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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Gilbert Stuart
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Alexander Dumas
William Blake
2. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
James Boswell
Eugene O'Neil
Aristotle
Plato
3. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Rembrandt
Taoism
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Plato
4. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Niccolo Machiavelli
Richard Sheridan
Brahmans
barbara hepworth
5. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
Arthur Miller
Martha Graham
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
6. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Greek Ionic
Hector Berlioz
Christopher Wren
Henri Matisse
7. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Geoffrey Chaucer
Artemis/Diana
Stoicism
8. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
Merchant of Venice
Aristotle
Da Vinci
Edmund Spenser
9. God of War
Othello
Serge Diaghilev
Eugene Delacroix
Ares/Mars
10. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
korai
Stephen Foster
Alexander Dumas
11. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.
Greek Doric
Socrates
Mary Shelley
Jackson Pollock
12. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
hagia sophia
Richard Sheridan
Moai
13. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Zeus/Jupiter
Taoism
Meter
Impressionism
14. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Satire
Donatello
Foot
Pablo Picasso
15. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Mathew Brady
Daniel Defoe
Pavane and the Polonaise
Gilbert Stuart
16. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Eisenstein
Pearl Buck
Jules Verne
reliquary
17. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Stravinsky
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Trompe l'oeil
Joseph Conrad
18. Repititions of geometric lines
John Locke
American Indian Rugs
Stephen Crane
Mathew Brady
19. Four-foot line
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Monet
Victor Hugo
Tetrameter
20. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Tchaikovsky
bel canto
Victor Hugo
Hellenistic Period
21. French impressionist painter
T.S. Eliot
Aaron Copeland
Jonathan Swift
Monet
22. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
John Roebling
Greek Ionic
Aubrey Beardsley
Donatello
23. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Victor Hugo
Edmund Spenser
french female pose
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
24. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Lillian Gish
Herman Melville
Romanesque Style
chalice
25. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Da Vinci
Irony
William Shakespeare
Cervantes
26. 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.
Persian Rugs
The Panthenon
Jonathan Swift
Joan Miro
27. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Martha Graham
Pythagoras
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Christopher Wren
28. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
bust
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Mark Twain
Eugene Delacroix
29. 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
Maia/Fauna
Renaissance Art
Penny Marshall
Mannerism
30. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Seurat
Taoism
Gilbert Stuart
Degas
31. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Merry Wives of Windsor
Artemis/Diana
Pavane and the Polonaise
32. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Byzantine Style
Peter Paul Rubens
chalice
33. Painted 'The Bathers'
Dionysus/Bacchus
Vermeer
Aubrey Beardsley
Jean Fragonard
34. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Hestia/Vesta
reliquary
Eisenstein
fresco
35. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Jonathan Swift
Mannerism
Mary Shelley
Pavane and the Polonaise
36. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Merchant of Venice
Penny Marshall
Jane Austen
sculpture
37. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Anapestic Pattern
Tempura
Modern Period
Simone Martini
38. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
michelangelo
Monometer
39. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
Rhymed Verse
Mathew Brady
American Indian Rugs
Josiah Wedgewood
40. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Handel
Minimalist Music
Herman Melville
Gilbert and Sullivan
41. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Merchant of Venice
James Joyce
Le Corbusier
Neolithic
42. Spanish surrealist painter
Hamlet
Neoclassicism
Jane Austen
Salvador Dali
43. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Pearl Buck
Plato
Post Impressionism
soliloquy
44. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Kronos/Saturn
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
45. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Martha Graham
Brunelleschi
Mark Twain
Rene Descartes
46. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Christopher Marlowe
Serge Diaghilev
sculpture
Foot
47. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Post and Lintel
William Faulkner
Twelve Tone System
James Boswell
48. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
William Faulkner
Greek Doric
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
49. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Giotto
Bronte Sisters
Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
50. Beautiful Italian singing
Bayeux tapestry
Jean Jacques Rousseau
bel canto
T.S. Eliot