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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Frank Gehry 1929
Scott Joplin
Victor Hugo
sculpture
2. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Martha Graham
Andrea Palladio
Andrew Wyeth
Mary Shelley
3. 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
Trochaic pattern
Charles Dickens
Christopher Wren
Seurat
4. 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
bust
andante
George Sand
Byzantine Style
5. 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).
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Noh Theatre
Heraclitus
Peter Paul Rubens
6. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
obelisk
Free Verse
Joseph Conrad
7. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Leo Tolstoy
Socrates
Cervantes
8. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Neolithic
Beethoven & Wagner
Chopin
Bronte Sisters
9. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Socrates
Aubrey Beardsley
Mary Shelley
oratorio
10. The Persistence of Memory
pop art
Mathew Brady
barbara hepworth
Salvador Dali
11. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Macbeth
Greek Ionic
Botticelli
tempura
12. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Confucianism
Macbeth
Bolero
obelisk
13. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
Charles Dickens
Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Gainsborough
King Lear
14. British abstract sculptor
Transcendentalism
Lindisfarne Gospel
barbara hepworth
pop art
15. 20th Century American composer
Merchant of Venice
D.W. Griffith
Henry Dixon Cowell
Giotto
16. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Da Vinci
Frank Gehry 1929
french female pose
Hagia Sophia
17. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Handel
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
cellini
18. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Othello
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
William Shakespeare
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
19. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Henrik Ibsen
Stephen Foster
Thomas Hobbes
Daniel Defoe
20. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Rembrandt
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
alexander calder
21. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Tetrameter
El Greco
Edmund Spenser
D.W. Griffith
22. Fast
Merchant of Venice
Mosaic
presto
Daniel Defoe
23. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Bronte Sisters
Andrea Palladio
Dionysus/Bacchus
Herman Melville
24. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Arthur Miller
Edgar Allen Poe
Serge Diaghilev
Mathew Brady
25. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Metaphor
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Vermeer
King Lear
26. French impressionist painter
George Sand
Alfred Hitchcock
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Monet
27. Russian composer
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Flying buttress
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Niccolo Machiavelli
28. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Salvador Dali
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Andrew Wyeth
Jules Verne
29. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
presto
Martin Heidegger
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Ernest Hemingway
30. 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
Rembrandt
Andre Previn
Jonathan Swift
Joan Miro
31. 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
Modern Period
Christopher Wren
Ernest Hemingway
32. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Humanism
James Joyce
Socrates
33. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Henry Dixon Cowell
Classical Period
Andrew Wyeth
Henri Matisse
34. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
IM Pei
Epicureans
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Hermes/Mercury
35. Spanish surrealist painter
Honore de Balzac
Pentatonic Scale
Joan Miro
Mary Shelley
36. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
Peter Paul Rubens
William Faulkner
Book of Kells
37. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Allegory
Hera/Juno
Mary Shelley
Charles Dickens
38. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
William Shakespeare
Donatello
Stephen Crane
Ray Bradbury
39. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Impressionistic Art came before
Picasso
King Lear
Christopher Wren
40. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
Donatello
D.W. Griffith
Salvador Dali
41. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Tragic figure
Chartres Cathedral
Andrea Palladio
Flying buttress
42. Rebirth
Honore de Balzac
Christopher Marlowe
Edgar Allen Poe
renaissance
43. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
El Greco
Serge Diaghilev
Joan Miro
Handel
44. A capella singers
madrigal
Rococo
Gilbert and Sullivan
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
45. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
Macbeth
Apostrophe
Book of Durrow
46. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
barbara hepworth
Henri Matisse
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Mozart and Richard Strauss
47. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Cerros
Versailles
Atomism
Moral Philosophers
48. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Andre Previn
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
tragic figure
Thomas Hobbes
49. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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50. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Rembrandt
Rococo
William Blake
Chalice
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