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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Irony
Neoclassicism
New Orleans
Andrea Palladio
2. Three-foot line
Anapestic Pattern
Edmund Spenser
Trimeter
Arnold Schoenberg
3. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Taoism
Johannes Brahms
Brussels tapestries
Tchaikovsky
4. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Tchaikovsky
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
minuetto
Flat
5. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Andrea Palladio
Victor Hugo
Samuel Beckett
ballet
6. 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
Immanuel Kant
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
7. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Donatello
Stephen Crane
bust
8. 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
Andrew Wyeth
Henry Dixon Cowell
Michelangelo
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
9. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Impressionistic Art came before
James Joyce
Epicureans
oratorio
10. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Edmund Spenser
Claude Debussy
Remington
Mary Shelley
11. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Thomas Gainsborough
tempura
Fauvism
Stephen Crane
12. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Alfred Hitchcock
Verdi and Puccini
Kouroi
13. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Free Verse
Aside
Demeter/Ceres
14. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Tchaikovsky
Ray Bradbury
Mathew Brady
Minimalist Music
15. 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
El Greco
Edmund Spenser
tempura
Artemis/Diana
16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
pop art
Lionel Hampton
Langston Hughes
Honore de Balzac
17. Goddess of Hunting
Mies van der Rohe
Artemis/Diana
Heraclitus
Macbeth
18. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
flat
Confucianism
Mary McCarthy
Samuel Beckett
19. Long-Short-Short
Johannes Brahms
Aubrey Beardsley
Charles Dickens
Dactylic
20. 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.
Handel
Persian Rugs
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flying buttresses
21. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Mary McCarthy
New Orleans
William Shakespeare
gothic age architecture
22. Fast
Charles Dickens
mannerism
presto
Hagia Sophia
23. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Remington
Blank Verse
french female pose
Serge Diaghilev
24. 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
Raphael
Benjamin Franklin
Confucianism
Merry Wives of Windsor
25. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Marc Chagall
Merry Wives of Windsor
Impressionism
Serge Diaghilev
26. Spanish surrealist painter
American Indian Rugs
Joan Miro
Arnold Schoenberg
michelangelo
27. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Mary Wollstonecraft
A short syllable
Simone De Beauvoir
mosaics
28. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Honore de Balzac
Mary McCarthy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
madrigal
29. Goddess of Fortune
Trochaic pattern
Transcendentalism
Tchaikovsky
Tyche/Fortuna
30. British abstract sculptor
mosaics
Al Jolson
barbara hepworth
Othello
31. Architect who like a statue at every corner
The Muses
Andrea Palladio
Delacroix
Trompe l'oeil
32. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Langston Hughes
King Lear
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
John Dryden
33. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Shudras
Phoebus/Apollo
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Pavane and the Polonaise
34. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Flying buttresses
Giotto
Seurat
35. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
A short syllable
Al Jolson
Reliquary
Mathew Brady
36. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Pieta
henry moore
Niccolo Machiavelli
Othello
37. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Abstraction
Arnold Schoenberg
Phoebus/Apollo
bel canto
38. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
Salvador Dali
Serialism
Thomas Gainsborough
39. Georges Pierre Seurat
A long syllable
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Jane Austen
Masaccio
40. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Hermes/Mercury
Flying buttresses
Medieval Architecture
Richard Sheridan
41. 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.
bust
Ballet
Giotto
Persian Rugs
42. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Brussels tapestries
Scrim
Stravinsky
Pieta
43. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Pearl Buck
Francois Rabelais
American Indian Rugs
Mary McCarthy
44. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Stoicism
Bolero
Aristotle
D.W. Griffith
45. God of the Sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Al Jolson
Phoebus/Apollo
Augustine Age
46. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
The Parthenon
Macbeth
Trochaic pattern
Andre Previn
47. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Victor Hugo
Charles Dickens
Denouement
Herman Melville
48. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
Gothic age architecture
D.W. Griffith
Lorraine Hansberry
Jonathan Swift
49. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Plato
Joseph Conrad
Langston Hughes
Frank Lloyd Wright
50. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Fauvism
Book of Kells
Georgia O'Keefe
Bernini