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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Gainsborough
Federico Fellini
pop art
2. Found on Easter Island - The South Pacific
Moai
Andre Previn
Pablo Picasso
Federico Fellini
3. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Socrates
Onomatopoeia
Henry Dixon Cowell
Eugene O'Neil
4. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
chalice
William Shakespeare
El Greco
Maia/Fauna
5. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Flying buttresses
Handel
multi-media
Jane Austen
6. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Claude Monet
Donatello
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
American Indian Rugs
7. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Romanesque Style
henry moore
Tragic Playwrights
michelangelo
8. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
John Locke
Frank Lloyd Wright
scrim
Tchaikovsky
9. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
aside
King Lear
Pythagoras
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
10. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
King Lear
Ares/Mars
Noh Theatre
Othello
11. 20th Century American composer
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Henry Dixon Cowell
Mathew Brady
Penny Marshall
12. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Romanesque Style
Herman Melville
Chopin
Arthur Miller
13. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
The Parthenon
Cervantes
Charles Dickens
14. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Delacroix
Rembrandt
Brunelleschi
tragic figure
15. 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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Aristotle
Josiah Wedgewood
Stoicism
16. Opaque watercolor
gouche
William Faulkner
Monet
pieta
17. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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18. Played the xylophone and marimba
Frank Lloyd Wright
Lionel Hampton
constantin brancusi
Honore de Balzac
19. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Leo Tolstoy
Noh Theatre
Federico Fellini
20. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
tragic figure
Joan Miro
Baroque art
Al Jolson
21. 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.
The Parthenon
Renoir
Roman Basilica
D.W. Griffith
22. 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
Hades/Pluto
Existentialism
Jonathan Swift
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
23. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Bayeux tapestry
mannerism
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Symbolism
24. Painted 'The Bathers'
reliquary
Samuel Beckett
Jean Fragonard
Eugene O'Neil
25. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Neolithic
Greek Ionic
Hestia/Vesta
Richard Sheridan
26. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
Henry Dixon Cowell
michelangelo
Scott Joplin
27. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Aristotle
Hector Berlioz
Charles Dickens
Baroque art
28. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Noh Theatre
Leo Tolstoy
Aaron Copeland
Denouement
29. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Dimeter
Herman Melville
Versailles
tempura
30. Long-Long
madrigal
Spondaic Pattern
Theme
Frank Lloyd Wright
31. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Sitar
Samuel Beckett
Zeno
Delacroix
32. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Degas
Josiah Wedgewood
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Serge Diaghilev
33. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
Eros/Cupid
Peter Paul Rubens
Hellenistic Period
34. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
Leo Tolstoy
Plato
The Parthenon
Friedrich Nietzsche
35. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Scrim
mannerism
Manhattan Project
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
36. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Othello
Pearl Buck
Serge Diaghilev
Delacroix
37. Fast
bust
presto
Pearl Buck
Dimeter
38. French impressionist painter
D.W. Griffith
Serge Diaghilev
Socrates
Monet
39. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Pavane and the Polonaise
Ghiberti
Charles Dickens
Picasso
40. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
E.E. Cummings
bust
Edmund Spenser
New Orleans
41. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Pablo Picasso
Hamlet
Symbolism
Merry Wives of Windsor
42. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Remington
Baroque art
Persian Rugs
tempura
43. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Richard Sheridan
Michelangelo
Cerros
44. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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45. 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
Rene Descartes
Romanesque Style
Plato
T.S. Eliot
46. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Blank Verse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mark Twain
Renaissance
47. The Color Purple
Jane Austen
Renoir
Georgia O'Keefe
Alice Walker
48. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Octometer
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
49. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Bronte Sisters
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Mosaic
Chalice
50. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Heraclitus
Mannerism
Aubrey Beardsley