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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Spanish surrealist painter
Twelve Tone System
William Shakespeare
Salvador Dali
Shudras
2. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Mark Twain
Scott Joplin
Le Corbusier
Pallas Athena/Minerva
3. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Athena/Minerva
cellini
Beethoven & Wagner
Seurat
4. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
Handel
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Monet
5. Goddess of Hunting
Artemis/Diana
Surrealism
Othello
William Shakespeare
6. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
Thomas Hobbes
Modern Period
minuetto
Meter
7. A capella singers
Simone Martini
Arnold Schoenberg
Christopher Marlowe
madrigal
8. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Othello
Jules Verne
Mies van der Rohe
James Joyce
9. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Da Vinci
Cervantes
Flat
Flying buttress
10. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Pythagoras
Andrew Wyeth
alexander calder
Bronte Sisters
11. Played the xylophone and marimba
Rembrandt
Lionel Hampton
The Panthenon
Issac Asimov
12. 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
King Lear
flat
Blank Verse
Jonathan Swift
13. 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.
Obelisk
oratorio
Aristotle
El Greco
14. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Lionel Hampton
sitar
Simone De Beauvoir
William Faulkner
15. British abstract sculptor
Imagery
Atomism
Eugene O'Neil
barbara hepworth
16. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Stravinsky
Giotto
Libretto
Joseph Conrad
17. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Gilbert and Sullivan
Thomas Gainsborough
Daniel Defoe
Flat
18. Paul Gauguin
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Cervantes
Medieval Architecture
Buddhists
19. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Aphrodite/Venus
Othello
Victor Hugo
New Orleans
20. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Blank Verse
Surrealism
T.S. Eliot
IM Pei
21. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
El Greco
Victor Hugo
multi-media
aside
22. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
Doric
Fauvism
french female pose
Pablo Picasso
23. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Trimeter
Johannes Brahms
Corinthian
scrim
24. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Impressionistic Art came before
constantin brancusi
Stephen Foster
Christopher Wren
25. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Henrik Ibsen
reliquary
Francois Rabelais
Gilbert and Sullivan
26. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Merchant of Venice
Renoir
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Brussels tapestries
27. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
dada school
Othello
Martha Graham
Rembrandt
28. DNA of the song
Leo Tolstoy
Eisenstein
Athena/Minerva
Pentatonic Scale
29. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Alexander Dumas
Antonio Gaudi
Scott Joplin
Peter Paul Rubens
30. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Richard Sheridan
George Sand
Dimeter
31. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
hagia sophia
Pieta
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Peter Paul Rubens
32. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Socrates
Cynics
sculpture
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
33. French impressionist painter
Kshatriyas
Gothic age architecture
High Renaissance Painters
Monet
34. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Pyrrhic Pattern
Bayeux tapestry
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pearl Buck
35. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
William Shakespeare
Greek Ionic
Kronos/Saturn
Martha Graham
36. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Augustine Age
E.E. Cummings
The Pigeon House
Frank Lloyd Wright
37. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Penny Marshall
oratorio
Bronte Sisters
Edgar Allen Poe
38. Painted 'The Bathers'
Aphrodite/Venus
Chopin
Jean Fragonard
Hector Berlioz
39. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Satire
oratorio
Charles Dickens
40. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Picasso
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Rene Descartes
flying buttress
41. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
michelangelo
Tragic figure
Buddhists
Martha Graham
42. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Leonardo da Vinci
Dactylic
Ray Bradbury
43. French 20th century architect
T.S. Eliot
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Sitar
Le Corbusier
44. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
madrigal
American Indian Rugs
Giotto
James Joyce
45. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Humanism
Pavane and the Polonaise
Simile
Thomas Edison
46. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Da Vinci
scrim
Honore de Balzac
Othello
47. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Brussels tapestries
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
William Shakespeare
Joan Miro
48. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Mary Wollstonecraft
alexander calder
Mosaic
49. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Baroque art
Niccolo Machiavelli
Le Corbusier
Aubrey Beardsley
50. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Monet
Salvador Dali
Mary Shelley
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