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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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
barbara hepworth
Guggenheim Museum
George Sand
Twelve Tone System
2. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Abstraction
Jane Austen
Pablo Picasso
tragic figure
3. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Hector Berlioz
michelangelo
Francois Rabelais
Degas
4. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
oratorio
Bayeux tapestry
Dante Aligheri
5. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Hector Berlioz
Lillian Gish
Romanesque Style
gothic age architecture
6. Painted 'The Bathers'
Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Pilgrim's Progress
Jean Fragonard
7. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Andre Previn
chalice
Frank Gehry 1929
8. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Neoclassicism
mosaics
michelangelo
Simone De Beauvoir
9. British abstract sculptor
Historians
Alice Walker
Mary Wollstonecraft
barbara hepworth
10. Short-Short
Serge Diaghilev
New Orleans
Pyrrhic Pattern
Libretto
11. Beautiful Italian singing
bel canto
Alfred Hitchcock
sculpture
mosaics
12. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
Mathew Brady
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Johannes Brahms
13. Three dimensional work of art - statue
minuetto
Mathew Brady
Martha Graham
sculpture
14. French 20th century architect
T.S. Eliot
Issac Asimov
Le Corbusier
John Roebling
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
Henri Matisse
alexander calder
Monometer
Neoplatonism
17. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
tragic figure
Raphael
Lao Tzu
Edmund Spenser
18. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Maia/Fauna
barbara hepworth
D.W. Griffith
19. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
bel canto
cellini
Kshatriyas
Francois Rabelais
20. Pre-Socrates
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Plato
Stephen Crane
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
21. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Arthur Miller
michelangelo
22. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Athena/Minerva
Brahmans
dada school
Edmund Spenser
23. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Eros/Cupid
James Boswell
Tragic Playwrights
Henrik Ibsen
24. God of the sea
Ares/Mars
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poseidon/Neptune
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
25. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Jules Verne
Penny Marshall
aside
Remington
26. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
mannerism
Thomas Edison
Leo Tolstoy
Buddhists
27. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Christopher Marlowe
Gothic age architecture
constantin brancusi
Existentialism
28. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Alliteration
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Mathew Brady
29. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Hexameter
Jane Austen
presto
30. Leucippus and Democritus
Greek Doric
Maia/Fauna
Mary McCarthy
Atomists
31. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
bust
Francois Rabelais
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Delacroix
32. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Salvador Dali
flat
F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Daniel Defoe
Donatello
Heptameter
sitar
34. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
El Greco
Seurat
tempura
Flat
35. Goddess of Hunting
Aubrey Beardsley
Al Jolson
Artemis/Diana
Ares/Mars
36. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Al Jolson
Brussels tapestries
Andrea Palladio
Baroque art
37. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
James Joyce
Alliteration
Mary Shelley
Post and Lintel
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.
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Manhattan Project
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotle
39. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
allegro
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Giotto
Monometer
40. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Brahmans
Pearl Buck
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Augustine Age
41. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
michelangelo
Hamlet
D.W. Griffith
obelisk
42. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Eugene Delacroix
Symbolism
Richard Sheridan
William Shakespeare
43. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Edmund Spenser
Buddhists
James Boswell
Stravinsky
44. Five-foot line
Chopin
Pentameter
Dactylic
renaissance
45. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
pieta
James Boswell
Hagia Sophia
aside
46. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Bolero
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Remington
Andrea Palladio
47. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Hermes/Mercury
Claude Monet
Apostrophe
Leonardo da Vinci
48. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Hagia Sophia
Tetrameter
Scott Joplin
Bronte Sisters
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.
Honore de Balzac
Bayeux tapestry
Francois Rabelais
minuetto
50. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Mathew Brady
Mary Shelley
Christopher Wren
Plato