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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Denouement
Langston Hughes
Mathew Brady
Blank Verse
2. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Flying buttresses
Obelisk
Brussels tapestries
Aphrodite/Venus
3. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Da Vinci
Serialism
Richard Sheridan
4. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Tempura
Cerros
gothic age architecture
renaissance
5. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
William Shakespeare
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
King Lear
6. Goddess of Wisdom
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Issac Asimov
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Joseph Conrad
7. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
Delacroix
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
8. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Trochaic pattern
Alexander Dumas
9. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Atomism
High Renaissance Painters
Monet
Pieta
10. French impressionist painter
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Martha Graham
Monet
11. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Salvador Dali
Lionel Hampton
George Sand
12. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Thomas Gainsborough
Samuel Beckett
Brussels tapestries
13. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
aside
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Onomatopoeia
Pavane and the Polonaise
14. A capella singers
madrigal
Stephen Crane
Giotto
Hamlet
15. Russian composer
Federico Fellini
madrigal
Atomists
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
16. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Vermeer
Honore de Balzac
Baroque art
Serge Diaghilev
17. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Brahmans
Usonian
alexander calder
Francois Rabelais
18. 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
Charles Dickens
minuetto
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
19. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Romanesque Style
sculpture
Giotto
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
20. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Salvador Dali
21. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
Hestia/Vesta
Hera/Juno
Atomism
22. Wrote Rivals
Mary Shelley
Artemis/Diana
Le Corbusier
Richard Sheridan
23. Rebirth
Stephen Foster
renaissance
barbara hepworth
Soliloquy
24. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
New Orleans
Jonathan Swift
D.W. Griffith
Gothic age architecture
25. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Delacroix
aside
Brussels tapestries
26. Wrote operas
Handel
Donatello
Daniel Defoe
Verdi and Puccini
27. Georges Pierre Seurat
Hermes/Mercury
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ray Bradbury
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
28. Opaque watercolor
pieta
Gouche
Eisenstein
Francesco Petrarch
29. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Renoir
Thales
Hera/Juno
Antonio Gaudi
30. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Cimabue
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Iambic pattern
Niccolo Machiavelli
31. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Neoclassicism
Lorraine Hansberry
Langston Hughes
Shudras
32. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Persian Rugs
Gilbert Stuart
Andre Previn
Al Jolson
33. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Da Vinci
Ray Bradbury
Monet
Vermeer
34. A dance
minuetto
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Eisenstein
aside
35. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Othello
dada school
Poseidon/Neptune
36. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Stravinsky
Atomism
Greek Doric
Christopher Wren
37. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mannerism
Mary Shelley
38. The text of the opera
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Atomism
Simone De Beauvoir
Libretto
39. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Edmund Spenser
Aristotle
Ares/Mars
40. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
John Locke
Jules Verne
Remington
41. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
Issac Asimov
Heraclitus
louise nevelson
The Parthenon
42. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Atomists
soliloquy
Peter Paul Rubens
Christopher Wren
43. Court dances
Symbolism
Othello
Pavane and the Polonaise
Alfred Hitchcock
44. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
henry moore
Othello
Plato
George Sand
45. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Christopher Wren
Heraclitus
Bronte Sisters
46. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Joseph Conrad
Delacroix
allegro
47. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
andante
tragic figure
Stoicism
Jonathan Swift
48. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Impressionism
Tragic Playwrights
Handel
Joan Miro
49. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Satire
Plato
Langston Hughes
Honore de Balzac
50. Slow
Victor Hugo
Anapestic Pattern
Vincent van Gogh
andante