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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Slow
Bayeux tapestry
andante
A short syllable
Monometer
2. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Tragic figure
Tchaikovsky
Francois Rabelais
Arthur Miller
3. Wrote Rivals
Mies van der Rohe
Richard Sheridan
Jane Austen
Apollo
4. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Bolero
Reliquary
Andrea Palladio
5. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
The Iliad
Sitar
Gilbert Stuart
Giotto
6. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Trompe l'oeil
Geoffrey Chaucer
Impressionistic Art came before
korai
7. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Arthur Miller
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vincent van Gogh
Pyrrhic Pattern
8. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Greek Doric
Maia/Fauna
Hyperbole
Cimabue
9. 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
Othello
Alice Walker
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jules Verne
10. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Renoir
IM Pei
Daniel Defoe
11. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Existentialism
Issac Asimov
oratorio
Degas
12. 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.
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Jane Austen
Bronte Sisters
Persian Rugs
13. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Simone De Beauvoir
Thomas Edison
Merry Wives of Windsor
14. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
henry moore
Stephen Crane
Andrew Wyeth
Soliloquy
15. French 20th century architect
Jane Austen
Macbeth
Rhymed Verse
Le Corbusier
16. God of the underworld - and wealth
John Dryden
Monometer
Hades/Pluto
Beethoven & Wagner
17. God of the sea
Christopher Wren
Poseidon/Neptune
Pilgrim's Progress
michelangelo
18. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Renoir
Stephen Crane
King Lear
Socrates
19. The text of the opera
Claude Debussy
Libretto
Christopher Wren
King Lear
20. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Socrates
Imagery
Andre Previn
Thales
21. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
John Locke
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Mark Twain
Sitar
22. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Noh Theatre
Renaissance Art
Eisenstein
IM Pei
23. French 20th century architect
Le Corbusier
Tragic figure
Johannes Brahms
Georgia O'Keefe
24. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Jonathan Swift
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Apollo
Vermeer
25. God of Marriage
Hellenistic Period
Hera/Juno
Stephen Foster
Monet
26. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Mannerism
A short syllable
Pieta
Henrik Ibsen
27. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Michelangelo
High Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Aaron Copeland
28. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Vermeer
Baroque Period
Ares/Mars
Art Deco Movement
29. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Picasso
Aaron Copeland
Al Jolson
John Locke
30. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Edmund Spenser
bel canto
Celtic Art
31. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Jonathan Swift
Poseidon/Neptune
Lionel Hampton
Kronos/Saturn
32. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Herman Melville
New Orleans
F. Scott Fitzgerald
constantin brancusi
33. Laborer caste in Hinduism
aside
Monet
Shudras
Daniel Defoe
34. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Zeno
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mathew Brady
Lillian Gish
35. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
Edmund Spenser
Impressionism
Bronte Sisters
36. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
A short syllable
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
James Joyce
Hyperbole
37. 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
Mark Twain
Epic
Othello
Hermes/Mercury
38. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Christopher Marlowe
Remington
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Corinthian
39. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Theme
constantin brancusi
Andrea Palladio
Classical Period
40. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Aaron Copeland
T.S. Eliot
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Pilgrim's Progress
41. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Delacroix
Renaissance Art
multi-media
Moral Philosophers
42. Goddess of Hunting
tempura
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Bolero
Artemis/Diana
43. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Georgia O'Keeffe
Henry Dixon Cowell
tragic figure
Degas
44. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Monet
tragic figure
Jane Austen
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
45. French 20th century architect
Peter Paul Rubens
Cervantes
Ghiberti
Le Corbusier
46. Famous French impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
Joseph Conrad
Art Deco Movement
Atomism
47. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
allegro
Serge Diaghilev
minuetto
Aristotle
48. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
alexander calder
Alice Walker
Othello
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
49. 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.
El Greco
Humanism
Delacroix
Alliteration
50. Mannerism painter
oratorio
Beethoven & Wagner
El Greco
D.W. Griffith