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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. 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.






2. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry






3. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'






4. Famous French impressionist composer






5. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






6. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






7. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






8. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






9. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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10. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






11. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






12. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






13. Plato and Aristotle






14. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations






15. Russian composer






16. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






17. British abstract sculptor






18. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






19. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism






20. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism






21. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






22. Rebirth






23. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






24. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance






25. 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






26. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






27. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






28. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






29. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






30. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






31. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote






32. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain






33. 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.






34. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.






35. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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36. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas






37. The warrior caste in Hinduism






38. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






39. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV






40. Wrote Rivals






41. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






42. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts






43. Science fiction writer






44. Paul Gauguin






45. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






46. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






47. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863






48. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style






49. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






50. Author of The Red Badge of Courage