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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Spanish surrealist painter






2. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






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






4. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






5. Goddess of Hunting






6. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.






7. A capella singers






8. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






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






10. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






11. Played the xylophone and marimba






12. 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






13. 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.






14. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






15. British abstract sculptor






16. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






17. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel






18. Paul Gauguin






19. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






20. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme






21. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






22. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital






23. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.






24. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






25. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






26. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






27. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






28. DNA of the song






29. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






30. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






31. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






32. Three dimensional work of art - statue






33. French impressionist painter






34. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






35. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






36. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






37. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






38. Painted 'The Bathers'






39. Wrote Rivals






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






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






42. Goddess of Love and Beauty






43. French 20th century architect






44. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






45. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.






46. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






47. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






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






49. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






50. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)







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