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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!






2. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme






3. 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






4. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






5. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






6. God of Wine and Theatre






7. 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.






8. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






9. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






10. Opaque watercolor






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






12. 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






13. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.






14. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue






15. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind






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






17. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






18. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...






19. Leucippus and Democritus






20. French impressionist painter






21. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.






22. Science fiction writer






23. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






24. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






25. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting






26. 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






27. Opaque watercolor






28. The warrior caste in Hinduism






29. Architect who like a statue at every corner






30. 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.






31. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.






32. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






33. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






34. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






35. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






36. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






37. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






38. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.






39. One unit of meter in poetry






40. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later






41. 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






42. Composer - conductor and pianist






43. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua






44. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft






45. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






46. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






47. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






48. Opaque watercolor






49. God of the Underworld and Death






50. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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