Gilbert Stuart
The Panthenon
Macbeth
36. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Onomatopoeia
Henry Dixon Cowell
oratorio
37. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Lionel Hampton
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Kouroi
Othello
38. French impressionist painter
Edmund Spenser
Donatello
Monet
Ionic
39. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Humanism
Joan Miro
Soliloquy
pop art
40. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
pop art
French Romantic painter
Mark Twain
Christopher Wren
41. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
louise nevelson
chalice
Libretto
Chopin
42. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
sitar
Leo Tolstoy
Arthur Miller
Edmund Spenser
43. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
The Muses
Aristotle
Rococo
Stephen Foster
44. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
mannerism
Mary McCarthy
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Delacroix
45. School of nonsense and anti-art
Francesco Petrarch
dada school
Rembrandt
Dante Aligheri
46. 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
Remington
Merry Wives of Windsor
Zeus/Jupiter
Scott Joplin
47. 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
Minimalist Music
Picasso
George Sand
Tempura
48. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Thales
Gilbert Stuart
Alliteration
49. God of Marriage
Charles Dickens
Hades/Pluto
Hera/Juno
Satire
50. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Fauvism
Kronos/Saturn
Maia/Fauna
Verdi and Puccini