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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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2. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Stravinsky
Doric
Daniel Defoe
Jules Verne
3. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alexander Dumas
Scrim
4. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Le Corbusier
Serialism
Beethoven & Wagner
Manichaeism
5. 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.
Lionel Hampton
Samuel Beckett
Hades/Pluto
Phoebus/Apollo
6. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Antonio Gaudi
fresco
Thomas Edison
Joseph Conrad
7. God of Wildlife
Neolithic
Da Vinci
American Indian Rugs
Artemis/Diana
8. God of War
Ares/Mars
bust
Personification
D.W. Griffith
9. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Pilgrim's Progress
Aside
High Renaissance Painters
Lorraine Hansberry
10. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Ray Bradbury
King Lear
Othello
Eisenstein
11. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Imagery
Pablo Picasso
Frank Gehry 1929
Niccolo Machiavelli
12. Fast
Issac Asimov
George Sand
presto
Soliloquy
13. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Edvard Greig
Trochaic pattern
Honore de Balzac
Stephen Crane
14. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Rococo
Thomas Edison
constantin brancusi
Monet
15. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Ares/Mars
Aristotle
Giotto
Beethoven & Wagner
16. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Denouement
Federico Fellini
Remington
Book of Durrow
17. I and the Village
Gilbert Stuart
Marc Chagall
Georg W. F. Hegel
Lionel Hampton
18. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
alexander calder
Pablo Picasso
Pieta
renaissance
19. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Personification
Barcelona Pavilion
Neoplatonism
20. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Transcendentalism
tragic figure
Popular Transcendentalists
Botticelli
21. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Arthur Miller
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Charles Dickens
22. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Chartres Cathedral
Thales
Apollo
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
23. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
reliquary
Versailles
Manhattan Project
flying buttress
24. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
flying buttress
Richard Sheridan
Corinthian
King Lear
25. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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26. God of the Sea
Monet
Josiah Wedgewood
Epic
Poseidon/Neptune
27. 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
George Sand
Leo Tolstoy
El Greco
Epicureans
28. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
tragic figure
Mark Twain
Giotto
Arthur Miller
29. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
fresco
Simone De Beauvoir
Salvador Dali
Pavane and the Polonaise
30. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Leonardo da Vinci
Scott Joplin
Penny Marshall
Fauvism
31. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
gothic age architecture
Lorraine Hansberry
Picasso
32. A famous cathedral In France
Merry Wives of Windsor
Greek Doric
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Chartres Cathedral
33. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Edgar Allen Poe
James Joyce
Martha Graham
chalice
34. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Alexander Dumas
Ray Bradbury
Raphael
Hellenistic Period
35. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
T.S. Eliot
Victor Hugo
fresco
Atomism
36. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Hermes/Mercury
French Romantic painter
Pilgrim's Progress
Remington
37. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Johannes Brahms
Samuel Beckett
The Pigeon House
Henrik Ibsen
38. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
cellini
Obelisk
Socrates
Artemis/Diana
39. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
andante
Andrew Wyeth
Mathew Brady
Samuel Beckett
40. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Noh Theatre
Eisenstein
Onomatopoeia
Doric
41. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Serge Diaghilev
Whole Tone Scale
Hans-Georg Gadamer
42. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Church of San Vitale
William Faulkner
Eisenstein
43. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Handel
Aristotle
Moai
Augustine Age
44. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Epicureans
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pavane and the Polonaise
The Parthenon
45. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Chartres Cathedral
Pavane and the Polonaise
Noh Theatre
alexander calder
46. Fast
Mark Twain
presto
James Boswell
Pablo Picasso
47. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
bel canto
aside
Jean Fragonard
Vaishyas
48. Science fiction writer
Mosaic
Issac Asimov
Paleolithic
A short syllable
49. God of Wisdom
Andrea Palladio
Christopher Marlowe
Athena/Minerva
Symbolism
50. A capella singers
Pablo Picasso
Mosaic
madrigal
Bronte Sisters