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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
James Boswell
Issac Asimov
Romanesque Style
2. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Claude Monet
minuetto
Martha Graham
gothic age architecture
3. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
mannerism
Renaissance Art
Roman Basilica
Jean Jacques Rousseau
4. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Peter Paul Rubens
Dante Aligheri
Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
5. 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.
Edvard Greig
D.W. Griffith
Chloris/Flora
alexander calder
6. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Parmenides
Salvador Dali
multi-media
7. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Allegory
Brussels tapestries
henry moore
8. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Epic
Cynics
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
William Shakespeare
9. 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
Stravinsky
dada school
Jonathan Swift
Post and Lintel
10. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Herman Melville
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Da Vinci
Neoplatonism
11. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
D.W. Griffith
Eisenstein
Delacroix
Book of Kells
12. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
The Iliad
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Edison
13. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Bernini
Poseidon/Neptune
Daniel Defoe
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
14. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
Poseidon/Neptune
obelisk
Alexander Dumas
15. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
Eugene O'Neil
fresco
Theme
16. Georges Pierre Seurat
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Bayeux tapestry
Theme
Peter Paul Rubens
17. Spanish surrealist painter
Charles Dickens
Salvador Dali
Penny Marshall
Honore de Balzac
18. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
tempura
Beethoven & Wagner
Giotto
Mies van der Rohe
19. God of Wisdom
Beethoven & Wagner
Ionic
Athena/Minerva
Brussels tapestries
20. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Joseph Conrad
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Reliquary
Thales
21. 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.
Baroque Period
Rene Descartes
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Stephen Foster
22. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Parmenides
D.W. Griffith
Giotto
23. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
michelangelo
scrim
Francesco Petrarch
Charles Dickens
24. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Leo Tolstoy
Reliquary
King Lear
Hades/Pluto
25. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Socrates
Frank Lloyd Wright
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Imagery
26. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Henry Dixon Cowell
Zeno
The Muses
27. Science fiction writer
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Parmenides
Aristotle
Issac Asimov
28. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Daniel Defoe
Mary McCarthy
Mathew Brady
Victor Hugo
29. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Jane Austen
French Romantic painter
Langston Hughes
Merchant of Venice
30. Architect who like a statue at every corner
bel canto
Hector Berlioz
Romanesque Style
Andrea Palladio
31. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Zeno
Hexameter
Antonio Gaudi
Hamlet
32. Goddess of Wisdom
Claude Debussy
Seurat
Pallas Athena/Minerva
William Wordsworth
33. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Mathew Brady
High Renaissance
Johannes Brahms
34. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Greek Corinthian
alexander calder
Christopher Wren
Samuel Beckett
35. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Thales
Simile
Tempura
Mark Twain
36. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Handel
Serialism
Usonian
Manichaeism
37. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Personification
Mathew Brady
Pythagoras
Martha Graham
38. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
Martha Graham
Joan Miro
Picasso
39. God of Wine
Noh Theatre
Joseph Conrad
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Dionysus/Bacchus
40. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
Edmund Spenser
Manichaeism
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Art Deco Movement
41. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Josiah Wedgewood
Herman Melville
Symbolism
Scott Joplin
42. Court dances
William Shakespeare
Pavane and the Polonaise
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Atomism
43. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Remington
Herman Melville
Monet
44. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Paleolithic
bel canto
Lorraine Hansberry
bust
45. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
barbara hepworth
mosaics
William Blake
Salvador Dali
46. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Jane Austen
Renoir
Edvard Greig
47. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
William Faulkner
Poseidon/Neptune
french female pose
Reliquary
48. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Vermeer
madrigal
Aphrodite/Venus
Rembrandt
49. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Maia/Fauna
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Noh Theatre
50. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Georg W. F. Hegel
American Indian Rugs
Edmund Spenser
Hector Berlioz
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