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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Picasso
sitar
Impressionistic Art came before
bel canto
2. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
alexander calder
Macbeth
Tempura
Plato
3. God of Love
Ghiberti
Eros/Cupid
T.S. Eliot
Alfred Hitchcock
4. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Othello
presto
Stravinsky
Henri Matisse
5. 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.
Brussels tapestries
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fresco
hagia sophia
6. School of nonsense and anti-art
presto
dada school
Ray Bradbury
Pallas Athena/Minerva
7. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
constantin brancusi
Hector Berlioz
Persian Rugs
Pearl Buck
8. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Rembrandt
gouche
Raphael
Post and Lintel
9. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Tragic Playwrights
Picasso
Mathew Brady
T.S. Eliot
10. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Hephaestus/Vulcan
dada school
Merry Wives of Windsor
Demeter/Ceres
11. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
Doric
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Denouement
Hestia/Vesta
12. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg W. F. Hegel
Kouroi
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
13. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri
Jules Verne
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Bronte Sisters
14. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
James Joyce
Penny Marshall
Allegory
Mathew Brady
15. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Mary McCarthy
alexander calder
Lindisfarne Gospel
16. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Persian Rugs
michelangelo
Samuel Beckett
Andrea Palladio
17. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Aristotle
Mary Shelley
Stravinsky
Fauvism
18. Court dances
Aubrey Beardsley
Pavane and the Polonaise
Simone De Beauvoir
Dactylic
19. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Apollo
pop art
Samuel Beckett
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
20. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
The Pigeon House
Jean Fragonard
Macbeth
Heraclitus
21. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
The Pigeon House
Johannes Brahms
Alexander Dumas
22. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
Langston Hughes
flying buttress
William Faulkner
Hyperbole
23. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Aphrodite/Venus
Charles Dickens
henry moore
Mary McCarthy
24. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Jane Austen
multi-media
Plato
Josiah Wedgewood
25. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
henry moore
Andre Previn
Ghiberti
Lao Tzu
26. French 20th century architect
Le Corbusier
Da Vinci
Trompe l'oeil
Claude Monet
27. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Existentialism
Cervantes
George Sand
Degas
28. French impressionist painter
Monet
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Stravinsky
Allegory
29. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
William Blake
The Pigeon House
Manichaeism
30. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Hamlet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mozart and Richard Strauss
31. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Marc Chagall
Christopher Wren
Peter Paul Rubens
Stephen Crane
32. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
minuetto
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Peter Paul Rubens
33. Opaque watercolor
Thomas Edison
Serialism
gouche
Stephen Crane
34. A dance
cellini
Persian Rugs
minuetto
pop art
35. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Aphrodite/Venus
El Greco
High Renaissance Painters
Roman Basilica
36. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Hansberry
presto
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
37. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Fresco
Pavane and the Polonaise
Soliloquy
38. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
Bayeux tapestry
French female pose
39. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Corinthian
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
40. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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41. Goddess of Hunting
Ares/Mars
Fauvism
Artemis/Diana
Atomism
42. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Pilgrim's Progress
Pieta
Impressionistic Art came before
Hagia Sophia
43. 20th Century American composer
flat
Henry Dixon Cowell
Henrik Ibsen
presto
44. Impressionistic Music
ballet
cellini
Pearl Buck
Impressionistic Art came before
45. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Free Verse
Samuel Beckett
Seurat
Hans-Georg Gadamer
46. French 20th century architect
Pieta
Le Corbusier
renaissance
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
47. 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.
Honore de Balzac
Flying buttresses
Baroque art
Mosaic
48. God of the underworld - and wealth
Jules Verne
Stoicism
Hades/Pluto
Bernini
49. Wrote Rivals
Pythagoras
Epicureans
Richard Sheridan
Chopin
50. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Scrim
pop art
Hestia/Vesta
flat