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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Issac Asimov
constantin brancusi
Michelangelo
Honore de Balzac
2. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Hestia/Vesta
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Josiah Wedgewood
Chopin
3. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Charles Dickens
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Blank Verse
4. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Henri Matisse
Pavane and the Polonaise
Denouement
5. 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
Georg W. F. Hegel
Rene Descartes
Atomists
Plato
6. Opaque watercolor
Moai
Edmund Spenser
Aristotle
Gouche
7. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Persian Rugs
Book of Kells
Arnold Schoenberg
8. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Leo Tolstoy
presto
Vermeer
D.W. Griffith
9. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Hermes/Mercury
henry moore
Leo Tolstoy
Pieta
10. Goddess of Animals
Issac Asimov
Imagery
Maia/Fauna
Richard Sheridan
11. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Andrea Palladio
flying buttress
Reliquary
Thomas Edison
12. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Hyperbole
Chopin
Plato
Denouement
13. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Alexander Dumas
Merry Wives of Windsor
Parmenides
14. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Benjamin Franklin
Tchaikovsky
Henry Dixon Cowell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
F. Scott Fitzgerald
aside
Simone De Beauvoir
korai
16. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
ballet
sculpture
Hades/Pluto
Eugene Delacroix
17. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Bayeux tapestry
Atomists
Noh Theatre
Vermeer
18. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Marc Chagall
Aristotle
Merry Wives of Windsor
Josiah Wedgewood
19. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Delacroix
Simone De Beauvoir
Degas
Remington
20. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Andrea Palladio
Bronte Sisters
Pilgrim's Progress
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
21. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Simone De Beauvoir
Pilgrim's Progress
Niccolo Machiavelli
Serialism
22. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Henrik Ibsen
Charles Dickens
Al Jolson
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
23. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
neo-classic period
Beethoven & Wagner
Stephen Crane
Roman Basilica
24. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
A short syllable
Giotto
Niccolo Machiavelli
Neoclassicism
25. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Symbolism
Hector Berlioz
Eugene Delacroix
Mies van der Rohe
26. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Apollo
Lionel Hampton
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
chalice
27. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Henri Matisse
Stravinsky
Gilbert Stuart
28. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Abstraction
Edmund Spenser
tragic figure
Mathew Brady
29. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Impressionism
Eisenstein
Popular Transcendentalists
30. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
Impressionism
Irony
Hagia Sophia
Frank Lloyd Wright
31. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Charles Dickens
louise nevelson
Thomas Gainsborough
bust
32. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Celtic Art
fresco
Joan Miro
sculpture
33. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Ray Bradbury
Shudras
Victor Hugo
Hestia/Vesta
34. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Alexander Dumas
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
John Roebling
Islam
35. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mary Wollstonecraft
Scott Joplin
Brahmans
36. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Mary McCarthy
Samuel Beckett
A short syllable
Twelve Tone System
37. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Pearl Buck
Merry Wives of Windsor
Alice Walker
38. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Remington
Christopher Wren
Victor Hugo
Salvador Dali
39. Spanish surrealist painter
Federico Fellini
Giotto
Salvador Dali
Arthur Miller
40. 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
Jane Austen
Guggenheim Museum
Merchant of Venice
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
41. Goddess of Agriculture
Epicureans
Demeter/Ceres
Obelisk
Federico Fellini
42. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
pieta
Alexander Dumas
Twelve Tone System
Usonian
43. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
IM Pei
Reliquary
Delacroix
Lillian Gish
44. 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.
D.W. Griffith
El Greco
Seurat
Mary Wollstonecraft
45. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Al Jolson
Reliquary
Augustine Age
Symbolism
46. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
flying buttress
T.S. Eliot
Jonathan Swift
47. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Taoism
Peter Paul Rubens
William Wordsworth
Jonathan Swift
48. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Beethoven & Wagner
Arnold Schoenberg
bel canto
Rhymed Verse
49. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Salvador Dali
Alexander Dumas
Macbeth
Remington
50. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Honore de Balzac
Aristotle
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
French female pose