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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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.
Usonian
renaissance
Martin Heidegger
Historians
2. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Hyperbole
John Locke
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Meter
3. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
tragic figure
Modern Period
Edvard Greig
Church of San Vitale
4. Famous French impressionist composer
Scott Joplin
Claude Debussy
IM Pei
Noh Theatre
5. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Rembrandt
louise nevelson
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
mosaics
6. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Metaphor
Flying buttress
T.S. Eliot
Bayeux tapestry
7. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
gothic age architecture
presto
Johannes Brahms
8. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Twelve Tone System
Francois Rabelais
Vincent van Gogh
Iambic pattern
9. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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10. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Simone De Beauvoir
James Joyce
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
11. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Masaccio
Zeus/Jupiter
Lindisfarne Gospel
scrim
12. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Dionysus/Bacchus
Pilgrim's Progress
henry moore
13. Plato and Aristotle
Beethoven & Wagner
Lorraine Hansberry
Al Jolson
Moral Philosophers
14. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
cellini
Romanesque Style
allegro
Jackson Pollock
15. Russian composer
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Edmund Spenser
Issac Asimov
Dante Aligheri
16. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Vaishyas
William Faulkner
Classical Period
reliquary
17. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Dada school
alexander calder
Book of Durrow
18. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Alexander Dumas
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Joan Miro
Tchaikovsky
19. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
T.S. Eliot
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Salvador Dali
Da Vinci
20. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Denouement
Claude Monet
Zeno
Heraclitus
21. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Ray Bradbury
Peter Paul Rubens
Christopher Wren
Victor Hugo
22. Rebirth
gouche
Fresco
King Lear
renaissance
23. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Flying buttresses
Book of Kells
Alice Walker
Giotto
24. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
IM Pei
Picasso
ballet
Antonio Gaudi
25. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Christopher Wren
Charles Dickens
Macbeth
26. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Salvador Dali
Arthur Miller
Ray Bradbury
reliquary
27. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
alexander calder
Phoebus/Apollo
Jean Fragonard
Minimalist Music
28. 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
Charles Dickens
Merchant of Venice
Verdi and Puccini
dada school
29. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Joseph Conrad
Pablo Picasso
Simone De Beauvoir
30. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Henrik Ibsen
Mies van der Rohe
Baroque art
bel canto
31. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
IM Pei
Romanticism Movement
D.W. Griffith
32. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Eisenstein
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Antonio Gaudi
Demeter/Ceres
33. 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.
Artemis/Diana
Historians
Aristotle
Moral Philosophers
34. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Denouement
allegro
35. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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36. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
obelisk
Bernini
Seurat
Mark Twain
37. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Merry Wives of Windsor
Atomism
Jonathan Swift
Kshatriyas
38. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Merchant of Venice
IM Pei
A long syllable
Aubrey Beardsley
39. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Salvador Dali
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
pop art
Pythagoras
40. Wrote Rivals
Charles Dickens
Richard Sheridan
Post and Lintel
Atomists
41. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Arnold Schoenberg
Le Corbusier
Remington
Hera/Juno
42. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Tragic figure
Rhymed Verse
Post Impressionism
43. Science fiction writer
Heptameter
Mark Twain
American Indian Rugs
Issac Asimov
44. Paul Gauguin
Claude Monet
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Onomatopoeia
Macbeth
45. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Moral Philosophers
Flat
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Hector Berlioz
46. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
barbara hepworth
Neoplatonism
Simone De Beauvoir
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
47. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
cellini
Kronos/Saturn
Jonathan Swift
48. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
renaissance
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Giotto
scrim
49. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Alfred Hitchcock
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
french female pose
Manhattan Project
50. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
flying buttress
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Stephen Crane
Post and Lintel