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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Transcendentalism
Greek Corinthian
John Roebling
Da Vinci
2. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Remington
Alliteration
Christopher Wren
3. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Iambic pattern
Giotto
Monet
Frank Lloyd Wright
4. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Sitar
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
William Faulkner
5. 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
Dada school
Giotto
Poseidon/Neptune
Thomas Hobbes
6. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Pavane and the Polonaise
Kshatriyas
flying buttress
Alexander Dumas
7. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Joan Miro
henry moore
Giotto
pop art
8. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
El Greco
Bayeux tapestry
Alexander Dumas
Renaissance Art
9. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Seurat
Trimeter
Trochaic pattern
10. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Greek Doric
Penny Marshall
tempura
Federico Fellini
11. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Le Corbusier
Gilbert Stuart
Lorraine Hansberry
12. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
minuetto
Frank Lloyd Wright
Othello
Langston Hughes
13. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Existentialism
Post Impressionism
Symbolism
14. A taller - thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
Niccolo Machiavelli
Langston Hughes
El Greco
Ionic
15. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Flat
Francois Rabelais
Beethoven & Wagner
Stephen Foster
16. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Aristotle
Book of Durrow
William Shakespeare
Hera/Juno
17. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Georgia O'Keeffe
High Renaissance Painters
Merchant of Venice
Seurat
18. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Kshatriyas
Serge Diaghilev
Tragic Playwrights
Socrates
19. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Cervantes
renaissance
cellini
Geoffrey Chaucer
20. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Neo-classic period
Edvard Greig
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
bust
21. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
fresco
Thales
A short syllable
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
22. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Picasso
Daniel Defoe
Gothic age architecture
Mathew Brady
23. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Andre Previn
Tchaikovsky
sculpture
soliloquy
24. Fast
presto
Jane Austen
Pavane and the Polonaise
Mathew Brady
25. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Noh Theatre
Lorraine Hansberry
Neolithic
Chalice
26. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Andrea Palladio
Satire
Honore de Balzac
27. The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Giotto
Post Impressionism
Neoclassicism
28. A famous cathedral In France
Lillian Gish
Mannerism
Chartres Cathedral
Rene Descartes
29. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
flat
Mathew Brady
Mannerism
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
30. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
hagia sophia
John Dryden
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Salvador Dali
31. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Minimalist Music
A short syllable
Bronte Sisters
Onomatopoeia
32. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
mosaics
King Lear
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
33. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
gothic age architecture
Merry Wives of Windsor
Pilgrim's Progress
Christopher Marlowe
34. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Atomism
35. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Langston Hughes
Plato
Le Corbusier
36. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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37. The Persistence of Memory
tempura
William Faulkner
Salvador Dali
Andrew Wyeth
38. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Doric
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Kronos/Saturn
Book of Durrow
39. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Mozart and Richard Strauss
mannerism
Hera/Juno
Victor Hugo
40. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Arthur Miller
Remington
louise nevelson
41. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Remington
neo-classic period
Daniel Defoe
Brussels tapestries
42. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Alfred Hitchcock
Byzantine Style
french female pose
Michelangelo
43. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Christopher Marlowe
Neoclassicism
french female pose
Alexander Dumas
44. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Greek Ionic
Le Corbusier
William Shakespeare
Scott Joplin
45. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Jules Verne
scrim
El Greco
Andrew Wyeth
46. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Tetrameter
aside
Christopher Wren
T.S. Eliot
47. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Marc Chagall
Leo Tolstoy
Francois Rabelais
Mark Twain
48. 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.
Al Jolson
Penny Marshall
Cervantes
Persian Rugs
49. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Mary Shelley
Libretto
Tetrameter
Atomism
50. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Brahmans
oratorio
Paleolithic
Penny Marshall