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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror






2. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






3. Goddess of Fortune






4. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






5. God of the sea






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






7. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






8. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






9. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'






10. Goddess of Marriage






11. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






12. 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






13. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael






14. Slow






15. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






16. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






17. Beautiful Italian singing






18. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






19. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






20. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel






21. 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.






22. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






23. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






24. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






25. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner






26. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic






27. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas






28. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






29. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






30. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state






31. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






32. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado






33. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.






34. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






35. Famous French impressionist composer






36. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






37. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color






38. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






39. Spanish surrealist painter






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






41. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin






42. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.






43. 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






44. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






45. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






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






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






48. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.






49. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






50. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.