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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
chalice
Imagery
Aside
Merry Wives of Windsor
2. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Eisenstein
Giotto
Al Jolson
3. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Francois Rabelais
Gothic age architecture
Rembrandt
4. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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5. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Atomists
Henrik Ibsen
Mannerism
Pearl Buck
6. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Transcendentalism
Flying buttress
Flat
7. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Neo-classic period
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Charles Dickens
Simone De Beauvoir
8. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Aristotle
sitar
Athena/Minerva
Jonathan Swift
9. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
louise nevelson
Ares/Mars
Giotto
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
10. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Penny Marshall
Stravinsky
scrim
11. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
tempura
Allegory
James Joyce
12. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Aristotle
The Muses
Renoir
13. God of Wine
Renaissance Art
Eisenstein
Dionysus/Bacchus
Parmenides
14. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Michelangelo
William Shakespeare
Alexander Dumas
Dante Aligheri
15. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Seurat
Classical Period
michelangelo
Lorraine Hansberry
16. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Stravinsky
Vincent van Gogh
Peter Paul Rubens
17. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Atomism
Art Deco Movement
Verdi and Puccini
Pearl Buck
18. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
flying buttress
Anapestic Pattern
michelangelo
Thomas Gainsborough
19. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Vaishyas
Dimeter
Flat
20. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
presto
Apostrophe
The Parthenon
Stephen Crane
21. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Tchaikovsky
Charles Dickens
Tragic Playwrights
James Joyce
22. Eight-foot line
Joan Miro
Romanesque Style
Octometer
Vermeer
23. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Jean Fragonard
Transcendentalism
Hector Berlioz
Jonathan Swift
24. Impressionistic Music
obelisk
Herman Melville
Impressionistic Art came before
Penny Marshall
25. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
ballet
Tchaikovsky
Flying buttress
oratorio
26. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Dada school
Atomists
mosaics
Rembrandt
27. 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
Celtic Art
multi-media
Moral Philosophers
Gilbert and Sullivan
28. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
The Iliad
Remington
Hamlet
Noh Theatre
29. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Handel
constantin brancusi
Jean Fragonard
30. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Meter
Charles Dickens
Theme
Socrates
31. Fast
Henry Dixon Cowell
Vermeer
Francesco Petrarch
allegro
32. 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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Richard Sheridan
Iambic pattern
Jonathan Swift
33. Russian composer
Aubrey Beardsley
Edmund Spenser
Ghiberti
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
34. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Ares/Mars
Merry Wives of Windsor
Jonathan Swift
fresco
35. French 20th century architect
Jackson Pollock
Le Corbusier
Joan Miro
gouche
36. French 20th century architect
Federico Fellini
Rembrandt
Edmund Spenser
Le Corbusier
37. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Salvador Dali
french female pose
Corinthian
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
38. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Chopin
Richard Sheridan
chalice
soliloquy
39. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Monet
Peter Paul Rubens
Church of San Vitale
Demeter/Ceres
40. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Hera/Juno
Christopher Marlowe
Remington
Da Vinci
41. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Rembrandt
Versailles
Richard Sheridan
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
42. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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43. Spanish surrealist painter
Hamlet
Gilbert and Sullivan
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Salvador Dali
44. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Christopher Wren
constantin brancusi
Geoffrey Chaucer
soliloquy
45. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
scrim
Greek Ionic
gothic age architecture
46. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Minimalist Music
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Edmund Spenser
Dionysus/Bacchus
47. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Macbeth
Socrates
madrigal
Lao Tzu
48. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Greek Ionic
Lindisfarne Gospel
Henrik Ibsen
49. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Penny Marshall
Giotto
Renoir
Hector Berlioz
50. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
William Shakespeare
Donatello
Socrates
Lorraine Hansberry