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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Francois Rabelais
Jules Verne
Onomatopoeia
2. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
Reliquary
William Wordsworth
Socrates
Jules Verne
3. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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4. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Baroque art
Daniel Defoe
Mary McCarthy
Macbeth
5. The Persistence of Memory
Pavane and the Polonaise
Al Jolson
Alice Walker
Salvador Dali
6. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Rhymed Verse
Mary Wollstonecraft
Aubrey Beardsley
7. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Soliloquy
Al Jolson
presto
Herman Melville
8. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
Pieta
Hellenistic Period
Kshatriyas
9. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Friedrich Nietzsche
Salvador Dali
Theme
The Muses
10. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Handel
Edmund Spenser
Ares/Mars
Donatello
11. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Transcendentalism
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
James Boswell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
mannerism
Chartres Cathedral
Herman Melville
Medieval Architecture
13. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
T.S. Eliot
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
14. God of Wildlife
Alfred Hitchcock
Merchant of Venice
Artemis/Diana
Raphael
15. God of War
constantin brancusi
Post and Lintel
Ares/Mars
Scott Joplin
16. 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
louise nevelson
Aphrodite/Venus
Georg W. F. Hegel
Shudras
17. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Arnold Schoenberg
Othello
Chopin
King Lear
18. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Pythagoras
Ionic
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Modern Period
Bayeux tapestry
Brussels tapestries
20. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Aaron Copeland
Thales
T.S. Eliot
Buddhists
21. God of Wisdom
madrigal
Tragic figure
Baroque art
Athena/Minerva
22. God of the underworld - and wealth
Macbeth
presto
Spondaic Pattern
Hades/Pluto
23. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
Johannes Brahms
Andrea Palladio
obelisk
Henrik Ibsen
24. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dimeter
Jules Verne
Alexander Dumas
Romanticism Movement
25. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Vermeer
Plato
Seurat
Remington
26. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Penny Marshall
Chloris/Flora
Jonathan Swift
Rembrandt
27. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Atomism
Pearl Buck
Roman Basilica
28. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Edvard Greig
madrigal
Merchant of Venice
Herman Melville
29. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
The Muses
Stephen Crane
allegro
flat
30. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Renaissance
Mary McCarthy
E.E. Cummings
31. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Edgar Allen Poe
Augustine Age
Pilgrim's Progress
Daniel Defoe
32. Long-Short
Josiah Wedgewood
Lindisfarne Gospel
Trochaic pattern
Thomas Edison
33. God of War
Ares/Mars
Donatello
Johannes Brahms
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
34. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Alexander Dumas
Jane Austen
35. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
T.S. Eliot
Lindisfarne Gospel
Mosaic
36. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
fresco
Allegory
Byzantine Style
37. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Heptameter
Da Vinci
barbara hepworth
Langston Hughes
38. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Donatello
Twelve Tone System
Neolithic
Martha Graham
39. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Hector Berlioz
Victor Hugo
E.E. Cummings
Tyche/Fortuna
40. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Historians
Mathew Brady
Atomism
Rococo
41. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
William Faulkner
Johannes Brahms
Guggenheim Museum
42. God of the Sea
Poseidon/Neptune
louise nevelson
Niccolo Machiavelli
Moai
43. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Peter Paul Rubens
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confucianism
A short syllable
44. Slow
andante
The Parthenon
Obelisk
Richard Sheridan
45. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Kronos/Saturn
michelangelo
Impressionism
Masaccio
46. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Lionel Hampton
Atomists
Mannerism
47. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Aaron Copeland
Zeno
Chloris/Flora
Pavane and the Polonaise
48. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
madrigal
Chopin
High Renaissance Painters
Jane Austen
49. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Edgar Allen Poe
Mies van der Rohe
Edmund Spenser
Atomism
50. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
soliloquy
Pearl Buck
Buddhists
Immanuel Kant
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