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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Ionic
Giotto
Mary Shelley
Hexameter
2. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
El Greco
Confucianism
pieta
Serge Diaghilev
3. Famous French impressionist composer
El Greco
Irony
Trochaic pattern
Claude Debussy
4. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Martha Graham
Theme
bust
5. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Zeno
Da Vinci
presto
Arthur Miller
6. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Jonathan Swift
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Allegory
Macbeth
7. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Honore de Balzac
Stoicism
Bayeux tapestry
Vincent van Gogh
8. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Apollo
Andrew Wyeth
Beethoven & Wagner
Chopin
9. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Lionel Hampton
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Christopher Marlowe
10. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Socrates
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Persian Rugs
T.S. Eliot
11. School of nonsense and anti-art
Al Jolson
Atomism
dada school
pieta
12. French impressionist painter
William Shakespeare
Simile
Penny Marshall
Monet
13. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
William Wordsworth
Parmenides
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Scott Joplin
14. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Claude Debussy
Renoir
Arthur Miller
Eugene Delacroix
15. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Baroque art
Kronos/Saturn
Hamlet
Serge Diaghilev
16. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Rembrandt
Plato
William Faulkner
17. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Mannerism
Kronos/Saturn
Pablo Picasso
18. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Arthur Miller
Taoism
Bolero
Handel
19. Three-foot line
hagia sophia
Trimeter
Classical Period
D.W. Griffith
20. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Remington
Salvador Dali
Penny Marshall
Cimabue
21. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
ballet
Islam
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Serialism
22. 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.
T.S. Eliot
Usonian
Degas
Scrim
23. Goddess of Wisdom
Renoir
Pallas Athena/Minerva
William Blake
Thales
24. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Pilgrim's Progress
Dionysus/Bacchus
Bayeux tapestry
Simone Martini
25. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Ares/Mars
reliquary
T.S. Eliot
26. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Pablo Picasso
Persian Rugs
Edmund Spenser
constantin brancusi
27. Pre-Socrates
Aristotle
Hector Berlioz
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Christopher Wren
28. Fast
John Locke
Minimalist Music
Andrea Palladio
presto
29. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Christopher Wren
Mary Shelley
Da Vinci
30. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Seurat
Mary Shelley
tempura
31. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Penny Marshall
Monometer
tragic figure
Rococo
32. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Henri Matisse
Symbolism
Aubrey Beardsley
William Faulkner
33. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
constantin brancusi
Cervantes
Medieval Architecture
Hexameter
34. 1900 to the Present
Jackson Pollock
Modern Period
Jonathan Swift
Rhymed Verse
35. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Trochaic pattern
James Joyce
William Wordsworth
36. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Ballet
William Faulkner
King Lear
Hamlet
37. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
dada school
Popular Transcendentalists
Macbeth
neo-classic period
38. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
William Shakespeare
Eugene Delacroix
Libretto
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
39. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
obelisk
Da Vinci
Classical Period
Metaphor
40. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Scott Joplin
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Gothic age architecture
Islam
41. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Aubrey Beardsley
Lao Tzu
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Christopher Wren
42. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Persian Rugs
Thomas Gainsborough
Eisenstein
Cubism
43. Opaque watercolor
Neoclassicism
Jules Verne
Gouche
Thomas Hobbes
44. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Vermeer
obelisk
Minimalist Music
Noh Theatre
45. Played the xylophone and marimba
Thales
Lionel Hampton
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Existentialism
46. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Antonio Gaudi
soliloquy
presto
47. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Issac Asimov
Denouement
Edgar Allen Poe
Johannes Brahms
48. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
Hyperbole
Renaissance Art
Degas
Antonio Gaudi
49. 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.
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Samuel Beckett
Jane Austen
Brussels tapestries
50. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Eugene O'Neil
Eugene Delacroix
Aphrodite/Venus
Cervantes