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CLEP Humanities All In One

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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






2. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






3. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers






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






5. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






6. Painted 'The Bathers'






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






8. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






9. British abstract sculptor






10. Short-Short






11. Beautiful Italian singing






12. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






13. Three dimensional work of art - statue






14. French 20th century architect






15. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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16. One-foot line






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






18. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.






19. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






20. Pre-Socrates






21. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner






22. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti






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






24. God of the sea






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






26. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






27. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






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






29. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






30. Leucippus and Democritus






31. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person






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






33. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






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






35. Goddess of Hunting






36. Architect who liked a statue at every corner






37. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man






38. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






39. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






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






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






42. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado






43. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






44. Five-foot line






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






46. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time






47. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism






48. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






49. 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.






50. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.