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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






2. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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3. Slow






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






5. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






6. God of War






7. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.






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






9. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist






10. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time






11. French 20th century architect






12. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






13. 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






14. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






15. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'






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






17. Wrote operas






18. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






19. God of Wine and Theatre






20. Played the xylophone and marimba






21. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






22. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






23. The text of the opera






24. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






25. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge






26. 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






27. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






28. 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






29. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles






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






31. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






32. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'






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






34. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






35. Long-Long






36. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






37. Messenger of the Gods and Finance






38. 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






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






40. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






41. Free-standing statues of nude male youths






42. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths






43. Mannerism painter






44. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms






45. Beuatiful with ornate borders






46. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines






47. The Persistence of Memory






48. Fast






49. 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.






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