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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
James Boswell
Kouroi
Christopher Marlowe
Noh Theatre
2. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Heraclitus
Rembrandt
Mozart and Richard Strauss
3. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Personification
Georgia O'Keefe
chalice
Tempura
4. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Pavane and the Polonaise
Honore de Balzac
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
5. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Jonathan Swift
Ares/Mars
michelangelo
Victor Hugo
6. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Brussels tapestries
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
John Roebling
french female pose
7. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Alfred Hitchcock
A short syllable
Hellenistic Period
flying buttress
8. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
chalice
Dionysus/Bacchus
Paleolithic
9. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Whole Tone Scale
Flat
Scott Joplin
Versailles
10. Fast
allegro
Modern Period
Fresco
Francois Rabelais
11. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Merry Wives of Windsor
Salvador Dali
Herman Melville
Anapestic Pattern
12. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Niccolo Machiavelli
neo-classic period
Pythagoras
The Iliad
13. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
A long syllable
Reliquary
Jules Verne
Theme
14. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
King Lear
fresco
Honore de Balzac
Renoir
15. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Free Verse
Josiah Wedgewood
Pieta
16. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Othello
Victor Hugo
William Shakespeare
Gilbert Stuart
17. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
Church of San Vitale
Brussels tapestries
Josiah Wedgewood
18. Pre-Socrates
minuetto
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Personification
madrigal
19. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
Arthur Miller
Claude Debussy
Alexander Dumas
Impressionism
20. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Pythagoras
Ballet
Richard Sheridan
presto
21. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Hector Berlioz
Ray Bradbury
Post Impressionism
Simone Martini
22. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Minimalist Music
Samuel Beckett
Edvard Greig
Lao Tzu
23. Repititions of geometric lines
Pieta
American Indian Rugs
Bernini
Surrealism
24. 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
Chopin
Herman Melville
Merchant of Venice
Simone De Beauvoir
25. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Pentatonic Scale
Georg W. F. Hegel
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Hellenistic Period
26. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
pop art
Victor Hugo
William Shakespeare
27. Mannerism painter
El Greco
alexander calder
Neolithic
Gothic age architecture
28. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Greek Doric
Hermes/Mercury
Moai
Mathew Brady
29. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Jonathan Swift
Remington
Transcendentalism
Tchaikovsky
30. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
henry moore
The Muses
Roman Basilica
henry moore
31. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
James Boswell
Apostrophe
Jules Verne
Monet
32. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Paleolithic
renaissance
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
High Renaissance Painters
33. Opaque watercolor
tragic figure
Jonathan Swift
gouche
Hamlet
34. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Simone Martini
Simone De Beauvoir
Hector Berlioz
Persian Rugs
35. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Maia/Fauna
Mary Wollstonecraft
George Sand
Johannes Brahms
36. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Herman Melville
Hellenistic Period
Macbeth
James Joyce
37. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Edvard Greig
Impressionism
Degas
Flying buttresses
38. God of War
Ares/Mars
Federico Fellini
Plato
Heraclitus
39. Thucydides and Herodotus
Historians
Rembrandt
Penny Marshall
George Sand
40. 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.
New Orleans
Alexander Dumas
hagia sophia
Jules Verne
41. 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
Fauvism
Christopher Wren
Gilbert Stuart
Merry Wives of Windsor
42. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Rembrandt
cellini
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Hephaestus/Vulcan
43. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Lillian Gish
Arthur Miller
Pilgrim's Progress
44. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Satire
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Lillian Gish
ballet
45. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Martin Heidegger
Neo-classic period
Pythagoras
T.S. Eliot
46. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Athena/Minerva
Simone Martini
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
47. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Jonathan Swift
Aristotle
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
48. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Degas
Cubism
scrim
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
49. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Federico Fellini
Gouche
Parmenides
Celtic Art
50. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Delacroix
The Parthenon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edmund Spenser