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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Niccolo Machiavelli
Issac Asimov
James Boswell
Stravinsky
2. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Cimabue
Da Vinci
pieta
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
3. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Christopher Marlowe
Verdi and Puccini
Eugene O'Neil
Thomas Edison
4. Pre-Socrates
renaissance
Al Jolson
Niccolo Machiavelli
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
5. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Surrealism
Flying buttress
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
6. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
El Greco
American Indian Rugs
Socrates
Hestia/Vesta
7. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Dada school
Delacroix
Tchaikovsky
ballet
8. Six-foot line
Andrew Wyeth
Andre Previn
Hexameter
Jules Verne
9. Court dances
Bronte Sisters
Pavane and the Polonaise
Fauvism
Lorraine Hansberry
10. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr
Benjamin Franklin
Merchant of Venice
El Greco
Gilbert Stuart
11. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Niccolo Machiavelli
Gouche
T.S. Eliot
Francois Rabelais
12. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
High Renaissance Painters
Vermeer
gouche
Victor Hugo
13. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
alexander calder
oratorio
Vincent van Gogh
Gothic age architecture
14. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Hexameter
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Thomas Edison
Pilgrim's Progress
15. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Joseph Conrad
Remington
Edmund Spenser
Mark Twain
16. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Picasso
Mary McCarthy
New Orleans
Othello
17. 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
Immanuel Kant
Free Verse
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
18. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Byzantine Style
Metaphor
19. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
High Renaissance Painters
Simile
20. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Symbolism
Neoclassicism
Penny Marshall
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
21. 1900 to the Present
Cervantes
Modern Period
Handel
Niccolo Machiavelli
22. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Impressionism
Herman Melville
Da Vinci
multi-media
23. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Post Impressionism
Al Jolson
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Persian Rugs
24. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
Rembrandt
Socrates
Marc Chagall
25. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Bernini
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Herman Melville
26. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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27. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
flat
Manichaeism
Cerros
Irony
28. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Parmenides
The Panthenon
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
29. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
fresco
oratorio
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Herman Melville
30. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Allegory
Alexander Dumas
Hector Berlioz
Samuel Beckett
31. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
michelangelo
Vermeer
Charles Dickens
32. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
french female pose
Apostrophe
flat
IM Pei
33. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Charles Dickens
Rembrandt
Andrea Palladio
Donatello
34. 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 -
Andrea Palladio
Hades/Pluto
Leo Tolstoy
Peter Paul Rubens
35. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
french female pose
Maia/Fauna
Delacroix
36. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Baroque art
Christopher Wren
Frank Lloyd Wright
Lorraine Hansberry
37. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Arthur Miller
michelangelo
Honore de Balzac
38. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
Tchaikovsky
Athena/Minerva
William Faulkner
Andrea Palladio
39. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
Existentialism
Chopin
William Faulkner
Allegory
40. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Joan Miro
Niccolo Machiavelli
Herman Melville
41. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Hyperbole
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Leo Tolstoy
Remington
42. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Kshatriyas
Irony
Mies van der Rohe
43. Rebirth
Modern Period
Edvard Greig
renaissance
chalice
44. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Ray Bradbury
Kouroi
Stravinsky
Peter Paul Rubens
45. A famous cathedral In France
Chartres Cathedral
gouche
Byzantine Style
Salvador Dali
46. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Joan Miro
Degas
Flying buttresses
Hamlet
47. Opaque watercolor
Thomas Edison
gouche
fresco
Bernini
48. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
aside
King Lear
The Panthenon
49. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Thales
The Muses
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Claude Monet
50. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Vincent van Gogh
Zeno
Rococo