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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Persistence of Memory






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






3. 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






4. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






5. Painted 'The Bathers'






6. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






7. Spanish surrealist painter






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






9. Russian composer






10. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






11. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-






12. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






13. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel






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






15. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material






16. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?






17. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






18. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






19. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






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






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






22. God of Marriage






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






24. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






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






26. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.






27. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






28. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






29. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






30. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte






31. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s






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






33. Architect who like a statue at every corner






34. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






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






36. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






37. Six-foot line






38. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






39. Opaque watercolor






40. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






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






42. Rebirth






43. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.






44. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts






45. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






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






47. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






48. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






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






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