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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God of Love
Eros/Cupid
Athena/Minerva
Mies van der Rohe
fresco
2. Goddess of Agriculture
T.S. Eliot
Langston Hughes
Demeter/Ceres
gouche
3. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
renaissance
Scott Joplin
Pythagoras
4. 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
Versailles
Mark Twain
Mies van der Rohe
5. Goddess of Hunting
Da Vinci
Artemis/Diana
D.W. Griffith
soliloquy
6. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Christopher Wren
Thomas Edison
Daniel Defoe
Hestia/Vesta
7. Impressionistic Music
Tragic figure
Impressionistic Art came before
IM Pei
Federico Fellini
8. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Jules Verne
Arthur Miller
Othello
Andrea Palladio
9. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Chloris/Flora
Verdi and Puccini
Peter Paul Rubens
Greek Doric
10. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Seurat
Flat
barbara hepworth
Neoclassicism
11. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Eisenstein
Aside
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
12. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
sculpture
James Joyce
ballet
13. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Macbeth
Romanesque Style
Eugene O'Neil
14. DNA of the song
Pentatonic Scale
Niccolo Machiavelli
Simile
Joan Miro
15. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kouroi
Joan Miro
Tchaikovsky
16. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
Heraclitus
Remington
obelisk
17. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Dimeter
Lindisfarne Gospel
Tragic Playwrights
Bronte Sisters
18. Goddess of Animals
louise nevelson
Issac Asimov
Joseph Conrad
Maia/Fauna
19. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Brunelleschi
Atomism
chalice
Samuel Beckett
20. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Donatello
hagia sophia
Stephen Foster
Herman Melville
21. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Martha Graham
Cimabue
Eisenstein
Friedrich Nietzsche
22. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Dante Aligheri
Vaishyas
Mark Twain
Aside
23. 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.
Serialism
Samuel Beckett
Lionel Hampton
Pentameter
24. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Niccolo Machiavelli
Stephen Crane
Salvador Dali
Ballet
25. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Libretto
Mary McCarthy
Andre Previn
Cervantes
26. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Gilbert Stuart
Epic
Athena/Minerva
Henri Matisse
27. Wrote Rivals
Hector Berlioz
Mannerism
Cubism
Richard Sheridan
28. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Frank Lloyd Wright
Aphrodite/Venus
French female pose
Thomas Gainsborough
29. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
sitar
Jonathan Swift
New Orleans
Stephen Crane
30. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Martin Heidegger
Josiah Wedgewood
Neolithic
Mosaic
31. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
gothic age architecture
flying buttress
Andrew Wyeth
Moai
32. Long-Short
Eisenstein
Noh Theatre
Simone Martini
Trochaic pattern
33. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Eugene O'Neil
Leo Tolstoy
Ionic
Serge Diaghilev
34. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Meter
hagia sophia
Blank Verse
Shudras
35. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Scrim
multi-media
scrim
Giotto
36. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
Mannerism
Romanticism Movement
Greek Doric
James Joyce
37. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
Georgia O'Keeffe
Hera/Juno
Rhymed Verse
Aubrey Beardsley
38. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Frank Gehry 1929
Zeno
Jane Austen
Soliloquy
39. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
IM Pei
Gilbert and Sullivan
Josiah Wedgewood
Meter
40. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
John Dryden
Hector Berlioz
41. Science fiction writer
henry moore
Issac Asimov
Verdi and Puccini
Monet
42. French impressionist painter
Mary Shelley
Greek Corinthian
Monet
Greek Ionic
43. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Othello
Alliteration
The Muses
Al Jolson
44. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Arthur Miller
Kronos/Saturn
Samuel Beckett
Artemis/Diana
45. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Georgia O'Keeffe
Donatello
Mary Shelley
Ray Bradbury
46. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Degas
henry moore
Lorraine Hansberry
Mary Shelley
47. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Manhattan Project
The Parthenon
Parmenides
Aphrodite/Venus
48. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Leo Tolstoy
hagia sophia
George Sand
49. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Issac Asimov
Picasso
Anapestic Pattern
William Shakespeare
50. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
bel canto
Cynics
Claude Debussy 1862-1918