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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A capella singers
hagia sophia
ballet
madrigal
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
2. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Alexander Dumas
flat
Hermes/Mercury
Victor Hugo
3. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Honore de Balzac
Minimalist Music
andante
Penny Marshall
4. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Cynics
Hellenistic Period
Flying buttress
Byzantine Style
5. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Mary McCarthy
Usonian
Symbolism
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
6. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Lionel Hampton
Macbeth
bust
pop art
7. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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8. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
William Shakespeare
IM Pei
Abstraction
9. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
sculpture
Joseph Conrad
Hagia Sophia
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
10. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Giotto
High Renaissance Painters
Cerros
Guggenheim Museum
11. 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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12. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Richard Sheridan
Impressionistic Art came before
Alfred Hitchcock
King Lear
13. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
cellini
Ballet
gothic age architecture
Beethoven & Wagner
14. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Aside
Maia/Fauna
Honore de Balzac
Symbolism
15. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Claude Debussy
Lorraine Hansberry
Penny Marshall
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
16. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Mary Shelley
Langston Hughes
T.S. Eliot
17. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Romanesque Style
The Parthenon
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
18. God of Wine
Dionysus/Bacchus
High Renaissance
Plato
Henri Matisse
19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Christopher Wren
Al Jolson
Alexander Dumas
20. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
chalice
Book of Kells
Vermeer
Stephen Foster
21. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
King Lear
Merry Wives of Windsor
Usonian
pieta
22. 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.
Stravinsky
Celtic Art
Eros/Cupid
Samuel Beckett
23. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
tempura
Delacroix
Minimalist Music
Beethoven & Wagner
24. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Post and Lintel
Lillian Gish
Daniel Defoe
Giotto
25. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
The Panthenon
minuetto
Noh Theatre
gouche
26. God of Love
Neolithic
Eros/Cupid
Lionel Hampton
Poseidon/Neptune
27. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Taoism
Stephen Foster
Post Impressionism
Simile
28. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Fauvism
Edmund Spenser
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Giotto
29. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Ares/Mars
Mary Shelley
Ares/Mars
30. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Beethoven & Wagner
pop art
Greek Ionic
Ray Bradbury
31. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Hamlet
Mathew Brady
Othello
Merry Wives of Windsor
32. Science fiction writer
Rococo
tempura
Lindisfarne Gospel
Issac Asimov
33. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
Hyperbole
Popular Transcendentalists
Le Corbusier
El Greco
34. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Mies van der Rohe
Jane Austen
Gouche
Arnold Schoenberg
35. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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36. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Josiah Wedgewood
madrigal
oratorio
Penny Marshall
37. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Alliteration
King Lear
Mary Wollstonecraft
Richard Sheridan
38. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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39. Composer - conductor and pianist
High Renaissance Painters
Andre Previn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Renoir
40. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
Christopher Wren
French Romantic painter
Hector Berlioz
Symbolism
41. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
pop art
James Joyce
IM Pei
Hermes/Mercury
42. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Remington
Moai
Verdi and Puccini
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
43. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Da Vinci
Charles Dickens
Zeno
Simone De Beauvoir
44. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Herman Melville
Mary McCarthy
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Pavane and the Polonaise
45. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
French female pose
fresco
Picasso
Edvard Greig
46. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Heptameter
Lao Tzu
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
neo-classic period
47. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Zeno
Samuel Beckett
Federico Fellini
Book of Kells
48. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
Parmenides
Martin Heidegger
T.S. Eliot
49. Leucippus and Democritus
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Greek Ionic
Peter Paul Rubens
Atomists
50. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Arthur Miller
Jane Austen
Jean Fragonard
Socrates