Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Humanities All In One

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






2. 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






3. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






4. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






5. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






6. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






7. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -






8. Fast






9. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






10. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm






11. A capella singers






12. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic






13. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






14. Thucydides and Herodotus






15. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






16. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






17. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point






18. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






19. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






20. Architect who like a statue at every corner






21. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






22. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge






23. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






24. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.






25. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






26. Wrote Rivals






27. Long-Short






28. 1900 to the Present






29. Five-foot line






30. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






31. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






32. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S






33. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)






34. God of War






35. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing






36. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






37. The text of the opera






38. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






39. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.






40. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer






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






42. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






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






44. Painted 'The Bathers'






45. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?






46. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






47. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract






48. Georges Pierre Seurat






49. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






50. Goddess of Flowers and Spring