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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Henrik Ibsen
Chopin
Andrew Wyeth
Edvard Greig
2. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Mary Wollstonecraft
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Neoclassicism
3. Fast
Artemis/Diana
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
presto
Renaissance Art
4. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Ray Bradbury
Friedrich Nietzsche
Othello
5. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Mannerism
Tchaikovsky
Greek Corinthian
6. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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7. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
flying buttress
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Cynics
Brunelleschi
8. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Alfred Hitchcock
Versailles
Joan Miro
Andre Previn
9. Repititions of geometric lines
Merchant of Venice
Foot
Samuel Beckett
American Indian Rugs
10. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Seurat
Alexander Dumas
11. Repititions of geometric lines
American Indian Rugs
Bayeux tapestry
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Chopin
12. 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
Merchant of Venice
Baroque art
Othello
Hamlet
13. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Allegory
Sitar
Andrew Wyeth
William Shakespeare
14. Composer - conductor and pianist
neo-classic period
bust
Andre Previn
Neoclassicism
15. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Joseph Conrad
Penny Marshall
Vaishyas
Renoir
16. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Geoffrey Chaucer
Henrik Ibsen
Fresco
Hermes/Mercury
17. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Picasso
Atomists
Rembrandt
Artemis/Diana
18. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Augustine Age
Rhymed Verse
Merry Wives of Windsor
Thomas Edison
19. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Pavane and the Polonaise
Dionysus/Bacchus
Aristotle
20. French 20th century architect
Book of Kells
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Le Corbusier
Herman Melville
21. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Thomas Gainsborough
James Joyce
Persian Rugs
Apollo
22. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
tempura
Serge Diaghilev
fresco
Chopin
23. 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
Buddhists
Delacroix
William Shakespeare
Soliloquy
24. Slow
andante
Irony
Daniel Defoe
Gilbert Stuart
25. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Shudras
Atomism
Mary McCarthy
Stoicism
26. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Thales
Pavane and the Polonaise
King Lear
27. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Handel
tragic figure
Gilbert Stuart
Bronte Sisters
28. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Pilgrim's Progress
Penny Marshall
New Orleans
sculpture
29. 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
Moral Philosophers
Leo Tolstoy
George Sand
Remington
30. One-foot line
Aubrey Beardsley
Jane Austen
Mathew Brady
Monometer
31. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Tchaikovsky
Vincent van Gogh
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Arnold Schoenberg
32. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Neoclassicism
D.W. Griffith
Atomism
Andre Previn
33. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Peter Paul Rubens
Stoicism
Joseph Conrad
John Dryden
34. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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35. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Al Jolson
Stephen Crane
Persian Rugs
French female pose
36. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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37. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Joseph Conrad
Seurat
John Dryden
38. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Poseidon/Neptune
Delacroix
Merry Wives of Windsor
39. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
tempura
Jean Fragonard
Simone De Beauvoir
Arthur Miller
40. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Jules Verne
Honore de Balzac
41. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright
allegro
Hellenistic Period
Edmund Spenser
42. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Hermes/Mercury
Free Verse
Flat
James Boswell
43. 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.
Samuel Beckett
Trochaic pattern
Artemis/Diana
Flying buttress
44. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Andrea Palladio
aside
Hamlet
Merchant of Venice
45. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Merchant of Venice
Handel
46. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Peter Paul Rubens
Free Verse
Charles Dickens
Langston Hughes
47. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Eisenstein
Honore de Balzac
Rembrandt
48. British abstract sculptor
Brussels tapestries
barbara hepworth
Denouement
Modern Period
49. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Stephen Crane
mosaics
Alexander Dumas
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
50. Long-Short-Short
Dactylic
constantin brancusi
Andrew Wyeth
Gilbert and Sullivan