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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






2. The central or dominating idea of a work.






3. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






4. 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).






5. 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






6. Wrote Rivals






7. Russian composer






8. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man






9. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch






10. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations






11. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person






12. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






13. French impressionist painter






14. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to






15. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






16. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






17. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.






18. God of Wine






19. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






20. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'






21. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






22. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






23. Four-foot line






24. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






25. Six-foot line






26. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'






27. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






28. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






29. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863






30. Spanish surrealist painter






31. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.






32. Painted 'The Bathers'






33. Long-Short-Short






34. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






35. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century






36. 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).






37. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.






38. Short-Long






39. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






40. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?






41. Court dances






42. Science fiction writer






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






44. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






45. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






46. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






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






48. God of Wisdom






49. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






50. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language