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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Immanuel Kant
Brussels tapestries
A long syllable
chalice
2. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Verdi and Puccini
High Renaissance
Gilbert Stuart
3. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
renaissance
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Andrew Wyeth
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
4. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns
Hyperbole
The Parthenon
henry moore
Vincent van Gogh
5. Science fiction writer
William Shakespeare
Romanticism Movement
Leo Tolstoy
Issac Asimov
6. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
aside
Trochaic pattern
presto
7. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Scrim
Masaccio
Aphrodite/Venus
Shudras
8. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
King Lear
King Lear
Pilgrim's Progress
9. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.
French female pose
New Orleans
Henrik Ibsen
Symbolism
10. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Hera/Juno
Scott Joplin
Barcelona Pavilion
Samuel Beckett
11. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Plato
presto
Le Corbusier
John Roebling
12. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Marc Chagall
Aristotle
Rembrandt
Issac Asimov
13. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Picasso
Lorraine Hansberry
Mark Twain
Guggenheim Museum
14. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Honore de Balzac
Andrea Palladio
Degas
Dionysus/Bacchus
15. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
High Renaissance
William Blake
Tetrameter
Abstraction
16. Beautiful Italian singing
Salvador Dali
William Wordsworth
bel canto
Donatello
17. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Mary McCarthy
Merry Wives of Windsor
Edvard Greig
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
18. A dance
Eugene O'Neil
minuetto
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alexander Dumas
19. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
bust
Libretto
Andre Previn
20. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Christopher Wren
Arthur Miller
Brussels tapestries
Federico Fellini
21. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aside
Aaron Copeland
Parmenides
T.S. Eliot
22. 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.
Persian Rugs
louise nevelson
Merchant of Venice
renaissance
23. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Lillian Gish
Beethoven & Wagner
Taoism
mosaics
24. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Twelve Tone System
Charles Dickens
Eisenstein
Henrik Ibsen
25. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Charles Dickens
Merry Wives of Windsor
Eisenstein
Joan Miro
26. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Aaron Copeland
Salvador Dali
Hades/Pluto
Imagery
27. Wrote the first modern novel - Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Medieval Architecture
sitar
Othello
28. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
minuetto
Mary Shelley
Vaishyas
mosaics
29. The text of the opera
Peter Paul Rubens
Libretto
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
James Boswell
30. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Mary McCarthy
Hamlet
El Greco
Tchaikovsky
31. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
madrigal
minuetto
french female pose
Josiah Wedgewood
32. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Fresco
Alexander Dumas
Persian Rugs
Epicureans
33. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Twelve Tone System
Mathew Brady
Penny Marshall
Charles Dickens
34. British abstract sculptor
Samuel Beckett
Didactic-ism
Martha Graham
barbara hepworth
35. God of War
High Renaissance
Ares/Mars
Dada school
dada school
36. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
Stravinsky
Mies van der Rohe
michelangelo
Gilbert and Sullivan
37. Played the xylophone and marimba
Serge Diaghilev
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Lionel Hampton
38. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Giotto
Al Jolson
Heptameter
39. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Handel
Obelisk
Beethoven & Wagner
40. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
soliloquy
Taoism
Romanticism Movement
Jane Austen
41. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
Mannerism
Verdi and Puccini
Ray Bradbury
Pablo Picasso
42. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
soliloquy
William Faulkner
Aristotle
Le Corbusier
43. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
T.S. Eliot
Free Verse
Mary McCarthy
44. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
Verdi and Puccini
Jane Austen
soliloquy
45. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Libretto
Edgar Allen Poe
gothic age architecture
Jean Fragonard
46. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Donatello
Charles Dickens
Classical Period
Brahmans
47. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
ballet
Gouche
constantin brancusi
48. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Alexander Dumas
flat
Athena/Minerva
Victor Hugo
49. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Claude Monet
Spondaic Pattern
Hector Berlioz
George Sand
50. Court dances
andante
Mary Wollstonecraft
Samuel Beckett
Pavane and the Polonaise