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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Aristotle
Plato
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Masaccio
2. French 20th century architect
Lindisfarne Gospel
Le Corbusier
Claude Monet
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
3. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Paleolithic
Daniel Defoe
Niccolo Machiavelli
Renoir
4. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
neo-classic period
Richard Sheridan
Da Vinci
5. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Lillian Gish
Anapestic Pattern
sitar
Gilbert Stuart
6. A dance
Mary Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
minuetto
Joan Miro
7. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Johannes Brahms
Cerros
gouche
Pavane and the Polonaise
8. God of Wine
korai
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dionysus/Bacchus
flying buttress
9. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Stephen Foster
Bayeux tapestry
Seurat
10. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Botticelli
Transcendentalism
Aristotle
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
11. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Issac Asimov
Charles Dickens
Gilbert Stuart
Baroque Period
12. Opaque watercolor
Cubism
gouche
Geoffrey Chaucer
Libretto
13. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Art Deco Movement
Tragic Playwrights
High Renaissance Painters
Libretto
14. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Cervantes
Fauvism
Martha Graham
Socrates
15. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
American Indian Rugs
Charles Dickens
Whole Tone Scale
Masaccio
16. 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
Ionic
Mary Wollstonecraft
Symbolism
ballet
17. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
El Greco
Tyche/Fortuna
Chopin
barbara hepworth
18. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
gouche
Jane Austen
Pilgrim's Progress
Manhattan Project
19. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Eugene Delacroix
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Francois Rabelais
Meter
20. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
bel canto
Ghiberti
Mary Shelley
The Iliad
21. 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
Jules Verne
Seurat
Meter
Masaccio
22. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Ray Bradbury
Aristotle
Greek Doric
allegro
23. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
El Greco
Zeus/Jupiter
Handel
Greek Ionic
24. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises
Greek Doric
Hexameter
Bronte Sisters
Ernest Hemingway
25. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Noh Theatre
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
T.S. Eliot
Alexander Dumas
26. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
Art Deco Movement
Daniel Defoe
Pablo Picasso
James Joyce
27. Impressionistic Music
Thales
hagia sophia
constantin brancusi
Impressionistic Art came before
28. DNA of the song
Brunelleschi
Pentatonic Scale
Giotto
Persian Rugs
29. Paul Gauguin
Mies van der Rohe
Merchant of Venice
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Renoir
30. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Victor Hugo
Bolero
Herman Melville
Salvador Dali
31. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Merchant of Venice
Da Vinci
32. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Hamlet
Bernini
Shudras
Simone De Beauvoir
33. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Francois Rabelais
Macbeth
Merchant of Venice
Free Verse
34. The text of the opera
Libretto
Peter Paul Rubens
henry moore
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
35. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Ballet
Symbolism
Hermes/Mercury
Le Corbusier
36. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Victor Hugo
tragic figure
hagia sophia
andante
37. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Henry Dixon Cowell
Blank Verse
Mark Twain
Hexameter
38. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
William Shakespeare
Popular Transcendentalists
Bayeux tapestry
39. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
oratorio
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pavane and the Polonaise
Joseph Conrad
40. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Aristotle
Spondaic Pattern
Epic
41. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Eugene Delacroix
Mathew Brady
Greek Corinthian
Da Vinci
42. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
tragic figure
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
neo-classic period
43. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Bayeux tapestry
John Locke
Edvard Greig
Jean Fragonard
44. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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45. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
King Lear
Fauvism
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gilbert and Sullivan
46. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Monet
Obelisk
Arthur Miller
Langston Hughes
47. Court dances
Arthur Miller
Minimalist Music
Plato
Pavane and the Polonaise
48. 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.
Chartres Cathedral
Libretto
Samuel Beckett
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
49. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Immanuel Kant
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pentameter
Pearl Buck
50. Pre-Socrates
Masaccio
Francesco Petrarch
Historians
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates