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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
T.S. Eliot
Pentameter
barbara hepworth
Gilbert Stuart
2. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
The Panthenon
minuetto
Socrates
Jane Austen
3. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Buddhists
Simone Martini
John Dryden
4. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Rene Descartes
Da Vinci
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Lionel Hampton
5. Goddess of Wisdom
Rembrandt
Verdi and Puccini
ballet
Pallas Athena/Minerva
6. 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).
Heraclitus
French Romantic painter
Christopher Wren
Athena/Minerva
7. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
flying buttress
Zeus/Jupiter
Friedrich Nietzsche
8. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Corinthian
Byzantine Style
Hagia Sophia
9. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Socrates
James Boswell
oratorio
Da Vinci
10. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
James Boswell
Remington
fresco
Edmund Spenser
11. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Renaissance
Theme
Persian Rugs
Frank Lloyd Wright
12. 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
Manhattan Project
Neoclassicism
Reliquary
13. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Herman Melville
Christopher Wren
Minimalist Music
Apollo
14. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Gilbert Stuart
Pilgrim's Progress
Chalice
Serge Diaghilev
15. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Martha Graham
Merchant of Venice
High Renaissance
16. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Usonian
Gilbert Stuart
Penny Marshall
Cerros
17. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Anapestic Pattern
Free Verse
hagia sophia
Brahmans
18. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
El Greco
Charles Dickens
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Scott Joplin
19. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Pilgrim's Progress
Satire
Henrik Ibsen
T.S. Eliot
20. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Charles Dickens
Maia/Fauna
Artemis/Diana
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
21. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Francesco Petrarch
Artemis/Diana
Eugene Delacroix
22. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
Buddhists
Henry Dixon Cowell
Ares/Mars
Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Rembrandt
William Shakespeare
Handel
24. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Ionic
Daniel Defoe
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Atomism
25. 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
Tetrameter
Cubism
Whole Tone Scale
Mark Twain
26. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
D.W. Griffith
cellini
Apollo
Vermeer
27. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Merry Wives of Windsor
Langston Hughes
Pearl Buck
Arthur Miller
28. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
sitar
Humanism
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
29. 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.
Rhymed Verse
Lorraine Hansberry
Bolero
hagia sophia
30. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Versailles
Stephen Crane
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
31. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
alexander calder
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Hera/Juno
32. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
Giotto
Francois Rabelais
flat
William Faulkner
33. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Artemis/Diana
Rembrandt
Honore de Balzac
34. French impressionist painter
Henrik Ibsen
Modern Period
Monet
Phoebus/Apollo
35. Five-foot line
Book of Durrow
Pentameter
Vincent van Gogh
tempura
36. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Martha Graham
Edmund Spenser
Thomas Edison
Mies van der Rohe
37. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Mark Twain
Immanuel Kant
Mathew Brady
38. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
cellini
Joseph Conrad
Arthur Miller
Herman Melville
39. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Tragic figure
Chopin
Stephen Crane
Georgia O'Keeffe
40. Spanish surrealist painter
Immanuel Kant
Penny Marshall
Joan Miro
Seurat
41. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Versailles
fresco
Edmund Spenser
42. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Botticelli
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joseph Conrad
Stoicism
43. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Degas
Bayeux tapestry
Zeus/Jupiter
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
44. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Epicureans
ballet
Dimeter
Salvador Dali
45. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Marc Chagall
Ballet
Simone De Beauvoir
renaissance
46. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Mathew Brady
presto
Post and Lintel
47. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Aristotle
Classical Period
Frank Lloyd Wright
Plato
48. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Mies van der Rohe
Aside
Charles Dickens
Macbeth
49. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Heptameter
Jean Fragonard
pieta
Hamlet
50. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
Andrew Wyeth
Richard Sheridan
Gilbert and Sullivan