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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Short-Short-Long
Anapestic Pattern
Francois Rabelais
Heraclitus
Remington
2. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Alfred Hitchcock
Humanism
obelisk
alexander calder
3. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Vincent van Gogh
neo-classic period
Aphrodite/Venus
korai
4. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Hamlet
Hyperbole
soliloquy
Impressionistic Art came before
5. Russian composer
Niccolo Machiavelli
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
James Joyce
Penny Marshall
6. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Pablo Picasso
Christopher Wren
Post Impressionism
Simone De Beauvoir
7. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Mathew Brady
tempura
Lillian Gish
bel canto
8. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Hermes/Mercury
Maia/Fauna
gouche
9. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Tchaikovsky
Chartres Cathedral
ballet
Mary Shelley
10. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Plato
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Aristotle
allegro
11. The text of the opera
Hagia Sophia
Gilbert and Sullivan
Libretto
Church of San Vitale
12. I and the Village
Theme
Cubism
Aaron Copeland
Marc Chagall
13. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Lillian Gish
American Indian Rugs
Cervantes
Mathew Brady
14. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Cervantes
American Indian Rugs
Didactic-ism
15. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Claude Debussy
Medieval Architecture
Pearl Buck
Art Deco Movement
16. Thucydides and Herodotus
Langston Hughes
Historians
King Lear
Aristotle
17. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Aubrey Beardsley
Henrik Ibsen
Bronte Sisters
Penny Marshall
18. 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
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Handel
19. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Leo Tolstoy
Mies van der Rohe
Seurat
20. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Remington
Andrea Palladio
Atomism
Humanism
21. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
cellini
Langston Hughes
hagia sophia
Chartres Cathedral
22. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
A short syllable
henry moore
Hamlet
Socrates
23. Spanish surrealist painter
Thomas Edison
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Joan Miro
Rembrandt
24. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Classical Period
flat
American Indian Rugs
King Lear
25. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Renoir
oratorio
Da Vinci
chalice
26. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Libretto
Alexander Dumas
Renoir
Mosaic
27. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Arnold Schoenberg
Macbeth
T.S. Eliot
28. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Bolero
allegro
Bronte Sisters
High Renaissance
29. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
William Faulkner
Chalice
Greek Ionic
30. Georges Pierre Seurat
James Boswell
James Joyce
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Aaron Copeland
31. 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
Penny Marshall
Aaron Copeland
Mary Wollstonecraft
Immanuel Kant
32. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Georgia O'Keeffe
Daniel Defoe
Thomas Gainsborough
33. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
soliloquy
Eisenstein
Christopher Wren
Alfred Hitchcock
34. Famous French impressionist composer
Joseph Conrad
Leonardo da Vinci
Artemis/Diana
Claude Debussy
35. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Foot
Rembrandt
cellini
Chopin
36. DNA of the song
Minimalist Music
Guggenheim Museum
Pentatonic Scale
Gouche
37. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
D.W. Griffith
Leo Tolstoy
Serge Diaghilev
Byzantine Style
38. Goddess of Marriage
Hera/Juno
henry moore
Imagery
John Roebling
39. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Mies van der Rohe
Poseidon/Neptune
Niccolo Machiavelli
40. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Fresco
Ray Bradbury
Cervantes
Niccolo Machiavelli
41. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Socrates
Versailles
Fresco
Moral Philosophers
42. God of Wine and Theatre
Dionysus/Bacchus
presto
Renoir
Chopin
43. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Charles Dickens
sculpture
Friedrich Nietzsche
Herman Melville
44. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Peter Paul Rubens
Mies van der Rohe
Francesco Petrarch
Aside
45. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Vermeer
Daniel Defoe
Edvard Greig
46. 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.
Iambic pattern
Donatello
Samuel Beckett
Andre Previn
47. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Leo Tolstoy
Arnold Schoenberg
48. Opaque watercolor
Octometer
bel canto
gouche
King Lear
49. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Georg W. F. Hegel
Issac Asimov
French Romantic painter
50. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
bust
Henry Dixon Cowell
Herman Melville
Hestia/Vesta
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