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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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.
barbara hepworth
Claude Debussy
Persian Rugs
hagia sophia
2. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Johannes Brahms
Hector Berlioz
Mary Wollstonecraft
3. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Jules Verne
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Blank Verse
Herman Melville
4. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Joseph Conrad
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Popular Transcendentalists
Stravinsky
5. A dance
minuetto
Eisenstein
Aaron Copeland
tragic figure
6. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Giotto
John Roebling
Humanism
Existentialism
7. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
William Shakespeare
Didactic-ism
Leo Tolstoy
Celtic Art
8. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Andrea Palladio
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Martha Graham
Usonian
9. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Dionysus/Bacchus
New Orleans
Minimalist Music
Herman Melville
10. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
scrim
Joseph Conrad
Scott Joplin
Rhymed Verse
11. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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12. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Stoicism
pop art
Minimalist Music
bust
13. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Picasso
Merry Wives of Windsor
Chartres Cathedral
14. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Zeno
The Iliad
Renoir
Salvador Dali
15. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Macbeth
Handel
soliloquy
Mies van der Rohe
16. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Eugene O'Neil
pop art
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Alexander Dumas
17. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Dimeter
Lillian Gish
Herman Melville
Jonathan Swift
18. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Lao Tzu
Fauvism
Church of San Vitale
Eugene O'Neil
19. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Remington
Trompe l'oeil
20. Science fiction writer
Issac Asimov
henry moore
Lillian Gish
Georg W. F. Hegel
21. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Merchant of Venice
Moral Philosophers
constantin brancusi
Leo Tolstoy
22. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Daniel Defoe
Serge Diaghilev
obelisk
Seurat
23. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Georg W. F. Hegel
constantin brancusi
flying buttress
24. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Neoplatonism
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Manichaeism
Beethoven & Wagner
25. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Langston Hughes
Hector Berlioz
Merchant of Venice
26. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Neo-classic period
Manichaeism
Hector Berlioz
27. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Handel
gothic age architecture
Simone De Beauvoir
Bronte Sisters
28. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Jean Fragonard
Merry Wives of Windsor
Thales
Eugene O'Neil
29. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
Giotto
Pythagoras
bel canto
Zeno
30. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
William Blake
The Parthenon
King Lear
31. Short-Short-Long
Andrea Palladio
Atomists
constantin brancusi
Anapestic Pattern
32. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Henry Dixon Cowell
A short syllable
Dada school
aside
33. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Satire
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Monet
34. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Eugene Delacroix
Andrea Palladio
Mark Twain
Christopher Wren
35. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Lorraine Hansberry
Minimalist Music
Charles Dickens
High Renaissance
36. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Doric
gouche
Henrik Ibsen
Samuel Beckett
37. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
louise nevelson
Giotto
Herman Melville
Da Vinci
38. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Picasso
Jonathan Swift
Aside
Mies van der Rohe
39. Leucippus and Democritus
E.E. Cummings
Cervantes
Atomists
renaissance
40. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Masaccio
High Renaissance Painters
Victor Hugo
El Greco
41. Goddess of Fortune
Tyche/Fortuna
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hagia Sophia
Honore de Balzac
42. God of War
Ares/Mars
Jules Verne
Mary Shelley
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
43. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Metaphor
Lorraine Hansberry
Michelangelo
presto
44. Fast
Trompe l'oeil
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
dada school
presto
45. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Mannerism
Mary Wollstonecraft
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Rene Descartes
46. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Aaron Copeland
Federico Fellini
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Andrea Palladio
47. Court dances
El Greco
Beethoven & Wagner
Pavane and the Polonaise
Alfred Hitchcock
48. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
George Sand
Martha Graham
Leo Tolstoy
Salvador Dali
49. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
Pentatonic Scale
William Shakespeare
Pilgrim's Progress
50. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
madrigal
Langston Hughes
soliloquy
Renoir