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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
Transcendentalism
Andrea Palladio
bel canto
Thomas Edison
2. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Tetrameter
Vaishyas
Jane Austen
Bronte Sisters
3. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Herman Melville
Persian Rugs
Shudras
sitar
4. Short-Short
Foot
Delacroix
Taoism
Pyrrhic Pattern
5. Plato and Aristotle
Moral Philosophers
mosaics
James Boswell
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
6. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Immanuel Kant
Hestia/Vesta
Frank Lloyd Wright
T.S. Eliot
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
New Orleans
Cervantes
Popular Transcendentalists
8. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Libretto
sculpture
Shudras
Remington
9. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Plato
Parmenides
Othello
10. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herman Melville
Edgar Allen Poe
Romanesque Style
11. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
T.S. Eliot
Simone Martini
Pavane and the Polonaise
Epicureans
12. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Free Verse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Giotto
neo-classic period
13. God of the sea
Jean Fragonard
Poseidon/Neptune
Pablo Picasso
Mark Twain
14. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary McCarthy
Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas Hobbes
15. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
James Joyce
William Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser
16. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Richard Sheridan
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Tyche/Fortuna
17. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Lorraine Hansberry
flat
Existentialism
Issac Asimov
18. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
tempura
scrim
D.W. Griffith
19. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
michelangelo
Hera/Juno
Joan Miro
Alexander Dumas
20. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Theme
Thomas Edison
Serge Diaghilev
cellini
21. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Tragic Playwrights
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Scott Joplin
22. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Thomas Edison
alexander calder
Merchant of Venice
The Panthenon
23. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Greek Doric
Leonardo da Vinci
Guggenheim Museum
Beethoven & Wagner
24. Goddess of Animals
Maia/Fauna
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Mies van der Rohe
Baroque art
25. 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
Jonathan Swift
Edmund Spenser
alexander calder
Corinthian
26. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
El Greco
New Orleans
Hamlet
27. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Hades/Pluto
flying buttress
Minimalist Music
George Sand
28. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Post Impressionism
Al Jolson
soliloquy
James Boswell
29. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Jean Jacques Rousseau
constantin brancusi
ballet
Rembrandt
30. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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31. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
Pearl Buck
neo-classic period
Aristotle
The Parthenon
32. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
French Romantic painter
King Lear
Ares/Mars
33. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Merry Wives of Windsor
Friedrich Nietzsche
Antonio Gaudi
Phoebus/Apollo
34. God of War
T.S. Eliot
Soliloquy
Henry Dixon Cowell
Ares/Mars
35. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
chalice
Andrea Palladio
Al Jolson
36. Opaque watercolor
Atomists
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Penny Marshall
gouche
37. 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.
The Panthenon
Samuel Beckett
Othello
Simone De Beauvoir
38. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Herman Melville
Islam
Donatello
Free Verse
39. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Mark Twain
Leo Tolstoy
korai
renaissance
40. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Onomatopoeia
Honore de Balzac
Bernini
Hera/Juno
41. Rebirth
Botticelli
Renaissance
Rococo
Existentialism
42. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Ghiberti
Degas
Pentameter
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
43. Painted 'The Bathers'
Seurat
T.S. Eliot
ballet
Jean Fragonard
44. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Octometer
Stephen Crane
Gilbert and Sullivan
Existentialism
45. Opaque watercolor
gouche
Tchaikovsky
Thomas Edison
Soliloquy
46. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
Jane Austen
Hagia Sophia
Scrim
47. 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
Tyche/Fortuna
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Neolithic
El Greco
48. A capella singers
Stephen Crane
Charles Dickens
madrigal
Hector Berlioz
49. Slow
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Rococo
andante
Greek Ionic
50. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Guggenheim Museum
ballet
Tetrameter
Scott Joplin