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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
T.S. Eliot
Picasso
tragic figure
Flat
2. 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.
Post Impressionism
D.W. Griffith
Stephen Crane
Mies van der Rohe
3. One unit of meter in poetry
Salvador Dali
Foot
Neoplatonism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
William Blake
Donatello
Giotto
Simone De Beauvoir
5. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Corinthian
Reliquary
Minimalist Music
Andre Previn
6. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
french female pose
Manichaeism
Cervantes
Johannes Brahms
7. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
Jules Verne
constantin brancusi
alexander calder
8. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Hagia Sophia
James Joyce
Beethoven & Wagner
Jules Verne
9. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
Frank Lloyd Wright
soliloquy
10. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Seurat
tempura
Dada school
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
11. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Bayeux tapestry
Atomism
James Joyce
Christopher Wren
12. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Penny Marshall
New Orleans
Obelisk
Post and Lintel
13. Science fiction writer
Salvador Dali
Issac Asimov
Vermeer
Kshatriyas
14. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Pythagoras
Renaissance
American Indian Rugs
Francois Rabelais
15. Thucydides and Herodotus
Eisenstein
Historians
Henry Dixon Cowell
Al Jolson
16. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
James Boswell
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
D.W. Griffith
Reliquary
17. Repititions of geometric lines
Seurat
Theme
American Indian Rugs
Andrea Palladio
18. Eight-foot line
Octometer
Picasso
Peter Paul Rubens
Jonathan Swift
19. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Eisenstein
tragic figure
Humanism
Picasso
20. Mannerism painter
Neo-classic period
D.W. Griffith
Alexander Dumas
El Greco
21. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Humanism
Apostrophe
Othello
22. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Tetrameter
multi-media
Edvard Greig
The Iliad
23. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Victor Hugo
Hades/Pluto
Aubrey Beardsley
Francois Rabelais
24. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Eugene Delacroix
alexander calder
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Honore de Balzac
25. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Aaron Copeland
Gilbert and Sullivan
Dionysus/Bacchus
Handel
26. Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Demeter/Ceres
Neoclassicism
Brussels tapestries
27. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Da Vinci
Dactylic
Salvador Dali
Chalice
28. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Alexander Dumas
Meter
James Joyce
Mary Shelley
29. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Apostrophe
Renoir
Vaishyas
Raphael
30. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Delacroix
Aaron Copeland
John Roebling
31. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Socrates
Flying buttresses
Iambic pattern
Andrew Wyeth
32. 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
John Dryden
Greek Corinthian
Cubism
Edvard Greig
33. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Artemis/Diana
The Panthenon
American Indian Rugs
34. 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
Aaron Copeland
The Pigeon House
Joseph Conrad
Mary Wollstonecraft
35. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Bayeux tapestry
Cervantes
Peter Paul Rubens
Benjamin Franklin
36. Rebirth
Renaissance
Othello
The Muses
tragic figure
37. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Kouroi
Picasso
gothic age architecture
multi-media
38. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
The Parthenon
Verdi and Puccini
Mary Shelley
Serge Diaghilev
39. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Frank Gehry 1929
oratorio
Socrates
Renaissance
40. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Stephen Foster
Eugene O'Neil
Gothic age architecture
Stoicism
41. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
pop art
Hyperbole
Zeus/Jupiter
James Joyce
42. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
King Lear
Samuel Beckett
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Serge Diaghilev
43. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Gainsborough
IM Pei
Herman Melville
44. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Lorraine Hansberry
John Dryden
Christopher Wren
Renoir
45. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Hermes/Mercury
Henrik Ibsen
Andre Previn
Bronte Sisters
46. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Dimeter
louise nevelson
Lionel Hampton
Cerros
47. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Simone Martini
Tchaikovsky
Langston Hughes
Flying buttress
48. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
tempura
scrim
Peter Paul Rubens
Gilbert and Sullivan
49. French impressionist painter
Monet
Handel
Hades/Pluto
Personification
50. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
IM Pei
Beethoven & Wagner
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Impressionistic Art came before
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