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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Rebirth
Thomas Gainsborough
Eisenstein
Kronos/Saturn
Renaissance
2. God of Love
William Shakespeare
Eros/Cupid
andante
Gothic age architecture
3. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pearl Buck
pop art
Ares/Mars
4. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Arnold Schoenberg
Andrea Palladio
Serge Diaghilev
Vermeer
5. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Giotto
Johannes Brahms
Simone De Beauvoir
Roman Basilica
6. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Macbeth
Mathew Brady
Hermes/Mercury
bust
7. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Epicureans
Plato
Salvador Dali
8. 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
michelangelo
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Romanesque Style
Hellenistic Period
9. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
tempura
A short syllable
Chartres Cathedral
Simone De Beauvoir
10. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
High Renaissance Painters
barbara hepworth
Georgia O'Keefe
11. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
flat
Lindisfarne Gospel
Obelisk
Hamlet
12. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
Victor Hugo
Donatello
Merchant of Venice
13. Rebirth
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Andrew Wyeth
American Indian Rugs
renaissance
14. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Arthur Miller
Iambic pattern
Francesco Petrarch
Langston Hughes
15. Spanish surrealist painter
Reliquary
Salvador Dali
Abstraction
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
16. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
neo-classic period
Apollo
Hagia Sophia
17. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Vermeer
Scott Joplin
Aubrey Beardsley
Marc Chagall
18. Five-foot line
Giotto
Barcelona Pavilion
Pentameter
Francesco Petrarch
19. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Heraclitus
barbara hepworth
Book of Kells
20. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Atomists
Renaissance
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
21. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Guggenheim Museum
Gilbert Stuart
IM Pei
Irony
22. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Pavane and the Polonaise
Eisenstein
cellini
Neolithic
23. Opaque watercolor
Francois Rabelais
Gouche
Art Deco Movement
Chopin
24. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Phoebus/Apollo
Claude Monet
Reliquary
Alexander Dumas
25. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Chopin
Salvador Dali
Libretto
Degas
26. A dance
minuetto
IM Pei
Pavane and the Polonaise
Niccolo Machiavelli
27. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Rembrandt
Didactic-ism
Leo Tolstoy
flying buttress
28. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Ernest Hemingway
Monet
Hades/Pluto
29. A capella singers
Lionel Hampton
ballet
madrigal
Christopher Wren
30. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Alfred Hitchcock
oratorio
Macbeth
Francois Rabelais
31. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
T.S. Eliot
Arthur Miller
Rococo
Apollo
32. Four-foot line
Thales
Tetrameter
Samuel Beckett
aside
33. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
Popular Transcendentalists
constantin brancusi
Al Jolson
34. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
cellini
Mary McCarthy
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Edison
35. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Samuel Beckett
The Iliad
Handel
Edvard Greig
36. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Phoebus/Apollo
Beethoven & Wagner
Monet
37. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Thomas Edison
Al Jolson
T.S. Eliot
Renoir
38. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Taoism
Joan Miro
James Joyce
Honore de Balzac
39. Science fiction writer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Plato
Aaron Copeland
Issac Asimov
40. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Alfred Hitchcock
Gilbert Stuart
Classical Period
Martha Graham
41. DNA of the song
Mathew Brady
Pentatonic Scale
Chopin
Serialism
42. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Modern Period
Confucianism
mosaics
louise nevelson
43. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
T.S. Eliot
Existentialism
Octometer
44. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Soliloquy
Christopher Wren
gouche
45. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Mies van der Rohe
Martha Graham
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
46. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
James Boswell
Mark Twain
Bayeux tapestry
47. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Vincent van Gogh
Greek Doric
Stephen Foster
Symbolism
48. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hamlet
Pearl Buck
Lorraine Hansberry
49. God of Marriage
Merchant of Venice
Pyrrhic Pattern
D.W. Griffith
Hera/Juno
50. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
Dimeter
Vaishyas
fresco
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