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CLEP Humanities All In One

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






2. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






3. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






4. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






5. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






6. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






7. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






8. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.






9. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






10. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)






11. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






12. Leucippus and Democritus






13. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






14. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






15. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






16. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






17. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






18. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






19. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.






20. Two-foot line






21. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






22. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






23. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






24. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






25. Six-foot line






26. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






27. 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






28. French 20th century architect






29. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.






30. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?






31. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






32. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






33. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism






34. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person






35. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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36. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus






37. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)






38. Mannerism painter






39. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






40. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts






41. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.






42. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






43. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






44. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.






45. Beuatiful with ornate borders






46. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






47. Opaque watercolor






48. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations






49. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






50. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.