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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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2. 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.
Socrates
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
mosaics
Mies van der Rohe
3. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
Octometer
Romanticism Movement
D.W. Griffith
Delacroix
4. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Issac Asimov
Kouroi
Baroque Period
Poseidon/Neptune
5. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Eugene O'Neil
Serge Diaghilev
John Roebling
Arthur Miller
6. Goddess of Marriage
Hera/Juno
Mary Wollstonecraft
Simone De Beauvoir
Vincent van Gogh
7. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Langston Hughes
Apostrophe
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Henry Dixon Cowell
8. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
Macbeth
Mannerism
tragic figure
9. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
michelangelo
Dante Aligheri
Gilbert Stuart
Henrik Ibsen
10. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Eugene O'Neil
Antonio Gaudi
Beethoven & Wagner
Johannes Brahms
11. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Al Jolson
Noh Theatre
neo-classic period
12. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
flat
Jane Austen
Reliquary
Hagia Sophia
13. Wrote Rivals
Mies van der Rohe
Richard Sheridan
Othello
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
14. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Seurat
Jane Austen
Lindisfarne Gospel
Reliquary
15. God of Wildlife
madrigal
Artemis/Diana
Fresco
Ray Bradbury
16. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
soliloquy
Athena/Minerva
Kronos/Saturn
aside
17. Spanish surrealist painter
Mies van der Rohe
King Lear
Joan Miro
henry moore
18. Laborer caste in Hinduism
William Faulkner
Shudras
Cimabue
reliquary
19. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Andrea Palladio
Rococo
Soliloquy
20. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
tempura
alexander calder
Jonathan Swift
Aphrodite/Venus
21. A capella singers
Antonio Gaudi
Octometer
madrigal
Parmenides
22. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Rembrandt
Andre Previn
Pyrrhic Pattern
23. God of War
Ares/Mars
Andrea Palladio
Christopher Wren
IM Pei
24. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Artemis/Diana
Merchant of Venice
25. French 20th century architect
George Sand
Blank Verse
Le Corbusier
Vermeer
26. 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
Christopher Wren
allegro
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Gouche
27. Rebirth
William Shakespeare
Vaishyas
renaissance
Monet
28. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Lionel Hampton
Vermeer
Mies van der Rohe
Gouche
29. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Alliteration
Picasso
Eugene O'Neil
Gouche
30. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Cimabue
Christopher Wren
chalice
Eugene Delacroix
31. Death of a Salesman
Da Vinci
Seurat
Arthur Miller
Tetrameter
32. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Salvador Dali
Christopher Wren
Atomists
The Muses
33. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Mies van der Rohe
Rococo
cellini
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
34. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
Pilgrim's Progress
Maia/Fauna
Hexameter
35. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Martha Graham
Donatello
Simone De Beauvoir
36. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Vermeer
mosaics
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Salvador Dali
37. God of Wisdom
Al Jolson
Degas
Athena/Minerva
Masaccio
38. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Taoism
King Lear
Kouroi
39. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
constantin brancusi
Bronte Sisters
Post Impressionism
Hans-Georg Gadamer
40. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Hera/Juno
Cubism
Medieval Architecture
41. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Jules Verne
Dactylic
bel canto
Delacroix
42. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
tempura
Dionysus/Bacchus
Josiah Wedgewood
43. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Peter Paul Rubens
Honore de Balzac
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
soliloquy
44. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Whole Tone Scale
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Degas
Lindisfarne Gospel
45. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Simone Martini
Victor Hugo
Brussels tapestries
Tragic Playwrights
46. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
American Indian Rugs
Vermeer
Da Vinci
47. Opaque watercolor
Byzantine Style
Gouche
Simone Martini
Artemis/Diana
48. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
french female pose
Aristotle
Noh Theatre
49. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
D.W. Griffith
Barcelona Pavilion
neo-classic period
James Boswell
50. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
french female pose
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
reliquary
A long syllable
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