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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






2. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist






3. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






4. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines






5. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






6. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror






7. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






8. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






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






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






11. British abstract sculptor






12. Composer - conductor and pianist






13. 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.






14. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






15. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second






16. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






17. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






18. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi






19. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.






20. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






21. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






22. 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.






23. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






24. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






25. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






26. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.






27. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which






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






29. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






30. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






31. 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






32. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






33. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.






34. The Color Purple






35. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors






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






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






38. God of the underworld - and wealth






39. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!






40. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl






41. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.






42. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






43. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.






44. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






45. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






46. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






47. 20th Century American composer






48. Leucippus and Democritus






49. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






50. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.