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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Hector Berlioz
Noh Theatre
Lillian Gish
Mary Shelley
2. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Thales
ballet
alexander calder
Scott Joplin
3. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
ballet
Martin Heidegger
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
henry moore
4. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
Atomism
The Parthenon
Hagia Sophia
Remington
5. Science fiction writer
Niccolo Machiavelli
Degas
Issac Asimov
andante
6. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Aaron Copeland
Moai
Thomas Edison
7. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Tchaikovsky
Frank Gehry 1929
Mary McCarthy
8. Three-foot line
Edvard Greig
Trimeter
Christopher Wren
chalice
9. 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
Noh Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mary McCarthy
minuetto
10. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Persian Rugs
Sitar
Brussels tapestries
Henri Matisse
11. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
soliloquy
Francesco Petrarch
Medieval Architecture
John Roebling
12. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Andrea Palladio
ballet
Tempura
Macbeth
13. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Iambic pattern
Monet
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
William Shakespeare
14. Short-Short-Long
Anapestic Pattern
Lillian Gish
Parmenides
Charles Dickens
15. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Scrim
Hera/Juno
Brahmans
flying buttress
16. 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
Eros/Cupid
Mary Wollstonecraft
Brussels tapestries
Twelve Tone System
17. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Book of Durrow
Arnold Schoenberg
William Faulkner
Renoir
18. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Cervantes
tragic figure
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Merry Wives of Windsor
19. Famous French impressionist composer
Alfred Hitchcock
Brunelleschi
Irony
Claude Debussy
20. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Persian Rugs
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Eisenstein
presto
21. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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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.
Mosaic
louise nevelson
Merry Wives of Windsor
Picasso
23. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Twelve Tone System
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
constantin brancusi
Roman Basilica
24. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Le Corbusier
Minimalist Music
Trompe l'oeil
Brussels tapestries
25. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Free Verse
Ghiberti
Phoebus/Apollo
Niccolo Machiavelli
26. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
American Indian Rugs
Epicureans
Atomism
Noh Theatre
27. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Remington
Jules Verne
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Roman Basilica
28. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Hagia Sophia
Doric
Pieta
29. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
T.S. Eliot
Twelve Tone System
Post Impressionism
Vermeer
30. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Didactic-ism
Daniel Defoe
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
31. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
renaissance
Pearl Buck
Remington
Macbeth
32. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
Martha Graham
Abstraction
Salvador Dali
33. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Tetrameter
Socrates
Abstraction
Classical Period
34. 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
Richard Sheridan
Aaron Copeland
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ghiberti
35. Two-foot line
Stoicism
Dimeter
Hector Berlioz
allegro
36. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Lao Tzu
Onomatopoeia
Penny Marshall
Thomas Gainsborough
37. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Mark Twain
Andrea Palladio
William Shakespeare
Da Vinci
38. God of the Underworld and Death
sculpture
Hades/Pluto
Zeus/Jupiter
Trompe l'oeil
39. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Irony
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Josiah Wedgewood
Byzantine Style
40. 20th Century American composer
Mathew Brady
Apollo
Henry Dixon Cowell
James Joyce
41. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
Trompe l'oeil
El Greco
Byzantine Style
Jonathan Swift
42. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
William Faulkner
sitar
Merchant of Venice
43. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Aaron Copeland
Hyperbole
T.S. Eliot
King Lear
44. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Herman Melville
Kronos/Saturn
Scott Joplin
bust
45. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
George Sand
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
gothic age architecture
46. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Aubrey Beardsley
Henry Dixon Cowell
Tragic Playwrights
Mary Shelley
47. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Neolithic
Aphrodite/Venus
Monometer
Othello
48. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Jackson Pollock
Monet
Lorraine Hansberry
49. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Obelisk
William Shakespeare
Confucianism
50. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Jean Fragonard
tragic figure
Stephen Foster