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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. God of the Sea
Samuel Beckett
Brussels tapestries
Poseidon/Neptune
sculpture
2. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Josiah Wedgewood
Othello
Alice Walker
3. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Merry Wives of Windsor
Manhattan Project
Henrik Ibsen
Langston Hughes
4. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Remington
Frank Lloyd Wright
pop art
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
5. A capella singers
madrigal
Cerros
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
6. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
T.S. Eliot
Andre Previn
Eisenstein
7. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Noh Theatre
Lillian Gish
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Christopher Wren
8. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Andre Previn
Ares/Mars
Frank Lloyd Wright
Michelangelo
9. God of love and beauty
madrigal
Tchaikovsky
Aphrodite/Venus
Pablo Picasso
10. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Christopher Marlowe
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Stephen Crane
11. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Macbeth
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Frank Lloyd Wright
Edvard Greig
12. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Gilbert Stuart
Francois Rabelais
Cervantes
13. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Denouement
bust
Brahmans
Raphael
14. 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
Leonardo da Vinci
Degas
Cubism
Andrew Wyeth
15. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Ernest Hemingway
mannerism
Neoclassicism
Atomism
16. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Le Corbusier
Rene Descartes
Charles Dickens
Corinthian
17. Goddess of Animals
Victor Hugo
D.W. Griffith
Mathew Brady
Maia/Fauna
18. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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19. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Stravinsky
Greek Ionic
Martin Heidegger
Chopin
20. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Samuel Beckett
Hermes/Mercury
Blank Verse
Manhattan Project
21. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
High Renaissance Painters
Bronte Sisters
Existentialism
Brussels tapestries
22. 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.
Bayeux tapestry
Eisenstein
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
IM Pei
23. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Stephen Foster
Zeno
Botticelli
Al Jolson
24. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
pieta
fresco
Federico Fellini
25. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Merchant of Venice
Josiah Wedgewood
Mary Wollstonecraft
gothic age architecture
26. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Neo-classic period
Sitar
Mies van der Rohe
Thales
27. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Lionel Hampton
bel canto
Victor Hugo
Al Jolson
28. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Penny Marshall
Simone De Beauvoir
Picasso
John Locke
29. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Serge Diaghilev
Minimalist Music
Bronte Sisters
30. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Phoebus/Apollo
Mary Wollstonecraft
Doric
Moai
31. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
American Indian Rugs
Noh Theatre
Handel
Peter Paul Rubens
32. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
bust
Leo Tolstoy
Henry Dixon Cowell
Geoffrey Chaucer
33. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Eugene O'Neil
gouche
chalice
Eisenstein
34. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
michelangelo
Mary Wollstonecraft
gouche
35. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
louise nevelson
minuetto
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
36. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Andrew Wyeth
Heraclitus
Vermeer
cellini
37. A dance
Andrea Palladio
Jean Jacques Rousseau
minuetto
Jules Verne
38. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Ares/Mars
Jonathan Swift
fresco
tempura
39. Thucydides and Herodotus
Christopher Wren
Historians
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gilbert and Sullivan
40. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
William Blake
Socrates
Doric
constantin brancusi
41. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Othello
Tchaikovsky
Lorraine Hansberry
Seurat
42. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Rococo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lindisfarne Gospel
43. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
obelisk
Whole Tone Scale
Jean Fragonard
Othello
44. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
American Indian Rugs
Jean Fragonard
Pearl Buck
Jane Austen
45. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Christopher Wren
Personification
Minimalist Music
Leo Tolstoy
46. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
William Blake
Rococo
Doric
Lao Tzu
47. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
Serge Diaghilev
Renaissance Art
Edvard Greig
48. Repititions of geometric lines
Gouche
Jules Verne
Cynics
American Indian Rugs
49. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
andante
Eisenstein
Socrates
50. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Andre Previn
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Serialism
Georg W. F. Hegel