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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
Beethoven & Wagner
Pythagoras
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
2. God of Marriage
Andrea Palladio
Pentatonic Scale
Hera/Juno
Le Corbusier
3. 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
Johannes Brahms
Persian Rugs
Manichaeism
The Iliad
4. 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
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Noh Theatre
Tempura
neo-classic period
5. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Demeter/Ceres
Hexameter
Versailles
Stephen Crane
6. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Issac Asimov
Edmund Spenser
Bayeux tapestry
Henrik Ibsen
7. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Vermeer
William Shakespeare
Henry Dixon Cowell
Romanesque Style
8. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Charles Dickens
Ares/Mars
Simone De Beauvoir
Ernest Hemingway
9. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
George Sand
Popular Transcendentalists
Michelangelo
french female pose
10. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fresco
Irony
Obelisk
11. God of Wisdom
Daniel Defoe
King Lear
Athena/Minerva
Alexander Dumas
12. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Alexander Dumas
Salvador Dali
T.S. Eliot
Mary Wollstonecraft
13. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
Popular Transcendentalists
pieta
Serge Diaghilev
Jean Jacques Rousseau
14. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Serialism
Federico Fellini
Eugene Delacroix
Personification
15. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Aaron Copeland
Rembrandt
Christopher Wren
Da Vinci
16. 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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17. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Mary McCarthy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pyrrhic Pattern
Aaron Copeland
18. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
James Joyce
Hector Berlioz
Cimabue
Alfred Hitchcock
19. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
henry moore
Simone De Beauvoir
hagia sophia
Rococo
20. Opaque watercolor
hagia sophia
Aaron Copeland
Corinthian
gouche
21. French impressionist painter
Bronte Sisters
minuetto
Aphrodite/Venus
Monet
22. Composer - conductor and pianist
William Shakespeare
Andrea Palladio
The Pigeon House
Andre Previn
23. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Libretto
Mark Twain
Reliquary
D.W. Griffith
24. The Color Purple
Alice Walker
High Renaissance
French Romantic painter
Tchaikovsky
25. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Beethoven & Wagner
King Lear
sculpture
Vermeer
26. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Bolero
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Iambic pattern
Doric
27. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
flat
William Faulkner
New Orleans
Seurat
28. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
Picasso
Chalice
Greek Corinthian
obelisk
29. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Parmenides
Mary Shelley
ballet
30. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
hagia sophia
Al Jolson
William Shakespeare
presto
31. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
bust
Jane Austen
Stephen Crane
American Indian Rugs
32. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Jules Verne
Jonathan Swift
Pearl Buck
Atomism
33. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
presto
Donatello
Da Vinci
34. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Merchant of Venice
James Boswell
pop art
Pieta
35. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
scrim
Othello
Mark Twain
Mary McCarthy
36. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Stephen Crane
Hagia Sophia
Trompe l'oeil
Mathew Brady
37. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Honore de Balzac
Lionel Hampton
Le Corbusier
38. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Cervantes
Francois Rabelais
James Boswell
Pavane and the Polonaise
39. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
Thales
Scrim
Leonardo da Vinci
Brussels tapestries
40. Beautiful Italian singing
Obelisk
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
bel canto
41. Spanish surrealist painter
Mary McCarthy
Medieval Architecture
Hermes/Mercury
Joan Miro
42. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Thomas Edison
andante
Langston Hughes
flying buttress
43. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Hector Berlioz
Dionysus/Bacchus
Aaron Copeland
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
44. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Byzantine Style
Cubism
American Indian Rugs
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
45. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Leo Tolstoy
John Locke
Le Corbusier
46. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
T.S. Eliot
Mary Shelley
Baroque Period
Thomas Edison
47. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Scrim
gouche
michelangelo
Da Vinci
48. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Simone De Beauvoir
Art Deco Movement
Penny Marshall
Humanism
49. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Leonardo da Vinci
Serge Diaghilev
Frank Lloyd Wright
Tchaikovsky
50. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Impressionism
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
tempura