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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Brussels tapestries
Manhattan Project
T.S. Eliot
Moai
2. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Reliquary
The Panthenon
Tragic figure
Usonian
3. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Hermes/Mercury
Rococo
Simile
Post and Lintel
4. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
French Romantic painter
Heraclitus
Stephen Crane
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
5. Leucippus and Democritus
Hamlet
Atomists
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Noh Theatre
6. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
tempura
Joan Miro
Arnold Schoenberg
Cubism
7. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Neolithic
Paleolithic
Hellenistic Period
mannerism
8. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Ares/Mars
gothic age architecture
Vermeer
Hellenistic Period
9. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Romanesque Style
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Eisenstein
The Iliad
10. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Serge Diaghilev
Cervantes
Michelangelo
Book of Kells
11. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Federico Fellini
Joan Miro
Niccolo Machiavelli
renaissance
12. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Mary McCarthy
madrigal
Martha Graham
Georg W. F. Hegel
13. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
minuetto
Allegory
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
14. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Thales
Atomists
15. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Socrates
Andrew Wyeth
The Iliad
Renoir
16. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Alice Walker
Ghiberti
Martha Graham
multi-media
17. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Poseidon/Neptune
William Faulkner
Alfred Hitchcock
Gilbert Stuart
18. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Minimalist Music
presto
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
19. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
New Orleans
Thomas Edison
Book of Durrow
gouche
20. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Salvador Dali
George Sand
Alexander Dumas
21. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Tempura
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Edmund Spenser
22. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
louise nevelson
fresco
Heptameter
Christopher Marlowe
23. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Penny Marshall
Apollo
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
24. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Epic
fresco
Hellenistic Period
Andrew Wyeth
25. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
sculpture
Scrim
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bronte Sisters
26. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Existentialism
Frank Lloyd Wright
Henri Matisse
Kouroi
27. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Vermeer
Rembrandt
Remington
Hans-Georg Gadamer
28. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Theme
Soliloquy
louise nevelson
Thomas Edison
29. 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.
Baroque Period
minuetto
Gilbert Stuart
Libretto
30. God of love and beauty
Penny Marshall
Aphrodite/Venus
Paleolithic
renaissance
31. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Cimabue
T.S. Eliot
Da Vinci
Arthur Miller
32. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Monometer
Victor Hugo
french female pose
Jean Fragonard
33. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Artemis/Diana
Mary Shelley
Bayeux tapestry
Abstraction
34. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Penny Marshall
Ares/Mars
Gothic age architecture
Spondaic Pattern
35. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Poseidon/Neptune
Ernest Hemingway
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
36. Opaque watercolor
soliloquy
Samuel Beckett
Richard Sheridan
gouche
37. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Mary McCarthy
Augustine Age
Friedrich Nietzsche
constantin brancusi
38. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Peter Paul Rubens
Buddhists
Augustine Age
andante
39. Fast
Lindisfarne Gospel
Arthur Miller
presto
Neoplatonism
40. DNA of the song
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Dionysus/Bacchus
Irony
Pentatonic Scale
41. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
High Renaissance Painters
scrim
Socrates
James Joyce
42. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
hagia sophia
Alexander Dumas
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Epic
43. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Jane Austen
James Joyce
Reliquary
44. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Cubism
Remington
Joan Miro
Seurat
45. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Alexander Dumas
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Hagia Sophia
46. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Eugene O'Neil
chalice
Romanesque Style
47. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Ray Bradbury
Apollo
48. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
French Romantic painter
Salvador Dali
Persian Rugs
Flat
49. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
Rene Descartes
Hexameter
Socrates
Victor Hugo
50. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Donatello
Seurat
Kronos/Saturn