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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Hermes/Mercury
Francois Rabelais
Gothic age architecture
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
2. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Celtic Art
mosaics
Ernest Hemingway
Noh Theatre
3. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Lindisfarne Gospel
Cynics
Jane Austen
Tempura
4. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
multi-media
sculpture
Greek Corinthian
Blank Verse
5. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Joseph Conrad
New Orleans
Botticelli
Giotto
6. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Tragic figure
Stephen Crane
Al Jolson
7. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -
Herman Melville
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Andrea Palladio
8. Fast
James Boswell
allegro
Anapestic Pattern
Josiah Wedgewood
9. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Ionic
Donatello
Charles Dickens
reliquary
10. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
allegro
William Wordsworth
Alexander Dumas
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
11. A capella singers
Eisenstein
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
madrigal
flat
12. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Pilgrim's Progress
Handel
Mary McCarthy
13. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Bayeux tapestry
louise nevelson
Remington
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
14. Thucydides and Herodotus
renaissance
Eisenstein
Historians
Georgia O'Keeffe
15. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Didactic-ism
Chalice
oratorio
Persian Rugs
16. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
E.E. Cummings
Noh Theatre
Al Jolson
17. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
michelangelo
Federico Fellini
Stephen Foster
18. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Gilbert Stuart
Johannes Brahms
Macbeth
Benjamin Franklin
19. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Transcendentalism
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Socrates
Bronte Sisters
20. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Joseph Conrad
Reliquary
Othello
Andrea Palladio
21. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Henry Dixon Cowell
Christopher Wren
Mannerism
cellini
22. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Jules Verne
American Indian Rugs
Manhattan Project
Mark Twain
23. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Celtic Art
Ray Bradbury
Beethoven & Wagner
24. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Persian Rugs
Post and Lintel
Pavane and the Polonaise
Frank Lloyd Wright
25. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
The Panthenon
Tempura
Mary McCarthy
26. Wrote Rivals
Impressionism
Eugene O'Neil
Richard Sheridan
Pilgrim's Progress
27. Long-Short
Edvard Greig
Hermes/Mercury
Trochaic pattern
Brussels tapestries
28. 1900 to the Present
Modern Period
Martha Graham
William Shakespeare
Thales
29. Five-foot line
Pentameter
gothic age architecture
Andrea Palladio
Fresco
30. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
William Shakespeare
andante
Artemis/Diana
31. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Joan Miro
Brahmans
Herman Melville
Peter Paul Rubens
32. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Roman Basilica
Aaron Copeland
Existentialism
hagia sophia
33. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Niccolo Machiavelli
presto
Historians
Book of Durrow
34. God of War
Ares/Mars
Bronte Sisters
Macbeth
High Renaissance
35. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Pilgrim's Progress
Immanuel Kant
Allegory
scrim
36. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Aphrodite/Venus
Mary McCarthy
Mark Twain
37. The text of the opera
Al Jolson
Andre Previn
Libretto
Jean Jacques Rousseau
38. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Mathew Brady
Serialism
bust
Aubrey Beardsley
39. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Personification
Serge Diaghilev
Book of Kells
Andrew Wyeth
40. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Lorraine Hansberry
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Francois Rabelais
41. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Charles Dickens
Francesco Petrarch
William Shakespeare
Salvador Dali
42. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
gothic age architecture
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Renoir
ballet
43. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Surrealism
Hyperbole
michelangelo
Da Vinci
44. Painted 'The Bathers'
pieta
Jean Fragonard
Charles Dickens
soliloquy
45. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
A long syllable
Versailles
Stephen Crane
Eugene O'Neil
46. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
hagia sophia
Whole Tone Scale
Edmund Spenser
Rembrandt
47. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
flying buttress
Lindisfarne Gospel
Iambic pattern
Jean Jacques Rousseau
48. Georges Pierre Seurat
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Popular Transcendentalists
King Lear
Johannes Brahms
49. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Francois Rabelais
Langston Hughes
Aubrey Beardsley
Dante Aligheri
50. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Serge Diaghilev
Andrea Palladio
Chloris/Flora
Langston Hughes