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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Plato
American Indian Rugs
Thomas Edison
Epicureans
2. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
flat
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Richard Sheridan
3. French impressionist painter
Medieval Architecture
Impressionistic Art came before
William Wordsworth
Monet
4. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Leo Tolstoy
Ray Bradbury
Andre Previn
5. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Arthur Miller
Johannes Brahms
Lillian Gish
William Faulkner
6. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Henry Dixon Cowell
Pyrrhic Pattern
Andrew Wyeth
hagia sophia
7. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Herman Melville
Reliquary
Spondaic Pattern
El Greco
8. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Baroque art
Stravinsky
Manichaeism
9. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Merry Wives of Windsor
Medieval Architecture
Niccolo Machiavelli
Tyche/Fortuna
10. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Renoir
Vermeer
Charles Dickens
11. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Gilbert and Sullivan
Simile
Mary Shelley
Andre Previn
12. Six-foot line
oratorio
michelangelo
Aaron Copeland
Hexameter
13. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Aristotle
Lao Tzu
constantin brancusi
14. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Chartres Cathedral
Lorraine Hansberry
scrim
Remington
15. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
french female pose
Rhymed Verse
Zeno
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
16. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Georg W. F. Hegel
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thales
17. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
El Greco
Christopher Wren
Donatello
Pablo Picasso
18. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Plato
Christopher Wren
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
High Renaissance Painters
19. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
William Faulkner
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
20. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Hyperbole
Noh Theatre
henry moore
Apollo
21. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
George Sand
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Foster
Salvador Dali
22. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Hector Berlioz
Surrealism
Raphael
multi-media
23. 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
Arthur Miller
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Cubism
Al Jolson
24. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
french female pose
Corinthian
Rhymed Verse
Frank Lloyd Wright
25. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Parmenides
Mannerism
Heraclitus
Noh Theatre
26. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Parmenides
Ray Bradbury
American Indian Rugs
tempura
27. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Buddhists
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Aaron Copeland
28. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Edvard Greig
Pilgrim's Progress
Satire
Aaron Copeland
29. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Kronos/Saturn
oratorio
Joan Miro
Francesco Petrarch
30. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Trimeter
Greek Ionic
Twelve Tone System
31. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Martha Graham
Rembrandt
oratorio
Greek Corinthian
32. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
dada school
Augustine Age
Joseph Conrad
Herman Melville
33. Long-Short-Short
Picasso
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Existentialism
Dactylic
34. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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35. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Mary McCarthy
Barcelona Pavilion
Epicureans
Andrew Wyeth
36. God of the underworld - and wealth
Charles Dickens
Hades/Pluto
William Shakespeare
Post Impressionism
37. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
henry moore
Renoir
Barcelona Pavilion
dada school
38. Leucippus and Democritus
Jean Fragonard
Persian Rugs
Lorraine Hansberry
Atomists
39. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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40. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Transcendentalism
Mark Twain
alexander calder
Martha Graham
41. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Parmenides
Iambic pattern
Georgia O'Keefe
Bayeux tapestry
42. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chopin
Ionic
multi-media
43. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vermeer
Langston Hughes
William Wordsworth
44. Spanish surrealist painter
Church of San Vitale
Joan Miro
Aaron Copeland
Apostrophe
45. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Mary McCarthy
Gothic age architecture
Pearl Buck
A long syllable
46. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Church of San Vitale
Greek Doric
Flat
gothic age architecture
47. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Onomatopoeia
Cynics
Giotto
Degas
48. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Artemis/Diana
Apollo
Alliteration
Botticelli
49. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
reliquary
Immanuel Kant
Giotto
Francois Rabelais
50. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Octometer
Issac Asimov
Johannes Brahms
T.S. Eliot