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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Giotto
henry moore
William Wordsworth
Stephen Foster
2. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
tempura
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
T.S. Eliot
3. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Merchant of Venice
flying buttress
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
4. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Serialism
Thomas Hobbes
Lillian Gish
Pieta
5. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Ares/Mars
Trochaic pattern
Flat
aside
6. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
aside
Richard Sheridan
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Leo Tolstoy
7. Long-Short-Short
James Boswell
Whole Tone Scale
Jules Verne
Dactylic
8. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Jules Verne
Renaissance Art
Stravinsky
Manhattan Project
9. French 20th century architect
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Le Corbusier
10. Leucippus and Democritus
mosaics
Jane Austen
Atomists
Da Vinci
11. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Giotto
Victor Hugo
Edmund Spenser
12. 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
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Cubism
Martha Graham
Thomas Edison
13. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Obelisk
Handel
Hera/Juno
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
14. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Benjamin Franklin
Daniel Defoe
Scott Joplin
Christopher Wren
15. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Impressionistic Art came before
Alexander Dumas
Honore de Balzac
16. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Renoir
Mannerism
Gothic age architecture
Bayeux tapestry
17. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
High Renaissance
Greek Corinthian
Bronte Sisters
Richard Sheridan
18. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Artemis/Diana
Christopher Wren
Merry Wives of Windsor
Bolero
19. 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
Lillian Gish
Merry Wives of Windsor
Martin Heidegger
Victor Hugo
20. 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
Book of Durrow
William Faulkner
soliloquy
Georg W. F. Hegel
21. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Flat
Church of San Vitale
Honore de Balzac
Christopher Wren
22. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Andrea Palladio
Persian Rugs
23. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Neolithic
Salvador Dali
Demeter/Ceres
Jane Austen
24. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Hamlet
Henrik Ibsen
Vermeer
Christopher Wren
25. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Merry Wives of Windsor
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Stephen Foster
William Shakespeare
26. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Aristotle
multi-media
Macbeth
Merchant of Venice
27. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
french female pose
Mark Twain
Lillian Gish
Ray Bradbury
28. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Islam
Dimeter
Chopin
29. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Samuel Beckett
Renoir
Hagia Sophia
30. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
ballet
Othello
Macbeth
The Pigeon House
31. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Denouement
Immanuel Kant
Alfred Hitchcock
Thomas Hobbes
32. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
Rhymed Verse
Penny Marshall
soliloquy
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
33. Wrote Rivals
William Shakespeare
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Neoclassicism
Richard Sheridan
34. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
T.S. Eliot
Satire
Penny Marshall
35. A famous cathedral In France
Henry Dixon Cowell
Meter
Aubrey Beardsley
Chartres Cathedral
36. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
William Blake
Renoir
Hamlet
Mies van der Rohe
37. Goddess of Animals
Maia/Fauna
Arthur Miller
Persian Rugs
Hector Berlioz
38. 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.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Tetrameter
Baroque art
Renoir
39. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Thomas Edison
Kouroi
Renaissance Art
Edmund Spenser
40. Mannerism painter
Heptameter
El Greco
Allegory
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
41. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Serialism
Personification
Artemis/Diana
Henrik Ibsen
42. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Metaphor
Immanuel Kant
mosaics
Macbeth
43. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
El Greco
Federico Fellini
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
44. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Neolithic
Mary McCarthy
Verdi and Puccini
Pablo Picasso
45. 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
Merchant of Venice
Alfred Hitchcock
chalice
Brussels tapestries
46. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Twelve Tone System
William Shakespeare
Allegory
dada school
47. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Libretto
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
El Greco
Handel
48. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Giotto
Thomas Hobbes
49. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Guggenheim Museum
William Shakespeare
Tragic Playwrights
Metaphor
50. Short-Short
Tragic figure
Pyrrhic Pattern
Langston Hughes
andante