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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.






2. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






3. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer






4. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






5. A dance






6. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.






7. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.






8. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






9. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






10. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






11. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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12. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






13. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






14. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






15. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






16. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






17. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






18. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.






19. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






20. Science fiction writer






21. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






22. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe






23. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






24. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






25. Beuatiful with ornate borders






26. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)






27. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






28. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.






29. 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






30. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






31. Short-Short-Long






32. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?






33. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.






34. Architect who like a statue at every corner






35. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.






36. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital






37. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






38. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






39. Leucippus and Democritus






40. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






41. Goddess of Fortune






42. God of War






43. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine






44. Fast






45. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.






46. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






47. Court dances






48. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






49. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






50. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings