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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thucydides and Herodotus






2. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






3. 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.






4. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks






5. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






6. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






7. Court dances






8. 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.






9. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






10. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'






11. DNA of the song






12. God of Wine






13. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






14. Long-Short






15. Painted 'The Bathers'






16. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






17. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






18. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror






19. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)






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






21. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






22. Short-Short-Long






23. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






24. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






25. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.






26. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns






27. Beuatiful with ornate borders






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






29. Messenger of the Gods and Finance






30. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






31. Death of a Salesman






32. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time






33. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






34. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






35. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






36. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.






37. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV






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






39. 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.






40. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






41. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital






42. Repititions of geometric lines






43. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






44. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.






45. The text of the opera






46. 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.






47. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






48. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






49. 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.






50. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience