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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Onomatopoeia
Martha Graham
bel canto
Merry Wives of Windsor
2. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Johannes Brahms
Jean Fragonard
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Rococo
3. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Greek Ionic
Scott Joplin
dada school
Leo Tolstoy
4. Rebirth
Pearl Buck
Victor Hugo
Alexander Dumas
renaissance
5. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Claude Monet
sitar
Noh Theatre
Ionic
6. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Brussels tapestries
Giotto
Aristotle
7. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Immanuel Kant
scrim
Salvador Dali
Aubrey Beardsley
8. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Hagia Sophia
Macbeth
Manhattan Project
Alexander Dumas
9. Mannerism painter
El Greco
bel canto
Immanuel Kant
Lao Tzu
10. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
James Joyce
Stravinsky
Pieta
Andrew Wyeth
11. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Gilbert Stuart
alexander calder
Honore de Balzac
Christopher Wren
12. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Gilbert and Sullivan
New Orleans
Chartres Cathedral
Donatello
13. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
alexander calder
Rhymed Verse
Impressionism
Pythagoras
14. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Allegory
Serge Diaghilev
Abstraction
Noh Theatre
15. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Renoir
french female pose
andante
Pythagoras
16. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Romanesque Style
Post and Lintel
Issac Asimov
Apollo
17. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Mathew Brady
Michelangelo
Masaccio
Martha Graham
18. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
King Lear
Bayeux tapestry
Mary Shelley
Jean Jacques Rousseau
19. French impressionist painter
Monet
aside
Satire
hagia sophia
20. Spanish surrealist painter
Fauvism
Rhymed Verse
Heraclitus
Joan Miro
21. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Beethoven & Wagner
Hagia Sophia
andante
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
22. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
James Joyce
Bayeux tapestry
Christopher Wren
Roman Basilica
23. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Herman Melville
scrim
Pythagoras
24. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
sitar
Pearl Buck
Charles Dickens
Gothic age architecture
25. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Francois Rabelais
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Cervantes
Pavane and the Polonaise
26. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Epic
Athena/Minerva
Beethoven & Wagner
27. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Frank Lloyd Wright
Free Verse
Serge Diaghilev
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
28. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Beethoven & Wagner
James Joyce
oratorio
Serge Diaghilev
29. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Giotto
Benjamin Franklin
Pablo Picasso
30. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Johannes Brahms
French Romantic painter
Cubism
31. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Book of Kells
Jules Verne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
flat
32. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Jules Verne
Mathew Brady
Victor Hugo
Renoir
33. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r
Mary Shelley
Josiah Wedgewood
Francois Rabelais
Cynics
34. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Cervantes
Al Jolson
Tetrameter
Hagia Sophia
35. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Theme
Lillian Gish
Simone Martini
36. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Macbeth
Frank Gehry 1929
37. Goddess of Hunting
Michelangelo
Artemis/Diana
Christopher Marlowe
Issac Asimov
38. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Heraclitus
Joan Miro
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernini
39. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Pieta
French Romantic painter
Noh Theatre
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
40. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Jane Austen
reliquary
Giotto
Samuel Beckett
41. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Stoicism
Poseidon/Neptune
The Iliad
42. 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
Donatello
Monet
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Blake
43. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
William Shakespeare
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Augustine Age
New Orleans
44. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Jackson Pollock
Henry Dixon Cowell
Metaphor
Thomas Edison
45. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Persian Rugs
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Joseph Conrad
Moai
46. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Maia/Fauna
Andre Previn
Giotto
multi-media
47. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Brussels tapestries
Stoicism
Plato
Beethoven & Wagner
48. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Shudras
Ray Bradbury
Spondaic Pattern
Frank Lloyd Wright
49. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Chopin
King Lear
pop art
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
50. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Dada school
Victor Hugo
French Romantic painter
John Locke