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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lionel Hampton
michelangelo
2. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Victor Hugo
multi-media
Edmund Spenser
Bernini
3. Short-Short-Long
Scott Joplin
Herman Melville
Anapestic Pattern
Sitar
4. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Rococo
French Romantic painter
Josiah Wedgewood
Stephen Crane
5. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Hellenistic Period
obelisk
constantin brancusi
Victor Hugo
6. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
soliloquy
Personification
Henrik Ibsen
Donatello
7. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Dactylic
Arthur Miller
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
8. School of nonsense and anti-art
Victor Hugo
Poseidon/Neptune
dada school
A long syllable
9. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Abstraction
Gilbert Stuart
Blank Verse
Pablo Picasso
10. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Cerros
Da Vinci
Frank Gehry 1929
Tragic figure
11. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Edgar Allen Poe
Mark Twain
Chopin
Stephen Crane
12. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Le Corbusier
Eugene O'Neil
Bronte Sisters
Thomas Hobbes
13. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
King Lear
tempura
French Romantic painter
Atomism
14. Opaque watercolor
Merry Wives of Windsor
El Greco
Gouche
Edgar Allen Poe
15. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Persian Rugs
Al Jolson
scrim
Cimabue
16. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Cimabue
Merchant of Venice
Jean Fragonard
Imagery
17. The central or dominating idea of a work.
Beethoven & Wagner
Theme
William Blake
Historians
18. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Corinthian
George Sand
Richard Sheridan
Monet
19. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Minimalist Music
Rembrandt
Hermes/Mercury
Merry Wives of Windsor
20. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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21. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
William Shakespeare
Versailles
Andrew Wyeth
Niccolo Machiavelli
22. Court dances
Humanism
Pilgrim's Progress
Giotto
Pavane and the Polonaise
23. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
barbara hepworth
bust
flat
Mark Twain
24. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
fresco
Ray Bradbury
Macbeth
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
25. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
soliloquy
Giotto
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Persian Rugs
26. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Lorraine Hansberry
Plato
Honore de Balzac
King Lear
27. Rebirth
Ray Bradbury
Eisenstein
renaissance
Henrik Ibsen
28. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Masaccio
Eisenstein
Aubrey Beardsley
29. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
A short syllable
scrim
Mannerism
D.W. Griffith
30. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Eisenstein
Aaron Copeland
Edmund Spenser
Noh Theatre
31. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Zeno
Mary Shelley
Maia/Fauna
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Atomism
Samuel Beckett
Renoir
flying buttress
33. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Lionel Hampton
flat
sitar
34. 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
Cynics
Gilbert and Sullivan
Buddhists
Brussels tapestries
35. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Al Jolson
Edmund Spenser
Scrim
Dionysus/Bacchus
36. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Alexander Dumas
Francesco Petrarch
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Mathew Brady
37. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
barbara hepworth
Handel
Daniel Defoe
38. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Aaron Copeland
Pearl Buck
Bernini
Hamlet
39. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Charles Dickens
Mary Wollstonecraft
Issac Asimov
Edmund Spenser
40. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Picasso
bust
Handel
41. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
renaissance
George Sand
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
42. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Pavane and the Polonaise
Neoclassicism
43. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Al Jolson
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mosaic
Cerros
44. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Manhattan Project
Heraclitus
Arthur Miller
Book of Kells
45. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
fresco
Chopin
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Reliquary
46. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Aaron Copeland
Aside
hagia sophia
47. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
Pearl Buck
Versailles
Moai
48. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mies van der Rohe
49. Spanish surrealist painter
The Panthenon
Chartres Cathedral
Joan Miro
Celtic Art
50. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Alice Walker
Mary Wollstonecraft