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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Goddess of Animals
Edgar Allen Poe
Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright
Maia/Fauna
2. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Stephen Foster
Leo Tolstoy
Beethoven & Wagner
Usonian
3. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
neo-classic period
Metaphor
Arnold Schoenberg
4. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Pavane and the Polonaise
King Lear
Zeno
5. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
louise nevelson
Neoplatonism
Henrik Ibsen
Kouroi
6. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
tempura
Henry Dixon Cowell
Martha Graham
Allegory
7. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Charles Dickens
Chopin
Obelisk
dada school
8. Slow
andante
Edmund Spenser
Botticelli
Persian Rugs
9. The Color Purple
Surrealism
George Sand
Jane Austen
Alice Walker
10. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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11. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Cubism
Bernini
Celtic Art
New Orleans
12. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Mary McCarthy
Francesco Petrarch
Jules Verne
Book of Kells
13. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Charles Dickens
gouche
Existentialism
14. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Henri Matisse
french female pose
Mark Twain
Dionysus/Bacchus
15. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Eisenstein
Hellenistic Period
T.S. Eliot
Langston Hughes
16. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Penny Marshall
17. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Guggenheim Museum
The Iliad
Francois Rabelais
Bronte Sisters
18. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Geoffrey Chaucer
Giotto
Aubrey Beardsley
King Lear
19. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
John Locke
Dionysus/Bacchus
Peter Paul Rubens
Aubrey Beardsley
20. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
John Roebling
Lindisfarne Gospel
Merchant of Venice
Charles Dickens
21. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Serialism
Brussels tapestries
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Guggenheim Museum
22. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Hephaestus/Vulcan
scrim
Book of Kells
Denouement
23. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
Cubism
American Indian Rugs
Picasso
24. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Medieval Architecture
Confucianism
Simile
25. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Chalice
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Edison
26. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Neo-classic period
Dionysus/Bacchus
Soliloquy
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
27. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Lillian Gish
Lorraine Hansberry
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
28. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Langston Hughes
Samuel Beckett
Rembrandt
James Joyce
29. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
Hyperbole
Jonathan Swift
Pavane and the Polonaise
Kshatriyas
30. 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
Lillian Gish
Fauvism
Andrew Wyeth
Merchant of Venice
31. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Henry Dixon Cowell
T.S. Eliot
Aside
32. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Edvard Greig
Romanticism Movement
chalice
33. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
constantin brancusi
Flying buttresses
bel canto
Lorraine Hansberry
34. Beautiful Italian singing
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Artemis/Diana
Stravinsky
bel canto
35. 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
The Muses
Jonathan Swift
Rhymed Verse
Edmund Spenser
36. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
presto
renaissance
Christopher Wren
William Wordsworth
37. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Impressionism
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
38. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Ray Bradbury
Apostrophe
Tyche/Fortuna
High Renaissance
39. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
French female pose
Simile
Socrates
Botticelli
40. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
The Muses
pieta
Persian Rugs
Andrea Palladio
41. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Georgia O'Keeffe
Martha Graham
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Tchaikovsky
42. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Andrea Palladio
Macbeth
Johannes Brahms
henry moore
43. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Austen
The Pigeon House
Bayeux tapestry
44. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Flying buttress
Chalice
Edvard Greig
Heraclitus
45. Architect who like a statue at every corner
James Boswell
William Blake
Andrea Palladio
Epicureans
46. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
John Roebling
Jonathan Swift
Mary Shelley
Roman Basilica
47. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Phoebus/Apollo
Dactylic
American Indian Rugs
King Lear
48. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Atomism
Cervantes
gouche
Cimabue
49. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Bolero
Vermeer
Mary Shelley
50. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Martin Heidegger
Heraclitus
sitar
Tetrameter
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