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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.






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






3. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






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






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






6. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






7. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.






8. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






9. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'






10. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






11. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






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






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






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






15. God of Wine and Theatre






16. The text of the opera






17. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century






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






19. Leucippus and Democritus






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






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






22. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas






23. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863






24. Beuatiful with ornate borders






25. Thucydides and Herodotus






26. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer






27. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






28. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






29. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






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






31. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






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






33. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua






34. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






35. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






36. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






37. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






38. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?






39. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






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






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






45. Painted 'The Bathers'






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






47. British abstract sculptor






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






49. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window






50. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point