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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
henry moore
Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mathew Brady
2. Goddess of Animals
Mary Shelley
Michelangelo
Alice Walker
Maia/Fauna
3. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
barbara hepworth
Ionic
bust
Edmund Spenser
4. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
multi-media
Book of Durrow
Imagery
Hades/Pluto
5. Two-foot line
Jane Austen
Dimeter
Claude Debussy
pop art
6. Short-Short
Allegory
Degas
Brussels tapestries
Pyrrhic Pattern
7. 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
Richard Sheridan
Ares/Mars
Mary Wollstonecraft
Niccolo Machiavelli
8. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Seurat
Merchant of Venice
Salvador Dali
Jane Austen
9. 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
Benjamin Franklin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ares/Mars
Giotto
10. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Ray Bradbury
Gouche
Church of San Vitale
Delacroix
11. 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
Jonathan Swift
Post Impressionism
bel canto
Moai
12. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Lillian Gish
Baroque Period
Rococo
obelisk
13. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Usonian
Andrew Wyeth
michelangelo
Mies van der Rohe
14. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
bust
Cynics
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
aside
15. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Renoir
Gilbert and Sullivan
16. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Joan Miro
Monometer
Monet
Bronte Sisters
17. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Seurat
Jane Austen
Ballet
18. 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.
Andrew Wyeth
Eisenstein
D.W. Griffith
Federico Fellini
19. Fast
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
presto
Andrea Palladio
Martha Graham
20. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Cervantes
Andrew Wyeth
Alliteration
mosaics
21. Famous French impressionist composer
Demeter/Ceres
Pythagoras
Noh Theatre
Claude Debussy
22. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Victor Hugo
Issac Asimov
Hector Berlioz
Scott Joplin
23. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Niccolo Machiavelli
Donatello
Remington
24. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Daniel Defoe
Thomas Edison
Moai
Andrea Palladio
25. Four-foot line
Hera/Juno
Existentialism
Tetrameter
Penny Marshall
26. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Pavane and the Polonaise
John Locke
Jane Austen
Donatello
27. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Greek Ionic
William Blake
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
28. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Giotto
Mary Shelley
Geoffrey Chaucer
Bronte Sisters
29. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Chopin
Sitar
Hyperbole
James Joyce
30. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Hades/Pluto
The Pigeon House
T.S. Eliot
Paleolithic
31. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
The Iliad
Popular Transcendentalists
Francesco Petrarch
Giotto
32. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Francois Rabelais
Christopher Marlowe
Degas
Joseph Conrad
33. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
pop art
Da Vinci
A long syllable
Pythagoras
34. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Beckett
James Boswell
Hagia Sophia
Socrates
35. School of nonsense and anti-art
dada school
Mathew Brady
Maia/Fauna
Honore de Balzac
36. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Mozart and Richard Strauss
sitar
Kronos/Saturn
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
37. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Gilbert Stuart
Salvador Dali
Christopher Wren
38. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Lillian Gish
mannerism
Johannes Brahms
Leo Tolstoy
39. God of the underworld - and wealth
Frank Lloyd Wright
New Orleans
barbara hepworth
Hades/Pluto
40. 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
aside
Ray Bradbury
Historians
Seurat
41. Thucydides and Herodotus
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Historians
American Indian Rugs
Jane Austen
42. 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.
Mary Shelley
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
mannerism
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
43. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Simone De Beauvoir
henry moore
Andrew Wyeth
ballet
44. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Plato
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Denouement
Pythagoras
45. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
tempura
El Greco
Richard Sheridan
Renoir
46. Mannerism painter
El Greco
James Joyce
Charles Dickens
Remington
47. Plato and Aristotle
Doric
Moral Philosophers
Bayeux tapestry
Charles Dickens
48. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Ernest Hemingway
Versailles
Zeus/Jupiter
49. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Eros/Cupid
Jean Jacques Rousseau
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Plato
50. God of Love
Eros/Cupid
Apostrophe
Pavane and the Polonaise
Merchant of Venice